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Computers/Internet : Internet : Online Audio
9up
online music performance arena showcasing rising talent and start-up bands
AudioNet
broadcast network on the Internet specializing in sports and talk radio
Audio On Demand
global listing of online radio broadcasters from the world radio network
CyberRadio
online radio station offering live internet broadcasts of popular music genres
Hard Rock Live
audio feeds from hard rock cafe profiling top artists from the 80's
The Internet Jukebox
be your own disc jockey on this real audio listening station
LA Live!
live music broadcast from the city of angels via realaudio
LiveConcerts.Com
delivers live music and video cybercasts from popular music artists
Live Internet Radio Sites
comprehensive listing of online audio broadcasters on the net
Morning Breath
offbeat morning show cast exclusively on the net
MusicNet
sample hot online soundbytes previewing chart-topping rave artists
Music Previews Network
sample, preview, and buy from a mammoth selection of more than 180,000 tracks
NetRadio
online radio network of over 150 audio broadcast channels
Policescanner.com
feel the heat of america's most dangerous cities with the men in blue
Premiere Radio Networks
online audio feeds covering entertainment, music, sports, and live events
PRN Talk Radio
eccentric network of quality online talk radio shows
RealAudio
information on this audio playback and broadcast client for the net
RadioNet
offers live streaming audio feeds chronicling the digital revolution
RadioTower
directory of live audio broadcasters from around the world
Sinternet Radio
sample streaming audio of 'the best new music on the web'
SonicNet Streamland
live streaming music videos with audio
Soundz
music news, online cybercasts, and a selection of special features
TalkAmerica
the internet's only 24-hour live talk radio broadcast network
TimeCast
a real media programming guide to online audio broadcasts on the net
Virtual Radio Home Page
non-stop user-definable music broadcast that brings you the latest in new music
WILMA — World-Wide Internet Live Music Archive
an authortive online guide to live music and concerts

Attention Surplus Disorder

  • From Calgary, Canada, Attention Surplus Disorder is "a specialty program on CJSW which is primarily dedicated to promoting progressive music in all its forms, with a main focus on progressive rock and genres closely associated with it, such as jazz fusion... As the name of the show might suggest, we welcome listeners with an open mind and a taste for the more challenging aspects of rock music."

Aural Moon

CP Radio

  • Hosted by Matt Sweitzer (Canvas) the show features jazz fusion, prog and art rock. Its 24-7 and available free in 56kbps and in a subscription form at 128kbps Windows Media stream under the banner of Audio Realm network. Matt also has a syndicated program called "The Canvas Prog Hour" that runs on 6 stations currently, including Delicous Agony

Deep Art

  • ribeau@deepart.itgo.com
  • Deep Art is a radio show "that brings progressive rock from around the world to western Colorado."

Delicious Agony

  • Progressive rock radio station that features many online chats with prog artists.

Dreams Wide Awake

  • Progressive rock radio show

Echoes WWW site

  • Another regularly carried program that carries New Age music is Echoes. Site contains playlists, information on the radio program, and a place where you can order the CDs!

Echoes (hosted by John Diliberto)

Eric Mystic

  • He hosts a New Age radio show on KKUP 91.5 FM, Cupertino, CA.

Eufonia - "El otro sonido de la musica"

  • You can tune in via Winamp at: eufonia.mty.itesm.mx:8000, or by going to www.terra.com.mx

Exile Radio

  • It's an online radio station on Live365.com set up by the Canadian band Silent Exile.

FreeZone CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal

  • Sounding the Radio Envelope into ambient groovescapes. Broadcasting from CKUT 90.3 in Montreal. Includes Playlists and other links.

Gagliarchives

  • South Jersey's Finest Progressive Rock...Eight Years Running. Saturday Nights from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. on WBZO 88.9 FM. "The Show: A progressive and art rock program that covers neo, synth, fusion, canterbury, metal, classic, solo, space, acid, classical, underground 70's, new, and anything else somehow tied in with this mystical genre (at least 80,000 listings.)"

Groove Tunes UK

  • An eclectic mix of tunes from independent artists.

Hearts of Space web site

  • Hearts of Space is one of the more recognizable names in the space genre, backing a wide variety of artists from the globe ranging from Kevin Brahemy to Constance Demby to Mychael Danna to more. Hearts of Space also produces a radio show which is syndicated on many stations throughout the United States. The site has radio show information (where they are syndicated, playlists) and record label information. Also, Hearts of Space has a sister label, Fathom- some of the best dark ambient around.

Internet Radio Free Kansas

  • Internet Radio site with several "channels" broadcast in MP3 format, thought the main link is in both RealAudio and MP3. Channels include modern prog rock and 70s German electronica...

Joe's Psych Radio Show

  • Radio show hosted by Texas Joe Valles, Jr (of the band Valles Brothers Band) in South Texas on KMBH 88.9 F.M. Saturday nights at 10:00 p.m. "I will gladly play cds from prog and psych bands .... only," says Joe, "[...] my show broadcasts over South Texas and Northern Mexico..."

Live Radio on the Internet

  • "With almost three quarters of a million pageviews every month, Live Radio on the Internet is not only the UK's most visited live radio site, but is also the largest directory available of working links to radio stations broadcasting live on the Internet."

Mark From Holland

  • Mark Deren's broadcasts a progressive rock show every Sunday between 10:00 PM and 12:00 PM via Radio Heemskerk, Holland 104.5 (cable) and 107.4 (ether). He's interviewed numerous prog artists - you can see a list here and more info on Mark here.

Musical Starstreams

  • A very well known, syndicated ambient show based in the US.

Musically Incorrect

Night Vision (hosted by Jack Luminous)

  • One of several different programs on the Music Sojourn Network, this one features current progressive rock.

Paperlate Rock Radio (Netherlands)
 

Planet Prog Radio
 

The Prog Palace
 

  • Run by Greg Stafford, broadcasting via Live365, The Prog Palace is "The Home Of The Prog"

Progradio.com

  • Broadcasting 24/7 in RealAudio, Progressive Music For Your Mind

ProgRealAudio

  • Twice weekly show is presented to subscribers, plus a mailing list for the discussion of progressive music which is hosted via the emergent Gnosis site.

Progged - Progressive Rock and Metal

  • Hear Progressive Rock and Metal track via a Shoutcast stream.

Progressive Soundscapes
 

The Prog-Rock Diner

  • "A public access cable & internet station with the call letters WEBR, [playing] both early and current artists with most of preference toward symphonic, fusion and space oriented prog...but play other forms as well."

Progressive Rock Radio (hosted by Larry Allen)

  • One of several different programs on the Music Sojourn Network, this one features classic progressive rock.

http://www.progrock.com

  • ProgRock.com - The First Name In Progressive Rock featuring the PROGROCK.COM MP3 Shoutcast.

Psychedelicatessen (NL)

  •  Radio Tonka every Monday night at 9.30 pm GMT. "Obscure psychedelic music from the 60s/70s. Expand your musical horizons."

Pushing The Envelope - Music Decidedly Left of Center

  • University of Connecticut based radio station. Pushing The Envelope airs on Sunday afternoons from 2pm - 4pm (EST). "It continues its mission of presenting the best of avant-garde classical, rock, jazz, ambient, electronic, along with a healthy dollop of new and classic progressive rock (i.e., King Crimson, Boud Deun, Gentle Giant, etc.)." Streamed with Windows Media Player.

Rapture Radio Network
New online radio outlet, sponsored by The End Records, and anchored by Wes Jaques' metal show.
 

The Same...Only Different

  • Hosted by Andy Papula, broadcasts Mondays 9 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. (EST)

Saturday Light Brigade (hosted by Larry Berger & Bill Lucker)

Screaming Symphony

  • Peter & Gary broadcast a progressive & power metal show from 10pm - 12am Tuesdays from Australia on PBS 106.7 FM, and on the 'net at the link above

Seismic Radio

  • Progressive Rock and Metal music, broadcast in RealAudio.

Somewhere Between Sunrise & Sunset

  • Tuesday nights from 10PM - 1AM (EST), three hours of progressive / extreme music on 88.3FM, WBWC - Cleveland, Ohio. Listen live (www.wbwc.com/ram/wbwc.ram) on the web from ANYWHERE in the world! Focusing on early prog essentials/favorites and highlighting modern acts.

Splunge Radio

  • "The best Progressive Rock broadcasted via the Internet 24 hours a day!"

Stars End

  • A well known ambient / space music radio program broadcast to many stations throughout the country.

The Trip with Clay Gaunce

  • A weekly mix of classic and current progressive rock on WRFL - Radio Free Lexington (Kentucky)

Ultima Thule

  • A radio program in Australia exploring ambient music.

Tony Coulter's show on WFMU
91.1 fm, New York City; 90.1 fm Hudson Valley, and online

La Villa Strangiato

Entertainment : Radio

107.9 The End
a fab rock station in cleveland, home of the rock and roll hall of fame
Art Bell
guest schedules and guide to the king of late night talk radio
The Big Show
fan page for the hilarious antics of talk show gurus john boy and billy
Body Talk
weekly syndicated health and lifestyle show on public radio
CBS Radio Networks
get feeds on cbs radio programming covering news, sports, and entertainment
CarTalk.com
the talk radio show that has automotive enthusiasts talking
Alan Colmes Show
the last of dying breed of left-leaning radio talk shows
Earth & Sky
an award winning daily science radio series in syndication
Free Radio Berkeley
information on the pirate station serving the greater berkeley area
Gavin.com
online trade magazine for the u.s. radio and broadcast industry
KISW Online
entertaining web site from seattle's top rock station
KPIG Radio
zanny humor and comedy archive from the guys at kpig in santa cruz, california
KZSU Radio
savvy home page of stanford's student-run radio station
The Official G. Gordon Liddy Page
'tell it like it is' conservative talk radio host lays down his political thoughts
National Public Radio
go inside the npr with live online broadcasts, schedules, and more
The Oliver North Home Page
official home page of the former colonel turned conservative commentator
Policescanner.com
feel the heat of america's most dangerous cities with the men in blue
Radio Online
starting point for online radio resources on the web
Radio Prague
daily news radio covering news, business, and politics in the czech republic
Radio Stations on the Internet
compilation of over 3,000 online radio stations in the u.s.
Mike Reagan
view the thoughts and principles of this conservative commentator
Unofficial Rush
limbaugh fans will get a kick out of his clinton puns and undeniable truths
Shoestring Radio
info on shoestring's nationally-syndicated radio shows on film and drama
The Talk Radio Guide
complete directory to syndicated talk, news, and sports radio programming
The Ultimate Radio List
compilation of online radio stations and broadcast networks around the world
WCBS-FM 101.1
wired promo for new york's classic oldies station
West Coast Live
san francisco bay area variety show broadcasting nationally in syndication

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Alternative
1000% Max
alternative grunge musiczine, great text, motion and sound
181.4 Degrees from the Norm
e-zine featuring album reviews of today's alternative music
Alternative Rock World
an in-depth look at the alternative rock scene
Earwig
a popular radio-syndicated alternative rock magazine
The Punk Page
features punk music lyrics, pictures, and sounds with related links
SonicNet
voyage in the alternative universe with chat, news, reviews, & cybercasts
ViVidzine
spotlight on all the hottest alternative bands

10,000 Maniacs
official electronic home of the maniacal new alternative group
Ace of Base Paradise
a fantastic information resource on this swedish pop rock group
Alice in Chains — Junkyard Dog
official home of this popular rock group featuring bios, discography, and news
Babes in Toyland
vanity site profiling albums and bios on this leading all-girl gen-x group
The Beck Web
unofficial to tribute to the enigmatic artist, beck
Bjork — WebSense
generous selection of news, bios, and more on the icelandic female vocalist
Blues Traveler
blues roots rock band lead by john popper
BushNet
official spin on the british rock group's latest tour and albums
The Cardigans
swedish pop rock group with a new style of beatnik jazz and wistful 60's kitsch-pop
Counting Crows
sleek and stylish interactive promo for fans of this popular alternative group
The Cure
an official band production profiling rare demo recordings,
FooFighters
splashy intro to dave grohl's rock band
The Helmet Homepage
news, tabs, interviews, pictures, audio, video covering this rad rock group
Hootie and the Blowfish
band bios, tour dates, lyrics, on the increasingly popular band from south carolina
Live!
official band site offers tour dates, bios, and more from this new rave group
Alanis Morissette
thorough online tribute to grammy award winning singer and songwriter
Nirvana Fan Club
online abode for fans of nirvana, led by the late kurt cobain
No Doubt
complete guide to the rock pop band featuring gwen stefani on vocals
Oasis Internet
official home of british neo-rockers including bios, discography, news & more
Pearl Jam
informative spin on the seattle grunge band led by eddie vedder
The Presidents of the United States
the new techno-edge alternative to contemporary seattle grunge bands
Red Hot Chili Pepers
an online celebration of pre-1995 red hot chili pepper hits
R.E.M — Dead Letter Office
electronic file cabinet of assorted r.e.m. paraphernalia
R.E.M. — Murmurs
news, reviews, and interviews on the the chart-topping pop rock group
Seven Mary Three
sample the latest in new wave grunge with 7m3 sound bytes, e-presskits, etc.
Silverchair
insurgent alternative rock group from australia
Stone Temple Pilots
rock group led by scott weiland that tops the alternative rock scene
The Wallflowers
tour dates, reviews, sound clips from this rock group featuring bob dylan's son

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Big Band / Swing
The Roots of Lounge
home for hepcats & fans of the laid-back, retro-swing lounge music
The Ultra Lounge
captures the era of cocktail lounges and big band
The Combustible Edison Page
a sleek/stylish 'webography' on the pop culture icon of laid-back lounge music
Enoch Light — Spaced Out
dedicated to the pioneer of stereo with interviews, news, and more
Sammy Davis Jr. — One Cool Cat
the king of swing is one cool cat at this retro site
Los Huertos!
classy band bordering on classic brit-pop & swingin' n.y. groove
Mr. Pink Featuring Jefferson Stewart
lead crooner jefferson leads this lounge band performing swing, sinatra & surf hits
Frank Sinatra — A Musical Tribute
online musical scores and ballads to capture the sinatra legacy
Frank Sinatra — Blue-Eyes.com
a retro tribute to ole blue-eyes
Frank Sinatra — This is Sinatra
an online odyssey into the life & music of the chairman of the board

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Blues
Blue Cat Blues
sleek, stylish, and hip blues club in dallas, texas
The Blue Flame Cafe
interactive biographical encyclopedia of the great blues singers & singers of the blues
The Blue Highway
everything for the blues lover including discerning blues links
The Blues Channel
get the essential blues news, reviews, and interviews at the blues channel
BluesNet
get expert answers to your blues questions from the mentor program
Blues World
the blusiest blues zine on the net loaded with special features
House of Blues
offers blues news, chats, live concerts in real audio, and more
Hittin' the Web with the Allman Brothers
the definitive site for this legendary blues-rock band
Bobby "Blue" Bland
one of blue's preeminent vocalists known for his blues ballads and love songs
Buddy Blue
relax to the laid-back, swinging sound of buddy blue
B.B. King
interactive biography and tour info, on the master of the electric blues guitar
The Robert Cray Band
guide to the platinum blues legend robert cray, and his latest tour
The Robert Johnson Notebooks
the lyrics of the blues artist, examined in a literary context as poems
Huddie Ledbetter — Leadbelly Web
bio on the legendary huddie ledbetter, the larger than life blues singer
Bonnie Raitt
album info, multimedia, discography & more on this female blues singer/guitarist
Sonny Boy Lee
blues bios on the great sonny boy lee band, plus superb collection of blus links
Aaron "T-Bone" Walker
clean and concise bio on this blues legend

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Christian/Gospel
CCM — Contemporary Christian Music
spotlight on news/developments in the genre of contemporary christian music
Christian Music Online
site dedicated to providing the latest information on the christian music world
Agape Singers
popular gospel sextet of young men from illinois
The Altar Boys
online tribute with some sounds, lyrics, and more on this now defunct group
Bob Carlisle — Butterfly Kisses
official site for this popular christian pop singer
Steven Curtis Chapman
official fan site of this popular grammy-nominated christian vocalist
Clay Crosse
sleek & stylish guide to the 1995 dove award recipient
DC Talk
the official electronic home of this popular christian hip-hop group
Amy Grant — AmyWorld
guide to the popular female christian & pop vocalists
Jars of Clay
contemporary pop group with a christian appeal
Newsboys
spotlight on the popular christian rock group
Oak Ridge Boys
official home of this groundbreaking gospel/country quartet
Michael W. Smith
impressive expo on this christian singer-songwriter with discography, photos, etc.
Stanford Gospel Choir
gospel choir dedicated to spreading the word of god through song
Steve Taylor
discography, cover art, and more features on this acclaimed christian singer/songwriter
Tony Vincent
in-depth focus on the career of this rising young singer/songwriter

