Internet Resources

Music Resources on the Internet

• American Memory from the Library of Congress Sheet Music Collections. Some of the collections include:
  - African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920, selected from the collections of Brown University;
  - "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana;
  - Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 and 1870-1885;
  - Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920.
• American Music Therapy Association, AMTA Code of Ethics
• American Psychological Association (type "music" in the search box) Excellent full-text articles on music and psychology.
• Andante Covers new performers, concert reviews, interviews, concert dates around the world
• Aria Database Lieder translations
• ArkivMusic.com Search for and buy CDs according to genre, composer, performer, or performing ensemble. For classical music, it's much easier to use than Amazon.com
• ArtsOpportunities is a free resource for artists, students and arts administrators seeking to further their careers in the arts. This service is brought to you by the Southern Arts Federation.
• Basin Street Records
• The Costumer's manifesto premier site for costume and fashion information. Approximately 800 pages on all aspects of costume.
• DW3 Duke University's Music Library site with composer homepages, chronologies and necrologies, national and regionally oriented pages, and organizations and centers for scholarly research.
• Education World - Visual & Performance Arts Center "The educator's best friend." Resources, articles, interviews, and more, for any educator.
• Filmsound.org organized in sections that include links to articles (from practical to scholarly) on how sound is used in films. There are also links to articles on the history of film sound and questions and answers, databases (e.g., a sound effects library), bibliography, and resources on related topics such as film music and sound in animation films.
• The Future of Music Coalition is a not-for-profit collaboration between members of the music, technology, public policy and intellectual property law communities. The FMC seeks to educate the media, policymakers, and the public about music / technology issues. The FMC also aims to identify and promote innovative business models that will help musicians and citizens to benefit from new technologies.
• Indiana University's William and Gayle Cook Music Library Excellent collection of sites along the same lines as DW3 (see above)
• Internet archive: live music archive noncommercial recordings--more than 16,000 to date--of "trade friendly" artists. Users should be aware that all shows are in the little-used SHN (.shn) format (a lossless audio codec) instead of the more ubiquitous MP3. Other music pages of the audio archive include Netlabels, which offers independent, alternative music labels in a variety of formats, including MP3, and Open Source Audio. The audio archive also includes Presidential Recordings, some 115 White House recordings, most 1940-73.
• Internet Broadway database
• Jazz Online All-in-one site for jazz enthusiasts; very well laid out
• Knitting Factory What's happening in jazz in NYC
• Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music more than 29,000 pieces of popular American music from 1780 to 1960.
• Louisiana Music Educators Association
• Louisiana Music Factory retail and mail order sales of New Orleans- and Louisiana-related recorded music and other items. A great place to buy Louisiana music, and to find out what's happening locally
• LSU's webliography Useful especially for local music links and information
• Mainely A Cappella sells 3,000+ items related to a cappella: singing without instruments. We sell CDs, sheet music, videos and other a cappella items from all over the world.
• MENC's Music Code of Ethics
• MLA: Copyright for Music Librarians
• Music Business Journal "The Internet Publication for the Global Music Business." Covers issues and laws from both the US and the UK.
• Music Business Solutions Helping musicians, songwriters and industry careerists start and grow successful music businesses through vital information and creative management strategies.
• Music Library Association's guide to copyright in terms of copying and streaming music.
• Music Publishers' Association Founded in 1895, the Music Publishers' Association is the oldest music trade organization in the United States, fostering communication among publishers, dealers, music educators, and all ultimate users of music. This non-profit association addresses itself to issues pertaining to every area of music publishing with an emphasis on the issues relevant to the publishers of print music for concert and educational purposes.
• Music, Theater, and Dance From Library of Congress. Patriotic Melodies, The Gerry Mulligan Collection, Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio, and Walt Whitman (focusing on his poem "I Hear America Singing"). The Featured Collection, Historic Sheet Music, now covers from 1800 to 1922 .
• Music Theory Multimedia A collection of interactive quizzes, crosswords, and mazes on everything from the basic elements of music theory, to late nineteenth-century harmony and post-tonal theory and analysis.
• Music Theory Online The online journal of the Society for Music Theory
• www.musictheory.net
• National Association for Music Education
• National Music Publishers' Association, Inc. Since 1917, NMPA has been a strong and effective champion for the protection of music copyrights in an age of rapid technological changes. NMPA was a leading voice for music publishers in connection with the enactment of the Copyright Act of 1976, and has successfully advocated amendments to that Act where necessary to protect the interests of music copyright owners.
• New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Official site
• Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy UK
• Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians from radio station WOI in Iowa
• Public Domain Music for performers, composers, and teachers to determine whether a song is in the public domain and, therefore, available for performance, publication, or arrangement without fear of infringing upon copyright.
• REC Music Foundation An archive of texts to Lieder and other Classical Art Songs (Kunstlieder, Mélodies, Canzoni, Romansy, Canciones, Liederen, Canções, Sånger, Laulua, etc.) as well as many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces, with thousands of translations to English, French and other languages
• Songfile Find lyrics to popular music
• Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip - “ballads, blues, children’s songs, cowboy songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs.” Lots of other goodies, including a fascinating photo archive.
• Theodore Front music publishers for all types of music, books, CDs
• T.I.S. Music Piano, vocal, CDs, books
• United States Government Copyright Office
• VH1 Save The Music purchases new musical instruments to restore music education programs that have been cut due to budget reductions in the past or to save programs at risk of elimination due to lack of instruments. The Foundation also conducts awareness campaigns, musical instrument drives and fundraising events.
• www.schenkerguide.com

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