A companion site to the film series that aired on PBS. Features include biographies, resources for teachers, and an interactive map that traces the history of the blues in the United States.

Broadway/Show Tunes

Musical Cast Album Database

http://www.castalbumdb.com

Lists of recordings of shows with songs, singers, labels, theater premier data, and associated information.

Musicals.net

http://musicals.net

Forums, news, and information about Broadway shows (summaries, links, and songlists).

Internet Broadway Database

http://www.ibdb.com

"IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. Details include pertinent people involved as well as interesting facts and production statistics. Get a list of every production of Hamlet on Broadway or a list of your favorite actor's credits. Find out what played at a particular theatre or what shows opened in a specified Broadway season."

Choral

ChoralNet

http://www.choralnet.org

Composers, music theory, voice and performance advice, chorus management, recording guides, rehearsal techniques, and concerts galore in English, French, Spanish, and German.

ChoralWiki

http://www.choralwiki.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Search by composer, title keyword, type of piece, or voices to download classical sound files and sheet music. The library is expanding to encompass religious, holiday, and barbershop music.

Musica Virtual Choral Library

https://www.musicanet.org/en/

A database listing choral works, searchable by composer, arranger, publisher, title, genre and form, level of difficulty, type of choir, language, century, instrumentation, etc., with plans to expand beyond its 79,000 works and to provide still more access points.

Texts of Lieder / Art Songs and Other Classical Vocal Pieces

http://www.lieder.net/lieder/index.html

Lyrics in their original languages (with numerous translations), accessible by poet, composer, title, and first line.

Christian/Gospel

Black Gospel Music Clef

http://www.blackgospel.com

Charts, book and video lists, forums as well as links to record companies, producers, and gospel broadcasters.

The Cyber Hymnal

http://www.hymntime.com/tch

Over 10,000 Christian hymns and gospel songs.

Gospel Music Association

http://www.gospelmusic.org

The official site for the Gospel Music Association contains links to news stories, upcoming events, GMA awards, and a searchable Hall of Fame.

SongQuery

http://www.songquery.com/html/song/index.html

An index to books containing Christian songs.

Today's Christian Music's CCM Magazine

https://ccmmagazine.com

Magazine featuring Christian music news, songs, and interviews.

Classical

All Music

https://www.allmusic.com/genre/classical-ma0000002521

Register for free on this site. Browse by classical genre for composer, album, song, style, or label to find biographies, discographies, album tracks, albums; with style definitions, key artists, recordings, and other features. Also has classical reviews.

Analysis Index

https://databases.lib.utk.edu/analysis/

Produced by University of Tennessee-Knoxville librarians, an index to analyses in books of classical compositions.

Archival Sound Recordings

https://sounds.bl.uk/Classical-music

Users can browse the site and listen to recordings but, due to copyright restrictions, not all sound clips will be available.

Baroque Music

http://www.baroquemusic.org/index.html

This site provides a detailed definition and history of the music, as well as biographies for many composers and samples of their music.

Classical Archives

http://www.classicalarchives.com

MIDI files for over twenty thousand titles from all periods, as well as news about new releases and clips of recordings.

Classical Music Navigator

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/index2.htm

Use this friendly database to find works by your favorite composers, forms, instruments, periods, or styles.

Classical Music Used in Films

http://www.naxos.com/musicinmovies.asp?letter=A

Whether it's The Hunger, Moonstruck, or Titanic, if you are wondering about the names of classical pieces in films, check this site. With many added features, such as opera synopses, suggestions on how to enjoy a live concert, and a classical music start-up kit.

Classical Net

http://www.classical.net

"A point-of-entry into a wide array of informational files about classical music-over 4200 files at Classical Net and over 2500 links to other classical music web sites." Notice in particular the materials about composers, listed alphabetically from Carl Frieddrich Abel to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

Composers Bureau Online

https://www.sai-national.org/resources/composers-bureau.html

Names and contact information for approximately 200 modern American composers, as well as yearly update newsletters.

Early Music America

https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/resources/online-score-sources/

Sources of online scores of early music.

Free Classical Sheet Music

http://www.music-scores.com

This site has free classical sheet music for downloading and classical midi files for listening.

International Music Score Library Project

http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

Attention music lovers: Here is "a virtual library of public domain music scores.... Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's composition." Note that the scores are in the public domain according to Canadian law.

Ludwig van Beethoven

http://www.lvbeethoven.com

List of Beethoven's works, a bibliography, and more. Audio files are no longer supported.

Mozart Project

http://www.mozartproject.org/index.html

Biography and list of compositions.

Muse Data

http://www.musedata.org

An electronic library of classical music scores by Bach, Handel, Telemann, and other famous composers.

Mutopia

http://www.mutopiaproject.org

Free sheet music and audio files of music in the public domain. Search or browse by composer, instrument, or musical style.

Official Leonard Bernstein Site

http://www.leonardbernstein.com

Bibliographies, biography, discography, references to films, audio clips, etc.

Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians

http://iowapublicradio.org/pronouncing-dictionary-music-and-musicians#stream/0

Spells out the pronunciation of musical terms, works, arias, instruments, opera characters, etc. Primarily but not exclusively about classical music.

