Free Online Music Resources

The AMS was founded to advance research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship.

The Society for Ethnomusicology was founded to promote the research, study, and performance of music in all historical periods and cultural contexts.

The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music is dedicated to the study and performance of seventeenth-century music and related arts.

The purpose of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music is to promote the study and performance of music of the eighteenth century.

The Society for American Music is dedicated to the study, teaching, creation and dissemination of all musics in the Americas.

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) is an international organization established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music.

ECHO: A Music-Centered Journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal created and edited by graduate students in the Department of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It was published biannually from when it was established in 1999 to 2004 and more sporadically since that time. One of the highlights of the journal is its accessibility to readers with limited to no formal music training, made possible by the use of video and audio files as supplements or replacements for music examples in standard notation.

Critical Musicology, hosted by the School of Music at the University of Leeds, is a fully refereed critical musicology journal appearing exclusively on the Internet from 1997 to 1998. Its purpose is to provide a library of texts which address the wide number of issues that have become part of the field of critical musicology. Given the diverse number of practices within critical musicology, Critical Musicology is designed to encompass a plurality of topics, discourses, and methodologies. Rather than dogmatically adopting a single party line, its purpose here is one of pragmatic, inclusive multiplicity.

A monthly online journal sponsored by a California-based music organization pertaining to 21st-century music criticism and analysis.

The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music (JSCM) is published by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music to provide a refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century. These include historical and archival studies, performance practice, music theory, aesthetics, dance and theater. JSCM also publishes critical reviews and summary listings of recently published books, scores, recordings, and electronic media. (Currently available issues/volumes: 1999-2010).

An online musicology journal dedicated to the study of Polish music. Published since 1998. A publication sponsored by the Polish Music Center at USC's (University of Southern California) Thornton School of Music.

A daily updated music magazine pertaining to contemporary American and British popular music criticism, film, TV, and politics. The magazine's music-related contents include interviews and special features about prominent musicians, the latest news about concerts, etc., concert and recording reviews, videos, photo galleries, lists and polls (i.e.: "100 Best Singles of 1984: Pop's Greatest Year"), among other things.