Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/perform/new.internet.resources.html

Smithsonian National Museum of American History Music Collections http://tinyurl.com/r85h7
Take a virtual tour into the collections of the museum's more than 5000 musical instruments, multitudes of costumes, oral histories, recordings, collections of handwritten music, and more.

UCLA Digital Archive of Popular American Music http://digital.library.ucla.edu/apam/
The UCLA Library offers "American popular songs in the form in which they were originally published." The site also provides links to other sheet music collections.

Blues Music

Blues World: http://www.bluesworld.com/  This site links to information on specific blues artitst, blues discographies, bibliographies, record companies, and commercial blues websites.

The Blues: http://www.thebluehighway.com/ The Blue Highway contains tributes to the blues greats, essays, and more. It also includes News, a Blues Mall (for choosing appropriate blues material), Recordings, Links to other blues sites, and a search engine.

Mudcat Café: http://www.deltablues.com/dbsearch.html Mudcat Café is a discussion group devoted to lovers of blues and folk music.

Classical Music

Classical MIDI Archives: http://www.prs.net/midi.html Use this site to listen to your favorite classical piece composed by one of more than 716 composers. Selections are rated

Classical Music on the Net: http://www.classical.net This site includes reviews of more than 1000 CDs, 4800 files, and 2600 links to other classical web sites.

DW3 Classical Music Resources http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/ “The world’s most comprehensive collection of classical music links.”

The Classical Music Navigator: http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/ 
Compiled by Dr. Charles Smith, this "service" is based on "points of familiarity" which are designed to facilitate conceptual searching. This is organized in five sections: a master composer list, glossary, index of forms and styles, a basic library of notable works, and a geographical roster, which allows for searching by country. The site includes links to other sites that focus on Western classical music.

Essentials of music: http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/ 
Created in cooperation with W. W. Norton and Co., Sony Classical presents this website that is designed to introduce the serious music student to basic information (eras, composers, glossary) about classical music.

Comprehensive Music Resources

Digtital Librarian Music Page
The most complete listing of web resources imaginable. Take a look at this website and enjoy!

Copyright Law

Public Domain Music http://www.pdinfo.com/
This is a self-proclaimed "reference site to help identify public domain songs and public domain music ...lists of public domain music, royalty free music recordings you can license, and public domain sheet music reprints."

MLA: Copyright for Music Librarians http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/mla/ 
This is a comprehensive site that includes guidelines relative to music and education as adopted by professional organizations, scenarios and guidance about copyright provisions, reserves, performance rights, etc., and a "selection of virtual and tangible copyright resources."

General Information on Music

MLA Clearinghouse:  http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org. This clearinghouse prepared by the Music Library Association stores documents of interest to music librarians, including copyright, cataloging, technology, and reference.

Sibelius Academy Music Resources: http://www2.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/music.html
This is a comprehensive website produced in Finland. Links to such topics as Music Catalogs, Church music, Composing, Computer Music, Folk, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Opera, and Music theory and Research appear on this site, as well as information on Music Competitions.

Music History

Indiana University Music Library: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/   Indiana University School of Music link to worldwide internet music resources

Music Library Reference Desk: Internet Resources: http://www.lib.washington.edu/Music/
This is a comprehensive collection of websites on many aspects of music, music history, and music literature. Copyright, careers, dissertations, dictionaries, databases, classification, film, medicine, education, catalogs, theory, awards, and various genres are but a few of the many topics covered.

Smithsonian Institution Music Room: http://americanhistory.si.edu/music/index.htm 
This site offers information on musical programs at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, on its collections of instruments and much more. It also features special web pages devoted to the history and use of particular musical instruments. 

Music Instruction

Directory of Music User Guides for libraries: http://www.library.yale.edu/~segglstn/mugdir/ This site includes bibliographies, pathfinders, and many other tools for helping users navigate web resources.

MENC: The National Association for Music Education: http://www.menc.org/ 
One of the most comprehensive web resources for music educators, students, and musicians, this association website provides links to standards, employment opportunities, conference information, and many other vital resources.

