This guide provides links to the most useful databases and resources for researching Music.

... there are six periods of music and each period has a particular style that significantly contributed to what music is today.

Comprehensive database of recorded music .. ratings and reviews of record albums. Search by artist, album, song title, music style, and label. .. biographies of musicians discographies

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. ASCAP Clearance Express database is searchable by author, title, composer, publisher, performer.

News Lesson Plans Cello Choir Classical Music Composers Events Flute Guitar Jazz Lyrics Musicals Opera Percussion Piano Pop Rhythm Viola Violin Xaphoon

The Basic Elements of Music : counterpoint harmony melody music texture timbre

the other royalty clearance house.

A musical instrument is any device for producing a musical sound. The principal types of such instruments, classified by the method of producing sound, are percussion, stringed, keyboard, wind, and electronic.

from the School of Music at Indiana University, this site includes Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online, Musical Borrowing Bibliography, Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum and Saggi Musicali Italiani

A central portal to online resources and communications for the global choral music community." Includes a choir directory, reference materials, info on repertoire, rehearsal, performance, church music, and lots more.

pdf files of free sheet music.

A search for the term "music" on Dewey Browse

rare and unique scores from Harvard University

Biographies of distinguished women musicians : Hildegard von Bingen Sophie Arnould Luisa Tetrazzini Kathleen Parlow Bessie Smith Martha Argerich Joan Baez Pearl Bailey LaVern Baker Sarah Caldwell Maria Callas Elfi von Dassanowsky Celine Dion Missy Elliott Ethel Waters Shania Twain Tina Turner Barb

Searchable music and performing arts database

includes tunes, lyrics, and historical background

Look-up music term definitions

will need Adobe Reader (free) to look at music and to print it out.

Created by Duke University Digital Scriptorium, this site includes digitized images of over 3,000 pieces of sheet music. Database is searchable. Clicking on the image of the cover brings up the score and lyrics.

from the American Musicological Society

http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

Infotopia offers a strong collection of links to music resources.

find and discover music and people. ... instantly connect to your favorite music, and to a community of people that share your musical interests.

View musical instruments from around the world, ranging from ancient times to the late twentieth century. The Museum is home to over 1,100 instruments, ... With link to video resources.

The MoMI encompasses a multifaceted mixture of history and design expressed through instruments, artists, and their music.

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and

Music and lyrics published in 1922 or earlier are in the Public Domain in the United States.

The Music World News eBulletin presents world-wide music news... It contains items in English, French and Spanish. Simply follow the menus on the left to navigate to any section of the eBulletin you'd like to read

All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute.
1838 pieces of music are now available.

history, composers, songs...

The African continent comprises approximately 20 percent of the world's land mass and has a population of roughly 934 million. African music is as diverse as its cultures and peoples and has flowered in many indigenous forms as well as been shaped by foreign influences.

As you explore the collections and videos, don't miss Chuck Berry’s Cadillac. This Cadillac was driven on stage at the Fox Theater in St. Louis in the documentary, Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll! It was the same theater that turned him away as a child because he was black.

short course that explains acoustics (the physics of sound waves) as it relates to music and musical instruments : acoustics, sound waves, frequency, wavelength, standing waves, amplitude