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Classical/Opera
American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum
honors the many facets of classical music in the u.s.
Classical Artists Worldwide
informational and promotional service for performers and ensembles
Classical Insites
circumnavigate the world of classical music with n2k's classical insites
Classical Music Online
features the latest classical news, reviews, and listen to classical selections
Classical Net
classical music site features a wide array of informational files and links
Classics World
preview the works of great classical musicians or buy a cd
OperaWeb
opera history, reviews, or perform the famous opera arias over midi files
OrchestraNET
profiles symphony orchestras & classic performers in great britain
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Classical Music
complete catalogue of resources dedicated to classical music
Atlanta Symphony
preview performances and concerts at the atlanta symphony orchestra
Australian Chamber Orchestra
focus on orchestra history, its touring schedule, reviews, and more
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
exhibition on the orchestra, its history, its music director & programs
London Symphony Orchestra
booking information, concert schedules, and info on the acclaimed london symphony
New York Philharmonic
archival exhibit, facts, history, concert calender on america's oldest orchestra
San Francisco Symphony
overview and guide to concerts/events at davies symphony hall
Leroy Anderson
documents the life & work of this american composer, performer, and musician
Johann Sebastian Bach
archival online catalogue documenting the complete works of bach
Sir Granville Bantock — The Bantock Society
an excellent starting point for appreciators of this popular english composer
Leonard Bernstein
follow the extraordinary legacy of one of the 20th century's greatest composers
Fredric Chopin
tribute in honour of the world's most famous piano composer
George Crumb Home Page
highlights the many compositions and works of this american born composer
Callas Divina
online exhibition of the 'biggest singer of this century'
Handel & Haydn Society
america's leading professional chorus & period instrument in boston
Richard Leech
virtual opera house for this acclaimed performer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
tribute to the great composer including compositions & a recording guide
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — The Mozart Project
on-going project documenting the life, times, and music of mozart
Luciano Pavarotti
official exhibition on this stoic and acclaimed classical performer
Giacomo Puccini
organization founded to disseminate info & archives on this opera composer
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
comprehensive timeline, biograpical sketch, composition dates, and more
The Ralph Vaughan Williams Page
a prolific composer and writer of music & champion of british cultural heritage
Richard Wagner on the Web
information catalogue on the famous german composer

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Classic Rock
Classic Rock Chronicles
chronicles the classical music scene of yesterday and today
Oldies Music of the 50's, 60's and 70's
history, trivia, and more on this golden era of rock n' roll
Super Seventies RockSite
spotlights rock albums of the 70's & features a year by year almanac
The Allman Brothers Band
informative source highlighting the allman brother's careers & the fillmore conerts
Hittin' the Web with the Allman Brothers
the definitive site for this legendary blues-rock band
The Beach Boys
fan page for beach boy brian wilson and the rest of the band
The Beach Boys — An American Band
fan page for the classic surf rock sounds of the beach boys
The Beach Boys Links
thorough compilation of sites related to brian wilson & the beach boys
The Beatles — An Anthology
capitol records official promo featuring spotlights on the 3 anthology volumes
The Beatles Bootleg Page
collector's information on unofficially released hits from the fab four
Beatles Discography
the definitive discography on the web for the fab four
Beatles Links
assemblage of the best beatles sites on the web
Beatles — Songs, Pictures, and Stories about the Beatles
chronicles one of the most prolific rock groups of our time
The Internet Beatles Album
a lasting online tribute to the fab four
Black Oak Arkansas
tribute to this influential southern rock group that created a genre to itself
The Byrds
fans of the byrds can track the stoic legacy of this hip rock group
Chicago
follow the legendary rock group as it celebrates its 30th anniversary
Eric Clapton — The Greatest Guitarist Of All Time
trek through the career of this guitar god and acoustic master
Creedence Clearwater Rev. — Rockin' All Over the World
the original ccr site on the web offers highlights of the accomplished 70's group
Deep Purple
galleria highlighting the legacy of this most influential rock band
The Déjà Vu Experience
future top 20 group playing covers and originals with the 50, 60s sound
The Doobie Brothers
the latest on the doobie brother's performances, tours, and music
The Doors Official Web Site
stomping grounds for fans of the great jim morrison and the doors
The Dreamweaver — Gary Wright
experience the ageless classic dreamweaver with a personally autographed cd
Bob Dylan Chords
lyrics and discography to all of dylan's classic works
Bob Dylan — Expecting Rain
the bob dylan's who's who plus an online atlas and more
Fleetwood Mac
check out stevie nicks and the bare trees
Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
on-going project to footnote and analyze the lyrics of grateful dead
The Grateful Dead
site features dead links into the vast deadspace on the web
The Grateful Dead's Official Home
the official online homestead for deadheads and fans of the late jerry garcia
A Jimi Hendrix Experience
discography, pictures, lyrics, and music from the guitar great
Experience Hendrix
fan zine for the legendary guitarist known for his ear-piercing chords
Buddy Holly
recaptures the life & works of this pioneering rock 'n' roller
John Lennon — Lennonology
an in-depth study & analysis of john lennon's lyrical poetry
The Steve Miller Band
follow the joker, gangster of love or maurice (take your pick) on his latest tour
The Moody Blues — Blue World
fan site for the nights in white satin and other greats
The Jimmy Page Page
compositions, tablatures, and bios on this guitar legend of zeppelin fame
Lynyrd Skynyrd
official site tracing the history and influences of these southern rock legends
The Monkees
online info-mine chronicling the music of the psychedelic 60s group
Pink Floyd
visit the dark side of the moon online
PinkFloyd.com
extensive guide documenting pink floyd, plus a chat & message board
Elvis Presley's Graceland
planning a visit to the king of rock's humble abode?
Elvis Presley Online
trek through the king's career from the fifties to the seventies
RingoTour.com
online home of ringo's all-star band with press releases, tour dates, and more
Rolling Stones
go back stage at the voodoo lounge tour or get a stone fan's perspective
Santana
a lively tribute to carlos santana and his band
Steely Dan
online news and information on rock artist steely dan
The Marshall Tucker Band
official fan page features tour dates, discography, and more
The Turtles
online home of this popular 60's group that was so 'happy together'
Steve Winwood
highlights of this rockstar's solo works, group performances, and tour
The Who
online tribute to the british rock group with discography, lyrics, and tour dates
The Yardbirds
experience the legacy of jim mccarthy & this influential rock group
The Ultimate Neil Young List
get lyrics, links, and discography on neil young classics
Led Zeppelin — Electric Magic
chronicles zeppelin with news, reviews, bios, discography,and lyrics
ZZ Top
follow one of rock 'n' roll's top acts on their mean rhythm tour

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Country/Western
105.3 Young Country — Dallas, Texas
superb spin on the country music scene from this dallas country station
Country Music Association Awards
exclusive backstage pass to the country music awards
CountrySong.com
one of the most comprehensive sites dedicated to the country genre on the net
Country Standard Time
country music webzine including feature stories, insightful articles, news, etc.
Country Weekly
the definitive country music and entertainment magazine
Great American Country
profiles the hottest country stars on tour or on the charts
MCA Records Nashville
peruse news and info on the hottest artists on this country music label
Twagin' Country Music
every country fan will want to stop by and catch the latest news/gossip
Women of Country
online spotlight on the greatest women of country
Brooks & Dunn Online
official site for this perennial country music duo — brooks & dunn
Garth Brooks — Planet Garth
one fan's tribute to the king of country music, garth brooks
Johnny Cash
online gallery dedicated to the original man in black
David Allan Coe Online
complete guide to country music's outlaw who emerged in 1970's
Confederate Railroad
spotlight on the six member band following their tours and greatest hits
Billy Ray & Cyrus World
bios & sound clips on the country heartrob who tore up the charts
Charlie Daniels
online exposition dedicated to country music's pioneering legend
Merle Haggard Official Web Site
superbly presented collection of interactive photos-and-text on "the hag"
Alan Jackson
a spotlight on this country great with interviews, sound bytes, and more
George Jones
complete source for news, itinerary, and discography for the country's soulful son
Wynonna Judd — Planet Wy
one fan's tribute to this classy country diva
Sammy Kershaw
hit the road with this country great and his official online domain
Jed Lance
official site of this rising young artist in nashville
Lyle Lovett
assemblage of news, tour info, & articles on this country music talent
Loretta Lynn
longtime fans of the queen of country can stay up to par with her latest news
Oak Ridge Boys
official home of this groundbreaking gospel/country quartet
Buck Owens Home Page
profiles the career of this country talent who hosted hee-haw
Bonnie Raitt
album info, multimedia, discography & more on this female blues singer/guitarist
Hank Williams, Jr.
experience the legacy of this country great who has more than 65 albums
Kelly Willis Home Page
tribute to this talented singer/songwriter & 'queen of alternative country'
Dwight Yoakam — The Dwight Site
the most complete dwight yoakam site on the net
Trisha Yearwood
savvy young singer that brought country to the new generation

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Disco/Funk
Bernie's Disco Music Page — DiscoMusic.com
bernie has assembled the most authoritative site on the true dance genre of disco
Disco Around the World
a comprehensive guide for those still searching for disco clubs & hangouts
DISCOnnected
concise and clear-cut mini-bios on popular disco/funk artists
Seventies Dance Music Page — Disco Fever
hit parade of dance titles, tracks, l.p. covers on the disco era
ABBAnatic: The Alternative ABBA Web Page
avid abba fans and devotees can relive the classic era of abba
Bee-Gees — Wind Of Change
elebrates the music and career of barry, robin, and maurice gibb
The Bootie Shakers
dance to all of your old favorites with these disco mavericks
Boston Tea Party
"witness a party filled with pure soul, straight funk and a disco fever!"
Fever
for the best hot dance music from seventies and eighties
KC and the Sunshine Band
head back to the seventies with this band that led the disco craze
Kool and the Gang
trek through the careers of those masters of disco & dance
Village People
an unofficial guide to the posterboys of the 70's — the village people

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Rap/Hip-Hop
88HipHop.com
hop on the hip-hop superhighway for the latest news & views on hip-hop culture
Def Jam Music Group
an online hip-hop central from the popular recording label
HippaToDaHoppa.com
'the next of elevation of hip-hop' with info on rising talent from the underground
Hip-Hop.com
dive into the underground of hip-hop culture at the 'phatest site on the net'
Loud Records
focus on new artists, records, and happenings on the loud label
Rap.Org
complete take on the rap scene with news, tour dates, clips, interviews, and more
Turntablism.com
home to the world's first online dj battle
The Ultimate Rap Page
who needs news when you got an extensive collection of hip-hop sound clips
Wicked Styles
the ultimate source for turntabilists and dj's making wicked grooves
Afrika Bambaataa
tribute to the godfathers of hip-hop with a biography, discography, and more
Beastie Boys
news, lyrics, discography from the official beatie boys site from grand royal
Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony — Art of War
fans-n-thugs can check the latest news & updates on the clevland hip-hop group
Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony — The Boneyard
news, sounds, pics, and lyrics from the boneyard
Busta Rhymes
preview the artistry of the new school of new york hip-hop led by busta rhymes
Coolio's Official Online Home
the electronic abode of the hip-hop king himself
Cypress Hill
assorted cypress hill paraphernalia from their online temple
Eazy-E — The Hip-Hop Thugsta
an online tribute to late, great, and controversial n.w.a. rapper
The Fugees
official site of this popular hip-hop r&b group
The Genius / GZA
bio & spotlight on the album 'liquid swords' from gza of wu-tang fame
Geto Boys
witness the resurrection of rap-a-lot's scarface and bushwick bill
Grave Diggaz — The Graveyard Chamber
diggin' a grave for the online masses with the hardcore hip-hop group
The House of Pain
up-to-date news, lyrical content, and more on the house of pain
Ice Cube
get connected with the ambassador of west coast rap
Jazzy Jeff + Fresh Prince
tribute the consumate storyteller rapper- will smith, the fresh prince & jazzy jeff
LL Cool J — All World
covers the life & career of one of the veterans of the rap scene
Naughty by Nature
features discography, sound clips, video clips, news on the titans of hip-hop
Notorious B.I.G. Web Site
an online memorial highlighting the life & career of biggie
Outkast
sample audiobytes from the official site of outkast
Outkast Online
sounds, pictures, lyrics, and the works from the #1 outkast hangout
Tupac Shakur — Makavelli
chronicles the life & career of the late rapper and his transition into 'makavelli'
Tupac Shakkur — Thug Life
a tribute to the late & great tupac skakkur
Tupac Shakkur — Tupac.Net
chat forum for tupac fans, plus lyrics, bios, and more
Snoop Doggy Dog — The Doghouse
the latest news & happenings on the dogfather
A Tribe Called Quest
official guide to the hip-hop trio with bios, links, chat, and more
Westside Connection — The Worldwide Westside
online tribute to the hip hop collaboration of mack 10, ice cube, and w.c.
Wu-Tang Clan
get the download on the clan with news, lyrics, and more on this hip-hop group
Wu-Tang Clan — The DSC /Da Saga Continues/
scope out the latest news on the clan with their zone on the net
Wu-Tang Clan — House of the Rising Sun
a clearinghouse on all things wu with the latest on the shoguns of shaolin
Wu-Tang Clan — Killah Beez on the Swarm
bios, photos, and clips on the leaders of new york hip-hop culture

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Jazz

All About Jazz
the most complete online magazine for jazz fans, by jazz fans
CJazz — Contemporary Jazz
this site endeavors to cover contemporary jazz like no other for its aficionados
InterJazz
score some tunes with the interjazz plaza
Jazz Central Station
a must see site that offers everything for the jazz lover
The Jazz Corner
the jazz scene hits cyberspace at the jazz corner
JazzNet
guide covering the southern california jazz scene
Jazz Online
site allows you jazz up your life with best new jazz releases, and more
World Wide Jazz Archive
a jazzy site with a little of everything for the jazz lover
Louis Armstrong Discography
the most complete and in-depth discographies on the great louis armstrong
Jonathan Butler
a musical journey into the life and works of this south african jazz great
Charlie Christian
the definitive guide for fans of this prolific jazz guitarist
Stanley Clarke
online tribute in honor of acclaimed jazz bassist stanley clarke
Miles Davis
an in-depth look at the storied legacy of this trumpeter, composer & innovator
Candy Dulfer
bio & tour dates for this lady of jazz and acclaimed alto sax player
Duke Ellington
a tribute to the late and great jazz musician, duke ellington
Maynard Ferguson Tribute
online showcase dedicated to jazz great maynard ferguson
Ella Fitzgerald
a lasting tribute to the the first lady of song
Dave Grusin
galleria focused on this highly prolific jazz and musical great
Herbie Hancock
jazz central station presents this authoritative bio and discography on hancock
Loston Harris
follow the impressive repertoire and bio of this master pianist & musician
Billie Holiday — Lady Day
extravaganza documenting the remarkable career of this lady of jazz & blues
The Mark Isham Web Site
compositions & audio samples from this talented jazz trumpeter with a new flair
Pat Methany — Highways and Byways
masterful tribute to pat methany and her group with bio, a videography & more
Charles Mingus — The Real Mingus Web
overview of the life/works of work of jazz composer & bassist charles mingus
Thelonious Monk
the ultimate guide to the jazz piano great
T.S. Monk
online promo for this stylistic jazz drumer and musician
Sergio Salvatore — Point of Presence
critically-acclaimed keyboard virtuoso and rising jazz great
John Zorn — An Unofficial Tribute
tune in to this digital exposition on