Sibley Music Library

https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewInstitutionalCollection.action?collectionId=63

“The University of Rochester's Sibley Music Library is the largest academic music library in North America. It has been engaged in an NEH project to digitize its public-domain music scores, emphasizing scores not widely held by other libraries and not digitized elsewhere."

William Grant Still Music

http://www.williamgrantstillmusic.com/index.htm

Biography and list of Still's works. Music is available for purchase only, but listings still valuable.

Country

Country Music Television

http://www.cmt.com

Biographies, discographies, photos, and links of current popular stars.

Grand Ole Opry

http://www.opry.com

The history and current workings of the venerable broadcast, with additional biographical information on the stars.

Folk

Folk Music Index

http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex

Search by browsing, keyword, performer, publisher, or index of sources for recordings of nearly 19,400 U.S. performers and over 50,000 music titles.

Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America

http://www.contemplator.com/folk.html

"Tunes, lyrics, information, historical background, and tune related links." Emphasis on songs in English rather than in the Celtic languages.

Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu

From the Ozark Mountain tradition, some 1,600 songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976 are being mounted here in audio, with texts of their lyrics and some sheet music.

River of Song

http://www.pbs.org/riverofsong/index.html

Country, folk, gospel, jazz, zydeco from the areas surrounding the Mississippi River.

Hip Hop

Allhiphop.com

http://allhiphop.com

News, reviews, videos, and music.

Hip Hop Timeline

https://timeline.carnegiehall.org/genres/rap-hip-hop

Arranged by decade.

Sohh.com

http://www.sohh.com

Up-to-date news and articles on, and interviews with, the biggest stars in hip-hop. Other features on Sohh include a message board and ringtone downloads of popular hip-hop songs.

Vibe Online

http://www.vibe.com

Articles about rap musicians and hip-hop culture from Vibe magazine.

Jazz

All About Jazz

http://www.allaboutjazz.com

Reviews, interviews, news, forums, videos, photos, and more.

A Great Day in Harlem

http://www.harlem.org

Interactivity allows analytical viewing of this celebrated photograph of jazz greats like Mary Lou Williams and Thelonious Monk; includes brief biographies.

JAZZ (PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/jazz

Learn about the roots of jazz by exploring an interactive map, reading historical overviews and biographies, and consulting related jazz links.

Red Hot Jazz Archive

https://syncopatedtimes.com/about-the-rhj-archive/

"A history of jazz before 1920," this site, with articles, films, and audio clips, describes the artists and bands of the Jazz Age and earlier. Red Hot Jazz no longer exists, but Syncopated Times is in the process of transferring its archive on to their site.

Latin

La Musica

http://www.lamusica.com

A variety of Latin American music resources in Spanish.

Latin Music in America Timeline
https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/music/info-2019/latin-music-timeline.html

"A chronological look at the origins, artists, and essential albums that comprise the genre."

Opera

Aria Database

http://www.aria-database.com

In addition to over 1,000 arias from approximately 200 operas, you will find several full opera translations into English, information about companies, sound files, and a host of links.

Gilbert and Sullivan Archive

https://www.gsarchive.net

Searchable, with librettos, plot summaries, audio files, discographies, photographs, etc.

Opera Glass

http://opera.stanford.edu

Detailed opera information is available here, including libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses, discographies, as well as information about composers, librettists, various kinds of information on about 250 operas, links to the home pages of opera companies worldwide, and to the home pages of opera professionals.

Operabase

http://www.operabase.com

Opera houses, schedules, festivals, reviews, and Internet resources; available in several languages.

Reggae

The Dread Library

http://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/dreadlibrary.html

A collection of essays by students on Reggae, Rastafarianism and related topics.

Jammin Reggae Archives

http://niceup.com

"Gateway to reggae on the Internet." Articles, new releases, tour dates, images, and many lists of artists.

Reggaeville

https://www.reggaeville.com

Videos, news, biographies, and information about new releases.

Rock

Rhythm and Blues

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Rhythm_and_blues

From the New World Encyclopedia, an overview with sound samples.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

http://www.rockhall.com

Biographies, sound clips, and daily features.

Rockabilly Hall of Fame

http://www.rockabillyhall.com

Biographies of artists (Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, and some 5,000 others), news, and reviews about this "exciting blend of the blues, country, and gospel."

Pitchfork

https://pitchfork.com

Reviews, interviews, and sound files.

World Music

African Music Encyclopedia

http://africanmusic.org

Provides descriptions and definitions of topics in African music, including musician biographies and regional histories. The site also includes many links to additional resources, though many links are now broken.

Afromix

http://www.afromix.org

Site dedicated to Afro-Caribbean music has information on artists, labels, styles, instruments, and countries. Viewable in English, Spanish, or French.

Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music

http://guides.lib.washington.edu/ethnomusicology

A directory of links to organizations, publications, regions, and ethnic groups about music and folk dancing.

RootsWorld: Music on the Net

http://www.rootsworld.com/rw

Articles, reviews, and more about folk, jazz, rock, and world music.

World Music

http://worldmusic.about.com

"Research world music, including reggae, Celtic and other forms."

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