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- Academic Search Complete - (HU Subscription) (via EbscoHost) -- index with many flutist articles - general subjects
- Grove Music Online - (HU Subscription) - an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
- JStor Arts and Sciences - (HU Subscription) - journal articles about music, especially historical aspects.
- NAXOS Music Library - (HU Subscription) - the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.
- OMNI File Fulltext Mega Edition - (HU Subscription) - via WilsonWeb - a multi-subject database
- Project Muse - (HU Subscription) - online scholarly journals, many in the field of music
- RILM (via Ebscohost) - (HU Subscription) - an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music as well as music-related disciplines. Dating from 1967 through the present, this database offers indexing of sources published in over 140 languages.
- African American Sheet Music - Consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920 from the Library of Congress.
- Archives for African American Music and Culture - Established in 1991, is a repository of materials covering various musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era.
- Archive of World Music - Harvard University's special collection "...devoted to the acquisition of archival field recordings of music worldwide."
- Center for Black Music Research - A research unit of Columbia College Chicago. The CBMR is devoted to research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale.
- Center for the History of Music Theory - " to create a comprehensive, indexed, and annotated bibliography of published materials and theses relating to the use of existing music in the tradition of Western music."
- Center for Popular Music - "an archive and research center devoted to the study of American popular music from the pre-Revolutionary era to the present."
- ClassicalNet Composer - "guide to composer data and works lists."
- Composer List of Libretti - Librettos and other texts.
- CREDO Reference Collection - (HU Subscription) collection of online Reference books on every subject
- Doctoral Dissertations on Music online - "international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology."
- Encyclopedia Britannica - (HU Subscription) online version of the encyclopedia
- International Library for African Music - "research and archival center for traditional African music...thousands of recordings ... made through eastern, central and southern Africa."
- Jewish Music Research Center - "the only academic institution in the world fully dedicated to the documentation, research and publication of scholarly materials about Jewish music."
- Oxford Reference Online - (HU Subscription) "brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource."
- Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music - " contains approximately 24,000 pieces of sheet music, songbooks, and folios."
- Smithsonian Folkways - "nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution."
- Acoustical Society of America - "the premier international scientific society in acoustics."
- American Composers Alliance - "a service organization that provides a number of valuable professional services to over 200 American composers of classical music."
- American Guild of Musical
Artists - "the labor organization that represents the men and women
who create America's operatic, choral, and dance heritage."
- American Federation of Musicians - "the largest organization in the world representing the interests of professional musicians".
- American Music Center - "a national service and information center for new American music."
- American Musicological Society - "founded in 1934 as a nonprofit organization to advance research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship."
- American Symphony Orchestra League - "provides leadership and service to American orchestras while communicating to the public the value and importance of orchestras and the music they perform."
- ASCAP - a membership association of over 190,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music.
- Association for Latin American music and art - "established in 1998 and is devoted to the promotion and distribution of music and art created by Latin-Americans."
- Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - "created... to stimulate and support the appreciation, performance and composition of chamber music."
- College
Music Society - search for international music organizations.
- International Association for the Study of Popular Music - "international organization... to promote scholarship on popular music."
- International Council for Traditional Music - "non-governmental organization... to preserve and disseminate traditional music.
- Music Organizations at Yahoo - links to various types of music organizations.
- Music Teachers' National Association - " to advance the value of music study and music making to society and to support the professionalism of music teachers."
- National Association for Music Education - Careers in music- online brochure.
- Society for Ethnomusicology - " founded in 1955 to promote the research, study, and performance of music in all historical periods."
- Lyrics Connection - extensive links to lyrics of many kinds.
- New York Public
Library Performing Arts - the New York Public Library for the Performing
Arts
in the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center houses the world's most extensive combination of circulating and noncirculating reference and research materials on music, dance, theater, recorded sound. - UCLA Digital Library - contains links to digital sheet music collections.
- University of Washington Libraries - extensive list of links to music resources.
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources - William and Gayle Cook Music Library Indiana University School of Music's online resource links.
Updated PB for AW 09/04/09