Music Research Guide: Web Resources

AllMusic is a comprehensive and in-depth resource for finding out more about the albums, bands, musicians and songs. On AllMusic you'll find in-depth Information about your favorite albums, musicians and songs, reviews of upcoming and classic albums including new releases, sound samples and streaming links to listen to the music, and much more.

Contains an extensive list of websites of interest to musicologists in addition to information about AMS and Musicology.

The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) is a 501c3, non-profit organization whose mission is to advance public awareness of the benefits of music therapy and increase access to quality music therapy services in a rapidly changing world. AMTA is committed to the advancement of education, training, professional standards, credentialing, and research in support of the music therapy profession.

The site is a digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day ArtsJournal features link to stories culled from around the internet, including blogs and more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture.

Classical Net features more than 9000 pages and 20,000+ images including more than 7200 CD, SACD, DVD, Blu-ray, Book and Concert reviews and over 5500 links to other classical music web sites.

An international 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.

IMSLP stands for the International Music Score Library Project and was started in 2006.
The IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library is currently owned and run by Project Petrucci LLC, a company created with the sole purpose of managing the site. The ultimate goal of the IMSLP is to gather all public domain music scores, in addition to the music scores of all contemporary composers (or their estates) who wish to release them to the public free of charge. IMSLP aims "to facilitate the exchange of musical ideas outside of compositions" through free accessing and editing capabilities in the wiki.

Provides access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives, in order to further research and scholarship.

The LoC Performing Arts topic page for their digital collections provides access to the world's most valued primary sources on all styles of performance.

National Association for Music Education (NAfME), among the world’s largest arts education organizations, is the only association that addresses all aspects of music education. NAfME advocates at the local, state, and national levels; provides resources for teachers, parents, and administrators; hosts professional development events; and offers a variety of opportunities for students and teachers. The Association has supported music educators at all teaching levels for more than a century.

Features performances and stories about today's top music artists. Check out The Tiny Desk Concerts for performances by some of the biggest names in the industry.

Redhotjazz.com was a crown jewel of the early internet. Starting in the mid ’90s it made the offline discographies and biographies of early jazz available to the online public. It also hosted thousands of audio files donated by people who were digitizing their 78 RPM record collections, making many obscure recordings available for the first time. This all started long before YouTube and even before Wikipedia was much more than an idea. The Syncopated Times is working to duplicate the content of the Red Hot Jazz Archive.

Over 10,000 digitized pieces of music from the Eastman School of Music meant to be a performance resource with freely downloadable pdfs of sheet music and scores from a large range of composers.