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Latin/Salsa
Brazilian Music UpToDate
experience the hot sights & sounds of the brazilian music scene
Frontera
on the cutting edge of latin, tejano, and alternative latin grooves
Latin American Music Centre
well established educational institute researching latin music
Latin Music Online
the premier latin music site offering news, reviews, and insightful articles
Luaka Bop
info on artists from the record label with the unpronounceable name
Musica Latina
complete guide dedicated to latin artists & groups
Q-Productions
latin & tejano recording label run by the prestigious quintanilla family
Spanish Radio Network
sample full length latin musical hits in real audio
Tejano Home Page
this site caters to fans of tejano & mexican musical influence
Warner Music Latin
hot scores & previews from warner brother's latin recording label
Groupo Caliente
arizona band with a lively style of tejano, latin & texmex music
King Chango
purveyor wicked sounds from new york's ska underground
Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine
galleria of pictures, detailed bios, and more on this dynamic pop singer
Gloria Estefan Discography
tracks the albums and releases of this latin pop superstar
Jennifer Y Los Jetz
tremendous online resource for this female tejano superstar
La Diferenzia
trek through the milestones & highlights of this popular latin/tejano group
Los Lobos
latin group drawing from their influences of latin jazz and richie havens
A Selena Tribute
online memorial and tribute to the acclaimed tejano superstar
Selena Discography
features albums, songs, lyrics, and more on the acclaimed tejano singer
The Selena Foundation
bio & discography of late tejano music star selena quintanilla-perez

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : R&B/Soul
The Internet Soul Archive
focus on the southern soul of the 60s released by stax & atlantic records
Motown Records
official site of motown records with a spotlight on its artists & groups
The R&B Page
offers exclusive downloadable, professionally-produced r&b programming
R&B Primer
intro and overview of contemporary rhythm and blues music
The Ultimate Soul / R&B Directory
complete directory to the online world of dance music, r&b, and hip-hop
All 4 One
official site for the r&b quartet — loaded with pics and other info
Babyface
an insightful tribute to the r&b great with articles, bio, photos, songs, and more
Babyface World
unveils the hitmaking magic of r&b producer babyface
Backstreet Boys
tour dates and news on the harmonizing hip-hop quintet
Blackstreet
news, bios, and sound clips on this hot new hip-hop r&b group
Mary J. Blige
peruse a discography, the latest news & gossip on 'the queen of soul'
Boyz II Men Fan Club
official fan club for this increasingly popular r&b group
Toni Braxton
incredible online tribute to the talented r&b diva
James Brown — Da Funkatized James Brown Page
tribute to the godfather of soul, the one & only james brown
Mariah Carey Official Fan Club
offers a wealth of information on this wildy popular pop singer's career
Mariah Carey — Vision of Love
keep tabs on the immensely successful r&b / pop diva
Chaka Khan
features a bio, sound clips, and pictures on this r&b diva
Ray Charles
avid fans of this r&b great can hear 'the genius' tell his story
Whitney Houston Fan Page
fans of this awe-inspiring r&b / pop vocalist of the 80's and 90's
The Isley Brothers
an unofficial guide to this legendary & influential six-man r&b group
Janet Jackson — An Escapade with Janet
go past the velvet rope and explore the career of this acclaimed pop vocalist
R. Kelly
an online tribute to this insurgent r&b talent as a singer, songwriter, and producer
Kristine W
trek through the life & career of this talented female vocalist
Maxwell
appreciators of maxwell's inspirational uplifting music can follow his on-going career
Vanessa Williams
highlights the career of this multi-platinum recording artists and actress
The Stevie Wonder Internet Archive
an unofficial clearinghouse of stevie wonder related info on the net

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Reggae/Ska
Reggae Home Page
reggae has hit the net on the reggae home page
The Reggae Remedy
superb collection of pages dedicated to the sound of roots reggae
Reggae SuperSite
reggae's online home — keeping the spirit of the reggae prophet alive...
RudeNet
the definitive ska site on the net with news, reviews, soundbytes & much more
Akwaba — Alpha Blondy
impressive online exhibition of the life and works of alpha blondy
The Articles
proud perpetrators of drop-mad, neo-trad jamaican jazz
Brave New Girl
rhythematic samba, ska and soul band
Eastern Standard Time
the best in ska-jazz from the nation's capitol
Guano Boys
sample the band's unique style of reggae, soca, ska, and calypso
Kaissa — World Fusion Music
profiles the group's repertoire of afro-beat, makossa, and reggae
King Chango
purveyor wicked sounds from new york's ska underground
Madness!
in-depth and official look at the popular british reggae/ska band
Bob Marley
exposition on the legendary bob marley — his life, music, and philosophy
Bob Marley Foundation
museum & family foundation keeping the marley legacy alive with new works
Bob Marley — The Unofficial Home Page
a lasting online tribute to the renowned and respected king of reggae
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers
o on tour and behind the scenes with the melody makers
Maxi Priest
one of the most successful solo artists to emerge on the reggae scene
Lee "Scratch" Perry
an online anthology of this legendary jamaican producer
Reggae Cowboy
hear the new sound in a twisted blend of reggae, rock, and country
Reel Big Fish
a spotlight on this rising yet popular ska band by an avid fan
Voodoo Glow Skulls
an in-depth focus with bios, discography, and more on this rave indie band
The Wailers News
news on the legendary group of peter tosh, bunny wailer, & the late bob Marley

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : Rock/Pop
Rock Around the World
hit guide to rock online from the founder of a hit rock radio show
Rock Village
go behind the scenes in the world of rock with news, reviews, and interviews
RockWeb Interactive
ultimate guide to rock features fan reviews, news, reviews, tour dates, etc.
Rolling Stone
the definitive rock 'n' roll magazine online
Aerosmith
online tribute to steve tyler and his long-running band
B-52's — The Third Pyramid
informational and pictorial archive chronicling the history of the b-52's
Stardust: The Unabashed David Bowie Music Guide
an unabashed guide to rhythmical music of british rocker david bowie
Mariah Carey Official Fan Club
offers a wealth of information on this wildy popular pop singer's career
Paul McCartney Site
a plethera of mccartney fan info with his bio, complete discography, and more
Sheryl Crow Website
annotated collection of news & reviews on the success of this successful singer
Celine Dion
official promo page for the premier contemporary pop vocalist of the decade
Neil Diamond — Diamondville
official home of the glitzy showman neil diamond and his band
Neil Diamond Online
one fan's tribute to this wildy popular musician and his on-going career
Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine
galleria of pictures, detailed bios, and more on this dynamic pop singer
Gloria Estefan Discography
tracks the albums and releases of this latin pop superstar
Samatha Fox — Start Me Up
a glimpse into the life and works of this hot pop singer
Peter Gabriel and through the wire
follow the acclaimed rock musician peter gabriel
Genesis-Web
official guide to the 80s pop/rock group and their current tours
Amy Grant — AmyWorld
guide to the popular female christian & pop vocalists
Hootie and the Blowfish — The Lamppost
follow hootie and the blowfish with this definitive fan site
INXS — An Excess of INXS
fan club with an exhaustive discography, news articles, pictures, and more
Miss Janet Jackson Fan Club
fans of the pop diva can behind the velvet rope & follow her career
Michael Jackson — King of Pop
follow this rock/pop legend and his on-going career
Michael Jackson — The Total Experience
the latest official news & tour dates on the king of pop
Billy Joel — Shades of Grey
trivia, tour information, plus sights and sounds of artist billy joel
The Illustrated Elton John Discography
follow the legacy of the acclaimed pianist and musician, elton john
Lenny Kravitz Home
fan domain for the acclaimed guitarist and singer lenny kravitz
The Madonna Homepage
trek through the career of this popstar with an archive of lyrics, pics, and more
Dave Matthews Band
band bios, tour dates, on the road coverage, and music archive
Stevie Nicks — The Nicks Fix
follow this former fleetwood mac singer on the solo 'enchanted tour'
Ozzy Osbourne — The Ozzman Commeth
get the latest news & updates on the age-old rock legend
Rolling Stones
go back stage at the voodoo lounge tour or get a stone fan's perspective
The Rolling Stones — Stones World
smart, informative guide to the rolling stones from n2k
David Lee Roth — World of Experience
a tribute to the departed rocker for the true van halen fan
Rush at Ghostland
annotated news and discography on this legendary group
Bruce Springsteen Pages on the Web
fans of this rock legend of the 80's can follow springsteen's career
Styx
return to paradise theatre with this official guide to styx
U2 — Discography Site
complete discography to hot rock/pop band from ireland
U2 PopMart
follow the pop group, u2's european popmart tour
The Stevie Wonder Internet Archive
an unofficial clearinghouse of stevie wonder related info on the

Entertainment : Music : By Genre : World / New Age
Internet Guide to Afro-Caribbean Music
the most complete guide to cross-cultural medley of african & carribean music
Ceolas — Celtic Music Archive
focus on the traditional music of ireland, scotland, wales & brittany
Celtic Music on the Net
sample fantastic ballads and musical scores of this lively music genre
Epsilon — Ambient Music
well-documented and through ambient music information archive
RagaNet — The Music of India
educationalelectronic zine on the musical arts of india
RootsWorld
searchable online guide to world music & roots of all modern music
RhythmWeb
spotlights the fusion of afro-cuban, african, et al into one unique music style
Scandinavian Indie
meticulously laid-out guide to independent music of scandinavian & baltic countries
World Fusion Music Links
web index covering the genre with a medley of global musical influences
African Music And Dance Ensemble
premiere western african dance ensemble based in the california bay area
Ancient Future
new cross-cultural music from this virtuoso world fusion music group
Bakshish
eclectic world experimental ambient improv music from seattle and beyond
Capari-Cani
spotlights this musical group with a mix of andean & western melodies
Cheza
sample the sights & sounds of pure excitement with this canadian group
Cocteau Twins
splash page with info on this ethereal and ambient scottish group
Brian Eno
surreal archive documenting eno's career & collaborations with david bowie & u2
Enya
online fan club for the former vocalist in the irish group clannad
Michael Hedges — Nomadland
bio & discography on the distinctivemusical works of the late guitarist
The Mark Isham Web Site
compositions & audio samples from this talented jazz trumpeter with a new flair
Jean Michel Jarre
an interactive odyssey into the musical world of this european composer
Kaissa — World Fusion Music
profiles the group's repertoire of afro-beat, makossa, and reggae
The Orb — UltraWorld
online labor of love dedicated to fans of the rave group, the orb
Vangelis, Elsewhere Site
composer of awe-insprining instrumental and electronic scores

Entertainment : Music : Music Sites in General
Addicted to Noise
site features entire album previews of the hottest new releases
All-Music Guide
find that lost album with a complete on-line database of recorded music
The American Music Center
innovative information and resource center for contemporary music and jazz
iMusic
one of the internet's most comprehensive sources on music
MacroMusic
the web's interactive source for everything musical
Microsoft Music Central
glitzy multimedia spin on the music scene from the microsoft network
MTV Online
the online home of the pop culture phenomenon — music television
Music Kiosk
browse through music and spoken word artists by genre style and medium
MusicSearch
online starting point for music seekers with over 17,000 reviewed selections
Soundz
music news, online cybercasts, and a selection of special features
This Day in Rock and Roll
find out what was happening in rock on any date selected
Ultimate Band List
archive for bands, radio stations, concert info, online events & magazines
Unfurled.com
profiles the weekly top 40 hits and features related to music world
VH1
interact with vh1 staffers and viewers about music, and videos
Worldwide Internet Music Resources
music library cataloging links to musicians, composers, and journals
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Music
virtual library's most noteworthy feature is its vast compilation of music links

Music Charts/News

Addicted to Noise

offer interviews with major artists, album reviews and daily music news

American Top 40 with Casey Kasem

highlights of radio chart toppers from the nation's top disc jockey

Billboard Online

daily music news and churning online charts profiling the top musical talent

Charts All Over the World

huge compilation of the top airplay and sales charts from around the world

Dot Music

the fastest charts, the hottest talent, and the latest industry news

Gavin.com

top news, charts, insider information, and more from online industry leader

HitsWorld

the definitive online music charts network spotlights top albums/singles on radio

iMusic News Agent

selection of top daily news headlines from the music & entertainment scene

MTV News

headlines from music television's entertainment news scouts

MusicBiz Mainframe

umbrella of music industry trade publications

MusicNewswire

the authoritative source for music news on the web with headlines and more

RockDaily.com — Rock Music News & Information

the definitive music news and information service for rock radio listeners

Soundz

music news, online cybercasts, and a selection of special features

VIBEwire

daily news & headlines from the urban entertainment scene

Wall of Sound

bombard yourself with the latest news and raves in the music industry

WebNoize

covers the music industry and the web music scene

Aaron Copland Collection - Library of Congress American Memory site includes approximately one thousand items selected from Copland's correspondence, writings, photographs, and complete sets of music sketches

ABC Musical Notation Language - "Language designed to notate tunes in an ASCII format. It was designed primarily for folk and traditional tunes of Western European origin." Developed and maintained by Chris Walshaw. (Many links to midi files.)

Acoustic Guitar Song Collection - Jean-Marc Orliaguet provides guitar tablatures, musical excerpts (studio or live versions), interviews and related information on Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg, Cat Stevens.

All About Jazz: A Magazine - Interviews, biographies, articles, reviews, genres, with RealAudio features.

All-Music Guide: A Complete Online Database of Recorded Music - AMG is is an "ongoing project to review and rate all music (whether in-print CDs or out-of-print on vinyl) and list (and rate) all feature movies and provide their credits and related information."

All Songs Considered - NPR's online music program provides full versions of the music snippets played on NPR's afternoon news program. (For more, see the New York Times Arts@Large column, NPR's Instrumental Bits Become an Online Music Show by Matthew Mirapaul.)

All Things Must Pass - George Harrison

Amazon.com Music

America Singing: 19th Century Song Sheets - Library of Congress collection of single printed sheets, with lyrics but no music, most of which dating from the 1850s to the 1870s. Consisting of scanned images of the original sheet along with the lyrics, the collection offers "a unique perspective on the political, social, and economic life of the time, especially during the Civil War." Searchable by keywords and browsable by titles, names and publishers.

American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress - The Library of Congress and Rounder Records have joined together in a project to reissue on compact discs albums of American folk music from the legendary Library of Congress series. A number of the Rounder Records Folk Music Compact Discs have brief RealAudio and WAV samples, among them Negro Blues and Hollers, Songs and Ballads of the Anthracite Miners and Railroad Songs and Ballads. Detailed liner notes are also available.

American Music Center - Information and support center for contemporary classical music and jazz. Provides access to New Music Box, a monthly Web magazine.
Andante - Classical music news, interviews, cd reviews, concerts reviews and commentary. This is a rich resource, providing Reference, Radio, Profiles, a Directory with over 12,000 web sites and Archives. For more about Andante, see Streaming the Classics in Cyberspace, by Allan Kozinn, New York Times, August 28, 2001. (Free registration.)

Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics - By David Dodd, librarian and co-author of The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads: An Annotated Bibliography.

Antonio Soler (1729-1783) Home Page - With harpsichord audio files.

Datenbank des Wiener Konzerthauses - Database of over 45,000 programs for concerts which have taken place at the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna from 1913 on.

Aria Database - Searchable reference guide to arias by name, opera, language, and voice type. Includes translations, texts and midi files. (Maintained by Robert Glaubitz.)

Arnold Schoenberg Center - Although primarily in German, this is a rich resource for Schoenberg material. The Library and Archive has scores, manuscripts, designs, paintings & drawings (including landscapes, portraits and self-portraits), letters, teaching materials and photographs.

Arnold Schoenberg: Complete List of All Internet Sites - Maintained by E. Randol Schoenberg (grandson of Arnold Schoenberg)

Arnold Schoenberg Archives - University of Southern California.

Arnold Schoenberg Legacy

Art of David Tudor - Getty Research Institute. See also Inventory of the David Tutor Papers (1884-1998).

ASCAP's ACE - Database allows you to search by song title, writer, performer or publisher. BMI Repetoire, a database of 7.5 million song titles, is searchable by artist, title, publisher and songwriter/composer.

Australian Folk Songs - Mark Gregory's "collection of more than 100 Australian Folk Songs has words, music and information about each song."

Austrian Cultural Information System (AEIOU) - Music-related pages include History of Music (with audio samples) and the Musik-Kolleg Online with biographies, images and music samples for Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Johann Strauss, Johannes Brahms and Karl Schiske. (Available in German and in English.)

Bach Cantatas - Walter F. Bischof provides access to the texts of all Bach cantatas, as well as oratorios, passions, masses, and motets. All texts are in the original language, i.e. most are in German, some are in Latin, and then there are bits in Italian and in Greek.

