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Another Wiki with user entered information. While it may not be completely accurate, it does contain public domain choral scores for download.

As a place to study and enjoy the music of these early jazz performers, check out this site for text, music, movies, and pictures.

The Library of Congress has launched a new Web site devoted to the history of the hymn "Amazing Grace," and the Library's Chasanoff/Elozua Amazing Grace Collection, which is comprised of 3,049 published recordings of the hymn by different individual musicians or musical ensembles. This site is a joint venture of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, the Music Division, and the American Folklife Center. Since its creation in 1779 in England, "Amazing Grace" has grown in popularity to become one of the best-known musical works in the world. This Web site explores its history through items from the collections of the Library of Congress, from the earliest printing of the song to various performances of it on sound recordings.

Got a song stuck in your head? Can you play it on a keyboard, hum, sing or whistle it? Then try musipedia! Input part of the tune on the virtual keyboard, then search their database. Results turn up similar melodies that you can see and listen to, with composer, title and other information about the work. Search by notes, contour, singing or rhythm. Entries are user imputed, so it may not contain what you're looking for. Also, since this is a wiki, don't forget to fact check with other sources!

This listing is part of the American Memory project at the Library of Congress. It provides online access to digitized copies of the sheet music through keyword searching or browsing of authors, titles, and subjects.

For the percussion and rhythm enthusiast, this site includes information on rhythm and percussion music such as jazz, reggae, African pop, samba, and more. Contents can be explored by culture or by type of instrument. Also, this site offers sound files called Rhythmweb Radio.

Indexes web-based information related to the fields of folk music, bluegrass and old-time music, acoustic blues, fingerstyle acoustic guitarists, harp (the stringed kind) players, and a very special emphasis on everything to do with Wisconsin music and musicians.

This comprehensive web site by the University of Washington has links to over 200 sites covering Institutions and research centers, periodicals, recordings, dance, and demographic listings on the topics of enthnomusicology, folk music, and world music.

Maintained by Duke University's Music Library, this megalist includes links in areas such as 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. Almost one-stop shopping for classical music information.

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.

This music recognition database let's you search themes in instrumental music using note names, intervals, or contour relationships (up, down, same). We have several reference books that serve the same purpose, especially Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes by Denys Parsons (Ref. ML128.I65P33). Use subject heading: Instrumental music -- Thematic catalogs or Vocal music -- Thematic catalogs.

Looking for the word to art songs? This site provides indexes by composers, poets, languages, first lines, titles, song cycles, art song texts, songs in English or in English translation. "The Lied and Art Song Texts Page is an archive of 18,197 texts used in Lieder and other classical Art Songs (Kunstlieder, Mélodies, Canzoni, Romansy, Canciones, Liederen, Canções, Sånger, Laulua, etc.) as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces. The collection currently includes 28,667 settings and 4,036 translations to English, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and other languages."

Indiana University's Music Library lists 73 databases for specialized areas of music research. This is an excellent starting point for any researcher. Check to see what links they provide from the "MLA Obituary Index" to a "Chronology of Modern Music, Art, and World Events" to an "Encyclopedia of Traditional Celtic Music."

Dr. William Lee, University of Chattanooga, describes his site as follows: "It is designed to help scholars in the history of education and specialist-scholars in music educational history. Though the site emphasizes electronic resources, it also includes a variety of representative books, articles, and bibliographies relating to how people have taught and learned music. An effort has been made to present significant recent publications and most electronic resources."