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(Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress)

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"A worldwide calendar and information center for new music and the media arts."

(Music Division, Library of Congress)

"Contains 145,000 song titles (mostly popular music) from 1,500 sheet music collections" (song books, magazines, etc.) & "indexes of the collections of the California Library System Reference Centers and some of the libraries in their systems."

(Indiana University site)
"Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
International database for dissertations in musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, and "related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines".
"Musical borrowing: an annotated bibliography
"Ultimate aim is 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."
"Saggi musicali italiani
"Focuses on the major treatises written in Italian... will eventually comprise all printed materials from the Renaissance to the present."
"Texts on Music in English from the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
"Focuses on major treatises written in English... will eventually comprise all relevant manuscript and printed materials written in English from the Middle Ages through the 17th century."
"Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
"An evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance."
"Traites francais sur la musique
"Focuses on major treatises written in French...will eventually comprise all relevant manuscript and printed materials written in French from the Middle Ages through the 19th century."

(Mississippi State University) "A collection of some 22,000 pieces of sheet music from late nineteenth and early twentieth century America."

(Sorted by nationality and by date/year of birth/death. Includes composer timeline.)

"Directory of Music Faculties
"Directory of International Music Organizations

"Find classical music concerts anywhere in the U.S. and Canada."

(Duke University site)

"...Indexes derived from a database of musical information compiled from primary sources, covering the 250 years of the initial exploration and settlement of the United States." Over 75,000 entries sorted by text (titles, first lines, etc.) & by music incipits, with additional indexes of names and theater works."

(U. of Washington site)

"...Recognized as the leading general reference work on Canadian music...EMC aims to describe Canadas musical heritage and culture in all its breadth and depth..."

"The latest details on more than 2,500 music festivals in North America."

Index to 1000+ website that contain free sheet music.

Index/search engine for free sheet music on the web.

Includes listings of brass bands, chamber ensembles, concert bands & wind ensembles, and orchestras.

Digital images of 19th & early 20th century American sheet music at Duke University.

(Information on hymn tunes, hymnals, and hymn composers.) SEE ALSO link to The Cyber Hymnal (under Song Texts and Opera Librettos)

"This is an index of known opera libretto pages, arranged by composer and name of the opera..."

(Lewis Music Library at M.I.T.) "Popular songs and piano compositions that portray technologies (old and new alike) as revealed through song texts and/or cover art."

"Links to thousands of U.S. and European jazz artists as well as concerts, shows, venues, festivals, and online CD shopping."--Google

"The Juilliard Manuscript Collection"An extraordinary collection of 138 priceless autograph manuscripts, sketches, engravers proofs, and first editions, which were donated to the School in February 2006 by Juilliard Board Chairman Bruce Kovner..."

(from Major Orchestra Librarians' website)

"One of the biggest mp3 song lyrics collections with 55,000+ mp3 song lyrics and growing. We try to add mp3 song lyrics as soon as they are available..categorized for easy browsing...includes a search engine to make your search quicker."

(from the Major Orchestra Librarians' Association website)