Online Music Resources

Featured Site:
Marian Anderson: A Life in Song
University of Pennsylvania Library Exhibition

Reference Shelf

American Vernacular Music Manuscripts

Spirituals Database

Dictionaries

• English/French Dictionary
• English/Italian Dictionary
• English/Latin Dictionary
• English/Spanish Dictionary

Church Music Resources

• Church Music Research Tools
  church music in its historical context
• American Choral Directors Association
  addresses copyright issues regarding music
• American Guild of Organists
• The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
• The Cyber Hymnal
• Index to Bach's Vocal Works in NBA

Copyright Information

• Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians
• Copyright searching and other resources by Music Publishers Association
  research copyright holders and/or publishers of music
   

Lyrics and Sheet Music

• Indiana University's Song Lyric Links
• Historic American Sheet Music
• Lyrics Connection
• Lyrics of Songs
• International Lyrics Server
  offers lyrics to 100,000 pieces from several genres
• Schubertline
  The online score service for singers
• IMSLP Petrucci Music Library
  Sharing the world's Public Domain music.
• CPDL Choral Public Domain

Major Composers

• Composers.net
• Classical Composers Database - pictures and brief biographies
• ClassicalNet's Composer Index
• Composers' Biographies and Works from Naxos
• Film Score Composers Database
• G. Schirmer's Composer Information
• Opera Composers from Opera Glass
• Women Composers: A Bibliography of Internet Resources
• The Unknown Composers Page
• The J.S. Bach Home Page
• Bach Central Station
• Bach Cantatas
• The Hector Berlioz Page
• The Hector Berlioz Website Home Page
• The Official Leonard Bernstein Site
• The Leonard Bernstein Collection
• Chopin Information & Links
• The Aaron Copland Collection: Ca. 1900-1990
• Aaron Copland
  News and Reviews from the New York Times Archive
• The Official Delius Website
• Links about Antonín Dvorák
• The Elgar Society and Foundation
• The Gerald Finzi Trust
  celebrates Gerald Finzi's music and ideals
• Philip Glass
• Edvard Grieg Museum - Troldhaugen
• The Gustav Holst Page by Kenric Taylor
• Hildegard von Bingen
• The Mozart Project
• Ediciones Joaquin Rodrigo
• John Philip Sousa
• The Schubert Institute (UK)
• John Tavener
• The Ralph Vaughan Williams Site
• Vivaldi Internet Resource

Music Education Links

• Music Educators National Conference
• Music Theory Tutorial
• International Listing of Music Schools
• National Association of Schools of Music
• Resources

Music Journals and Magazines Online

• BBC Radio 3
• Early Music America Magazine
  subscription info and one full-text article from each issue
• Gramophone Magazine
• Andante Magazine
• Newslink (newspapers and magazines from America and around the world)

Music Obituary Indexes

• MLA (Music Library Association) Obituary Index
• Gaylord Music Library Necrology File
• Find a Grave
  includes many famous musicians

Reviews and Program Notes

• Linda Mack's Program Notes
• Sierra Chamber Society Program Notes

Professional Music Organizations (Nonprofit)

• American Choral Directors Association
• American Composers Forum
• American Guild of Organists
• American Musicological Society
• American Music Therapy Association
• American String Teachers Association
• Association for Technology in Music Instruction
• College Music Society Inc.
• Hymn Society in the United States and Canada
• International Adventist Musicians Association
• International Association of Music Libraries
• International Trumpet Guild
• Music Educators National Conference
• Music Library Association
• Music Teachers National Association
• National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc.
• Society for American Music (formerly known as the Sonneck Society)

Events

• Festivalfinder: Music Festivals of North America
• Worldwide Opera Schedule Server
• Chicago Shakespeare Theater
• Things to Do and See in Chicago
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Early MusiChicago
• Andrews University Howard Performing Arts Center
• Kalamazoo Singers
• Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
• South Bend Symphony
• South Bend Civic Theatre
• DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame
• Snite Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana
• South Bend Chamber Singers
• South Bend's Firefly Festival
• Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra
• Movie listings

Commercial Sites

• Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
  American Folk and World Music Documentary
• The von Huene Workshop and Early Music Shop of New England
• Classical Vocal Repertoire

CDs and Other Recordings

• Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - American Folk and World Music Documentary
• The von Huene Workshop and Early Music Shop of New England
• Classical Vocal Repertoire

Printed Music

• Sheet Music Plus
• J.W. Pepper
  printed music of all publishers (Malecki Music has now merged with J.W. Pepper)
• Boosey & Hawkes
• Harrassowitz Music Services
• G. Schirmer, Inc.
• Paul van Kuik Antiquarian Music and Music Literature
• Edition Peters Music Publishers
• Local Resources for Southwest Michigan
• Patti Music Company
  serves piano and organ teachers and performers
• SHAR Music
  supplies for strings performers
• Musicnotes
  classical sheet music selections

Performing Rights Organizations

• ASCAP
• BMI
• SESAC

Send questions and comments (along with links you'd like to see here) to me at kordas@andrews.edu.