Music: Web Sources

"The following guide provides a basis for beginning electronic research on a wide variety of topics in music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and performance practice. It collects links to archival collections, online scores and sound recordings; article indexes, discographies and bibliographies; scholarly societies; musical reference works; and a miscellany of useful websites."

This database contains the more than 50,000 performances that have taken place at Carnegie Hall, including information about composers, performers, and repertoire.

Sponsored by the Kennedy Center, this video archive features full-length performances of a diverse array of musical styles and performers, from hip-hop to jazz to classical.

"The traditional musicological approach is to see music as a written text reproduced in performance. But much music does not exist in the form of a written text, circulating purely in the form of recordings. And even when music does exist as a written text, performers play an essential role in creating the experience that, for most people, is the music. CHARM was established to promote a musicology that better reflects the nature of music as experienced in the twentieth century and beyond." This initiative currently boasts over 5000 sound files, with new recordings added daily.

Don't let the title fool you: this collection contains a wide range of classical recordings from American performers as well as popular music recordings.

"The Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas."

"Over 100,000 songs celebrating North America’s Spanish-language musical heritage."

These "sites of interest" for musicologists includes information about composers, performers, scores, recordings, instruments, theory, and even "funny music stuff."

With the goal of preserving and fostering English traditional song, music, and dance, this initiative of the Vaughn Williams Memorial Library contains more than 60,000 digitized images from the manuscript collections of noted folk song collectors.