Bach Central Station: a directory of J.S. Bach Resources on the Internet - David J. Grossman

Beatles

Bernstein's Studio: the Official Leonard Bernstein Site - Searchable by alphabetical index or through a navigable site map of Bernstein's work space; includes chronology of his life, calendar, catalog of compositions (with instrumentation). Produced by Classical Insites with the cooperation of the Bernstein's estate. Bibliographic List of Published Songs Composed by American and British Women, ca. 1890-1930 - "Includes title, composer, publisher, date and city of publication, and the existence of an accompaniment other than piano." (Christopher Reynolds, Department of Music, University of California, Davis.)

Big Bands Database - Murray Pfeffer's site is dedicated to "to jazz and to swing history, and to the music now known to the world as "American popular song". Billboard Online - Highlights include the Billboard 200, New Releases, and Reviews & Previews.

Blue Note - New York City jazz club, part of the InterJazz site.

BMI - Offers database of 7.5 million song titles, searchable by title, author or publisher, updated weekly from an organization representing over 180,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers
bobdylan.com - Columbia Records provides a searchable database of Bob Dylan's published lyrics and audio samples of every track on every album. Includes a catalog of albums, and an alphabetical or chronological list of songs.

Bob Dylan - Expecting Rain - Karl Erik Andersen

Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads - Over 30,000 ballads which can be searched by title, first line, subject, author, performer and publisher. These have been gathered into a single catalogue along with a scanned image of each ballad sheet. Each record of a broadside which contains a musical score has a MIDI sound file

Boston Symphony Orchestra - Includes information about the Tanglewood Festival.

BowieNet - Official David Bowie site.

Brain Opera - Tod Machover

BUBL LINK: Catalogue of selected Internet resources: Music

ByrdWatcher: A Field Guide to the Byrds of Los Angeles

Canadian Music Periodical Index - National Library of Canada provides access to this "index to Canadian music periodical literature which provides bibliographic sources for information on all aspects of musical activity in Canada. Updated monthly, the database currently includes more than 25,000 entries indexed from 475 Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines from the late nineteenth century to the present day."

Carnegie Hall - New York concert hall offers Concert Calendar.

Carolina Classical Connection - Index of classical music websites, organized by period.

CDnow - Online music store offers audio clips

Celebration of the Piano: Selections from the Archives of American Art - Manuscripts, photographs, sketches and sound files. (Prepared in connection with the Smithsonian's Piano 300 exhibition. Piano Roles is a companion book, published by the Yale University Press, 1999.)

Ceolas: Celtic Music Archive - Gerard Manning. You can also search James Stewart's TuneIndex, a master index of hundreds of Celtic tunebooks, with a total of over 55,000 entries.
 
Chamber Music Conferences and Workshops - Maintained by Charles Hollister. See also his String Quartets on the Web and String Quartets - New England. Chicago Blues Archives - Chicago Public Library site includes a Blues Bibliography compiled by the librarians in the Music Information Center, Visual and Performing Arts Division (where you'll also find a African American Gospel Music Bibliography a directory of Music Business Resources and a list of Musicals: Scores and Scripts in the Music Information Center).

Chicago Jazz Archive - University of Chicago . All That Jazz, an article about the archive by Chris Smith, appeared in the April 2001 University of Chicago Magazine.

Chieftains WWW Site

Children's Music Web - Conceived and designed by Monty Harper and PJ Swift. The annual Children's Music Web Awards is given for the best songs and recordings for children and provides links to the winners' web sites.

Chopin Early Editions - "Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin."
Choral Public Domain Library - With over 2800 scores, many with sound files. Created and maintained by Rafael Ornes.

ChoralNet: the Internet Center for Choral Music - An officially sanctioned activity of the International Federation for Choral Music, the site offers over 1,000 links to choral music-related sites.
 
Cité de la musique - Paris. Also available in English

Classical Composers' Archive

Classical Archives - Pierre R. Schwob offers thousands of classical music files in midi format. Access to some parts of the site requires a subscription.

Classical Music Pages - Created by Matt Boynick, an American orchestra conductor now living in Germany. Sections include Composers Index, Musical Epochs, Musical Forms and Western Music: A Short History.

Classical Music Web Ring - Over 1500 member sites.

Classical Net - In this rich resource L.D. Lampson provides reviews of more than 1650 CDs, a Basic Repertoire List for Building a Library of Classical Recordings organized by period, and a Composer Master Index.

Classical Search - Classical music search engine.

Cleanhead's Blues & Jazz Page - Tetsuro Kubo. With a good collection of Blues and Jazz Discography Links.

Club Kaycee: Jazz Sights & Sounds - From the sound archives & music collection of the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

CMJ Online - New Music site offers interviews, reviews and news. Publisher of CMJ New Music Monthly and CMJ New Music Report.

Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival - Called the "best American festival" by Rolling Stone Magazine, and "the premier rock gathering in the nation, if not the world" by the Los Angeles Times, this year's lineup includes Nine Inch Nails, Arcade Fire, the Futureheads, Tegan and Sara, Weezer, Wilco, Bright Eyes, Bauhaus, New Order, Gang of Four. Held at the Empire Polo Field, Indio, California, April 30 - May 1, 2005. The Music Player has 94 free audio tracks of the artists who'll be performing. (Ambulance, Autolux, Bauhaus, Bloc Party, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Buck 65, Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, Donavan Frankenreiter, Doves, Eisley, Four Tet, Jem, Kasabian, Pinback...)

Cowpie Song Corral - Lyrics (listed by artist) and search engine for country music.

Curtis Institute of Music - Philadelphia.

The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium By Robert M. Keller - Published by John Playford in London in 1651, the volume contained the figures and tunes for 105 English country dances. Other editions followed and eventually encompassed 1,053 unique dances and their music. The database is searchable, or browsable by edition or title.

Deutsche Grammophon - Provides news in its Insights and information on its artists.

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music - "Online resource for the study of fragments and complete manuscripts of European Medieval Polyphonic Music." Collaboration between scholars at the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London.

Digital Tradition Folk Song Database - Searchable index containing lyrics (and some midi files) for over 6500 songs is provided by the Mudcat Cafe, a magazine "dedicated to blues and folk music." A title browse, for example, for John Barleycorn shows at least four versions, including the lyrics made famous by Steve Winwood (of Traffic) which also has a simple midi sound file. (You can search do a search for John Barleycorn Must Die at Global Electronic Music Marketplace (GEMM) and locate used cds and records.)

Dirty Linen Magazine of Folk and World Music - With a useful Tour Schedules section, listing concerts by state, artist, and event/festival.
Disc-O-Logue - National Library of Canada provides this catalogue of French-language popular music recordings available in Canada published between 1962 and 1979, developed from the archive maintained by Louise Lamothe. There's a search page and a Best Sellers page.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online - "Database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines. Containing more than 10,800 records, including the contents of the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (still available for sale), DDM-Online is browsable, just as was possible in the earlier printed editions, but it is also fully searchable by author and or by as many as three simultaneous keywords in any part of the record." Key word searchable< there is an Author Index and a period index. (Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, School of Music, Indiana University.) A related resource is the Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music maintained by Geoffrey Chew.

DotMusic - "Latest UK music industry news."

Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers - Steven Estrella, Director of Computer/Media Services Temple University, Esther Boyer College of Music.

Duke Ellington Collection - Part of the American Music Collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. With Shockwave Virtual Tour using photographs, sound recordings, and oral histories from the collection.

DW3 Classical Music Resources - Comprehensive guide to classical music Internet resources, organized and annotated by Yale Fineman, User Services Librarian, Music Library and Music Media Center, Duke University.

Early Music FAQ - Edited by Todd Michel McComb, the site is "the largest reference for European Medieval and Renaissance music on the web."

Eastman School of Music - Rochester. Sibley Music Library contains the Ruth T. Watanabe Special Collections. Items of interest include Giacomo Puccini, Iconography Database, E. Maude Wilson Sheet Music Collection and the Octavo Collection. Provides links to Selected Music Sites.

Electronic Music Foundation - Their CDeMUSIC sells new music CDs and offers MP3 sound samples.

Ellington at 100 - New York Times tribute includes essays, song clips, slide shows and rare video footage. (Free registration)

Elvis Home Page - Andrea Helene Berman's "original, unofficial Elvis Home Page."

Early Music Guild - Offers a collection of Early Music Web Resources Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music - Located at the Free Library of Philadelphia, the collection is described as "the world's largest lending library of orchestral performance material, with over 21,000 titles and growing. It houses virtually the entire standard repertoire, and is also known for its many rare and out-of-print works available for lending around the world."

EMI Music Publishing - Offers News, Songwriter Profiles, a Latin Catalog and a Song Catalog searchable by title, artist, writer, year, label and film/show. Access to some parts of the site requires registration (free).

English Folk Dance and Song Society - Offers An Introductory Bibliography on Morris Dancing:An annotated bibliography based on the holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and a collection of links to related resources.

English Server - Music Pages

Epitonic

Erik Satie Homepage - Niclas Fogwall, Lund, Sweden. Offers Music Samples, Manuscripts, a Complete List of Compositions, articles and pictures.

Essentials of Music - W.W. Norton site offers overviews of the six main periods in music history, biographies of nearly 70 composers, and a glossary with 200 definitions with numerous musical examples in RealAudio.

Ethnomusicology OnLine - "Peer-reviewed multimedia Web journal."

Evelyn Glennie Official Web Site - Cambridge, UK, percussionist's site, which includes a link to her Virtual Percussion Masterclass.
Experience Music Project - Seattle music museum offers a rich selection of multimedia. With Site Map, Archives, features, interviews, and an artifact showcase.
Festival Finder - Details on more than 2,500 music festivals in North America.
Festivals.com - Searchable site has news, book reviews, features, an event of the day and a festival finder.
Festspielnachrichten Bayreuth - Richard Wagner Festival
Folk Legacy Records - With Index.
Folk Music, An Index to Recorded Resources - Compiled by Jane Keefer, a librarian at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University. "Some 2,100 recordings are included with a major emphasis on tradition based material from both commercial and non-commercial performers, including a considerable number of recordings of old-time fiddle and banjo music."
Folkmusic.org - "Definitive online folk music resource"; includes artist biographies, discographies, pictures, sound bites, lyrics, guitar tablature, tour schedules.
Folksong Index | Volkslieder Verzeichnis - Lyrics and midi files, primarily for pre-1922 songs. Has an Irish Folksongs section.
Folkways Database Search - Smithsonian Institutiondatabase allows you to search the 35,000 track database of all the Folkways, Cook, Paredon, Dyer-Bennet and Smithsonian Folkways recordings. Search for artist/performer, recording title, track title, year, record label, instrument, recording number or any text.
FolkWeb - On-line CD store for independent folk and acoustic artists and labels with clips in RealAudio.
Free Scores on the Web - Victor Reny's collection of free scores for piano, saxophone, guitar, accordion, orchestra, violin and choral (also available in French as Partitions gratuites sur le Web). Reny has also created Perso Flamenco: Partitions Gratuites pour guitare flamenco et classique, partituras, mp3, a collection of free flamenco and classical scores for the guitar.
From Frying Pan to Flying V: the Rise of the Electric Guitar - Online exhibition at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution.
Fundação Biblioteca Nacional - The National Library of Brazil. Their division of Música, which is available in English, has a section on Brazilian composers with biographies and audio files in MIDI format. For example, the Virtual Archives has biographies and MIDI files for Alberto Nepomuceno, Carlos Gomes and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
G. Schirmer - Useful site with composer biographies, articles, reviews, index.
Gaylord Music Library Necrology File - Maintained by Nathan Eakin, Gaylord Music Library, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
George Frideric Handel - Maintained by Brad Leissa
Gershwin Centennial - San Francisco Symphony, September 9th. Hearmusic from the opening.
Getty Research Library Special Collections Finding Aids - Music-related collections include Mary Caroline Richards papers, 1928-1994, Dick Higgins papers, 1960-1994 (bulk 1972-1993), David Tudor research papers, 1884-1998 (bulk 1940-1996), Allan Kaprow Papers, 1940-1997, Carolee Schneemann papers, 1959-1994 and the Experiments in Art and Technology records, 1966-1993.
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive - With over 120 librettos in the Opera Index. Includes midi and RealAudio files, searchable database of librettos, festival schedules, plot summaries, images, song scores, newsletter articles and links to other sites. Created and maintained by Jim Farron & Alex Feldman.
Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts - June 24-26, 2005
Glenn Gould Archive - National Library of Canada. There are Archival audio tapes
Glimmerglass Opera - Cooperstown, New York
GlassPages - Philip Glass on the Web - Unofficial site maintained by Jordi Petit i Silvestre, Jose Jimenez Mesa and Alex Christaki includes links to other Glass resources.
Global Electronic Music Marketplace (GEMM) - Over 3,200.000 new & used cds and vinyl. Specializes in hard-to-find titles. A recent search for Tom Tom Club (Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, formerly of the Talking Heads) located 14 entries for The Good, the Bad and the Funky, their first album in eight years, with prices starting at $8.99.
Glyndebourne Opera - Lewes, East Sussex, UK
Go Edinburgh: the Gateway to Edinburgh's Festivals - Find information about the Edinburgh International Festival and other Edinburgh festivals. (See also Edinburgh and Lothian Tourist Board).
Goldband Recording Corporation - Photographs, sound recordings and biographical essays in the Southern Folklife Collection, Manuscripts Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Graceland - Official site for Elvis Presley's Memphis mansion has information on tours and an Elvisology with historical and statistical information on his life and career.
Grassy Hill Radio - Streaming folk and accoustic music. See also Grassy Hill Concerts, Lyme, Connecticut.
Great Day in Harlem - Based on Jean Bach's 1994 documentary about Art Kane's photographs of 57 jazz musicians taken in Harlem in August of 1958
Harmonia Mundi - Independent classical label. Many of the artists provide audio clips.
Harmonica - An acronym for Harmonised Access and Retrieval for Music Oriented Networked Information Concerted Action, the project seeks to develop a "solid strategic framework for networked access to music and related multimedia services, including technologies, existing and emerging standards, exploration of network options and improved interfaces." The report, Remote Access and Transfer of Audio Recordings, provides "overview and references to information on transfer of analogue audio recordings into digital formats (digitisation), local and remote storage of data as well as access and retrieval in a library or archive environment" and has links to Audio Players. (A project of the Dutch Studie- en Vakbibliotheek.)
Helix Musical Instruments - Australian James Corr specialises in unique hand made instruments which include, harps, lyres, psalteries, marimbas, xylophones, tuned and untuned percussion and a range of multi-cultural instruments.
Hi-Fido! (High Fidelity Digitization On-line) - University of Chicago multi-media project offers sheet music and recordings that date from jazz's beginnings in the early 1910s through Chicago Jazz's heyday in the 1920s up to the Great Depression. Searchable and browsable.
Hoagy Carmichael Collection - A project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program to catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University’s extensive collection of materials pertaining to the life and career of the master songwriter Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981). You'll find sheet music, over 500 lyric sheets, a selection of sound files, photographs, correspondence and supplemental research material.
Hymns of Methodism in their Literary Relations - Midi files of 200 hymns. (From the Christian Classic Ethereal Library maintained by Harry Plantinga, Calvin College.)
Illustrated library of favorite song -Full-text of the 1873 book from the Making of America Project.
Historic American Sheet Music - Digital images of over 16,000 pages of sheet music from 3042 pieces published in the United States between 1850 and 1920. (A project of the Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.) Comparable resources include the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music at Johns Hopkins and the Library of Congress' Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 . For more resources see Digital Librarian's Sheet Music, Lyrics, Librettos, Scores.
Hoagy Carmichael Collection - Project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program to "catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University’s extensive collections pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981)."
Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique (IRCAM) - Associated with the Centre Georges-Pompidou and the French Ministry of Culture, IRCAM was established in 1970 as an institute for musical research. Of particular interest is the Multimedia Library which provides access to extensive musical resources, (some of which are not open to the public).
 
iMusic
International Alliance for Women in Music - "Resource on women composers and women in music topics. This community archive is developed and maintained by members of the IAWM and contains more than 3500 pages of archival resources. There is a collection of links to Internet resources on Historical Women Composers.
International Double Reed Society - Yoshiyuki Ishikawa, Editor
International Lyrics Server - Swiss site provides lyrics to 100,000 songs, searchable by artist, album or song title. Merging with SongFile
International Machaut Society - Scholarly organization devoted to the study, criticism, performance, research, and exchange of ideas related to all aspects of the works of the poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) and their manuscript and performance traditions. Machaut on the Web provides links to sites relevant to the teaching, study, and performance of poetic and musical works by Guillaume de Machaut, including sound clips.
International Organ Foundation - Offers the Pipe Organ Encyclopedia, an interactive and comprehensive guide to the pipe organ for all levels of interest, a Catalogue of organ music by J S Bach and Links to Other Resources.
Internet Resources for Music Scholars - Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University
Internet Underground Music Archives - "Net's first free hi-fi music archive."
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies - San Jose State University Beethoven Center provides a Beethoven Bibliography Database, a "fully-indexed bibliography of published (and selected unpublished) materials relating to Ludwig van Beethoven."
J.S. Bach Home Page - With biography, tour of Bach's life in Germany, complete catalog of his works, recommended recordings and other web Bach resources. Maintained by Jan Hanford and Jan Koster. (See also Hanford's J.S. Bach Archive and Bibliography.)
Jazzbasen - Database of Norwegian jazz includes biographies, photographs, history, soundclips, and links to related resources. In October 2001 the database contained 13,679 song titles, 2,079 album titles and 4,902 musicians. You can also search by label and date. A project of the National Library of Norway and the Norwegian Jazz Archives.
Jazz Online
Jazz Web - WNUR-FM, Northwestern University
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme - Keith Severson provides chronology, discography and links to other resources.
 
