Music Research & Resources

The mission of this site produced by jazz evangelists, jazz professionals and web technicians is to provide information and opinion about jazz from the past, present, and future. Both globally and locally, AAJ delivers reviews of jazz as well as interviews with international musicians.

The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, which thrived from 1870-1920.

Gateway to All Media Guide’s enormous complex of databases. Offers access to various popular styles of music plus links to classical music and movies.

A collection of useful links which are part of the larger site maintained by the organization at Indiana University.

This is a pre-commercial release access point which may be enjoyed flat-out and downloaded without cost by our students. It is intended also as a source for ethnic material that could be inspiring for compositions and an auxiliary source for Asian and near east studies.

The world’s biggest free digital archive of English traditional folk music and dance tunes.

Links for research on a wide variety of topics in music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and performance practice

The free public domain sheet music library, a virtual library containing public domain music scores and/or sheet music, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge

A massive gateway to online music information organized by subject and maintained by the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University

This "special presentation" of the Library of Congress's Performing Arts Encyclopedia aims to provide online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held in the most renowned music archives.

Developed by the Library of Congress and its partners to provide digital access to historical sound recordings, the collection presently consists of about 10,000 Victor label recordings produced between 1901 and 1925. It is also linked to a digital interactive version of the 1919 Victrola Book of the Opera that provides plot synopses and lists of Victor recordings of more than 110 operas

An opera information server where you can get detailed information, including: Libretti, Source Texts, Performance Histories, Synopses, and Discographies

A virtual library of public domain music scores and/or sheet music, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.

Originally created for a public radio station in Iowa, it now offers quick online access on the web