Music

Library Databases

Free Web Sites

Music Education

Classical Music

Jazz

Library Databases

Always the best place to start for quality resources. You will need to log in with your regular user name and password.

Free Web Sites

Music Education

MusicBrainz

"An open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public."

Performing Arts Encyclopedia

Access to the Library of Congress's "unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials."

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

"A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals."

Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net

Find Sounds

"A free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples."

Association for Cultural Equity (ACE)

Sound Recordings, Photographs and Digital Images, Video Collections, Radio Programs, Discussions, Interviews and Lectures, and the Global Jukebox.

Europeana Radio

"Europeana Collections provides access to over 50 million digitised items – books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for. Our dedicated thematic collections on art, fashion, music, photography and World War I contain galleries, blogs and exhibitions to inform and inspire."Back to Top

Classical Music

Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers

Kennedy Center Arts Edge

Jazz

All About Jazz

History of Jazz, biographies, reviews, and more. A great resource.

Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz

Jazz

Companion site to the PBS film by Ken Burns.Back to Top