Jean-Luc Ponty Official Home Page
Jelly Music Magazine
 
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music - Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
Juilliard School - New York
Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar - Central Vermont "radio show and website bringing composers to the wider world through their music, interviews, pictures, photos, artwork, essays, biographies, attitudes, catalogs and ideas." Has RealAudio cybercasts and archives.
Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Official site includes biography, tours, discography, news and pictures.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Washington D.C. Has daily live Internet broadcasts.
Kölner Philharmonie
Det Kongelige Bibliotek (The Royal Library) - Copenhagen. Has a collection of e-scores and sheet music including Chansons d'Amour - The Copenhagen Chansonnier with song list.
Kurt Weill Foundation for Music - Biography, discography, audio files.
La Scala - Milano
Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences - With information on the Latin Grammy Awards.
Latin Music On-Line - Guide to Latino rock, salsa, jazz and merengue. Includes interviews, news, concert dates, reviews
Leonard Bernstein Collection - Library of Congress Music Division. Collection of music and literary manuscripts, correspondence, 85 photographs, audio and video recordings, and fan mail.
Leopold Stokowski: Making Music Matter - Curated by Marjorie Hassen, Otto E. Albrecht Music Library, University of Pennsylvania. With RealAudio Musical Selections and Interview Segments.
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music - "Part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It is comprised of popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. The over 26,000 pieces of music in the Levy Collection are indexed on this site, and images of the cover and music are available for pieces of music more than 75 years old.
Lib-web-cats: Library Web Pages, Online Catalogs, and System Profiles - Links to online catalogs in over 4,700 libraries worldwide. Online library catalogs often provide useful information on sheet music. Try using such Library of Congress subject headings as Popular Music - United States - Texts; Songs, English - United States - Texts; Musicals - Excerpts - Librettos; Popular instrumental music; Folk songs; Dance music; Vocal music; Piano music; Bugle music; Marches (Piano); Cantatas, Secular - Scores; Masses - Vocal scores etc. Other access points for library catalogs include Library Catalogs Around the World, Libweb: Library Servers via WWW, National Library Catalogues Worldwide, National Libraries of Europe and LibDex: the Library Index.
Library of Congress Catalogs - Try using the Left-Anchored Phrase Search which will perform a phrase search. Backups include the Z39.50 Gateway and the Experimental Search System (ESS) (no longer being maintained).
Lied and Song Texts Page - Extensive archive of texts to Kunstlieder and art songs of many different languages, designed and maintained by Emily Ezust.
Lilith Fair - "Celebration of women in music"
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts - New York. With information on the Mostly Mozart Festival.
Liverpool Beatles Album
London Symphony Orchestra
Loreena McKennitt Home Page - Official home page
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Lyrics World
Marian Anderson: A Life in Song - Curated by Nancy M. Shawcross, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
Max Hunter Folk Song Collection - Lyrics, sheet music and sound files (RealAudio, MIDI and AIFF) of Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. Joint project of the Southwest Missouri State University Department of Music and the Springfield-Greene County Library in Springfield, Missouri, where the permanent collection is housed. The collection is keyword searchable or you can browse by song title, singer and catalogue number. Some examples: keyword searchable or you can browse by song title, singer and catalogue number. Listen to Black Jack Davey, My Horses Ain't Hungry, Amazing Grace, In the Pines, Wildwood Flower, Texas Rangers, Two Brothers, Rising Sun, Red River Valley, Pretty Polly, Miller's Daughter, Hannah Lee, I Wish I Was Single, House Carpenter and Casey Jones.
Metropolitan Opera - New York
Metropolitan Opera Guild - Has a page of Opera Links.
Miles Ahead: A Miles Davis Website - Peter Losin
Mojam - "Largest calendar for live music in the world."
 
Monterey Jazz Festival - Longest running jazz festival in the world, held in the third weekend in September.
Montreux Jazz Festival - Held annually in July. There is a Montreux Jazz Festival Concerts Database.
Mozart Project - Steve Boerner
MSN Entertainment Network - Weekly news and reviews
MTV Online
Muse Magazine: the Journal of Women in Music
Music Education Online - Maintained by Larry Newman
Music Education Search System - "A query system of two databases important for performing research in music education. The first database is of 11 music education journals. The second database is 4,500+ abstracts created by Professors William Poland and Henry Cady during the late 1960s and 1970s of music research prior to 1965." Assembled by Edward P. Asmus, Department of Music, University of Utah.
Music Educators National Conference Website - Provides a site index.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 - Library of Congress site consists of tens of thousands of pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred music and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra." Search by keyword or browse index of authors, subjects and titles.
Music Library Association - Site highlights include Useful Resources Online, a monthly Placement Service Job List, a Directory of Library School Offerings in Music Librarianship, and a Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians.
Music Mecanica - Band organs, nickelodeons, bells, carillons, and music boxes. In French, English & German.
Music Notation Programs Compared
Music Paper - 8 1/2 x 11 blank music papers in PDF format can be downloaded and printed for your next composition or arrangement. One of the resources provided by the University of Virginia Library's Digital Media Center.
Music Publishers' Association - Has a useful Directory of Music Publisher section which provides publisher's addresses.
Music Resources - Sibelius Academy, Finland
Music Resources on the Internet - Collection of music resources provided by the Canadian University Music Society is comprehensive, well-organized and annotated.
Music Resources on the World Wide Web - Yale University Music Library
Musi-Cal: Concert Schedules - Search for concert schedules by city, performer venue or event.
MusicSearch - "Internet's music-only search site" with over 20,000 links.
Music Selection Resources on the WWW - Anna Seaberg, King County Library System
Music Teachers National Association
Music Under Soviet Rule - Ian MacDonald's site includes information on Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Vainberg, Kancheli, and Ustvolskaya. (See also Onno van Rijen's Soviet Composers .)
Musica: Database of Choral Music - Multilingual database (in French, German, English, Spanish and Dutch) with over 71,000 entries.
Musical America - Describes itself as "the business source for the performing arts." Although most of the site is open to subscribers only, free access is provided to selected articles.
MusicDish Genome Project - Searchable directory of music, new media and entertainment websites.
Mutopia - Public domain music downloadable for free as Postscript (.ps) and PDF (.pdf) files (at both A4 and Letter paper sizes), as well as Lilypond's own LY (.ly) file format. Audio previews are available as MIDI (.mid) files. Composers include T. Arbeau, J.S. Bach, A. Banchieri, L. van Beethoven, M. Carcassi, F. Carulli, M. Clementi, J. Dowland, G. Giordiano, S. Joplin, L. Milan, W. A. Mozart, N. Paganini, C. Saint-Saens, E. Satie, and F. Schubert.
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS) - Organization of more than 13,000 musicians, producers and other recording professionals. Also know as the Recording Academy, they are internationally known for the GRAMMY Awards. Other site highlights include the GRAMMY Hall of Fame, the 42nd Annual GRAMMY Award Winners and Grammy Awards Webcast.
NME - UK music news service
National Association of Teachers of Singing
National Endowment for the Arts - Includes a section on Music.
National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) - National Music Publishers Association
National Portrait Gallery - London. Has a Picture Library Search with information on approximately 10,000 works in which you can search for artist, sitter of by title or by NPG number. (In Advanced Search you can restrict your search to images available on web site.) There is an alphabetical list of artists, as well as an alphabetical list of sitters. Portraits of musicians include Paul McCartney (NPG 5695), Yehudi Menuhin (NPG 5552), Joan Sutherland (NPG 6215) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (NPG 4829).
National Public Radio - Provides a Directory of Stations and a listing of its programs, including Billy Taylor's Jazz at Lincoln Center, Prairie Home Companion and Pipedreams.
Neue musikzeitung - In German; edited by Theo Geissler
New England Conservatory of Music - Boston
New England Folk Festival Association - Provides a large collection of links to other resources.
New York Philharmonic
New York Public Library - The American Music Center's historic Collection of more than 60,000 scores and recordings of works by American composers has been transferred to The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. (See News.) The New York Public Music Division collection is searchable via CATNYP: Research Libraries Online Catalog. There is also a Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) - Provides a useful Internet Guide.
Newsday.com: Davidson's Pulitzer Entries - 2002 Pulitzer awarded to music critic Justin Davidson of Newsday "for his crisp coverage of classical music that captures its essence."
Nordic Index of Classical Music - Classical music in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland; J. Chr. Berlin
Obituary Index - "On-line version of an index of obituary citations published annually by the Music Library Association (MLA) in its quarterly journal, Notes." (Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources.)
Online Classics - Classical music, ballet, musicals and theatre.
On-Line Guitar Archive (OLGA) - Collection of guitar chords and tablatures. It also contains lessons, chord charts, software, and information on building guitars. There is an Archive, a search engine and links to Other Internet Guitar Resources.
Online Guitar Chord Dictionary - "Guitar chord dictionary containing 4398 chords and searchable by chord root, chord type, bass note, and position. In addition, a 'visual search' option is available for searching by fingering pattern. A chord diagram showing the notes that make up each chord and a MIDI file of the chord are also included." (Digital Media Center, University of Virginia.)
OPERA America - News, schedules, searchable databases
Opera Magazine
Opera National de Paris
Opera Schedule Server - Tamás Máray
Operabase - Database of 500 opera houses and festivals worldwide.
OperaGlass - Rick Bogart provides "detailed information, including performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies, pictures, and more on any of a small but rapidly growing number of operas, plus pointers to many other opera servers."
OrchestraList Recommended Compositions - Information about new or little-known works not available through traditional distribution channels. (Last Update: 21-Feb-97)
OrchestraNET - Association of British Orchestras
Organ Web - Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Offers images and text from Organ-Cases and Organs of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Comprehensive Essay on the Art Archaeology of the Organ by Arthur George Hill, London 1883.
Patchogue-Medford Library Popular Song Index - "Index to selected books of popular songs in the collection of the Patchogue-Medford Library. Approximately 78,000 popular songs are included in the 995 books which have been indexed."
Peabody Institute - Johns Hopkins University
Pete Seeger Appreciation Page - Jim Capaldi, Springfield, Pennsylvania.
Peter Nero - Official homepage includes biography, discography, schedule, and sound library..
Peter, Paul & Mary Home Page - Official site maintained by Noel Paul Stookey provides lyrics to all recorded songs.
Philharmonia Orchestra - London
Philip Glass - Official site has biographical information, a discography (with reviews), a categorized list of works, photographs, and a music catalog.
Philm Freax Digital Archive - Collection of photographs of "musical giants, movie stars, celebrities and hippie freaks... originally shot for Rolling Stone, Friends, Frendz or other UK underground papers but much of what's here is unpublished." Hosted by the MetaLab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Piano Education Page - "One-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano with over 600 pages of free information, upgraded biweekly." (West Mesa Music Teachers Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico.)
Le Piano Graphique - Play jazz on your computer keyboard. (Available in English or French.)
Piano Page - Ronald Lee Berry, Piano Technicians Guild
Piano World - Frank Baxter, Enfield, Connecticut
Pollstar: the Concert Hotline
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston
Progressive Rock Web Site
Preußen - Chronik eines deutschen Staates (Prussia - chronicle of a German state) - Offers much on music history (in German only). See (hear), for example, the audio Mozart in Berlin (Hörstück).
Public Domain Music - With an alphabetical list of more than 3,000 songs now in the public domain in the United States.
Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts - Maintained by Lyle Neff.
QRadio - World music, from jazz and hip-hop, African choral music, reggae, ska, ...
Radio Beethoven (96.5FM) - Classical station broadcasting from Santiago, Chile.
Ray Charles Online! - Biography, autobiography, discography, RealAudio clips
Reading and Transcribing White Mensural Notation - Renaissance Music Notation from the mid-16th century by Ray Brohinsky.
Real Mingus Web - Site devoted to the work of jazz composer Charles Mingus; includes discography, music clips, biography and archival material.
Reason to Rock - Herb Bowie's online book about rock music has articles on artists (The Kinks, Traffic, Cream) tracks (Layla, White Room, For What It's Worth) and elements (Theme of Liberation, New Forms of Collaboration, Electronic Amplification).
Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census - University of Michigan database of information about worship books printed before 1601.
Renzo Piano Workshop Foundation
RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) - The International Inventory of Musical Sources "represents a worldwide effort to identify and describe sources of music and writings about music from the earliest times through ca. 1825." Joint production of the RISM Zentralredaktion at Frankfurt/Main, Germany, and the U.S. RISM Office at Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts." RISM databases consist of the Libretto Database contains bibliographic records for more than 11,000 printed and manuscript libretti for musical stage pieces from the earliest manifestations through the early twentieth century, a Bibliographic Citations Database which "contains references for all thematic catalogues and other secondary sources," Music Manuscripts after 1600, a "graphical database of more than 200,000 bibliographic records for MSS in 24 countries" and Libraries Directory which "contains names, addresses, and other information about more than 5,500 libraries holding music materials relevant to RISM series." InfoRISM, the RISM Zentralredaktion's newsletter, is available online for 1995/96, 1997, 1998 and 1999.
Robert Christgau - Has "written about rock and roll, popular and semipopular music, and popular culture since 1967" (mostly for the Village Voice and Playboy) and most of his writing is archived here. There are Rock & Roll Music Columns, Music and Concert Reviews, a Consumer Guide and a Bibliography. (See A conversation with Robert Christgau, Salon, May 09, 2001.)
Robert Wilson - Official home page
The Roches - "Semi-official home page" for Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy Roche
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - Cleveland, Ohio museum provides biographies, discographies, bibliographies and timelines for current inductees (Eric Clapton, Earth, Wind and Fire, Lovin' Spoonful, the Moonglows, Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor). The site is searchable, and there is biographical information on past inductees as well as online exhibitions.
Rock and Wrap It Up - Program that collects leftover food from backstage catering and brings it to local soup kitchens.
Rockmine - "Europe's largest independent rock music archive" has timelines,articles, interviews and photographs on the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Creams, the Sex Pistols, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and the Doors.
Rolling Stone Network - Their Artists A to Z provides biographies, discographies, videos, and links for hundreds of artists.
Rolling Stone Radio - Joint venture of Rolling Stone Network and RealNetworks provides 12 uniquely-programmed music stations. For more see Like A Streaming Stone from the November 2nd, 1998 Wired News.
theRolling-Stones.com - Unofficial site offers discography and lyrics.
RootsWorld - Online magazine of world roots and folk has Artist Interviews, reviews and audio files.
Roskilde Festival - Official site of one of Europe's biggest music festivals.
Rough Guide to Rock - Entries for more than 1200 bands and artists (originally published in book form in October 1996).
Royal Holloway Music Department's Golden Pages: Links for Musicians
Rued Langgaard: A Danish composer presented in text, pictures, music and speech - With music samples.
Salzburg Festival
Schickele Mix - Official site of the "composer, musician, author, satirist" Peter Schickele.
Schott Music International - Classical music publishing
Schubert 200 år 1797-1828 - Lund University Electronic Library (in Swedish)
Schubertline - "Online score service for singers."
Selected Web Resources for Music and Musicology Educational Organizations and Institutions - Interesting collection of music resources which includes links to music libraries, individual home pages of composers and Contemporary and Computer Music is maintained by Tom Moore, Assistant Music Librarian, Scheide Music Library, Princeton University.
Selected Web Resources for Music and Musicology Educational Organizations and Institutions - Maintained by Tom Moore, Assistant Music Librarian, Scheide Music Library, Princeton University.
Seven Sites of the Seventies - "VH1 brings you "7 Days of 70's" from August 19 through August 25."
Shakuhachi - Site devoted to the traditional Japanese bamboo flute. With audio links.
Sibelius Academy - Finland
Silvis Woodshed - Choral music MIDI files sequenced by George Silvis
The Sixties: Australian Rock & Pop Recordings, 1964-1969 - 317 pdf document published by ScreenSound Australia, a division of the Australian Film Commission
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) - Provides a RealAudio Jukebox and a Quartet Lookup.
Songfile - "View more than 62,000 lyrics from our rapidly growing database of more than 130,000 songs." (Merged with the International Lyrics Server.)
SonicNet
Sony Music Online
Spin Magazine Online
Stadtbücherei Stuttgart: Musikbücherei - Outstanding collection of music links (in German only).
Steinway - Highlights include Technical Information, Showroom, Factory Tour, Boston Pianos and Links to Steinway Artists.
Stephen Collins Foster - Center for American Music.
Still Going On: An Exhibit Celebrating The Life and Times of William Grant Still - Still was the first African American composer to have a symphony performed by an American orchestra. (Duke University Special Collections Library)
Sunhawk Corporation - Digital music publisher and sheet music store that allows you to play and print sheet music using your home PC with a large collection of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern and 20th Century compositions available.
Telephone Etude 1: Shakespeare Cuisinart - Jason Freeman's interactive site can be "accessed by anyone, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It asks a user to say his or her favorite Shakespeare quote and then creates a short piece of music by slicing, dicing, and layering bits and pieces of the user's voice." For further description, see Coaxing On-Hold Melodies (Your Own) From a Phone, by Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times, June 25, 2001 (free registration) and the June 25, 2001 interview by Robert Siegel, Phones and Music, on All Things ConsidereRED
Tower Records
Ultimate Band List - Claims to have "the Internet's largest archive of live concerts." Also has archive of interviews. (RealAudio).
Universal Music Group
University of North Texas Lully Web Project - Collection of the works of French Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. Provides access to titles in the collection. For each work there will be a fact sheet, a plot summary, a performance history and bibliographic information about the volume in the collection.
Van Cliburn Foundation - Sponsors of the International Piano Competition
Variations - "Experimental prototypes of the ways in which musical scores and recording liner notes might be used in conjunction with sound recordings available online." A project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program, the site provides Online Musical Scores for Opera Literature, Song Literature and Symphonic Literature.)
Verve Interactive
VH1 - Site highlights include 100 Greatest Songs, Artist of the Month, Program Schedule and News.
Vibe Magazine
Village Voice Radio
Violin Making by Hans Johannsson
Virgin Records
Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings - 78-rpm discs by the Berliner company of Montreal, with audio files sorted by issue number, performer and title. The Music on the Home Front: Canadian Sheet Music of the First World War searchable database offers covers and bibliographical information for nearly 400 pieces of sheet music published in Canada between 1914 and 1920. (Tip: To retrieve all sheet music with full scores available, choose the index "Any Keyword" and enter the letters pdf as your search term.) Additionally, Selected recordings in the National Library of Canada’s collection of 78s, chosen for their Canadian content, were digitally reproduced for this site.
WWW Virtual Library: Music - Part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library. There's also a section for Classical Music.
Vocalist: the International Singing Discussion List - (28 March 2000: browser "unable to locate")
WABC Musicradio 77 - Allan Sniffen, a Westchester County dentist and former disk jockey, maintains this site which retraces the history of this radio station that thrived in the 60s and 70s . Includes audio from the actual broadcasts, reminiscences by disk jockeys, music surveys, a list of the top hits of 1968 and photographs, and soundfiles of other radio stations.
Wagner Society of New York
William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz - Photographs from the William P. Gottlieb Collection at the Library of Congress, "comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C." Searchable and organized by Name, Subject or Venue.
Windham Hill
Woman Composers: A Bibliography of Internet Resources - Tara Guthrie
World Music Awards
Worldwide Internet Music Resources - Comprehensive collection of links from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University. Includes Site Map.
xrefer - Reference search engine and has aggregated and integrated nearly 40 reference titles from publishers such as Penguin, Bloomsbury, Macmillan and Oxford. "Free access to over 250,000 entries - facts, words, concepts, people & quotations encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations from the world's leading publishers." You can limit your search to music-related reference titles (which include the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, the Penguin Dictionary of Music, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music).
Yahoo! - Music
Zemerl: Jewish Song Database - Interactive database of Jewish songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish. Offers sound clips and lyrics.
ABC Musical Notation Language - "Language designed to notate tunes in an ascii format. It was designed primarily for folk and traditional tunes of Western European origin." Developed and maintained by Chris Walshaw. (Many links to midi files.)
 
