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Hot Topics & Scholarly Web Sites
Music Resources
These selected links to music resources represent only a very small portion of available sites. Many of the sites, however, provide additional links to relevant information resources. If you do not find what you want or if you have additional information needs, please inquire at the Information Services Desk in the King Library.
- All-music Guide (recordings, song titles, reviews, discographies, biographies, etc.)
- The Blue Flame Cafe (Free Music downloads and biographical information on blues singers and musicians)
- CDNOW (formerly Classical Insites;concerts, biographies, music history, etc.)
- Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature (scholarly, academic)
- ChoralNet The Internet Center for Choral Music
- Classical Net (all aspects of classical music)
- Credo Reference Music
- Ethnomusicology; folkmusic and world music (wide variety of links incl. American, British, Native American, etc.)
- The Hector Berlioz Website
- Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress American Memory project)
- I Hear America Singing (Library of Congress)
- Internet Resources for Music Scholars (Harvard Music Library's link list to over 300 scholarly resources)
- Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection (over 29,000 pieces of American sheet music, 1780-1980)
- MHN Instrument Encyclopedia (info on 140 instruments with text, images, sounds; for teachers, students)
- Operabase (performance data, reviews, links; search engine)
- Public Domain Music (copyright information along with truly public domain music)
- Red Hot Jazz Archive (early jazz; streaming audio; biographies, etc.)
- Songfile (formerly International Lyrics Server; Swiss-based)
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana Univ. Music Library gateway; major subject directory and list of resources