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Worldwide Music Resources

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Online Sites and Projects

• 8notes
  Web site offering free classical, jazz, world and popular sheet music. Also includes MIDI riffs from many musical genres and an extensive musical web site directory.
• The Aria Database
  The Aria Database is a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias. Includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI files of arias.
• BUBL LINK Music Resources
  UK-based directory of music internet resources.
  
• CANTATE
  CANTATE is the acronym for the project "Computer Access to NoTAtion and TExt in music libraries".
  
• I Hear America Singing
  A portal from the Library of Congress to the Library's music and performing arts collections.
  
• Sheet Music Archive
  The Sheet Music Archive is an Internet classical music organization dedicated to providing free access to public domain classical sheet music. The Archive includes over 4,000 pages of classical piano sheet music but also includes other kinds of music such as orchestral, lieder and violin sonatas.
• Sibelius Academy
  Finnish guide to music worldwide.
• Variations
  This project from the University of Indiana's Music Library will deliver digital audio and full-motion video across the campus.

General Music Websites

• Art.Net Directory of Music Websites
  
• ClassicWeb
  Directory of classical music websites.
• Classical Net
  Links Directory of a wide array of information files about classical music and over 4000 links to other classical music. web sites.
• Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland
• International Piano Competitions
  A directory of piano competitions all over the world.
• Music Companies Links to music publishers and software companies from the website of J.W.Pepper, leading sheet music retailer.
• National Asssociation for Music Education
  US-based organisation formed to advance music education by encouraging the study and making of music by all.
  
• Resources for Music Scholars
  From the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University.
• Unit Circle Art and Music Cool Links Page
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources
  From the Indiana University Music Library.
• Yahoo's Music Page

Academic Sites

• Addresses of Music Schools (US)
• Indiana University School of Music
• Leeds University Department of Music
• Music at McGill University
  Including the Canadian Composers Portraits Project and the Music Library of the Future Project.
• Music Department, University of Calgary
• MuSICA
  Web-based journal of research into music and behavior written by Norman Weinberger from UCI (University of California, Irvine).
  
• University of London's Royal Holloway Music Department
• Sibelius Academy
  The only music university in Finland. Excellent guide to music worldwide

Music Centres, Societies and Associations

• Music Centres by Country

  • Australia: Australian Music Centre
  • Canada: Canadian Music Centre
  • Denmark: Dansk Music Informations Center
  • Iceland: Icelandic Music Page
  • Italy: Italian Music Homepage
  • Netherlands: Donemus and Gaudeamus
  • Norway: Norsk Musikkinformasjon
  • Scotland: Scottish Music Centre
  • Spain: Directory of Catalan Music
  • Sweden: Svensk Musik
  • United Kingdom: British Music Information Centre
  • United States: American Music Information Center
• ASCAP Information on the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers activities including a searchable database of performed music in their repertory.
• CERL Sound Group The CERL Sound Group is unique on the University of Illinois campus as a center for research and hardware/software development in digital audio signal processing.
• IRCAM- Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique
• RISM- Repertoire International des Sources Musicales
• Society for Music Theory

Music Libraries

• IAML - International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres
• Music Library Association (MLA)
• Indiana University's Music Library
  Extensive guide to music resources.
• University of Michigan Music Library
  Contains interesting Information both internally and to links externally.

Music Sites by Subject

• Organ Music

• Goteborg Organ Art Center from Goteborg University, Sweden, Department of Music and Musicology.
• Pipe Organs and Related Topics musical, technical and historical apsects of organs of all kinds.

• Opera and Voice

• The Opera Schedule Server

• Jazz

• WNUR-FM JazzWeb