All Music Guide
The AMG provides biographies and discographies for musicians from all musical genres. The site is designed as a relational matrix, linking common elements among various musicians and sound recordings. Occasionally errors do appear in the biographical sections of AMG, so this site should be used to gain basic knowledge. For more in-depth biographies, you should consult reference works such as the Grove Dictionary of Music.
American Memory
The American Memory performing arts site contains digital exhibits of over thirty collections of performing arts related materials housed at the Library of Congress. These multiformat exhibits range from materials in the Aaron Copland Collection to band music of the American Civil War era to folk songs collected by John and Ruby Lomax in 1939.
Center for Black Music Research
A research unit of Columbia College Chicago, the CBMR is devoted to research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale.
Choral Public Domain Library
Begun in December 1998, CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites. You can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online
DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
Free Music Manuscript Paper
Print out music manuscript paper to complete those counterpoint assignments.
Global Music Archive
The Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas.
Harvard Digital Scores Collection
This is a small, but quality collection of digitized scores. The site mostly contains operas by Mozart and Verdi.
Hymn Tune Index
The HTI database contains all hymn tunes printed anywhere in the world with English-language texts up to 1820, and their publication history up to that date.
Institute for Studies in American Music
Internationally recognized center for the study and presentation of American music
International Music Score Library Project / Petrucci Music Library
The IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library site uses wiki technology to offer access to thousands of public domain music scores. Users can also upload scores onto the site.
Jewish Music Web Center
An online forum for academic, organizational, and individual activities in Jewish music.
Renaissance Masses, 1440-1520
This site, maintained by Rob Wegman of Princeton University, contains a large number of audio recordings of Renaissance masses realized on a keyboard synthesizer, using a synth voice setting. This site can serve as a useful tool for students studying Renaissance counterpoint or choral students wanting to practice along with the other vocal parts.
Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
This source offers free sheet music from most historic eras, in .pdf, Finale, Sibelius, and other formats. Users can also listen to midi versions of most of the compositions. You can also contribute scores to this online collection.
Critical Musicology
Critical Musicology: A Transdisciplinary Online Journal is a fully refereed critical musicology journal appearing exclusively on the Internet. Its purpose is to provide a library of texts which address the wide number of issues that have become part of the field of critical musicology.
Echo: a Music-Centered Journal
Echo: a music-centered journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal created and edited by graduate students in the Department of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
JSCM is published by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music to provide a refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century. These include historical and archival studies, performance practice, music theory, aesthetics, dance, and theater.
Music Theory Online
Music Theory Online is the refereed, electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory
NTAMA - Journal of African Music and Popular Culture
Published by the University of Mainz, these articles are in English and German.
Popular Musicology Online
Popular Musicology Online is a refereed journal with an international advisory panel of top popular musicologists, addressing the problematics of examining popular music and offering a platform to academics seeking new methodological avenues for musicological inquiry.