Music Education: http://www.mus-central.com/resource.htm  MESS, or Music Education Search System, finds information on journals having to do with music education. 

Music Instruments

Medieval and Renaissance Instruments: http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
Offers illustrations and photographs of instruments, in addition to a brief historical/descriptive entry. One can also hear the sound of the instrument.

National Music Museum and Center for the Study of the History of Musical Instruments, virtual tour page: http://www.usd.edu/smm/galleries.html#virtual
This page allows for viewing images of many of the 11,000 musical instruments held by the museum (which also boasts 5000 books and periodicals, thousands of pieces of trade literature, sound recordings sheet music, ensemble music, photographs, slides, etc.). One can virtually tour the museum, in addition to such collections as the Abell keyboard gallery and the great harmonica collection, among many others.

The Piano Page: http://www.ptg.org/. Produced by the Piano Technician’s Guild, this site focuses on information about pianos, including piano technology, images, information on purchasing pianos, and a virtual museum.  

Virtual Instrument Museum: http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/vim/
Looking for instruments made of wood? silk? clay? synthetics? This is the place to find them. Instruments are organized by type, material, geographic region, etc. Also includes an alphabetical index of genres and ensemble types.

Online Music Scores: http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/callon/2273/scores.htm  
This site presents a collection of downloadable music scores in a variety of genres and formats. It includes iconographic sources, general collections facsimiles, collections of early music, and sources arranged according to individual composers.

Music Theory

Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net: http://www.musictheory.net/
A multimedia learning experience where one can find definitions, lessons, and exercises in order to learn about different aspects of music theory. One can also find a chord calculator, staff paper, and a matrix generator.

Musical Theater

Musicals 101:  http://www.Musicals101.com/  The cyber encyclopedia of musical theater, TV, and film.

Rock Music

MTV website: http://www.mtv.com/ Look at this site for news and updates on the activities of your favorite rock star.

Yahoo’s Music http://www.Yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music Daily news, reviews, charts, artist and album information for rock, jazz, urban and country music.

The Ultimate Band List: http://ubl.artistdirect.com/. This popular rock band site includes information on concerts, artists, contests, songs, record labels, and more.

Sheet Music

Historic American Sheet Music: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/  
This website, produced by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provides 3042 digitized images of American Sheet Music published between 1850 and 1920. 

Pepper Music Network:  http://www.jwpepper.com/ “The worlds largest sheet music retailer.”

Sheet Music online: http://www.sheetmusic1.com/
This site is a compendium of hundreds of sheet music sources, including recommended music. piano benches, music supplies, and free educational downloads. One can order music organized into a variety of databases, such as fake books, piano technique, jazz play along series, Henle urtext editions, guitar, vocal, transcriptions, and many other genres. It offers free downloads of music in the public domain and other sources for a small fee. The site is the "most comprehensive page on the Internet for intermediate to advanced Jazz Piano." It is also considered a "super dealer" of music resources.

Songs and Lyrics

Song Finding in Cyberspace: http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/art/musicSong.html. Produced by the Fine arts and music division of the Vancouver Public Library, this website provides access to songs, lyrics, citations, free sheet music guide, national anthems of the world, music in the public domain, and more.

Songfile.com: http://www.lyrics.ch/ This international lyrics server offers access to more than 62,00 lyrics from a database of more than 130,000 songs. 

University of Tennessee Song Index: http://www.lib.utk.edu/~music/song.html This is a publicly available database that provides access to citations for 50,000 songs in more than 1,400 published song anthologies owned by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Music Library. Search by title, composer, author of text, or language, song type, accompaniment. This also searches anthologies.

A Sampling of Special Interest Pages

Bach

The J.S. Bach homepage: http://www.jsbach.org/ This award-winning site contains information on Bach’s life and works, recordings, record reviews, portraits, and more.

Baroque

Baroque Music Homepage: http://www.baroquemusic.org/index.html
This site includes portraits and brief biographies of Baroque composers, samples of Baroque music, and information about various Baroque instruments and available CDs.