Music: Free Online Resources

This website is a guide to digitized scores, recordings, websites devoted to music theory and music history organizations, etc.. All of the links are freely available via the internet and none require a personal or library subscription for access. 

• MusRef 

  A site and blog devoted to music and dance bibliography and reference, ranging from discographies and catalogs of composer works to reference information about music exhibits and/or collections. This online resource also offers basic reference guides to facilitate arts-related research projects. 

• Online Resources for Music Scholars 

  Provides a basis for beginning electronic research on a wide variety of topics in music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and performance practice. It collects links to archival collections, online scores and sound recordings; article indexes, discographies and bibliographies; scholarly societies; musical reference works; and a miscellany of useful websites.

• Musical America

  For over 100 years, Musical America has been the voice of the performing arts industry. Musical America provides a vehicle for performing arts professionals to reach out to each other to further their art and their businesses. This website also includes original copies of music and arts related articles in newspapers, magazines, and directories from 1905 on, and thousands of priceless photographs, among other useful resources.

• ClassicalNet: The Internet's Premier Classical Music Source 

  "ClassicalNet" is a website devoted to the study and appreciation of Western classical music. It offers extensive book reviews (e.g.: of music theory and music history textbooks and composer biographies), A/V performance reviews, live concert reviews, etc. Additionally, it offers several short articles on highly-varied topics, including interviews. This website also offers a basic overview of period histories and a fairly comprehensive list of well-known composers and their works.