All Music Guide
Introduction to various forms of music. Search by artists, albums, songs, styles, or labels.

Billboard Online
Features articles, album reviews, online previews, and more.

ChoralNet
Sponsored by the International Federation for Choral Music, covers reference and research resources, publications, and many other choral-related links.

Classic Bands

Classic Bands provides biographical information, interviews, historical context, and further information on the rock and roll artists of the '50s, '60s, and '70s.

Classic Net
A basic repertoire list of classical recordings, recommended classical CDs, composer data, works lists, and more.

Ethnomusicology
Folk and world music

Harlem.org

"Explore jazz history through one photograph". Provides information on the musicians, instruments, and styles represented by those artists that gathered early one morning in 1958 for Art Kane's iconic photograph "A Great Day in Harlem."

Internet Public Library: Music History 102

A guide to Western composers and their music from the Middle Ages to the present. This site also presents sound files that are encoded in MP3 format.

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
Library of Congress American Memory Project. 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.

A Passion For Jazz

Presents articles on Jazz history, education, basic muscianship, chords, etymology and much more.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Official website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located in Cleveland, Ohio. Provides information on inductees, including essential songs and recommendations for further reading.

University of Washington Music Library

This page offers music resources and major research databases recommended by University of Washington music librarians.

World Music Central

WMC defines world music as "traditional and contemporary folk and roots music from the entire globe, as well as cross-cultural fusions and hybrids." Includes latest news, CD and concert reviews, and resources for fans and researchers.

Updated 8/6/2008