Acoustic Guitar Song Collection - With tablatures for Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg and Cat Stevens.
African-American Sheet Music Digitizing Project - Brown University project will digitize 1,500 pieces of African-American related sheet music.
All-Music Guide - "Ongoing project to review and rate all music (whether in-print CDs or out-of-print on vinyl) and list (and rate) all feature movies and provide their credits and related information."
American Antiquarian Society - Worcester, Massachusetts. Their collection of Sheet Music "consists of about 60,000 pieces of instrumental, vocal, secular, and religious music by both American and foreign composers that were printed through 1880" and includes a Topic Classification for Sheet Music with Pictorial Lithographed Covers.
America Singing: 19th Century Song Sheets - Library of Congress collection of single printed sheets, with lyrics but no music, most of which dating from the 1850s to the 1870s. Consisting of scanned images of the original sheet along with the lyrics, the collection offers "a unique perspective on the political, social, and economic life of the time, especially during the Civil War." Searchable by keywords and browsable by titles, names and publishers.
American Song-Poem Music Archives - Curated by Phil Milstein, the site has an Index of Song-Poem Record Labels.
Ames Hymn Collection - Brian M. Ames provides lyrics & sound files
Amhrán Gaelach - Collection of Irish language song texts, many of which have their basic tune notated in ABC format
Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics - By David Dodd, librarian and co-author of The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads: An Annotated Bibliography.
Aria Database - Diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias. Designed for singers and non-singers alike, the Database includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles. Searchable by name, opera, language, and voice type.
Arnold Schoenberg Center - Although primarily in German, this is a rich resource for Schoenberg material. The Library and Archive has scores, manuscripts and teaching materials.
ASCAP's ACE - Database of song titles licensed by ASCAP in the United States. For each title, you can find the names of the songwriters and the names, contact persons, addresses and, in most cases, phone numbers of publishers to contact if you want to use the work. For most of the titles, you'll find some of the artists who have made a commercial recording.Search by title, writer, publisher or performer. More detailed search options are also available. There is also a Database of Works Restored to Copyright Protection.
Bach Cantatas - Walter F. Bischof provides access to the texts of all Bach cantatas, as well as oratorios, passions, masses, and motets. All texts are in the original language, i.e. most are in German, some are in Latin, and then there are bits in Italian and in Greek.
Bach Digital: the website about Bach's autographs - "Using IBM's Content Manager it is now possible for the first time to make Bach exhibits from several institutions available world-wide via the Internet. The objects selected by the various institutions are in the Digital Library in a wide variety of formats, such as pictures (manuscripts), texts (background material), music extracts (sound samples), and videos (restoration process). Access to this 'digital media library' is via a common search function, and the display of the search results lets you directly view the various objects."
Bagaduce Music Lending Library - Located in Blue Hill, Maine, the library's "mission is to collect, preserve and lend printed music, and to provide music education programs. We have grown to be a national resource center for choral, instrumental, vocal and keyboard music, both popular and classical, and for teaching and reference materials." Provides access to their Online Catalog.
Band Music from the Civil War Era - Library of Congress online collection brings together musical scores, recordings, photographs, and essays documenting an important but insufficiently explored part of the American musical past. This collection features over 700 musical compositions, as well as 8 full-score modern editions and 19 recorded examples of brass band music in performance.
Becky's Campfire Songbook bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music - Smithsonian Institution Libraries collection is organized by category.
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (National Library of Portugal) - There is a Biblioteca Nacional Digital (Digital Library) . Among the items newly digitized (Obras novas digitalizadas ) are a number of high resolution images of musical scores (Música impressa) a musical score manuscript by João Domingos Bontempo, Quinteto para piano e cordas. Porbase is the online catalog.
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec - Among their online collections is Livres et partitions musicales with musique imprimée (sheet music).
BMI - Their HyperRepertoire Internet Song Title Database allows you to search by Title, Writer, Artist, or Publisher.
bobdylan.com - Columbia Records provides a searchable database of Bob Dylan's published lyrics and audio samples of every track on every album. Includes a catalog of albums, and an alphabetical or chronological list of songs.
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads - Over 30,000 ballads which can be searched by title, first line, subject, author, performer and publisher. These have been gathered into a single catalogue along with a scanned image of each ballad sheet. Each record of a broadside which contains a musical score has a MIDI sound file.
California Sheet Music: 19th Century - "Virtual library of some 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900." Includes RealAudio sound files of 11 works.
Cantaria - Bardic song archive of lyrics for over 125 songs, most with accompanying sound clips. With title and first line index.
CDnow - Offers audio clips
Center for Popular Music - Middle Tennessee State University searchable databases include a Sheet Music and Broadside Collection,(searchable), a Song Book Collection, (searchable), Music Trade Catalogs (searchable), Periodicals (searchable general & secondary serials), Performance Collection: posters, playbills and programs (searchable) and a Manuscript Archives (searchble).
Ceolas: TuneIndex Search - James Stewart's master index of hundreds of celtic tunebooks, with a total of over 55,000 entries. With links to other notation sites.
Chansons d'Amour - French-Burgundian repertory of chansons from the late 15th century contains texts and notes of 33 three-voiced songs. (From the Royal Library in Copenhagen's collection of Digital Facsimiles of Copenhagen Manuscripts.)
Chansons françaises - Mickaël Foursov, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Chicago Jazz Archive - University of Chicago
Choral Public Domain Library - With over 2800 scores, many with sound files. Created and maintained by Rafael Ornes.
ChoralNet: the Internet Center for Choral Music - You can search for choral repetoire by author or title, use the advanced search or browse by composer.
College Music Society - Consortium of college, conservatory, university and independent musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines of music. Provides a searchable Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada.
Cowpie Song Corral - Country music lyrics (listed by artist) and search engine.
Crucible of Empire: the Spanish American War - PBS. With popular songs from the Spanish-American War era in their Sheet Music Gallery.
Cyber Hymnal - "Over 2,600 Christian hymns and Gospel songs from many denominations. You'll find lyrics, sound, background information, photos, links, MIDI files and scores you can download."
The Dancing Master, 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium By Robert M. Keller - Published by John Playford in London in 1651, the volume contained the figures and tunes for 105 English country dances. Other editions followed and eventually encompassed 1,053 unique dances and their music. The database is searchable, or browsable by edition or title.
Digitales Liederbuch - German site provides song texts (some with guitar chords). With author and title index.
Digital Tradition Folk Song Database - Developed by Dick Greenhaus and friends and hosted at the Mudcat Cafe, a magazine dedicated to blues and folk music, this searchable index contains lyics and music for over 6500 songs. There is a Keyword Database, a Title List and information about search patterns. There is a useful collection of links to other online resources.
Disc-O-Logue - National Library of Canada provides this catalogue of French-language popular music recordings available in Canada published between 1962 and 1979, developed from the archive maintained by Louise Lamothe. Part of the archive, a card catalogue of 90,000 song titles maintained by Madame Lamothe until 1985, has been automated. The resulting database is the heart of this Web site (There is an English Version.) The Search Page allows you to search by title, composer, performer, format, label, issue number or all fields. The Searching Guide provides database insights, searching tips and sample searches. Some of the other features include Best Sellers: Top 50 Charts from 1963 to 1966, album covers
Duke University Sheet Music Index - "When complete, this index will provide access to the approximately 20,000 uncataloged sheet music items in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library of Duke University. The bulk of the collection is from about 1830 to 1930 and includes material selected for the American Memory Project. Most, but not all, music was published in the United States but there are a significant number of English, German, and Viennese items as well. More Viennese publications from the Weinmann Collection may be found in the Duke Online Catalog. A sample of lyrics have been transcribed and are available in the American Song Lyrics database." Also provides Sheet Music Sampler.
Electronic Hymnal
Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music - Located at the Free Library of Philadelphia, the collection is described as "the world's largest lending library of orchestral performance material, with over 21,000 titles and growing. It houses virtually the entire standard repertoire, and is also known for its many rare and out-of-print works available for lending around the world."
Film Score Rundowns - Cue-by-cue musical analysis by Bill Wrobel of classic film and televison scores. For example, there are 35 rundowns of Bernard Herrmann scores. (There is also a Bernard Herrmann Society site, hosted by the University of Bergen in Norway.)
Florida Sheet Music Collection - Collect spans late 19th and entire 20th century and is indexed alphabetically by title. University of South Florida Library - Special Collections Department. Includes the NationsBank African-American Musical Heritage Collection, a collection of nearly 10,000 pieces of sheet music documenting the contributions of African-Americans to the nation's musical heritage at the University of South Florida Tampa Campus Library. Provides composer (names of individual who contributed), title, publisher & date. Browsable by title or names of individual who contributed.
Folk Music, An Index to Recorded Resources - Compiled by Jane Keefer, a librarian at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins Unversity. "Some 2,100 recordings are included with a major emphasis on tradition based material from both commercial and non-commercial performers, including a considerable number of recordings of old-time fiddle and banjo music." There is a Keyword Search for either peformers or music titles, a title index, a performer index and a Publishing Source List.
Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America - Lesley Nelson's collection of MIDI tunes, lyrics, information, historical background, and tune related links.
Folkmusic.org - "Definitive online folk music resource"; includes artist biographies, discographies, pictures, sound bites, lyrics, guitar tablature, tour schedules. The Find page may help locate lyrics.
Folksong Index: Airs, Anthems, Ballads, Canons, Ditties, Folksongs, Hymns and War Songs (Volkslieder Verzeichnis) - Collection of folksong lyrics and midi files, primarily for pre-1922 songs, created and maintained by Richard Kopp. The site, which is in German and English, has a search engine and a What's New page. Specialized sections include Irish Folksongs, Scottish Folksongs, German Folksongs, French Folksongs, Shanties and Sailor Songs and American Civil War Songs.
Folkways Database Search - Smithsonian Institution database allows you to search the 35,000 track database of all the Folkways, Cook, Paredon, Dyer-Bennet and Smithsonian Folkways recordings. In the Advanced interface you can search for artist/performer, recording title, track title, year, record label, instrument, recording number or any text. (The database does not include lyrics.)
Free Scores on the Web - Victor Reny's collection of free scores for piano, saxaphone, guitar, accordian, orchestra, violin and choral (also available in French as Partitions gratuites sur le Web). Reny has also created Perso Flamenco: Partitions Gratuites pour guitare flamenco et classique, partituras, mp3, a collection of free flamenco and classical scores for the guitar.
Free Sheetmusic from Johan Tufvesson - 17th & 18th century
Free Sheet Music on the Internet - RainMusic
German Music Database - Lyrics
German Song Index (Deutschsprachiges Liederverzeichnis)
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive - With over 120 librettos in the Opera Index. Includes midi and RealAudio files, searchable database of librettos, festival schedules, plot summaries, images, song scores, newsletter articles and links to other sites. Created and maintained by Jim Farron & Alex Feldman.
Gigabeat: Find your song!
GMD Music Archive: Sheet Music - Free sheet music for non-commercial usage. Created and maintained by Werner Icking. Includes sound files.
Goldband Recording Corporation - Photographs, sound recordings and biographical essays in the Southern Folklife Collection, Manuscripts Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hi-Fido! (High Fidelity Digitization On-line) - University of Chicago multi-media project offers sheet music and recordings that date from jazz's beginnings in the early 1910s through Chicago Jazz's heyday in the 1920s up to the Great Depression. Searchable and browsable.
Historic American Sheet Music - Digital images of over 16,000 pages of sheet music from 3042 pieces published in the United States between 1850 and 1920. A project of the Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. (See also Historic American Sheet Music at the Library of Congress.)
Hoagy Carmichael Collection - A project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program to catalog, digitize, and preserve every item in Indiana University’s extensive collection of materials pertaining to the life and career of the master songwriter Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981). You'll find sheet music, over 500 lyric sheets, a selection of sound files, photographs, correspondence and supplemental research material.
HymnSite - Searchable site features MIDI hymn and psalm tunes from the 1989 edition of the United Methodist Hymnal and the Standard Psalm Tune Book compiled by Henry E. Dibdin in 1851.
Irish Folk Songs - This compilation of lyrics to 325 Irish songs is searchable and has a list of titles
International Lyrics Server - View lyrics to more than 62,000 songs from database of over 130,000 songs.
 
