Additional Sources Organized Mostly by Genre
Online Collections and Special Presentations. The American Folklife Center provides online access to selected portions of our collections. We create our own online presentations on various topics and the American Memory project provides additional online access to selected collections. Online content may include audio samples of music and stories, digital images of rare letters and photographs, and video clips. To use the featured collections in their entirety, please visit our Collections & Research Services page for information about doing research in our Reading Room. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Popular Music
A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 2000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians.
JazzStandards.com: The premier site for the history and analysis of the standards jazz musicians play the most.
Learn about Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame exhibits, exhibitions, traveling exhibitions about music, rock, rock 'n' roll, art, culture, popular culture, and science fiction.
Learn about Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame exhibits, exhibitions, traveling exhibitions about music, rock, rock 'n' roll, art, culture, popular culture, and science fiction.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, located in Cleveland, OH, welcomes you to RockHall.com.
"Includes authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world." Sponsored by Cornell.
Guide to museum exhibitions and library collections of musical images online.
Genres and Styles
Indiana University School of Music - Cook Music Library
AMG--All Music
World Music
A nonprofit with the mission to foster understanding of the world's performing arts and cultural traditions
A nonprofit with the mission to foster understanding of the world's performing arts and cultural traditions
World Music: a magazine of world music, roots and folk music, the most extensive collection of articles, reviews and audio features on the internet is all in RootsWorld
The Portal of African and Caribbean Cultures : news, music, arts and culture, society, travel
provides access to sound recordings and images related to music from Africa and the Americas
Classical Composers
Compiled by Jos Smeet and visitors to the site.
Mississippi Public Broadcasting maintains this list of links
discography, and related music links
Topics
Art and Analyses of Film Sound Design
Additional Sites of Interest
Acoustics information for various instruments, from the Univ. of South Wales, Australia
from the Exploratorium
Lessons, Exercises, Tools & Calculators
Musopen (www.musopen.org
Links to an external site.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Our mission is to set music free.