Curated Music Resources
An extensive Curated music resources online first begun in 1998 by the Ely MN music store Music Outfitters.
- The American Variety Stage
A multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. - Anglicans Online | Music Resources
A Collection of resources for choir masters, organists, music ministers, or anyone interested in music. - Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Music
Will artificial intelligence replace singers? Songwriters? Musicians? Other music industry professionals? Or will it expand creativity and freedom for those in the music industry? Here you'll find resouces to navigate this new music landscape. Last updated: 4/1/2023 - Bassoon Resources
Resources and Information for Bassoonists. Last updated: 4/20/2023 - Billboard Magazine
The International newsweekly of music, video and home entertainment. - Black and African American Music Resources
Black and African American music resources across the internet that focus on music that is used, created, or performed by Black and African Americans. Last updated: 4/13/2028 - Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music
"The Bruce Springsteen Archives is comprised of nearly 48,000 items from 47 countries ranging from articles and oral histories to concert memorabilia, and promotional materials. The collection serves the research and informational needs of music fans, scholars, authors, and others with a serious interest in the life and career of Bruce Springsteen. The Bruce Springsteen Archives serves as the archival repository for Bruce Springsteen’s written works, photographs, periodicals, and artifacts. The Center also preserves and promotes the legacy of Bruce Springsteen and his role in American music, while creating exhibits, public programs, and education initiatives that explore the works of American music giants like Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Billie Holiday, Patti Smith, Frank Sinatra, Gaslight Anthem, and others." Located at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ, research access to the collection is by appointment only. - Castrati Resources on the Internet
Here you will find information about castrati - boys who were castrated for the purpose of singing alto in the church choirs. Last updated: 4/13/2024 - Children's / Kid's Music Resources on the Internet
Resources to help parents, teachers, and others maximize the powerful role that music can play in the lives of children. Last updated: 11/2/2023 - Choral Public Domain Library
CPDL was founded in December 1998, ported to ChoralWiki in August 2005, and incorporated in May 2010 as a U.S.A. 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization. Here you will find free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information. - Church Bell Ringing
Links to various church bell ringing sites around the world. We're talking primarily but not exclusively about the large bells in church towers as opposed to the small hand bells. Last updated: 4/6/2023 - Church Music Associations, Guilds, and Societies
Links to various church music associations, guilds, and societies around the world. Please note that some of these sites are in languages other than English. Last updated: 4/21/2023 - Church Music Magazines and Church Music Journals
Links to various church music magazines and journals around the world. Please note that some of these sites are in languages other than English. Last updated: 4/21/2023 - Classical Connect - the free classical music site
Classical Connect is your virtual concert hall, and the biggest searchable collection of classical music on the Internet. - Chordify
Chordify is an online music education service – made for and by music enthusiasts – that transforms music from YouTube, Deezer, SoundCloud, or your private collection into chords. Their service automatically recognizes chords from an audio signal and aligns them to the music in a simple and intuitive player. Chordify uses cutting-edge technology to help both novice and trained musicians play the music they want to play. Has both free and paid levels. - Demo Recording Studios
A list of sites of recording studios who provide demo recording and more for artists. Last updated: 4/20/2023 - English Broadside Ballad Archive (University of Santa Barbara, California)
Over 9,600 Early Modern Broadside Ballads Free to the Public as Text, Art, and Music. - Favorite Classical Composers
Your favorite classical composers... the orchestral thunder of Wagner? A quiet and thoughtful piano piece by Chopin? Schubert's quaint and colorful Songs? This site has everything you want to know about the greatest composers and their beautiful creations! - Film Music Site
Featuring 103927 soundtracks and 30026 composers of film, tv series, video games and musicals! - Folk Songs of Atlantic Canada from the Collections of MacEdward Leach
From 1949 to 1951, folklorist MacEdward Leach recorded almost 700 songs performed by singers from settler folk music traditions on the island of Newfoundland and in Gaelic-speaking areas of Nova Scotia. These recordings offer an invaluable window on the culture and social life of these regions during the mid-twentieth century. - Full-Text Music Databases
Full-text databases are compilations of documents or other information in which the complete text of each referenced document is available for online viewing, printing, or downloading. Last updated: 6/12/2023 - Gregorian Chant Resources
Links to Gregorian Chant resources on the Internet. Last updated: 10/7/2023 - Guitar Junky
Music Gear Reviews, Buying Guides, & More. Helping musicians pick the best music equipment since 2017. - GuitarPlayerZen.com
GuitarPlayerZen.com is focused on delivering and sharing creative lessons, advice, and insights that will take your playing and musicality to the next level. Definitely Not your ordinary lame guitar tab site filled with tons of horribly wrong tab that will only make you dumber, worse of a player, and less of a human being. Oh, and don't worry, Membership is FREE. - History of Classical Music
Alex Johnston's series of articles outlining the history of classical music - with accompanying Spotify playlist. - Hymn Resources and Liturgical Music Resources
Free and low-cost resources for hymns and other liturgical music. Includes denominational and nondenominational hymns and other liturgical music. Last updated: 12/22/2023 - Independent Artists and Artists Who've Never Been Signed to a Major Record Label
A compendium of artists who have never been signed to a major record label or have released music on their own record label. The music industry defines an independent artist if the artist is not signed to one of the three major labels - Sony, Warner or Universal - and defines a major label as one that has more than 5% market share. All other labels are considered indie labels. Last updated: 2/26/2024 - Independent Musician and Artist Resources
Resources for singers, musicians, and bands that are unsigned or aren’t signed with a major labels. Last updated: 1/5/2024 - The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (John Hopkins University)
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. This music was generously donated to The Johns Hopkins University by Lester S. Levy over a period of years starting in 1976 and is now housed in the Special Collections Division of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980, but its strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century America through popular music. - Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia Online
Explore music, theater and dance at the Library of Congress. - LSO Play
LSO Play allows you to experience the London Symphony Orchestra from multiple points of view. - The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection is an archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. A traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, Hunter took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks, preserving the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history. As important as the songs themselves are the voices of the Missouri and Arkansas folks who shared their talents and recollections with Hunter - Music Award Sites
A list of sites covering both major and minor music awards around the world. Last updated: 2/28/2023 - Music Bibliographic Databases
Bibliographic databases contain bibliographic records with analytical content as opposed to the catalogs of libraries that contain, usually, descriptions of items. - Music Dictionary
Here you'll find definitions and explanations of a variety of common common musical terms that may help you understand music's terminology. Last updated: 3/1/2024 - Music Educator Resources / Music Teacher Resources
Selected websites that music teachers and music educators might find helpful for augmenting lesson materials, including lesson plans, activities, worksheets, and more. Last updated: 7/28/2024 - Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1870 to 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 for band and orchestra. - Music Indexes
Music indexes, Songbook collections, scanned (or digitized) images of Songs that don't violate copyright restrictions, more. Last updated: 2/28/2023 - Music Libraries
A collection of worldwide music libraries with an Internet presence. - Music Organizations
A list of professional music organizations, musical organizations, and music indexes. Last updated: 5/19/2023 - Music Promotion
Businesses and organizations devoted to promoting artists and/or helping artists promote themselves and their music. - List of Open Access Music Journals
A list of Open Access Music Journals online. Last updated: 3/6/2023 - Music Publishers
A list of worldwide music publishers of all styles and genres of music. - Music Resources for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Music resources for people who are blind or have other visual impairments, as well as those who work with, or are family or friends of those who are blind or have visual impairments. Last updated: 12/15/2023 - Music of the Renaissance Resources
Resources on European classical music written during the Renaissance - approximately 1400 to 1600. - Music Resources on JSTOR
JSTOR is an online digital library of academic journals, ebooks, and primary sources. The collection of music content on JSTOR includes more than 70 journals and 50 academic ebooks and covers many interdisciplinary subjects, overlapping with areas such as African-american studies, education, and the performing arts. A group of titles ranging from African music to folk music to Asian music provide in-depth resources for cultural and regional studies. Music content on JSTOR is strong in musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and music education. Key titles include Musical Times, Music Educators, Music and Letters, and Popular Music, among many others from leading publishers (American Musicological Society, Music Library Association, and the Society for Music Theory). - Musicaroo
Learn How To Sing And Play Music. - MusicBrainz
An open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. - Musixmatch
The world's largest lyrics platform where users can search and share lyrics. - Musician Resources
A list of sites devoted to providing help and information for musicians. Last updated: 3/31/2023 - Musopen
They provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Founded in 2012, Musopen is a 501(c)3 non-profit based out of San Francisco, CA. We work to increase access to music education by providing free music recordings, sheet music, apps, and educational materials. They have a free and two membership levels. Over 90% of every membership dollar goes directly to increase the size of their music library, and as a registered non-profit 501(c)3, your membership is a tax deductible donation. - Native American Music Resources
Various sites across the internet that focus on Native American music. Last updated: 9/23/2023 - National Music Museum - The University of South Dakota
The National Music Museum (NMM) and Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments is one of the great institutions of its kind in the world. Its renowned collections, which include more than 14,800 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods, are the most inclusive anywhere. - Piano Music
The Piano Street online sheet music library offers access to over 30,000 pages of classical piano music in high quality pdf format available for instant downloading and printing. - Public Domain Music
A reference site to help identify public domain Songs and public domain music. - Public Domain Music Sequenced by Benjamin Robert Tubb
Featuring 19th century American music and early 20th century American music (1900-1923). - Musicians and Hearing Loss Resources
Resources for musicians and bands to inform them about the risks of hearing loss and help them protect their hearing. Last updated: 7/21/2023 - Best Royalty Free Music Sites
Music sites that provide music you can use without having to pay royalties without risking being sued, having your content removed, or having your social media account terminated. Includes public domain and Creative Commons works. Last updated: 4/11/2024 - Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music is dedicated to the study and performance of seventeenth-century music and related arts. The Society currently includes more than 250 members and over two hundred additional international subscribers to its electronic newslist SSCM-L. Members receive a semi-annual newsletter, 17th-Century Music. The Society also publishes the on-line, peer-reviewed scholarly Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music (JSCM); JSCM Instrumenta, an on-line reference series; and the Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music (WLSCM), an on-line collection of performing and study scores in scholarly editions. The Society hosts an annual four-day conference each spring, featuring scholarly presentations, performances, and an award for the best student presentation, the Irene Alm Memorial Prize. - Songfacts
The stories and meanings behind the Songs, with Songwriter interviews and lyrics. - Sound Databases and Collections
Online databases and collections of music and audio sound files in various sound formats. Last updated: 6/22/2023 - Subreel
Music How To Guides, Reviews and Buying Guides. - teoria.com
Dedicated to the study and practice of music theory and the development of aural skills, teoria.com has been part of the Internet community since January 1997. teoria.com is organized as follows:
Tutorials - This section presents several aspects of music theory in an interactive and simple way. It is the best way to read about a subject for the first time.
Exercises - These interactive exercises will help you develop your music theory and ear training skills. Each exercise includes detailed help about its use that you can access by clicking the question mark following the exercise title.
Reference - This section includes a more detailed music theory reference.
Articles - Includes many articles about music including numerous musical analyses. - Top 100 Best Christmas Songs
Whether you’re trimming the tree or heading out to a Christmas party, here are our some of our favorite Christmas songs that focus on secular Christmas themes, such as winter scenes, family gatherings, and Santa Claus, rather than spiritual Christmas songs to play around the holiday season. Last updated: 3/15/2024 - Top 100 Best Funny Christmas Songs
When the stresses of the Christmas season get to be too much, and you've tired of Christmas songs and it's still three weeks until Christmas, give these funny songs a try. They're steeped in the spirit of the times with just a little (or a lot) of twisted humor, and are guaranteed to make even the Grinch grin. Last updated: 3/15/2024 - Top 100 Best Halloween Songs
These are 100 of our favorite Halloween songs, from hallowed fright-night classics to perennial pop anthems to movie soundtracks to the spookiest radio hits - well-known and obscure - we think you'll find songs to have your party people rising from the dead to bust out spooky moves all night long. Last updated: 3/15/2024 - Top 100 Best Valentine's Day Songs
Whether you're single or smitten, alone or taken, in a longtime relationship or with a brand new love, are looking for a "yearning, burning in your heart" ballad or a song to make a declaration of love like Lloyd Dobler holding the radio over his head in Say Anything, we have a song for you. Last updated: 3/15/2024 - Top 100 Best Wedding Songs Playlist
Whether you're looking for wedding songs for your wedding dance or wedding songs for your wedding you'll find what you need here. Last updated: 3/15/2024 - Top 100 Songs - the best-performing singles in the US from 1950 to the present
TBillboard Year-End lists of the top 100 best-performing singles in the United States from 1950 to the present. Last updated: 3/15/2024 - Top 100 Country Songs / Top 100 Country Hits
Top 100 Country Songs / Top 100 Country Hits based on Billboard Hot 100. Last updated: 3/15/2024 - Top Christian Christmas Songs and Hymns
Here are songs from popular pop, rock, country, R&B, and contemporary Christian artists to help you celebrate the birth of the Saviour. Last updated: 3/15/2024 - Women in Music
A list of sites that provide information about women in music. NOTE: This list does not contain links to sites about individual women singers, artists, or musicians. - Woodstock.com
Site with extensive information on all aspects of the Woodstock Music Festival. - Last updated: 8/5/2024