General Information

• All Music - http://www.allmusic.com/
  Covers all genres of music.
• Choral Public Domain Library - http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
  A large collection of public domain choral sheet music.
• Free Sheet Music - http://www.8notes.com/
  Online archive of sheet music for many different instruments.
• Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music - http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/
  An online collection of American sheet music, chiefly from 1780 to 1960.
• Lyrics Search Engine - http://lyrics.astraweb.com/
  Contains a large number of popular song lyrics.
• Music Resources on the World Wide Web - http://www.library.yale.edu/musiclib/webres.htm
  From the Yale University Music Library, this extensive list of links covers all kinds of music from Canadian to Wedding music.
• Musictheory.net - http://www.musictheory.net/
  A collection of music theory tutorials. The site includes interactive exercises for keyboard, guitar, brass and ear.
  

Classical Music

• Andante Magazine - http://www.andante.com/magazine/index.cfm
  An online classical music magazine. Includes reviews of recordings and performances as well as essays on musical topics.
• Aria Database - http://www.aria-database.com/
  Searchable by title, opera or composer. Includes lyrics in the original language of the opera and some English translations. The site has links to recordings and sheet music for sale.
• Brass Instruments - http://bubl.ac.uk/link/b/brassinstruments.htm
  Useful links to information about the brass instruments.
• Classical Music in the Yahoo Directory - http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/music/genres/classical/
  Yahoo's extensive list of Classical music links.
• Classical Music Resources -
  http://www.lib.duke.edu/dw3/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=177
  A large collection of classical music resources from Duke University Library.
• Classical.Net - http://classical.net/
  Massive amount of information on composers, their works, musicians and reviews of CDs.
• Essentials of Music - http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
  This site provides a brief outline of the history of Western music from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century. Brief biographies of composers can be found there as well as excerpts of significant music.
• Keyboard and Percussion Instruments - http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=10181
  A list of links to information about keyboard and percussion instruments.
• The Lied and Art Song Texts Page - http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/
  An archive of texts used in Lieder and Art Songs, choral works and other classical vocal pieces. Many are translated into several languages.
• Music History 102 - http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/
  This page covers Western music history from the Middle Ages to the present.
• Music Library Online Resources - http://www.lib.virginia.edu/MusicLib/resources/composers.html
  Arranged by composer's name, this site from the University of Virginia is an excellent directory of Web information about composers.
• Musictheory.net - http://www.musictheory.net/
  A collection of music theory tutorials. The site includes interactive exercises for keyboard, guitar, brass and ear.
• Musicweb International.com - http://www.musicweb.uk.net/
  Premiere classical CD review Web site.
• Opera Glass - http://opera.stanford.edu/main.html
  Excellent information about operas, composers, plot summaries, role creators etc.
• Opera Resources on the World Wide Web - http://opera.stanford.edu/links.html
  An extensive list of links to opera composers, libretti, reviews and magazines.
• The Piano Page - http://www.ptg.org/
  Information for pianists, teachers and technicians.
• Stringed Instruments - http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=10182
  List of links to information about stringed instruments.
• Viola Jokes - http://web.mit.edu/jcb/www/viola-jokes.html
  Canonical list of jokes about the instrument that gets no respect.
• Violin Online - http://www.violinonline.com/
  Includes information about violin basics, exercises and scales and an online listening library.
• Wind Instruments - http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=10183
  List of links to information about wind instruments.

Rock and Rap/Hip Hop

• Yahoo Entertainment: Music - http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/
  Yahoo's extensive list of popular music links.
• All Songs Considered - http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/
  Covers contemporary music really well and does a good job of presenting the popular music of the moment.
• Guitar Noise - http://www.guitarnoise.com/
  Free online guitar instructions for beginners and intermediates. Includes a great deal of information on tablature and reading music.
• Magnet Magazine - http://www.magnetmagazine.com/
  Excellent reviews and interviews.
• Mojam Concert Search - http://www.mojam.com/
  Search for concert dates by artist, city or venue.
• Pitchfork Media - http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/
  Excellent source for alternative/independent music reviews.
• Rap/Hip Hop - http://rap.about.com/
  An outstanding guide to this music genre.
• Rapmusic.com - http://rapmusic.com/rapmusic/
  Fairly comprehensive coverage of rap music.
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - http://www.rockhall.com/home/
  Most useful for its biographies of inductees and timeline.
• Rock History at IU - http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/courses/rock/
  Scroll down the page and you will find a list of links to several courses taught at Indiana University that cover the history of Rock and Roll. Each link leads you to a syllabus of a course; each syllabus contains many useful Web links.
• Rolling Stone - http://www.rollingstone.com/
  Online version of Rolling Stone magazine.
• Trouser Press - http://www.trouserpress.com/
  They call themselves "the Bible of alternative rock."

Other Genres of Music

• Music Resources on the World Wide Web - http://www.library.yale.edu/musiclib/webres.htm
  A large list of links covering all genres of music.
• African Music Encyclopedia - http://africanmusic.org/
  Browse this source by artist or country, or search it.
• Blues - http://blues.about.com/
  About.com's Blues site.
• Country - http://countrymusic.about.com/
  About.com's Country Music site.
• Roughstock's Country Music - http://www.roughstock.com/roughstock/
  A fairly comprehensive guide to Country Music.
• Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America - http://www.contemplator.com/folk.html
  Includes lyrics, sound files tune information and history of folk music.
• Academic Info History of Jazz - http://www.academicinfo.net/musicjazz.html
  Scroll past the commercial links in the blue box and you will find helpful links about Jazz history.
• All About Jazz - http://www.allaboutjazz.com/
  Good coverage of contemporary and historical jazz.
• Jazz - http://jazz.about.com/
  About.com's Jazz page. It has good basic information.
• Jazz Improvisation Primer - http://www.outsideshore.com/primer/primer/
  An online improvisation textbook.
• LaMusica.com - http://www.lamusica.com/
  Good coverage of Latin music. In English and Spanish.
• Ethnomusicology Online - http://research.umbc.edu/eol/eol.html
  UMBC's guide to World music.
• Pathfinder for World Music - http://www.ecpl.lib.oh.us/musicpathfinder.htm
  Brief but useful list of world music Web pages.
• Smithsonian Global Sound - http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/
  The wonderful Smithsonian collection of world music is now available online. Samples are free, downloads are $.99 each. Sorry, the college cannot absorb the cost of the downloads.
• World Music at Rootsworld - http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/
  An online Roots and World Music magazine.