All Music Guide
The AMG provides biographies and discographies for musicians from all
musical genres. The site is designed as a relational matrix, linking
common elements among various musicians and sound recordings. Occasionally
errors do appear in the biographical sections of AMG, so this site should
be used to gain basic knowledge. For more in-depth biographies, you
should consult reference works such as the Grove
Dictionary of Music.
American Memory
The American Memory performing arts site contains digital exhibits of over thirty collections of performing arts related materials housed
at the Library of Congress. These multiformat exhibits range from materials in the Aaron Copland
Collection to band music of the American Civil War era to folk songs collected by John and Ruby Lomax in 1939.
Center for Black Music
Research
A research unit of Columbia College Chicago, the CBMR is devoted to
research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history
of black music on a global scale.
Choral Public Domain Library
Begun in December 1998, CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites. You can use CPDL to find scores, texts,
translations, and information about composers.
Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology Online
DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for
completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of
musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related
musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
Free
Music Manuscript Paper
Print out music manuscript paper to complete those counterpoint assignments.
Harvard Digital Scores Collection
This is a small, but quality collection of digitized scores. The site mostly contains operas by Mozart and Verdi.
Institute
for Studies in American Music
Internationally recognized center for the study and presentation of
American music
Jewish Music Web Center
An online forum for academic, organizational, and individual activities
in Jewish music.
Renaissance
Masses, 1440-1520
This site, maintained by Rob Wegman of Princeton University, contains
a large number of audio recordings of Renaissance masses realized on
a keyboard synthesizer, using a synth voice setting. This site can serve
as a useful tool for students studying Renaissance counterpoint or choral
students wanting to practice along with the other vocal parts.
Online Electronic Journals
Chapter
& Verse: A Journal of Popular Music and Literature Studies
Chapter & Verse is a web journal that explores the creative
intersection between popular music and the written word - novels and
short stories, plays and poetry, journalism and criticism.
Critical
Musicology
Critical Musicology: A Transdisciplinary Online Journal is
a fully refereed critical musicology journal appearing exclusively on
the Internet. Its purpose is to provide a library of texts which address
the wide number of issues that have become part of the field of critical
musicology.
Echo: a
Music-Centered Journal
Echo: a music-centered journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed
journal created and edited by graduate students in the Department of
Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ethnomusicology
Online
Peer-reviewed, multimedia e-journal
Journal
of Seventeenth-Century Music
JSCM is published by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
to provide a refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures
of the seventeenth century. These include historical and archival studies,
performance practice, music theory, aesthetics, dance, and theater.
Music & Anthropology
An online multimedia peer-reviewed journal of Mediterranean Musical Anthropology
Music
Theory Online
Music Theory Online is the refereed, electronic journal of
the Society for Music Theory
Music
Business Journal
Music Business Journal brings together music industry professionals,
journalists, educators, and the general public with a broad interest
in this global business and entertainment activity.
NTAMA - Journal of African Music and Popular Culture
Published by the University of Mainz, these articles are in English and German.
Polish Music Journal
Online musicology journal dedicated to the study of Polish music.
Popular Musicology Online
Popular Musicology Online is a refereed journal with an international
advisory panel of top popular musicologists, addressing the problematics
of examining popular music and offering a platform to academics seeking
new methodological avenues for musicological inquiry.
Sound
Journal
Sound Journal is a peer-reviewed electronic academic journal
whose essays, reviews and interviews will cross boundaries and build
new coalitions.
