includes contemporary composers

Women composers and performers; free streaming music.

Access to non-living 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; coordinated by Rachel Barton Pine

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

Interviews of selected composers from the BBC

Catalog of the International Inventory of Musical Sources; info about composers, title, instrumentation, references, & detailed descriptions of manuscripts. Enter any title or composer's name between 1600 and 1800, search, and you will see a listing of works, a series of filters for genre, composer, chronological period, scoring, and library sigla.

Historical context,geography and biographical notes.

digitized scores from the Municipal Library of Bilbao (Spain)

Clearinghouse for scholarly discourse 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.

Scores, recordings, books, articles, biographies, & more....

performed by James Kibbie

from Boosey & Hawkes, who own the rights to Bartok's works.

SJSU King Library

Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, From San Jose University

Hector Berlioz Website

Leonard Bernstein Official Site

Established to promote the musical legacy of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.

The Chopin Collection at the University of Chicago Library

Aaron Copeland Collection--music sketches, correspondence, writings, and photographs from the Library of Congress.

University of Melbourne

Free streaming video concerts by the English Concert

George Frideric Handel

Charles Ives Society, Inc.

Peabody Electronic Music Studio: important examples of early electronic music from the 1960s and 1970s; and video recordings of concerts by the Peabody Electronic/Computer Music Studio from the 1980s and 1990s.

Neue Mozart-Ausgabe / New Mozart Edition's purpose is "to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use."

From Turning the Pages, Online Gallery from the British Library. This site allows visitors to virtually 'turn' the pages of manuscripts in a realistic way, using touch-screen technology and interactive animation.

over 200 early printed & manuscript scores of French composer Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831), from the U of Iowa Libraries

Kurt Weill Foundation of Music

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

pictures & sounds from instruments around the world

Guide to Medieval and Renaissance instruments, from Musica Antiqua ensemble members at Iowa State University.