Music

Resources for the teaching and performing of music

Audio Recordings

African American Song (Streaming Audio) (For CU faculty, staff, and, students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Over 50,000 tracks of music including jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression.
Naxos (Streaming Audio) (For CU faculty, staff, and, students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
World’s largest Classical music listening service including over 296,000 tracks of music and extensive background information such as complete liner notes.

Journals & Journal Articles

Music Journals: CU's Online Collection (For CU faculty, staff, and, students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. )
CU's online collection of journals about music.

Musicology

Sites of Interest to Musicologists (http://www.ams-net.org/www-musicology.php)
Links to sites of interest to music history. Maintained by the American Musicological Society.

Reference

African American Music Reference (For CU faculty, staff, and, students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Comprehensive reference chronicles African American music through 1970, including jazz, blues, and gospel with discographies, bibliographies, song sheets, and images.
Beethoven Bibliography Database (http://mill1.sjlibrary.org:83/)
Fully-indexed bibliography of published (and selected unpublished) materials relating to Ludwig van Beethoven.
Berklee College of Music Library (http://library.berklee.edu/Includes title indexes to popular tunes, both on record and in printed collections, and to performers (including sidemen) on recordings.)
Classical Music Reference Library (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
More than 30,000 pages of reference material, including Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, & Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music covering of all classical genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st century.
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. )
Provides thousands of entries on musical terms, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
More than 9,000 pages of material from the 10-volume set with entries by more than 700 expert contributors focused on world music.
Grove Music Online (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Includes: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; New Grove Dictionary of Jazz; Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music with links to Naxos Music Library.
J.S. Bach Home Page (http://www.jsbach.org/)
Bibliography of J.S. Bach and listings of his complete works.
Music Dictionaries (Credo) (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Online Dictionaries including a companion to 20th century popular music, the Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, the Harvard Dictionary of Music and the Penguin Dictionary of Music.
Oxford Companion to Music (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Over 7,400 entries cover musical ideas and terms, places music in its social and cultural context, with a range of new entries on topics such as politics, religion, psychology, and computers.

Scores

Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki) (http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
Use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers. New works are added continuously.
Classical Scores Library (For CU faculty, staff, and, students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.)
Contains 8,000 classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores.
Indiana University Online Sheet Music Collection (http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/s/sheetmusic/)
150,000 pieces of printed music, including many that are available as a scanned image.
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) (http://www.imslp.org/)
Provides tens of thousands of scores composed by thousands of composers, all available for free download. Browse scores by composer, time period, nationality, and instrumentation or genre.