Music

(COVID-19)  Support Links for Artists, compiled by Long Island Arts Council at Freeport 

Classical and Popular Music

General Links

·  Academy for New Musical Theatre: Format Guidelines - Script and Score

·  All-Music Guide: indexes sound recordings; music guide by genre; performer/composer bios

·  American Music Therapy Association

·  American Musical Instrument Society

·  ASCAP  and  BMI (Music licensing organizations, both with searchable databases)

·  Bachtrack: the world's best way to find live classical music (concerts/opera/ballet)

·  Beethoven-Haus Bonn Digital Archives (primary sources on the composer)

·  The Canadian Encyclopedia

·  Choral Public Domain Library

·  Classical Music (from LiveAbout)

·  Classical Net Home Page

·  Colonial Music Institute Resources

·  Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (Cornell Copyright Information Center)

·  Early Music Links (from Classical Net)

·  Latin American Music Center (Indiana University) Online Resources

·  Library of Congress Digital Collections: Performing Arts

·  Library of Congress National Library for the Blind and Print Disabled 

·  Lincoln Center Home Page

·  Long Island Composer's Alliance

·  Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame

·  Medici.tv:  "The world's leading classical music channel" (Some free content)

·  Musicals101.com: The History of Musical Theatre and Film

·  Musician's Atlas (Limited free access to directory information)

·  MusRef: Music & Dance Bibliography (Brigham Young University, Music and Dance Library)

·  National Music Museum

·  New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the NY Philharmonic's Digital Archives

·  New York Public Library Best of the Web: Music Links

·  New York Public Library Music Division

·  NPR Music

·  Online Resources for Music Scholars (Loeb Music Library, Harvard University)

·  Open Music Library

·  PianoBuyer.com (contains supplement to Larry Fine's The Piano Book and content from The Best of Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer)

·  Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Iowa Public Radio)

·  Radio-Locator

·  SUNY Stony Brook Music Library: Music Resources on the Web

·  Violin Society of America: Links

·  WQXR Radio  (FM 105.9)

·  Yale University Library Music Subject Guides

Free Sheet Music/Songs/Lyrics Resources

Historic Sheet Music Collections

·  Digital Mozart Edition

·  Folk Song Subject & Master Index:  English Folk Dance & Song Society

·  Harvard Library Digital Scores and Libretti

·  Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (Duke University)

·  Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800-1922 (Library of Congress)

·  IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library

·  IN Harmony: Digital Sheet Music from Indiana University

·  KefferCollection of Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1895 (University of Pennsylvania)

·  Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection (Johns Hopkins University)

·  Inventions of Note: Sheet Music Collection, Lewis MusicLibrary (M.I.T) 

·  Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection (University of Texas at Austin)

·  National Library of Australia: Music

·  Nineteenth-Century California Sheet Music (University of California)

·  PianoArchive.org (Piano music in the public domain)

·  Sheet Music Collections Online: The University of Chicago

·  Sibley Music Library: Musical Scores

·  UCLA Digital Archive: Sheet Music Consortium

Classical, Theater, Pop and Rock

·  Choral Public Domain Library: 3,550 choral scores, searchable & royalty free

·  E-Chords.com

·  LiederNet Archive:  includes some texts of songs in the public domain

·  Musical Theater Songs (some free content)

·  Musixmatch ("the world's largest lyrics catalog"; this database is crowdsourced- use the Hewlett-Woodmere Library sheet music collection to verify lyrics)

·  The New York Times: "Google Adds Some Song Lyrics to Search Results"

·  OLGA: The On-Line Guitar Archive

·  Peter, Paul & Mary Website

·  SongHelix (Database of Art Songs)

Indexes to Song Books

·  Arizona State University Song Index

·  Berklee Lead Sheet Song Search

·  California Library Systems Cooperative Song Index

·  Dictionary of North American Hymnology

·  FakeBook Index (from SeventhString Software)

·  The Folk Song Index: An Oberlin College Libraries and Sing Out! Collaboration

·  Los Angeles Public Library Song Index

·  Patchogue-Medford Public Library Popular Music Index

·  Universityof Tennessee Song Index

·  University of Washington Popular Song Database

Music Education

·  Music Teachers National Association (includes parent, student, and copyright resources)

·  Nassau Music Educators Association (including ensemble sheet music library)

·  National Association for Music Education (formerly MENC)

·   National Piano Foundation

·  NYSSMA: New York State School Music Association

Opera

·  Aria Database: a diverse collection of information on over 1,000 operatic arias

·  Metropolitan Opera

·  Boston Lyric Opera

·  Gilbert andSullivan Archive

·  Operabase

·  OperaGlass: synopses, librettos, performance histories, etc.

·  The Opera Schedule Server (a list of opera companies on the web)

Pop/Rock/Blues/Folk

• All-Music Guide 

• Billboard

• Folk Alliance International

• Pitchfork.com: Music News and Reviews

• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Education (Library & Archives)

• Rock's Backpages (free content from the Rock's Backpages library)

• Who Sampled

Jazz

·  All About Jazz

·  Downbeat Magazine: Guides to jazz education, venues, summer festivals, etc.

·  Jazz Journal

·  Jazz Research: Websites (University Libraries, University of North Texas)

·  Red Hot Jazz Archive

·  Smithsonian Jazz: Collections & Archives

World Music

• Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection (University of Washington)

• Global Music Archive: a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas.

• Jewish Music Webcenter

• Judaica Sound Archives, Florida Atlantic University

• Smithsonian Folkways Records (pod-casts and radio streams as well as articles on folk music around the world)