Selected Music Resources

Music

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Naxos Music Library
Provides streaming audio of 85,000 tracks of classical, jazz, folk and world music, medieval to contemporary. Includes biographies, discographies and cover art
http://aca.naxosmusiclibrary.com

All-Music Guide
Rich in content, provides a history of popular music in the 20th century, as well as classical music from medieval to contemporary. Hundreds of essays, thorough discographies, biographical and critical information, bibliographies and extensive cross reference links. Searchable. Free, requires registration to access some features.
http://www.allmusic.com

Grove Music Online
Full-text, searchable resource for scholarly articles on all aspects of music and musicians. Links to images, digital sound, and related sites. International in scope, covering both classical and popular music. Updated quarterly. The enhanced, online version of the 29-volume print New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, published in 2001.(Oxford University Pr.)
http://www.grovemusic.com/grovemusic/home/index.html

Oxford Reference Online: Performing Arts
Search the full text of Oxford University Press Publications: The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Who's Who in Opera, and The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. (Oxford Reference Online)
http://www.oxfordreference.com

Gateways & General Resources

DW3 Classical Music Resources
Comprehensive directory of classical music links. Browse by subject or use internal search engine. (Yale Fineman, Duke Univ. Music Library)
http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html

Voice of the Shuttle: Music and Dance Page
Links to sites related to humanities, including music. (Alan Liu, Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara)
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2722

Worldwide Internet Music Resources
A searchable gateway to sites covering individual musicians and groups, performance-related sites, composers and composition, genres and types of music, and other sites related to music. (William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University)
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources

Music Teacher Resources & Lesson Plans

ArtsEdge
National arts and education network, offers free standards based teaching materials, professional development resources and student materials in dance, music, theater and the visual arts. (Kennedy Center)
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org

Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Music Education
(William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University)
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/mused.html

Professional Associations & Organizations

National Standards for Arts Education
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teach/standards.cfm

Sheet Music

Historic American Sheet Music, 1850 - 1920
A collection of 3,042 scanned items with extensive indexing. Available as part of the American Memory project at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/hasmhome.html

Sheet Music and Song Sheets on the Web
Links to collections of sheet music available on the Web. Identified, described and organized by the New York Public Library for Performing Arts.
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/internet/lpa.cfm?Trg=1&d1=1077&d3=Sheet%20Music%20and%20Song%20Sheets%20Available%20on%20the%20Web

Templeton Sheet Music Collection
Digital collection of ragtime, blues, show-tune, and war-song folios from the 1890s to the Great Depression. The library'scollection consists of about 22,000 pieces, and plans to digitize the entire collection. (Mississippi State University Libraries)
http://library.msstate.edu/ragtime/main.html

In place: March 2001; Last updated: 2/21/2006
Bev Robertson, Reference Services Librarian
brobertson@mhc.edu
Renfro Library, Mars Hill College