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Periodical Databases Back to Top
ERIC 
Citations and abstracts in education; also available through the U.S. Department of Education (provided by SUNYConnect).
Humanities International Complete
Covers journals and other important resources in the humanities. Provided by SUNYConnect.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
Articles from popular and scholarly music and music education periodicals.
IPA Source
A library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
JSTOR
Archive of back issues from scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
PsycINFO
Comprehensive index to journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines (1887 - present).
Web of Science
Search for citations to scholarly journal articles in all subject areas. Conduct cited reference searches for articles that cite a previously published work. (1970 - present)
Reference Back to Top
Reference Books: Music
An active catalog link for reference books in this subject. Reference books are located in the Information Commons room (map).
Oxford Music Online
Music reference sources including Grove Music Online, an encyclopedia covering all aspects of music worldwide.
Performing Arts: Oxford Reference Online
Academic dictionaries and reference books
All Music Guide
The All Music Guide has information on thousands of recordings covering all music styles, including classical, and includes succinct reviews for these CDs (or LPs). The database is searchable by performer, album title, and song title, and it includes biographies of musicians and singers. Additional information, such as brief essays on music genres and musical instruments, is available with free registration to the site. Serves as a great dictionary/encyclopedia, especially for most forms of popular music.
Dolmetsch Online Music Dictionary
Thorough dictionary from a musical instrument company.
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
Covers many aspects of Canadian music. Part of the Canadian Encyclopedia.
Grammy Awards
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the NARAS, put together this Web site that includes a great deal of information about the Grammy Awards, including a searchable database so you can find out who won what Grammy Award in what year!
Grove Music Online (Now contained in Oxford Music Online)
Recording Industry Association of America - Facts & Figures
Statistics and reports on marketing and consumer trends in recorded music sales.
Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary 
Academic dictionary that includes terms, audio, and video (AIFF files).
Web Sites Back to Top
A Great Day in Harlem
The subtitle says "explore jazz history through one photograph." This site posts the legendary August 1958 photograph by Art Kane, taken in Harlem, New York, which features 57 famous jazz musicians and singers. You can click on the photo, or browse by timeline, artist, instrument, or style, and find more information about the performers pictured.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Searchable collection of over 2,200 academic electronic books, covering many aspects of history and the humanities (mid 1800s – present).
African American Song
Digital online collection of thousands of historical music tracks covering a variety of genres. Note: Is now part of the American Song database. Note: Search this together with other streaming music sources in Music Online Listening.
All About Jazz
Comprehensive site produced by jazz enthusiasts. Includes reviews, musician biographies, interviews, photos, current news, forums, and more.
American Folklife Center 
This center at the Library of Congress includes the Archive of Folk Culture, one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world, as well as links to an excellent collection of Resources in Ethnographic Studies.
American Song
Digital online collection of American music covering genres such as country, folk, blues, bluegrass, early jazz, Native American, old time, gospel, and more; over 57,000 tracks. Note: Now contains the African American Song database. Note: Search this together with other streaming music sources in Music Online Listening.
Andante
Partially "for members only," partially for everyone, this site calls itself "a new type of classical music venture. Its aim is to document and preserve the world's recorded classical music heritage...." It features a variety of informational and educational resources, live and recorded performances, professional services, and a magazine section. Daily headlines and news events in the concert music scene are also covered.
Big Bands Database Plus
Originally a card file of information created in the early 1980s, this database became part of the World Wide Web in 1995. Its purpose "is to offer an online archive for research and for fans of both the great [big] bands, and the Golden Era of...American Popular Song." It includes information on big bands of the swing era (sometimes including relevant photographs) from the United States, Canada, Britain, and Europe, features lists of popular songwriters and singers of the 1930s - 1950s, and includes essays on topics such as western swing and territory bands. The entire database is key word searchable.
Blue Highway
This Web site is divided into sections containing essays on topics, information on major performers, blues news, and additional links which direct the user to Web pages about specific blues artists, festivals, blues societies, record labels, and more.
BNR Metal Pages
This site's primary function is to offer a list of heavy metal bands, with a brief band biography, current and former band members' names, and discography. There are also links to many heavy metal Web pages and band Web pages.
Classical Music Library
Digital online collection of classical music, including opera, chamber, orchestra, vocal & choral, and more; over 55,000 tracks. Note: Search this together with other streaming music sources in Music Online Listening.
Classical Net
A fine site divided into sections such as Basic Repertoire List, Recommended Classical CDs, Composer's Works & Data, Reviews & Articles, Books & Scores, and other. Of special note is the Composer Index, with information on over 350 classical composers, including biographies, discographies, and more.
Classical Scores Library
A growing database of classical music scores from both in-copyright sources and the public domain. Time periods span the Renaissance to the present. Includes full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and more. Genres covered include symphonies, operas, quartets, concertos. Note: Search this together with streaming music sources in Music Online Listening.
CMT.com
A glitzy Web site covering all aspects of country music, with a very good section on country music artists. This section includes information about current stars as well as performers of the past, and contains biographies, discographies, awards, news items, and more.
Contemporary World Music
Digital online collection of over 20,000 music tracks -- both contemporary and traditional -- from many countries and cultures. Note: Search this together with other streaming music sources in Music Online Listening.
Davey D's Hip-Hop Corner
This site contains many links to hip-hop sites, as well as sections on hip-hop articles, essays on the genre and its history, current news, news archives, record reviews, charts, and more.
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
This directory from the Music Library of the University of Washington, provides links to about 300 Web pages, primarily subcategorized by location including Anglo-American Folksong, Music of Africa, Music of the Middle East, and more.