Joan Baez Web Pages - With Lyrics of all the songs written or co-written by Joan Baez.
Keffer Collection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895 - From the University of Pennsylvania Library Center for Electronic Text & Image.
Det Kongelige Bibliotek (The Royal Library) - Copenhagen. Has a collection of e-scores and sheet music including Chansons d'Amour - The Copenhagen Chansonnier with song list.
Leader in Lieder - German site has lyrics for 18,000 folksongs, and hymns, some with MIDI files.
lied and Song Texts Page - Extensive archive of texts to Kunstlieder and art songs of many different languages, designed and maintained by Emily Ezust. Searchable and browsable by Composer, Poet, Language, First Line and Title. ·         Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music - "Part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It is comprised of popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. The over 26,000 pieces of music in the Levy Collection are indexed on this site, and images of the cover and music are available for pieces of music more than 75 years old. Covers only, with 13-field description.
Lib-web-cats: Library Web Pages, Online Catalogs, and System Profiles - Links to online catalogs in over 4,700 libraries worldwide. Online library catalogs often provide useful information on sheet music. Try using such Library of Congress subject headings as Popular Music - United States - Texts; Songs, English - United States - Texts; Musicals - Excerpts - Librettos; Popular instrumental music; Folk songs; Dance music; Vocal music; Piano music; Bugle music; Marches (Piano); Cantatas, Secular - Scores; Masses - Vocal scores etc. Other access points for library catalogs include Library Catalogs Around the World, Libweb: Library Servers via WWW, National Library Catalogues Worldwide, National Libraries of Europe and LibDex: the Library Index.
Library of Congress Catalogs - Backups include the Z39.50 Gateway and the Experimental Search System (ESS) (no longer being maintained).
Library of Congress Online Catalog - Try using the Left-Anchored Phrase Search which will perform a phrase search.
Listen.com - Find music from more than 120,000 artists
Lutheran Hymnal - MP3, lyrics & sheet music.
Lyrics Library - Collection of links to Lyrics web sites.
LyricSearch.net - Lyrics search engine
Lyrics Search Engine
Lyrics World
Lyrics World - Lyrics search engine
Max Hunter Folk Song Collection - Lyrics, sheet music and sound files (RealAudio, MIDI and AIFF) of Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. Joint project of the Southwest Missouri State University Department of Music and the Springfield-Greene County Library in Springfield, Missouri, where the permanent collection is housed. The collection is keyword searchable or you can browse by song title, singer and catalogue number.
MIT Lewis Music Library Sheet Music Collection - The collection, entitled Inventions of Note, contains approximately 75 pieces of sheet music consisting of "popular songs and piano compositions that portray technologies (old and new alike) as revealed through song texts and/or cover art."
Music Archives: Airs, Anthems, Ballads, Canons, Ditties, Folksongs, Hymns and War Songs Lieder aus allen Ländern - Lyrics and MIDI files.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 - Library of Congress site consists of tens of thousands of pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred music and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra." Search by keyword or browse index of authors, subjects and titles.
Music in the Public Domain - With an alphabetical list of more than 3,000 songs now in the public domain in the United States.
Music Library Association - Offers a A Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians, Sheet Music Cataloging Guidelines, Sheet Music Collections and Useful Resources Online. Sheet Music Information and provides links to Libraries and archives with significant holdings of Sheet Music. Other music cataloging sites include Princeton's Music Cataloging and Music Cataloging at Yale.
Music Scores Library
Musica International Database - Searchable database of choral repertoire.
Musicals.Net - Searchable site provides songlists, lyrics, links, synopsis for over 80 popular musicals.
Mutopia - Public domain music downloadable for free as Postscript (.ps) and PDF (.pdf) files (at both A4 and Letter paper sizes), as well as Lilypond's own LY (.ly) file format. Audio previews are available as MIDI (.mid) files. Composers include T. Arbeau, J.S. Bach, A. Banchieri, L. van Beethoven, M. Carcassi, F. Carulli, M. Clementi, J. Dowland, G. Giordiano, S. Joplin, L. Milan, W. A. Mozart, N. Paganini, C. Saint-Saens, E. Satie, and F. Schubert.
My Sheet Music
New York Public Library - The American Music Center's historic Collection of more than 60,000 scores and recordings of works by American composers has been transferred to The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. (See News.) The New York Public Music Division collection is searchable via CATNYP: Research Libraries Online Catalog. There is also a Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
Nissimo - Free sheet music. (A search for Bach retrieved 15 results.)
OperaGlass - Opera information server. See Libretti and Opera Librettists.
Patchogue-Medford Library Popular Song Index - "Index to selected books of popular songs in the collection of the Patchogue-Medford Library. Approximately 78,000 popular songs are included in the 995 books which have been indexed."
Peter, Paul & Mary - Official site maintained by Noel Paul Stookey provides lyrics to all recorded songs, organized by album.
Popular Songs Library - From Music Lessons Television Network.
 
