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Many useful information resources are available on the Internet. But, remember to evaluate any Web site before using it for research.

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Associations

American Music Therapy Society
http://www.musictherapy.org/
American Musicological Society
http://www.ams-net.org/
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
http://www.ascap.com/
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
http://www.bmi.com/
Center for Black Music Research
http://www.cbmr.org/
College Music Society
http://www.music.org/
International Alliance for Women in Music
http://www.iawm.org/
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
http://www.iaspm.net/
International Bluegrass Music Association
http://ibma.org/
International Computer Music Association
http://www.computermusic.org/
Music Library Association
http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/
Music Publishers Association of the United States
http://mpa.org/
North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance
http://www.folk.org/
Society for American Music
http://american-music.org/
Society for Ethnomusicology
http://webdb.iu.edu/sem/scripts/
Society for Music Theory
http://www.societymusictheory.org/

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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.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada describes the full breadth and depth of Canada’s musical culture, including the historical and current aspects of popular, folk, religious, concert and other forms of music.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=EMCSubjects&Params=U2
Essentials of Music
This web has been created by the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, and contains music information in three categories: eras, composers, and glossary.
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
Gaylord Music Necrology
Updated daily. Since death notices often contain conflicting dates, ages, and name forms, all are reported. Alternate name spellings are listed in square brackets. Citations follow the data they have provided.
http://library.wustl.edu/units/music/necro/
Gramophone
Classical music reviews, interviews, analysis, and audio equipment news and reviews.
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/
Information Resources for Music
A list of music resources maintained by the Arts Library UC Santa Barbara.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/music.html
Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance: A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page
List of links compiled by the Library of Congress for freely-available online sources in music, theatre, and dance.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/perform/new.internet.resources.html
Librarians' Internet Index: Music
Featuring Music resources selected by Librarians
http://lii.org/pub/topic/music
Music Theory & History Online
Resources compiled by Dolmetsch about musical theory and other related topics.
http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm
Musicals101: The Cyber Encyclopedia of Music Theater, TV and Film
This site has general information for musical theater enthusiasts.
http://www.musicals101.com/
Peforming Arts Encyclopedia (Library of Congress)
The Performing Arts Encyclopedia (PAE) is a guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress. The PAE provides information about the Library's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials. Users can find digitized items from the collections; special Web presentations on topics and collections; articles and biographical essays; finding aids to collections; databases for performing arts resources; information on concerts at the Library; and a special Performing Arts Resource Guide which contains entries for hundreds of Library collections, Web sites, databases and exhibits. (In the latter, each entry describes the resource and provides a link to it if there is an online finding aid or Web site available.
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/index.html
Selected Music Resources on the Internet
Music resources compiled by the New York Public Library.
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/mus.resources.html
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.
http://www.themefinder.org/
Voice of the Shuttle: Music and Dance
Music resources compiled by time period.
http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/

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Vocal Music

American Choral Directors Association
http://www.acdaonline.org/
The Aria Database
The Aria Database is a collection of information about opera and operatic arias. Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions. The Database also provides access to a collection of operatic MIDI files to give visitors an idea of what each aria sounds like. Currently, the Database holds information on the complete operatic aria collections of Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, and Puccini as well as the partial collections of over 50 other composers.
http://www.aria-database.com/index2.html
ChoralNet
ChoralNet's extensive resources and links include repertoire lists, reference materials, rehearsal tips, choral accessories and technology, and specialized sections for Church Music and choirs in educational institutions.
http://www.choralnet.org/
Libretto Index
This is an index of known libretto pages, arranged by composer and name of the opera. In some cases also texts of other vocal pieces are included.
http://wwwsys.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/weber1/opera/lib.htm
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.
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/

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.
http://opera.stanford.edu/

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.
http://www.operabase.com/

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