Films On Demand
Over 5,000 academic-level educational streaming videos covering most subject areas, from Films Media Group.
Folkstreams
Over 100 streaming documentary films on American Roots cultures. Topics include music, ethnic and immigrant cultures, festivals, foodways, arts and crafts, customs, dance, and more. Some films have accompanying essays, and there is a portal for educators.
Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
One of the ethnic/folk music sites from the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center, the description for this collection states it "is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado."
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
This Web site is available through the Library of Congress, which says "The Historic American Sheet Music collection presents 3,042 pieces of sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, which holds an important representative, and comprehensive collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century American sheet music." Minstrel songs, protest songs, political songs, spirituals, Tin Pan Alley songs, and Civil War songs and music are some of the categories represented. The database is searchable by keyword, and there are browsable subject and name indexes.
Internet Resources in Music
Although some of the links are specific to the University of California, Santa Barbara, this is an excellent site for general use. Links to hundreds of music Web sites are divided into 20 categories such as Composers, Computer Music, Folk, Traditional, and Non-Western Musics, Instruments, Music Theory, Sheet Music, and Vocal Music/Opera.
Jazz Music Library
Digital online collection of over 26,000 jazz music tracks, featuring many major artists, with genres ranging from early jazz to avant- garde. Note: Search this together with other streaming music sources in Music Online Listening.
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
One of the Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University, the Levy Collection contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain.
Librarians' Internet Index : Music
This guide features links to music Web sites selected by librarians for their quality and reliability. It is subdivided into nearly 50 subcategories ranging in topics from national anthems to children's songs to hip-hop to protest songs to zydeco.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
The Music Division of the Library of Congress says this resource "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 for band and orchestra." The site features keyword search capability, and browsable indexes by author, subject, and song title.
Music on the Internet
Links to nearly 150 music Web sites are available at this popular service. The Web sites are listed in alphabetical order and include Web sites on classical music composers, specific music styles, individual performers, and song lyrics.
Music Online Listening
Comprehensive digital online collection of over 100,000 music tracks and sheet music files. Includes the following sources: American Song/African American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, and Jazz Music Library. Note: The following streaming music source, available as a separate database, will be added to Music Online Listening late in 2009: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries.
Naxos Music Library
Includes a variety of genres including classical, jazz, world/folk, and new age, with liner notes and background information.
netLibrary
Search the contents of thousands of books online.
Old-Time Music
This Web site is maintained by a California fiddle player and graphic artist. It features an essay describing this rural/folk precursor of country music, and includes categories such as Old-Time Music News, and a directory of practicing old-time style musicians.
Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive
An extensive database of lyrics to hip-hop songs, this archive features useful indexes by artist and compilation CD titles, and a section with newly-added lyrics.
Rap Dictionary
This site features an extensive dictionary of rap music terms.
Red Hot Jazz Archive
Subtitled "A History of Jazz Before 1930," this Web site includes 20 essays on pre-1930 jazz topics, biographies of over 150 important jazz performers of the era, and a list of hundreds of early jazz bands, including a brief description of each group and links to sound files so you can hear entire songs by the bands from 1910s to 1930s recordings.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The official page of this Cleveland, Ohio-based museum includes biographies of individuals and bands inducted into the Hall of Fame, information on featured exhibits, and a rock and roll timeline.
University of Washington, Music Library - Online Music Resources
Although some of the links are specific to the University of Washington or the state of Washington, this is an excellent site for general use. Links to hundred of music Web sites are divided into over 50 categories, including chamber music, ethnomusicology, music copyright, music dictionaries, vocal and choral music, popular music, and women in music.
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
An American Musicological Society guide to Web sites relevant to musicologists and almost anyone interested in music. Sites are listed in 32 wide-ranging categories such as Music and Film, Musicology Blogs, Academic Job Listings, and Jazz.
Yahoo General Guide on Music Education
This subject category in the Yahoo search engine lists more than 20 specific sites that deal with this topic, plus over a dozen other subcategories covering topics such as "Courses and Lessons," "K-12 Curriculum Standards," and "The Suzuki Method."
Government Resources Back to Top
Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room: Music Division
A click on "Search Music, Theater and Dance" will link to sources such as the Historical Digital Collections at the American Memory Web page.
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
A research and educational unit of the Smithsonian Institution that produces the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Smithsonian Global Sound, Save Our Sounds, online exhibitions, documentary films and videos, publications and educational materials.
Local Resources Back to Top
Music Department at Buffalo State
Buffalo Chamber Music Society
Besides current concert series information and season previews, this Web site offers a photo archive of great chamber music concerts in Buffalo since 1924, complete with an alphabetical list of titles performed, performers' names, and dates. In addition, program notes and artist biographies from the current season may be viewed.
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Check here for concert schedules and announcements, subscription information, directories of musicians and staff, education and outreach programs, and more. Articles and reviews of current interest which appeared in the Buffalo News are displayed.
State University of New York at Buffalo - Music Library
Web site of one of Western New York's best academic music libraries. Find music department history, names and dates of endowed chairs, lists of special collections such as music posters, as well as music library history. Search the catalog for printed music, literature about music, and audio media.
WNYMusic.com
This Web site includes a list of bands, artists, clubs and venues, record labels in Western New York, with links to Web pages if available. The site also hosts a bustling message board for local musicians.
Professional Organizations Back to Top
American Musicological Society
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Center for Black Music Research
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
International Bluegrass Music Association
International Computer Music Association
North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance
Society for Ethnomusicology
The Society for Ethnomusicology at Indiana University is an association devoted to the support of ethnomusicology and to the study of music-making all over the world.
