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Music and Musicians
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
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.
- Gramophone
Classical music reviews, interviews, analysis, and audio equipment news and reviews.
- International Folk Dance Recordings
550 recordings of folk dances from all around the globe. All are in the public domain.
- Music Theory & History Online
Resources compiled by Dolmetsch about musical theory and other related topics.
- Musicals101: The Cyber Encyclopedia of Music Theater, TV and Film
This site has general information for musical theater enthusiasts.
- New York Philharmonic
This is the official website for the New York Philharmonic and specifically their digital archive collection.
- Selected Music Resources on the Internet
Music resources compiled by the New York Public Library.
- Themefinder
Themefinder is a non-profit collaborative project of the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Stanford University and the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory at the Ohio State University. This website allows users to identify a piece of music based on the theme.
Vocal Music and Scores
- American Choral Directors Association Founded in 1959, the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) is a nonprofit music-education organization whose expressed purposes outline the associations dedication to the advancement of choral music.The mission of ACDA is to inspire excellence in choral music through education, performance, composition, and advocacy.
- The Lied and Art Song Texts Page
The Lied and Art Song Texts Page is an archive of texts used in 64,970 Lieder and other classical art songs as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces. The collection currently indexes 39,463 texts and includes 8,025 translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages.
- Musical Scores-Sibley Music Library (Univ. of Rochester)
This online resource browses and searches thousands of scores and provides images of the scores as well.
- Opera Glass
Opera Glass provides detailed information on many operas, including Libretti, Source Texts, Performance Histories, Synopses, Discographies, Role Creators, plus pictures, background information, and more; also commemoration calendars, special features, and pointers to other opera information sites.
- Operabase
Operabase has documented operatic activity worldwide since 1996, with over 220,000 performances on file. It records the work of artists in over 600 theatres, and publishes season information to opera-goers in 17 languages.