Music, Theater, and Dance Resources on the Web

• Music Resources
• Indexes
• General Resources
• Resources by Type of Music
• Classical Music
• Popular Music
• Jazz
• Composers
• Opera
• Musical Instruments
• Musicians Pages
• Vocal Music
• Music Education
• Music Associations
• Music Business
• Other Resources
• Theater Resources
• Dance Resources

Music Resources

Indexes

• Music Index Online
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

General Resources

• All Music Guide -- Excellent metasite with information on various musical styles and artists.
• Music at UCC: Web Resources for Study and Research in Music -- This is an excellent general resource for anyone researching or studying music--ranging from elementary through to professional musicological research, and to music teachers, performers and music-lovers. There is a vast number of links arranged by period or type.
• Music on the net -- Sponsored by the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, this well-organized site is a good place to start any music-related research.
• Oxford Music Online
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources -- Classified collection of links to sites pertaining to all styles of music, as well as musicians and the music business.

Resources by Type of Music

Classical Music

• Andante -- This site documents and seeks to preserve the 20th century's recorded heritage of classical music, and serves as an excellent source of information on classical music for everyone from professionals to dedicated amateurs.
• Classical Music Navigator -- Site compiles information on important classical composers and their works and arrays this data in a fashion making it easier for the novice or casual listener to identify additional materials.
• Classical Music Pages -- This web site provides useful information about all aspects of classical music: its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies. It is designed to be of use for everyone from "beginners" to the music professional.
• Classical Net -- Guides to repertoire, books, recordings, composers, and Internet links in the field of western classical music. Includes search engine.
• DW3: Classical Music Resources -- This site provides links to composer homepages, chronologies and necrologies, national and regionally oriented pages, organizations and centers for scholarly research, electronic journals and newsletters, genre-specific pages, and databases for music.
• Gramophone -- Online version of British journal Gramophone, consisting of full-text reviews of classical recordings in that journal since 1983.
• Learning Zone. Composers -- A large collection of biographical essays on numerous classical composers.

Popular Music

• Country Music Hall of Fame -- Focused on country music and its performers, this site has links to various web resources devoted to country and western music.

Jazz

• Biographies: Life and Times of the Great Ones -- Part of the PBS site relating to Ken Burns' Jazz documentary, this page includes biographical information on many prominent jazz musicians.

Composers

• Bach Bibliography -- Well-designed page devoted to assisting research on Bach with an impressive search engine.
• Bibliographic List of Published Songs Composed by American and British Women, ca. 1890-1930 -- Database with search engine, providing access by title, composer, lyricist, publisher, and year.
• Classical Composers Database -- Comprehensive database of composers, with basic information and links to sites with more depth. Arranged alphabetically by name as well as chronologically in a timeline format, with search tools.
• Neue Mozart-Ausgabe Digital Mozart Edition -- Publisher Barenreiter-Verlag has released a free digitized version of the musical scores and critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, edited by the Internationale Stiftung Mozart in cooperation with the Mozart cities of Augsburg, Salzburg, and Vienna.
• The Symphony, An Interactive Guide: A Journey into the Great Composers' Finest Symphonies -- Extensive collection of links to composers, symphonies, orchestral works, and other aspects of classical music.
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources. Composers -- Excellent collection of composers maintained by the Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music.

Opera

• Aria Database -- The Aria Database is a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias. Designed for singers and non-singers alike, the Database includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles.
• Operabase : Opera Schedules, Opera Houses, Opera Festivals, Opera Reviews, Opera Links -- Schedules of over 400 opera houses and festivals, reviews from leading newspapers, maps, timelines, and links to related sites. Includes search engine.
• OperaGlass -- Useful guide to resources relating to various aspects of the world of opera.

Musical Instruments

• Piano Education Page -- The Piano Education Page is a one-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano.
• Woodwind Fingering Guide -- Provides over 2500 finger charts on the full range of woodwind instruments.

Musicians Pages

• Worldwide Internet Music Resources. Individual Musicians (All Genres) and Popular Groups -- Extensive listing of musicians in all areas of music maintained by the Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music.

Vocal Music

Music Education

• The Golden Pages: University Music Departments' and Faculties' Home Pages -- This page aims to include World Wide Web URLs of all music departments in higher education throughout the world.
• K-12 Resources for Music Educators -- Extensive collection of resources for band, orchestra and vocal teachers for K-12.
• Music Department, Iowa State University -- Departmental page for Iowa State University music department.

Music Associations

• Music Teachers National Association: MTNA -- MTNA is a nonprofit organization of 24,000 independent and collegiate music teachers committed t furthering the art of music through programs that encourage and support teaching, performance, composition and scholarly research.

Music Business

• Music Publishers Association -- Best place to find music publisher address information.

Other Resources

• ACE on the Web -- ACE is a database of song titles licensed by ASCAP in the United States. For each title, you can find the names of the songwriters and the names, contact persons, addresses and, in most cases, phone numbers of publishers to contact if you want to use the work.
• IAWM, the International Alliance for Women in Music -- The IAWM web site promotes interaction and awareness of activities related to women in music, and serves as a resource for women composers.

Theater Resources

• American Theater Web -- This extensive site provides access to what is playing in over 3,000 theaters covering over 7,000 productions.
• Costume Gallery -- Extensive site with links to hundreds of web pages and fashion images reflecting both historical and contemporary approaches to costume.
• Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today -- This site is an English-language publication about Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music as they are performed today.
• Inter-play: An On-line Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies and Periodicals -- Provides access to the locations of printed plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Sources indexed range from late 19th century to the current year.
• Pathfinder: Stagecraft / Technical Theatre -- This guide, which is part of the Internet Public Library, is concerned with the backstage aspects of theatre, whether it be building sets, designing scenery, lighting a show, doing make-up, building costumes, or affecting the mood of a scene through music. It is divided into online sources (websites, mailing lists, newsgroups) and print sources.
• Theatre History on the Web -- Surveys web sites dealing with the history of theater arranged by area studies, cultural sites, and various libraries, museums, and centers.

Dance Resources

• Artslynx International Dance Resources -- Wide-ranging collection of sites relating to dance with links to dance companies, organizations, and published literature about dance.
• Balletcompanies.com -- Wide ranging collection of websites relating to ballet throughout the world.
• CyberDance: Ballet on the Net -- This is a collection of over 3,500 links to classical ballet and modern dance resources on the Internet.
• Dance Links -- Collection of World Wide Web sites on various aspects of dance.
• Sapphire Swan Dance Directory -- The Dance Directory provides links to three kinds of dance web sites: 1) sites that have good collections of links, usually in a specialized area of dance, 2) sites that include information about an area of dance, and 3) selected sites of dance organizations and individual dancers.

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