What type of information can I find on websites?
Websites can be published by individuals, companies, or organizations and usually provide specific information about topics. Websites can help you find current information and websites are easily changed and updated. Be careful when reviewing information from websites. Often times, information on websites are not held to scholarly or journalistic standards.
Music
- All MusicProvides biographies, reviews, and essays on popular and classical music
- LOC National JukeboxThis site contains over 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Playlists can be created that allows users to compile and listen to their favorite songs or recordings. There are also playlists compiled by Library of Congress staff and guest experts.
- LOC Notated Music CollectionThese pages link to selected collection content available online at the Library of Congress, arranged by broad categories. The Library's online content represents only a small percentage of its physical holdings
- G Major Music TheoryThis site consolidates work in Music Theory. Each set of pages grew out of a need in teaching. I could not find a workbook appropriate for my high school students. My idea, which developed into a series of workbooks which I call, "Pathways to Harmony", was to write a transition, in small step by step increments, from music fundamentals to first year, Schenkerian-influenced, college theory.
- Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music at the Johns Hopkins UniversitySearchable by type of music, this archival collection of sheet music is a full-text electronic resource. The collection consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music spanning two hundred years from 1780 to 1980
- International Music Score Library ProjectSearchable by type of music, this archival collection of sheet music is a full-text electronic resource. The collection consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music spanning two hundred years from 1780 to 1980
- Chopin Early EditionsThe Chopin collection at the University of Chicago Library includes over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin.
- Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven StudiesThe Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San José State University is an extensive library and museum devoted solely to the life, works, and accomplishments of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). The Center is also the headquarters for the American Beethoven Society. This site includes access to digitized materials and exhibitions.
- Schubert OnlineThis online database provides free online access to digital images of more than 500 music manuscripts and more than 600 first and early editions of works by Franz Schubert. In addition, the digital collection includes a selection of autograph letters and biographical documents.
- The Grammy AwardsThe Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry.