Ethnomusicology,
Folk Music, and World Music
Comprehensive directory of Internet resources in ethnomusicology, maintained
by the University of Washington Libraries. Includes sections devoted
to organizations, institutions, and archives; bibliography, periodicals
and online publications; recordings (including labels and distributors);
and sites by geographical region. A brief general section provides links
to festival and seminars, and a small section is devoted to dancing
and dance music.
DW3
Classical Music Resources.
From Duke University; accurate, eclectic, scholarly, well organized
and easy to navigate; all periods are covered.
All Music Guide
The Red Hot Jazz
Archive
"A history of Jazz before 1930." Site includes sound recordings,
films, biographical material, and essays. Requires Real Player.
Music
for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1885
"Contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered
for copyright...Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music,
sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books
and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra."
Subject Guides at Bowdoin
and Colby
Colleges.
New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed.
Reference ML 100 .N48 2001 (a copy of the 1980 ed. is in Audio)
Online
version
The
New Grove Dictionary of American Music
Reference ML101.U6 N48 1986
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Reference ML 100 .G16 1997
Encyclopedia
of Popular Music
Reference ML 102 .P66 G84 1995
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
Reference ML 105.B16 2001
MGG
(Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart : allgemeine Enzyklopädie
der Musik)
Reference ML 100 .M987 1994