Project Runeberg - Swedish digital text project offers sheet music. An example is Quatre Sonates pour le Clavecin ou Pianoforte avec l'Accompagnement d'un Violon by Olof Åhlström. (For others see Nordic Music on the Internet and Free sheetmusic compiled by Johan Tufvesson.)
Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts - Maintained by Lyle Neff.
theRolling-Stones.com - With lyrics, arranged alphabetically.
Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music - Part of the American Music Collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music - Lilly Library collection at the University of Indiana contains approximately 24,000 pieces of sheet music, songbooks, and folios.
Schubertline - "Online score service for singers."
SESAC Repertory Online - Search by title, writer or publisher.
Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War from the Stern Collection - Library of Congress has more than two hundred sheet-music compositions that represent Lincoln and the war as reflected in popular music.
Sheet Music from Canada's Past - Currently features sheet music published before Confederation (1867) and during the era of the First World War (1914-1920), selected from the historical collection of the National Library of Canada.
SongFile - Lyrics to 100,000 songs, searchable by artist, album or song title.
Stadtbücherei Stuttgart: Musikbücherei - Outstanding collection of music links (in German only). (See Texte und Noten).
Sunhawk Corporation - Digital music publisher and sheet music store that allows you to play and print sheet music using your home PC with a large collection of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern and 20th Century compositions available.
Talking-Heads.net: Lyrics
Templeton Music Collection - Mississippi State University Libraries
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Music Library 19th-Century American Sheet Music Digitization Project - "57 volumes (approximately 2250 titles) of sheet music have been indexed. The contents of 32 of these volumes (approximately 1200 pieces) have been fully scanned and are available on this site." There is an Alphabetical Index by Composer and a list of Volumes Indexed.
University of North Texas Lully Web Project - Collection of the works of French Baroque composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. Provides access to titles in the collection. For each work there will be a fact sheet, a plot summary, a performance history and bibliographic information about the volume in the collection.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Song Index - "Publicly available database providing access to citations for about 50,000 songs in more than 1,400 published song anthologies owned by the George F. DeVine Music Library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville." University of Virginia Music Library: Net Resources - Music - Virtual Music Libraries
Union Songs
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain, Online U.S. Sheet Music Database - Collection contains about 100,000 titles of popular music (as well as some classical) from the early 19th century through the 1980s.
Variations - With Online Musical Scores for Opera Literature, Song Literature and Symphonic Literature.) Project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program.
Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings - 78-rpm discs by the Berliner company of Montreal, with audio files sorted by issue number, performer and title. The Music on the Home Front: Canadian Sheet Music of the First World War searchable database offers covers and bibliographical information for nearly 400 pieces of sheet music published in Canada between 1914 and 1920. (Tip: To retrieve all sheet music with full scores available, choose the index "Any Keyword" and enter the letters pdf as your search term.) Additionally, Selected recordings in the National Library of Canada’s collection of 78s, chosen for their Canadian content, were digitally reproduced for this site.
When Works Pass into the Public Domain - Lolly Gassaway of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Only music copyrighted before 1923 can be guaranteed to be copyright free.
Women Song Composers: A Listing of Songs Published in the United States and England, ca. 1890-1930 - "Includes title, composer, publisher, date and city of publication, and the existence of an accompaniment other than piano." (Christopher Reynolds, Department of Music, University of California, Davis.)
Zemerl: Jewish Song Database - Interactive database of Jewish songs in Yiddish, ABC Musical Notation Language - "Language designed to notate tunes in an ASCII format. It was designed primarily for folk and traditional tunes of Western European origin." Developed and maintained by Chris Walshaw. (Many links to midi files.)
Academy of American Poets - Has a Listening Booth with poets reading their poems in RealAudio format. You can hear Wallace Stevens reading Idea of Order at Key West; William Butler Yeats reading The Lake Isle of Innisfree; Anne Sexton reading Her Kind; Elizabeth Bishop reading The Armadillo and John Berryman reading Dream Song 1. (Provided by Audio-Forum, Caedmon, Folkways, and Watershed.)
Academy of Digital Music - Jonathan Summers and Valerie Langfield have assembled a collection of classical music midi files, grouped by musical period.
Acoustic Guitar Song Collection - Includes Real Audio and WAV files and Video Clips of Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg and Cat Stevens.
AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors: Audio Books and Tapes - Provides links to a number of publishers and vendors of audio books and tapes
Aesop's Fables - John R. Long's site "includes the full public domain texts - 654 fables, in html format, indexed in a single table with morals listed. Most all of these were translated by George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900)". Some fables, read by children, are available in Real Audio.
AfricaFocus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent - Digitized visual images and sounds (50 hours of sound from forty-five different countries) of Africa collected by the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Searchable by collection, subject or country. (If you search by multiple fields for Audio, you'll retrieve 58 results.)
AIROS: American Indian Radio on Satellite - "National distribution system for Native programming to Tribal communities and to general audiences through Native American and other public radio stations as well as the Internet." With programming via Real Audio 24 hours a day.
All Songs Considered - NPR's online music program provides full versions of the music snippets played on NPR's afternoon news program. (For more, see the New York Times Arts@Large column, NPR's Instrumental Bits Become an Online Music Show by Matthew Mirapaul.)
America & the Courts - C-SPAN
America at Work, America at Leisure 1894-1915 - Library of Congress’ American Memory site has digitized 150 motion pictures documenting work, school, and leisure in the United States from 1894 to 1915.
American English Speech Samples Index - Department of Translation Studies, University of Tampere. Has American English Regional Speech and Dialect Samples,
American Field Guide - PBS collection of over 1400 video clips that enable you "to experience America's wilderness firsthand".
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - With 70,000 audio word pronunciations. (From Bartleby.com.)
American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election - "Fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders at the turn of the century. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding the First World War and the subsequent presidential election of 1920. Speakers include: Warren G. Harding, James Cox, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, SamuelGompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John J. Pershing. Speeches range from one to five minutes".
American Memory - This Library of Congress project is an extraordinarily rich resource for audio and video materials and provides information on Viewing and Listening to American Memory Collections.
American Rhetoric - Michael E. Eidenmuller, Department of Communication, University of Texas at Tyler. The Online Speech Bank "is an index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
American Variety Stage and Audio Sampler, 1870 - 1920 - Library of Congress, (American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment).
America's Ethnic Performing Arts: Cambodian - Sam-Ang Sam provides music from the Pinn Peat court ensemble and Mani Mekhala (The Goddess of the Waters), a sacred Cambodian court dance.
Ames Hymns Collection - Lyrics & music (Brian M. Ames
Antonio Soler (1729-1783) Home Page - With harpsichord audio files.
Apple Learning Interchange - Virtual Field Trip
Arbitron - International media research firm. You can look up a Station Information Profile (SIP) by station call letters
Archer & Valerie Productions - In the Archer Audio Archives are clips of famous speeches.
Arts@large Archive - Matthew Mirapaul's weekly column (ended July 27, 2000) in the New York Times Cybertimes frequently covered audio resources on the Internet. (Free registration.)
Assistive Media: Expanding the World of Reading - David Erdody, a software consultant from Ann Arbor, Michigan, maintains this site which he describes as an "audio-literary service for persons with print reading/access barriers." Current audio readings include Colette's Gigi (100 minutes); Frederick and Steven Barthelme's Good Losers (50 minutes); Bill Joy's Why the Future Doesn't Need Us; and two pieces by Malcolm Gladwell - Clicks and Mortar (33 minutes) and John Rock's Error (44 minutes).
AtomFilms - Offers hundreds of outstanding short films, in their entirety, including the 1999 Academy Award nominee Holiday Romance, an 18 minute comedy and In the Mirror of the Sky by the Mexican director Carlos Salces, winner of the Mexican Academy Award for Best Short Film. Dinner Along the Amazon (23 minutes) directed by Patrick Sisam was nominated for a Canadian Gemini Award. Other titles worth watching: Kung Pao Chicken (6 minutes), Allerd Fishbein's in Love (21 minutes), Summertime's Calling Me (17 minutes), and Funeral of the Last Gypsy King (8 minutes)
Atomic Pop - Online music store for MP3 downloads.
Audible - Online store has more than 34,000 hours of downloadable audio content (books, newspapers, journals and lectures) and offers a few free sample
Audio Online: Streamed Audio Files - UC Berkeley Lectures and Events (including materials from the UCB Language Center Speech Archives). Collaborative project between the Berkeley Language Center and the Moffitt Library Media Resources Center, University of California, Berkeley. You can hear lectures, speeches and readings by James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Desmond Tutu, Margaret Mead, Robert Frost, Carlos Fuentes, and others. There are audio files and transcripts of the Nixon Watergate Tapes at the National Archives and Records Administration. Provides a useful Media Resources Center with links to Online Media Resources
Audio Publishers Association - With list of Audie Award Winners, a collection of Audiobook Links and links to Where to Get Audiobooks on the We
Audio Theater - Infomation on producers, sources for tapes and cds, reviews, and resources for those who want to try their hand at producing Audio Theater
Audiofind: Multimedia Search Engine - Others include Blinkx, AlltheWeb: Audio, Blinkx, AlltheWeb: Video, Audiofind: Multimedia Search Engine, Alta Vista Video Search, FindSounds, HotBot (has option to search for MP3, video or image), Songtext, Lycos Music Downloads, Lycos Multimedia, CNET Music Center, RadioScout, SpeechBot and Scour
AudioHighway - Streaming and downloadable books, music, music videos and movie trailers. (Free registration.)
Audubon's Birds of America - Richard R. Buonanno's site has over 20 Bird Calls.
Austrian Academy of Sciences | Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften - The Acoustics Research Department's homepage offers a Digital Sound Archive with Mechanical Musical Instruments and a Selection Ethnic Music Styles. Offers a report on the Digital Sound Archive: Digitization, Storage and Archiving for Windows98 /NT
Band Music from the Civil War Era - Library of Congress online collection brings together musical scores, recordings, photographs, and essays documenting an important but insufficiently explored part of the American musical past. This collection features over 700 musical compositions, as well as 8 full-score modern editions and 19 recorded examples of brass band music in performance
BBC World Service - Available 24 hours a day in over 44 languages, with a five-minute audio News Summary
Be Here - 360° Internet video. Offers a Gallery with examples of the technology in the categories of sports, music, entertainment, virtual tours or news.
Beacham Radio - Frank Beacham's "conversations with uncommon people" include Pete Seeger, Clyde Butcher, Guy & Candie Carawan, Les Paul and Gerry Manders
Behind the Words - Author interviews, from Barnes & Noble, with archive
Bennington College Music Library Archival Preservation Project - Brief excerpts of recordings of musical performances at Bennington.
Beta Lounge - Radio with live shows from a San Francisco nightclub (Thursdays) offers chat and video. Past shows are also archived.
Billboard Charts - Listen to the hits.
Bloomberg Radio - Financial news
Blue Note - New York City jazz club offers live online events and an archive of past events. (Part of the InterJazz site.)
Bluegrass Radio Network - Nashville. Into the Blue hosted by Terry Hurd, features bluegrass and acoustic country music.
bobdylan.com - Columbia Records provides a searchable database of Bob Dylan's published lyrics and audio samples of every track on every album. Includes a catalog of albums, and an alphabetical or chronological list of songs. Hear Tangled Up in Blue, from Blood on the Tracks, Like a Rolling Stone from Highway 61 or Baby Let Me Follow Your Down from Dylan's first album.
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads - Over 30,000 ballads which can be searched by title, first line, subject, author, performer and publisher. These have been gathered into a single catalogue along with a scanned image of each ballad sheet. Each record of a broadside which contains a musical score has a MIDI sound file.
Bold Type: Audio - A large assortment of Randam House authors read their works. (Eliza Minot reads from The Tiny One, Vikram Seth reads from An Equal Music, Bill Bryson reads from A Walk in the Woods.)
Book Radio - Audio interviews with authors and poets
Booknotes: A Cyber Companion - C-SPAN presents "America's finest authors on reading, writing, and the power of ideas." Provides a number of audio resources. With Archive from January 26, 1997 to the present and includes transcripts and video files for Brian Lamb's Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America.
Book TV - History, children's books, biography, the book business. Rich in audio and visual resources. Hear (or see) the April 3, 1999 talk by Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos (57 minutes).
Booker Prize - British literary award. Offers brief RealAudio Readings from the Shortlist, (read by Martin Jarvis & Carol Boyd): J M Coetzee (Disgrace), Anita Desai (Fasting, Feasting), Michael Frayn (Headlong), Andrew O'Hagan (Our Fathers), Ahdaf Soueif (The map of Love), and Colm Toibin (The Blackwater Lightship).
Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics - Ohio State University.
Brain Opera - MIT's Media Lab "interactive, musical journey into your mind."
British Library - Their National Sound Archive is "one of the largest sound archives in the world." You can search the Sound Archive catalogue and Listen to sounds from the Archive. The National Life Story Collection has Oral history holdings. (Try a keyword search for Listen to an excerpt from this recording) Playback is the bulletin of the British Library Sound Archive. Pdf versions are available of the following issues: Spring 1998, Issue 18, Summer 1998, Issue 19, Autumn 1998, Issue 20, Spring 1999, Issue 21, Summer 1999, Issue 22, Spring 2000, Issue 23, Spring 2000, Issue 24, Winter 2000, Issue 25, Autumn 2001, Issue 26, Summer 2002, Issue 27, Winter 2002, Issue 28, Spring 2003 Issue 29, Winter 2003 Issue 30, Summer 2004, Issue 31
BRS Web Radio - Over 4,000 radio stations broadcasting on the Web. With links by Call Letter
BUBL LINK: 384.54 Radio Broadcasting - Annotated catalogue of selected Internet resources. They also have a 5:15: Sound collections section.
Bug Bytes - 40 sound files of insects.
Building the Virtual Reference Desk in a 24/7 World - Webcast of the proceedings of the symposium on digital reference, co-hosted by the Library of Congress and OCLC on January 12, 2001.
Cakewalk - "Software products for recording, editing, and playing music & sound on the desktop."
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties - Library of Congress site is described as a "multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musician
La Camera dei Deputati - Italian Parliament. Allows you to listen to RealAudio debates. In Italian only.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Audio - List of newscasts and programs that you can hear on RealAudio. They also have a Video list and an archives for That Was Then This is Now
Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production - Has a collection of links to Canadian community and non-profit radio web sites, many available online (Écoute en direct).
Canned Interactive - With interactive preview of Legend of Bagger Vance.
Cantaria - Bardic song archive of lyrics for over 125 songs, most with accompanying sound clips. With title and first line index.
Car Talk Radio - Tom and Ray Magliozzi. With Past Shows in RealAudio
Carolina School of Public Health Webcasts - Archived webasts inlcude Anthrax: What every clinician should know Part II, CDC, Nov. 1, 2001
CBS.com: Audio and Video Selections
CDNow - Online music store provides sound clips.
CDBaby - Online record store that sells CDs by independent musicians. Allows you to listen to generous portions of music (try Deb Talan's Forgiven from her Something Burning CD).
Celebration of the Piano: Selections from the Archives of American Art - Manuscripts, sketches, sound files. (Prepared in connection with the Smithsonian's Piano 300 exhibition. Piano Roles is a companion book, published by the Yale University Press, 1999.)
Center for the Book Cybercasts
Ceolas - Gerard Manning's celtic music site has a section, Tunes at Ceolas, with an assortment of sound files.
CERN Webcasts - Lectures, conferences from one of the biggest Physics Laboratories in the world, located in Geneva Switzerland. With archived audio files from the Summer Student Lectures 2000
Channel Z - Over 80 classic cartoons as well as movies and tv shows in Real Video.
Chaucer MetaPage - Offers a collection of links to web pages with excerpts from Chaucer's works read by professors in The Criyng and the Soun: The Chaucer Metapage Audio Files.
Chemweb VEI Virtual Lecture - Their Library has an archives of previous lectures - including slides, transcript, audio and video
Chinwag Theatre - Daniel Pinkwater
Choral Public Domain Library - With over 1100 scores, many with sound files. Created and maintained by Rafael Ornes.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Has a collection of MP3 Audio Files which include readings of Tolstoy's Twenty-Three Tales, Chesterton's Trees of Pride, and the Journal of John Wesley. The Ethereal Hymnary is an indexed collection of public-domain hymn tunes in electronic formats and an Index of Hymns has Midi files of 200 hymns
Christian Science Monitor Radio Series - Audio files of series and special reports include Northern Seasonings, a collection of essays on ice fishing, leaf peeping, bear essentials, Thanksgiving and other Vermont topic by Steve Delaney and Voices Heard, a series about women's lives around the world
Cinema Volta - With sounds, sites, tools." John Maxwell Hobbs' Web Phases is an interactive musical composition.
Civilisation Française - Interactive French lesson with RealAudio was developed by Marie-J. Ponterio, Lecturer of French International Communications and Culture Department, SUNY College at Cortland.
Classical Language Instruction Project - Samples of Greek and Latin prose read by scholars. Homer, Plato, Pindar, Virgil, Tacitus, Horace, Ovid, Seneca and Propertius. Maintained by Christian Wildberg, Classics, Princeton University.
Classical MIDI Archives - Thousands of samples of classical music in midi format collected by Pierre R. Schwob.
Classical MIDI With Words - Robert E. Crawford's site has art songs with synchronized lyrics and translations.
Club des Poètes: La Voix des Poètes - Includes RealAudio poems by Marie Noël, Robert Desnos and Jean Pierre Rosnay.
Club Kaycee: Jazz Sights & Sounds - From the sound archives & music collection of the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri, Kansas City. There is an extensive RealAudio sound file.
CNET Radio - With archives. CNET Television and Radio
CNN Videoselect - CNN's on-demand video news with content drawn from newscasts on CNN Headline News, the previous night's Larry King Live and Crossfire as well as other CNN programming
Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival - Called the "best American festival" by Rolling Stone Magazine, and "the premier rock gathering in the nation, if not the world" by the Los Angeles Times, this year's lineup includes Nine Inch Nails, Arcade Fire, the Futureheads, Tegan and Sara, Weezer, Wilco, Bright Eyes, Bauhaus, New Order, Gang of Four. Held at the Empire Polo Field, Indio, California, April 30 - May 1, 2005. The Music Player has 94 free audio tracks of the artists who'll be performing. (Ambulance, Autolux, Bauhaus, Bloc Party, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Buck 65, Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, Donavan Frankenreiter, Doves, Eisley, Four Tet, Jem, Kasabian, Pinback...)
College Fight Songs Homepage - Trevor D. Barnes
Columbia News Video Forum Archive - There's also a Video Briefs Archive.
Columbia News Video Briefs Archive - Offers 4 years of archived video, also organized by subject. There's also a News Video Forum Archive. A March 14th forum, Looking Ahead: The Future of News, featured panelists from the New York Times, Newsweek and NBC discussing the issue of balancing the high cost of coverage with greater interest in foreign news.
Comedy Central: Daily Show - Jon Stewart.
Community Language Collection - "Audio- and text-clips, graphics and full transcripts from 40 speakers of American dialects from New York to Georgia, with most from North Carolina." With links to Related Resources Similar resources are International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) and American English Speech Samples Index.
Completorium: Polish Music from Middle Ages to Baroque - Adam Jarczyk & Bogus³aw Krawczyk's collection of 387 midi files in 7 topical collections.
Computer Talk on the Internet - Links to shows about computers and technology that you can listen to through the Internet provided by Andy Graham's Computer Beat Radio Show.
Conjunctions - Bard College publication is a "Web forum of innovative writing." In the Audio Vault are readings from Robert Olen Butler, Philip Roth, William Gass, Mary Gaitskill, Rick Moody among others.
Conversations with History - Series moderated by Harry Kreisler produced at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley features interviews with "diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists." Organized by name, profession, topic and chronology.
Cornell University Computer Policy and Law Program Speaker Series
Cortland Review - Online Literary Magazine in real audi
Court TV Online
CREN (Corporation for Research and Educational Networking) - Offers a collection of Archived Events on topics relevant to networking and information technology which includes Where Is the Digital Library?, a September 28th, 2000 interview with Clifford Lynch.
Crucible of Empire: the Spanish American War - PBS. Listen to popular songs from the Spanish-American War era in the Sheet Music Gallery.
C-SPAN - Has a Video and Audio page. There is a one month archive for America and the Courts, a one week archive for the Washington Journal and an 18 month archive for Booknotes. The C-SPAN Campaign 2000 Video Search is a video search engine for Campaign 2000. You can search C-SPAN campaign footage by keyword and then view speeches by segment or in their entirety. Or, you can read the text. The technology, developed by Virage, scans archives of speeches, debates, hearings and interviews dating back to 1997. Virage's video search engine is also being used by ABC in NewsClips to search the video archives of World News Tonight and Nightline. Virage Showcase provides links to other searchable video sites. C-SPAN: Law/Courts provides links to programs dealing with law and the courts.
Cultures AZ - With sections on Native American, Hispanic, Afro American, Asian American cultures in Arizona. Voices has a multimedia collection of stories, oral histories and musical performances.
News and Information via Streaming Audio & Video - Gary Price (See also his Speech and Transcript Center).
Cyber Hymnal - "Over 2,600 Christian hymns and Gospel songs from many denominations. You'll find lyrics, sound, background information, photos, links, MIDI files and scores you can download."
CyberLC: Cybercasts from the Library of Congress - See also Event Multimedia Center
Cyberposium 2000 - Over 40 videos from conference held at Harvard Business School, February 25th-27th, 2000. Agenda included keynotes by David Wetherell, Jeff Bezos, Andreas Schmidt and panel sessions with Robert Harris, Harel Kodesh, Kevin Mayer, Mary Meeker, George Gilder and others.
Dallas Urology Associates Patient Education Videos - 25 vidoes (RealAudio)
Democracy Now - With archives back to 1997.
Design Architecture - Provides RealVideo webcasts of the awarding of the Pritzker Architecture Prize to Sir Norman Foster in 1999 and to Renzo Piano in 1998.
Deutsche Welle Radio - Audio on demand (in German)
DevZone - RealNetworks provides streaming media resources for web developers.
Dia Center for the Arts - Readings in Contemporary Poetry Audio Archives - Readings (in Realaudio format) from the 1987-88 season by John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Louise Gluck, Michael Palmer, Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, Robert Hass and Amy Clampitt
Diane Rehm Show - Has RealAudio archive for this week and Past Programs (for shows that aired January 1, 1999 or later.)
Digisette -Portable digital cassette tape player. "Duo-MP3 player that functions not only as a portable, stand-alone, listening device but has the extended capability of being loaded into any standard cassette player."
Digital Media Association (DIMA) - With list and links to members.
Digital Media Center - Located at the University of Virginia, there are links to Projects and Resources. Some of the material is available to the UVa community only.
Dino-ROAR: A computer simulation gives voice to a long-extinct dinosaur - Scientific American Explorations, December 15, 1997.
Discovering Lewis and Clark - "Its centerpiece is a 19-part overview of the expedition by Harry Fritz, Professor of History at the University of Montana, illustrated with selections from the journals of the expedition, photographmaps, moving pictures, and sound files."
Discovery.com - Multimedia resources include Discovery Online: News and Science Live show with Neal Conen.
Dmusic -
Download.com - CNET's collection of links to downloadable tools.
DownloadsDirect - Free downloads in RealAudio or MP3 forma
Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast - Repository of software technology related streaming media material. codebytes is a daily audio talk show. recurse features in-depth presentations from the best qualified names in technology.
Dual-Window Karaoke (DWK) - Written by Vincenzo Palleschi, DWK is a MIDI player for Windows that shows synchronized lyrics in two windows during play.
Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders - Wax cylinder recordings recorded digitally by Glenn Sage. With Cylinders of the Month Archive
Earth and Sky - Award winning daily science radio series. With Archives and Searchable Index.
eBookAd: Radio - Ebook industry interviews.
Edgar Allan Poe Poems
Edison National Historic Site - With Sound Collection, organized by genre and format.
Eleanor Roosevelt's Convocation Address - Acceptance speech given by Eleanor Roosevelt during the awarding of her honorary degree by the University of Manitoba on March 1, 1949.
Electronic Hymnal
Electronic Literature Directory - Has a category for Recorded Reading/Performance in Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction.
Electronic Poetry Center - SUNY Buffalo site has a archive if Sound Files which includes their Linebreak radio show interviews with such writers as Robert Creeley and Paul Auster and has a collection of links to Literary Audio.
Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry - "Selection of more than 400 items from the Emile Berliner Papers and 108 Berliner sound recordings from the Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
EMusic - Independent music company sells music in the MP3 format. In Radio you can select the "number of songs you want to hear and the styles you want them to be."
Engines of our Ingenuity - Over 1300 episodes from the NPR series written and hosted by John Lienhard and KUHF-FM, Houston, with topics that range "from cable cars to Civil War submarines, from the connection between Romantic poets and Victorian science to the invention of the bar code." The site is searchable and includes an Index to the Episodes. Streaming Real Audio Sound is being added to the transcripts. It presently may be accessed on Episodes 159, 1404, 1481 through 1560, and 1601 through 1604.
Epitonic - MP3 download site has a comprehensive archive of album reviews.
Environmental News Channel
eServer: Streaming Audio and Video - Audio and video recordings in the arts and humanities from the English Server.
ESPN Radio
EV World - Electric vehicle news and RealAudio interviews with leaders in electric vehicle technology. Included on the Interview Playlist are Michael Coates of the Green Car Institute, journalist Ross Gelbspan, climatologist Robert C. Balling, Jr. and actor Ed Begley, Jr..
Erik Deckers Laughing Stalk: Audio & radio theater groups
eWEEK Webcast - Daily IT coverage, Webcast News, weekly features with news, analysis and product reviews, as well as live trade show and event coverage.
eYada.com - Radio station with live exclusive programming and interactive video.
Excite Audio/Visual Searc
Experience Music Project - Interactive music museum in Seattle. With Site Index and Archives. "Browse through hundreds of artifacts from the Experience Music Project collection, including rare instruments, sound recordings, costumes, photographs, posters and song lyrics" in Digital Collection. Offers a good collection of links for musicians.
Family Health Radio - Over 100 2 1/2-minute radio programs with practical, easy-to-understand answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about health and health care. With Archives. (A service of the College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Telecommunications Center at Ohio University.)
Favorite Poem Project - Americans reading their favorite poems, archived online. With List of Poems. The archive now consists of fifty audio-visual documentaries which showcase individual Americans reading and speaking each about a particular poem they love. (Joe Nickell writes about the project in Tech Breathes Life into Poems, Wired News, February 19, 1999.)
FedNet - Free live coverage of the proceedings of the House and Senate, Congressional Hearings, News Conferences and Joint Sessions of Congress. (A subscription is required for access to most archived material.)