Finding Scholarly Internet Resources

Encyclopedias:
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada.
-An electronic version of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (REF ML106.C3E5 1992).
Not a comprehensive music encyclopedia; this source is limited to information about Canadian music.

Grove Music Online.
-This online version of the 2nd edition of the standard New Grove dictionary also includes the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. It offers keyword searching of articles, biographies, bibliographies, and contributors. You can also browse by article title, abbreviations, or contributors. This is a key place to begin your research!

Recorded Sound:
Naxos Music Library.
-Listen to streaming music online! Naxos Music Library is a collection of classical music. "It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 130,000+ tracks". You can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.

General:
American Memory: Collections (Library of Congress).
- Click on "Performing Arts" to search the Library of Congress's collections including "African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920," "Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885," "The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920," and much more. Essays on related topics are included as well as scanned images of the sheet music, itself!

American Music on the World Wide Web.
(The Society for American Music)
- Provides links to dramatic, popular, sacred, and classical music sites including opera, jazz, blues, ragtime, gospel, and much more. While some resources pertain to current topics in American music, others offer great historical information.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online (DDM-Online).
- Provided by the Indiana University School of Music, this site "presents an index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995, arranged under the traditional broad categories."

K-12 Resources for Music Educators.
- An extensive listing of resources "for music educators and students of all areas and educational levels."

Music Publisher's Assocation (MPA).
- Provides access to MPA publications, a Directory of Music Publishers, and information on international music organizations. Also offers a Copyright Resource Center, complete with a guide to researching copyright holders as well as forms for requesting permission to arrange or copy music.

Necrology.
(database provided by Gaylord Library, Washington University, St. Louis, MO)
- Includes birth and death dates for important figures in the field of music. Citations for obituaries are included.

Public Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts.
- Collection of libretti, organized by title and composer.

Scout Report Archives.
- "A searchable and browseable database to nearly seven years' worth of the Scout Report and subject-specific Scout Reports. It contains 11,363 critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists."

The Aria Database.
- A collection of information on over 1,200 arias from 170 operas, offering over 380 translations, 1,000 aria texts, and 223 MIDI files. Visitors can do advanced searching or browse the alphabetical listing of arias. The entries are cross-referenced, and most include links or information on finding recordings and related materials.

The Choral Public Domain Library.
- "The largest website devoted exclusively to free choral sheet music." Begun in 1998, this site provides almost 4,000 scores of choral music for free downloading.

The Classical Music Navigator.
- Provides basic data, important works, and influences of 444 major composers. Browse by composer, geographical location, or musical form or style. This is a great resource for choosing pieces of music that are similar to pieces you already know and appreciate!

The Cyber Hymnal.
-Contains more than 5,700 Chrisian hymns and Gospel songs from many denominations. Includes lyrics, scores, MIDI files, pictures, history, and more.

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music.
(Johns Hopkins University)
- This collection "contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960." The composer, lyricist, arranger, and performer of the music are listed as well as instrumentation and publication information. Images of the music, itself, are available if the music is in the public domain.

Women Composers and Women's Music.
(Indiana University Music Library)
- An extensive classified list of Internet resources offering access to course syllabi, personal home pages, discographies, publishers, and numerous links to other resources devoted to women and music.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources.
(Indiana University Music Library)
- Well-organized and thoughtfully collected, this extensive site provides access to Web information on all topics of music.

Composers:
Beethoven Bibliography Database.
- From San Jose State University, "The Beethoven Bibliography Database is a fully-indexed bibliography of published materials relating to Ludwig van Beethoven. The Database currently includes books, articles, and first and early editions of scores from the Beethoven Center's collection." Type O (Other Databases) and then B (Beethoven) to access the database.

Classical Composers Database.
- Provides birth and death dates, short biographies, and links to sites with more in-depth information. This is a work in-progress; entries for composers are added regularly.

The Hector Berlioz Website.
- Devoted entirely to the music, life, and works of Berlioz. Contains a photo album, an extensive bibliography, and a collection of full score scans.

The Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection.
- This subset of the University of North Texas Virtual Rare Book Room contains full-text images of several Lully opera scores, including some first editions. Also contains a reference section which includes a useful glossary of French Baroque terms, and other information relating to Lully's works.

The Richard Wagner Archive.
- This site provides extensive information about the life and work of Wagner. You can read Wagner's writings and letters (mostly in German), look at quotations on Wagner, and read contemporary works on Wagner. A great feature of the site is the link to "Operas" which supplies plot synopses of the composer's operas.

UNT Virtual Rare Book Room.
(University of North Texas)
- Contains full text scans of rare opera scores and treatises--many of them first editions. Try browsing by composer or by title . Also contains background information about works, and useful bibliographies.

Other Music Libraries:
Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
-Harvard University

Mills Music Library
-University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sibley Music Library
-Eastman School of Music

William and Gayle Cook Music Library
-Indiana University