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Recently Found Online Music Resources

As I find useful resources online, I bookmark them in my del.icio.us link library. You can see the whole library here, but this page pulls out just the music-related resources for you. You can also subscribe to this feed to get automatic updates whenever I add a link to this page.

Back to the Music Subject Guide.


Music Links

  • Broadside: The topical song magazine

    Coming soon, the complete run of Broadside. 1962-1987.
  • Medieval Music & Arts Foundation - Welcome!

    Not much to look at, but this site contains a treasure-trove of information about medieval music. Click "Early Music FAQ" to see links to the discography section (called "Recordings").
  • Music of Social Change :: Home

    Provides useful information about scholarly information and special collections held by archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories in a targeted subject area, that of music and the African American Freedom Struggle
  • University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Databases

    Digital collections for many different subjects from the University of Wisconsin.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Archive of images, texts, and other media about Uncle Tom's Cabin. The interface is a bit clunky, but the content is unique and wonderful.
  • UCLA Library | Digital Collections | Collections

    UCLA's digital collections. (includes sheet music, political posters, the Rat Spinal Cord Archive, and more)
  • UCB Libraries | Music Library | Digital Sheet Music Collection

    The sheet music digitized and presented here was originally published between 1890 and 1922.
  • Main Page - IMSLP

    A virtual library containing public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.
  • Classical Composers Database

    Find links to information, events, concerts, and recordings using this database. You can search or browse by composer, year, style, period, nationality, etc.
  • Digital Scores - Loeb Music Library - Harvard College Library

    Scanned images of rare and unique musical scores from The Loeb Music Library
  • New York Public Library

    A searchable database of 16,000 objects representing archival materials from one of the strongest periods in the Performing Arts Library collections. Includes images of clippings, digitized books, and much more.
  • A-Z Lyrics Universe

    Online since 2000, this lyrics site includes thousands of uncensored lyrics from all types of popular music. Little to no attribution, though, and many user-generated lyrics.
  • Jazz Perspectives

    Jazz Perspectives is a new international peer-reviewed journal entirely devoted to jazz scholarship. (Free access through 2007)
  • Image project/resources/ - AcademicCommons

    This wiki collects links to visual resources, organized by discipline, as mentioned by faculty in the report "Using Digital Images in Teaching and Learning: Perspectives from Liberal Arts Institutions" by David Green. Hopefully it will continue to grow.
  • ResourceShelf: Digitized Sheet Music

    Each brief entry contains the title of the music, the composer(s) and lyricist(s), the publisher, date of publication, and the collection in which it is found. Click on the "more info" link, and you get an expanded entry that also ... more
  • International Lyrics Playground

    A lyrics site holding over 30,000 songs but that doesn't infect your computer with garbage and yet has accurate, popular music lyrics
  • Uniform Titles for Music - College of St. Catherine Library

    An Introduction to Uniform Titles for Music
  • Liveplasma

    Visualized search for music and movies.
  • Intute: Arts and Humanities

    A free online service providing access to the best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists.
  • Society for Music Perception and Cognition

    The website of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), a non-profit organization for researchers and others interested in music perception and cognition.