includes contemporary composers

Women composers and performers; free streaming music.

Info on women and gender-marginalized composers. Includes: notes on the composer, public domain images and photographs, and/or links to their works (scores & audio/video recordings)

Under Resources, see the Living Composers directory; has bios, recordings, links to scores (depending on the composer)

information on composers' biographies, recommended works and recordings, and reviews and articles.

Interviews of selected composers, often with music clips, from the BBC

Historical context, geography and biographical notes.

Clearinghouse for scholarship on Bach. Each work has a complete citation, a link to the larger work (in the case of journal articles), & citations for reviews of the work, if any exist.

Includes digital manuscripts, "autograph" scores (first editions), maps, a thesaurus, and more.

Hector Berlioz's musical scores, literary works, info about his travels, letters....

Leonard Bernstein official site

Critical commentaries on selected Ives' works, not published elsewhere

Neue Mozart-Ausgabe / New Mozart Edition's purpose is to make Mozart's compositions easily, freely, digitally accessible.

includes more than 15,000 American, European, & non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures & historical periods

YouTube channel: pictures & sounds of 57 instruments from around the world

Guide to Medieval and Renaissance instruments: info, images, sound, and bibliography.