See also the Music Research Guide.

Please send any comments or suggestions about this subject portal to Barbara Strauss.

Need Help? Ask a Librarian or go to Research Help for more research options.

Associations, Institutions, Etc.

• Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers (CPCC) - The Composer's Site
• Music Educators National Conference (MENC)
• Music Library Association
• Music Publishers' Association of the United States
• Music Teachers National Association
• Resources of Scholarly Societies: Music

CSU Music Department

• About the CSU Music Collection
• Course Reserves
• Department Home Page
• New Acquisitions
• Senior Music Projects

Digital Music Collections: Sound Recordings

• NAXOS Music Library (listen to classical music, jazz, contemporary, world, and folk music in a comprehensive database. 80,000 selections plus accompanying notes and biographical information on composers and artists).

Electronic Sheet Music

• Historic American Sheet Music (19th & early 20th century music, Duke University)
• Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (Library of Congress)
• Online Orchestral Scores (full scores of 16 orchestral works by major classical composers; Indiana University)

Jazz

• Red Hot Jazz Archive
• William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz (Library of Congress American Memory Project, documents the jazz scene, 1938-1948)

Journals

• Ethnomusicology
• Music History & Criticism, General
• Music History & Criticism, Instrumental
• Music History & Criticism, National - Folk, Patriotic, Political
• Music History & Criticism, Popular - Jazz, Rock, etc
• Music History & Criticism, Vocal
• Music Instruction & Study
• Music Literature
• Music Philosophy

Local Interest

• Apollo's Fire: The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
• Cleveland Chamber Music Society
• Cleveland Chamber Symphony
• Cleveland Composers Guild
• Cleveland Composers Guild Archive
• Cleveland Opera
• Cleveland Orchestra (official site)
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
• WCLV 104.9 FM (Cleveland's classical music radio station)

Reference Resources

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (Oxford University Press)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (Oxford University Press)
• Grove Music Online (comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz)
• Public Domain Info (how to research music in the public domain)

Research Databases

• Core Research Databases:
  • Grove Music Online (part of Oxford Music Online)
  • JSTOR 1838- (back files only, no current issues)
  • Music Index
  • Oxford Music Online
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
• Additional Databases:
  • The Beethoven Bibliography Database
  • Cleveland Orchestra Program Notes Index
  • Grove Music Online
  • Humanities International Complete
  • International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
  • Naxos Music Library
  • OhioLINK Music Center (OMC)

Selected Interest Areas

• All-Music Guide (popular musicians biographies and recordings reviews)
• Classical Net (basic repertoire and CD buying guide)
• Ethnomusicology - World Music (University of Washington)
• Ircam Server (An institute for music research; part of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris)
• J.S. Bach: Analysis of Canons & Fugues
• The J.S. Bach Home Page
• Musicians and Injuries (books, tapes, links, online articles)
• Operabase (monthly performance data on 400 opera houses, reviews and opera history)
• Polish Music Reference Center (University of Southern California)
• Women in Music Internet Project (biographical articles and resources; Kapralova Society, Toronto)

Tutorials

• Internet for Music