Music: Websites

Provides "access to holdings which include oral histories, photographs, musical and print manuscripts, audio and video recordings, educational broadcast programs, and the personal papers of individuals and organizations concerned with black music."

"The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period."

Includes readings, visuals, listening, and short videos.

Lists of new releases, CD and book reviews, interviews and more. Not a scholarly resource.

PBS website to accompany the Martin Scorsese series on the blues. Although you cannot view the videos on the site you can read biographies and other background information about the musicians covered in the series. There is also information on the blues in the section Blues Classroom. The Library does own the series, and you can check them out to view the entire film.

Nearly 100 audio files of blues and gospel music.

University of Mississippi collection of early minstrel songs through the 1970's. The University of Mississippi has issued this disclaimer about some of the materials in the collection: " Many of the minstrel songs contained in this digital collection are extremely offensive. However, it is impossible to adequately understand American racial attitudes of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, without examining some blatantly racist ideas. Most of the music featured in this collection is not fringe material, but some of the most popular songs of their times." Not all the material is offensive however.

Collections of the Library of Congress. Provides selected works by eight composers.

Essays, information, recommended recordings and links to other web sites.

Contains "more than 6,100 documents on 37,600 coloured scans of high quality, 1,600 audio files (music examples, audio letters) and 7,600 text files."

"Classical Net features more than 9000 pages and 20,000+ images including more than 7000 CD, SACD, DVD, Blu-ray, Book and Concert reviews and over 5500 links to other classical music web sites."

Four part series by noted classical musician Eugene Istomin contains videos and biographies on some of the major composers, performers, and conductors of classical music, made available through the Library of Congress.

Explore multi-media resources on Bach's music, including graphics, video and texts.

Listen to musicians and conductors talk about music. Some musical excerpts included.

Podcasts include interviews with composers, performers and artists, as well as performances held in conjunction with art installations at the National Gallery.

"The purpose of this web site ... is to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use."

"The scores and libretti in this Virtual Collection include first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School. "

Published by John Wilbye in 1598. For four, five, and six voices.

A "virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge."

Searches across multiple collections of sheet music. Some access is restricted, but much is available. Creating a login lets you save your selections as a virtual collection.

Contains over 10,00 digitized pieces of music - most works are in the public domain.

Includes various types of music including classical, African-American, folk and Native American.

"Great Performances presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries."

"Historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives."

Concerts, studio sessions, interviews, columns, among other offerings.

Provides information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments.

Synopsis, full or part libretto, performance history and other information is provided.

Click on the "Discover" link from the main menu for multi-media slips, articles, synopses and podcasts.

includes opera overviews, audio selections, the "story" and performers.

Learn about the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, including interviews of conductors and performers in the Sounds & Stories page. Learn more about CSO performers on the "About" page.

News site that covers most popular music genres.

"Since the early 1970s, Hiphop has become the most influential artistic, educational and social movement for youth and young adults. From The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute's inception in 2002 under the direction of Professor Marcyliena Morgan, students, faculty, artists, staff and other participants in Hiphop culture have been committed to supporting and establishing a new type of research and scholarship devoted to the knowledge, art, culture, materials, organizations, movements and institutions of Hiphop. In response to this exciting and growing intellectual movement The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute serves to organize and develop collections, initiate and participate in research activities, sponsor events and acquire material culture associated with Hiphop in the U.S. and throughout the world."

"This collection contains more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries. It is hoped that the search features of the collection will be a convenient aid to scholarship, study, and teaching of these disciplines."

"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."

Users can search the entire collection of Smithsonian Folkways recordings and download liner notes. The actual music is available through Music Online. COD students, faculty and staff need their COD myAccess username and password to access the music. In addition to the recordings, Smithsonian Folkways has a selection of podcasts and short videos, as well as radio streams.

The Southern Folklife Collection (SFC) ranks as one of the nation’s foremost archival resources for the study of American folk music and popular culture. SFC holdings extensively document all forms of southern musical and oral traditions across the entire spectrum of individual and community expressive arts, as well as mainstream media production.