| All Music.com This site contains
information on artists in most fields of music. Search for information by artist,
song, album, style and recording label. Artist listings generally include a
biography and discography. |
Chopin
Collection of the University of Chicago Library consists of over 400
first and early printed editions of musical compositions of Frederic Chopin
(1810-1849). |
| Choral Public Domain Library provides
free scores, primarily for choral music. It currently offers users a
selection of over 5,000 scores -- most of which are in the public domain. |
Classical Net provides access to a wealth of
information, including review sources and an overview of the development of music from the
medieval period through the twentieth century. |
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Digital Mozart Edition
The purpose of this web site operated by the Internationale Stiftung
Mozarteum is to make Mozart's musical compositions widely accessible to the
public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use |
Historic
American Sheet Music Duke University's digitized collection of over 3000 pieces of
American sheet music published between 1850 and 1920. |
| Lieder and Art Song Texts
Thousands of classical song texts in over twenty languages, many with English
translations. Searchable by composer, poet, language, title, or first line. |
Mudcat Lyrics to thousands of blues and folksongs. |
| Music 102, designed by a librarian at
the Juilliard School, is an online course of the history of Western music. |
Musi-Cal Concert schedules for folk, country,
rock, and classical performers, as well as music festivals. Searchable by performer,
venue, city and more. International in scope. |
| Mutopia
consists of hundreds of classical music scores in text formats, some include
audio files. |
Public Domain Music The goal of
this reference site is to help users to identify public domain songs and public domain music. |
| Sheet Music
Consortium The Consortium is a group of libraries working together to
build an open collection of digitized sheet music in the public domain. |
WNUR's JazzWeb provides essays on styles of
jazz, biographies of artists plus an array of jazz related hyperlinks. |
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In the Reference Collection of the Main
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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians contains
professional biographies and chronological listings of works for
composers, lyricists, librettists, conductors, performers and writers
from the world of music.
The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music provides
biographical and professional information on popular music artists and
related subjects. Popular music here encompasses traditional "Tin Pan
Alley" and Broadway music through to rhythm and blues, punk, new wave,
disco, rap and all subgenres rock and roll.
The
New Grove Dictionary of American Music an "expansion" on The
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians in which music topics are
treated in an American context.
The
annual directory of Musical America, a leading source of news and
listings for classical music and the fine arts worldwide.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is a twenty-volume
work which "seeks to discuss everything that can be reckoned to bear on
music in history and on present-day musical life.
The Grove Dictionary of Opera, while offering in-depth
articles on composers, performers, other artists and developments in the
field, it is the only Grove set to include analyses & overviews of major
works in its field. |
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