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Carolyn DoiLiaison Librarian: Carolyn Doi
Location: Education
Room: ED 2003.7B
Phone: 966-2433
Email: Carolyn.Doi@usask.ca


Canadian Music

Canadian Musical Heritage Society Bookmark and Share
Publishers of the series The Canadian Musical Heritage, a series of scores of Canadian composition from earliest times to the mid-20th century. The University of Saskatchewan Libraries have a standing order to this series. They are located in the Education Library at M2.3 .C22C3.
CBC : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Bookmark and Share
Links to CBC radio and television programming and features: Infoculture and CBC4Kids. Download RealAudio and RealPlayer to access sound and video content.

20th Century Music

American Music Center Bookmark and Share
The U.S.A. equivalent of the Canadian Music Centre. Information about American twentieth-century composers.
CCRMA Bookmark and Share
Standford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, one of the most important such facilities in the world.
IRCAM Bookmark and Share
Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoutique/Musique
20th-Century Music Bookmark and Share
From Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Choral Music

Digital Tradition Folksong Bookmark and Share
Texts of folksongs
International Lyrics Server Bookmark and Share
Good for folk song lyrics.
Lied and Song Texts page Bookmark and Share
Includes some translations of Lieder texts in the public domain

Composers

Beethoven Bibliography Bookmark and Share
Telnet. Choose O for "Connect to another Database" and B for Beethoven Bibliography.
Composers Necrology Bookmark and Share
Death dates for recently-deceased composers. Maintained by the Gaylord Music Library, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Estrella's incredibly abridged dictionary of composers Bookmark and Share
From Ester Boyer College. The dictionary seems intended more for those seeking basic information than for serious researchers or students.
The Ellington Collection Bookmark and Share
Site devoted to Duke Ellington in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution
Hildegard Publishing Bookmark and Share
Publisher of music composed by women.
Living Music Foundation Bookmark and Share
"A not-for-profit organization for the promotion of new music with an international membership of composers and performers of new music.
Mozart's Words Bookmark and Share
Free, multilingual access to an annotated version of the voluminous correspondence of Mozart and his family - approximately 1,400 letters in total. Each letter is available in a variety of version: original and modernized German, Manuscript, and translated in English, Italian and French. The site also provides access to background materials such as reviews, newspapers, documents, objects, paintings, engravings, and books as a corollary to the historical-critical annotations.
Mozart, W.A. : Mozart Project Bookmark and Share
Contains an online edition of the Koechel thematic catalogue.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph Bookmark and Share
This page includes a list of Vaughan Williams' complete works.
Vivace Press Bookmark and Share
A publisher devoted to women composers.
Women Composers and Women's Music Bookmark and Share
From William and Gayle Cook Music Library Indiana University School of Music.

Copyright

ASCAP Bookmark and Share
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Includes a database of compositions for which ASCAP hold licensing privileges.
BMI Bookmark and Share
Includes access to a database of compositions licensed by BMI

Electro-Acoustic Music

CCRMA Bookmark and Share
Standford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, one of the most important such facilities in the world.
CEC Bookmark and Share
Canadian ElectroAcoustic Music Association

Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology, Folkmusic, and World Music Bookmark and Share
From the University of Washington Music Library.

General

Google™ Scholar Beta Coverage varies Bookmark and Share
Google's web search tool focusing on scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Includes both open access and commercial content with links to available Library full text and FindIt! linking service. Still in Beta test mode. [details]

Instrumental Music

Canadian Piano Home Page Bookmark and Share
Home Page of the Canadian Chapters of the Piano Technicians Guild.
Piano FAQ Bookmark and Share
From the newsgroup rec.music.makers.
Pipeorg-L homepage Bookmark and Share
Includes archives of the Pipeorg-L electronic discussion list

Jazz

The Ellington Collection Bookmark and Share
Site devoted to Duke Ellington in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution
The Red Hot Jazz Archive Bookmark and Share
A history of Jazz before 1930.

Music Business

Music Publishers Association (U.S.A.) Bookmark and Share
Includes directory of publisher addresses and distributors.

Music Education

MENC Bookmark and Share
Music Educators National Conference
MERB (Music Education Resource Base) Bookmark and Share
Includes the Canadian Music Index
Music Education Online Bookmark and Share
The resource website for teachers and directors: A project of The Saskatchewan Band Association, The Saskatchewan Choral Federation, The Saskatchewan Music Educators Association and The Saskatchewan Music Festival Association

Music Education Advocacy

Music Organizations (mainly academic)

Music Study at Universities, Conservatories, etc.

Music Theatre

Cole Wide Web Bookmark and Share
The Cole Porter Shrine.
Musicals101.com Bookmark and Share
The cyber encyclopedia of musical theatre, TV and film
Playbill Online Bookmark and Share
Searchable database of shows, mostly in New York ... also interviews.
Theatricopia Bookmark and Share
a page of music theatre links

Musicology ; Music History and Literature

Colonial Music Institute Bookmark and Share
The Colonial Music Institute promotes research and educational outreach in early American music and dance.
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) Bookmark and Share
This website is a portal to information about and images of worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts (not including plainchant). The music and the manuscripts date from approx 800 to 1550, including complete digitization of the Eton Choirbook. In order to access images, users must create a free account.
Early Music FAQ Bookmark and Share
Frequently Asked Questions and general information from EARLYM-L, the Early Music electronic discussion group.
Historic American Sheet Music Web Site Bookmark and Share
A Library of Congress/Ameritech project housed at Duke University.
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection Bookmark and Share
At John Hopkins University
The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum Bookmark and Share
This database will eventually contain the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Opera

Digital Tradition Folksong Bookmark and Share
Texts of folksongs
International Lyrics Server Bookmark and Share
Good for folk song lyrics.
Lied and Song Texts page Bookmark and Share
Includes some translations of Lieder texts in the public domain

Other Music Resources Sites

Music Resources on the Internet Bookmark and Share
From Indiana University

Recordings

ClassicalNet Bookmark and Share
Recommended classical recordings for a basic home library
Gramophone Bookmark and Share
Reviews of classical compact discs from Gramophone magazine

Vocal Music (including Choral and Opera)

Song Index Bookmark and Share
University of Tennessee Knoxville, Music Library
Digital Tradition Folksong Bookmark and Share
Texts of folksongs
International Lyrics Server Bookmark and Share
Good for folk song lyrics.
Lied and Song Texts page Bookmark and Share
Includes some translations of Lieder texts in the public domain
NATS Online Journal Index Bookmark and Share
Articles from the publications of the National Association of Teachers of Singing from 1944 - 2001 are indexed here.

World Music

Ethnomusicology, Folkmusic, and World Music Bookmark and Share
From the University of Washington Music Library.