Music library directories

• SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions – lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime)
• Cecilia – IAML’s directory of music collections in archives, libraries and museums in the UK and Ireland

Music reference sites

Composers

• Bach Bibliography – searchable online bibliography of works about J.S. Bach, created and maintained by Prof. Yo Tomita (Queen’s University, Belfast) (Access: no password required)
• ClassicalNet – Classical music links
• Classical Composers Database – especially good for obscure, or unheard of composers (also includes listing by anniversary, etc.)

Contemporary music

• British Music Information Centre [now defunct, but web page captured via www.archive.org] – directory of contact information for contemporary British music

Vocal music

• Cantus – database for Latin ecclesiastical chant hosted by the University of Western Ontario
• The Lied and Art Song Texts Page – archive of over 28,000 texts used in Lieder and other classical Art Songs as well as in many choral works and other types of classical vocal pieces, in original language and with many with translations
• OperaGlass – Stanford University’s website of opera libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses, etc., together with extensive links to Opera Resources on the WWW

Searching for music: some starting points

• American Musicological Society – extensive links of interest to musicologists
• British Library: Help for researchers
• DMOZ Open Directory – Music links – selected music websites
• Harvard University Music Library: Online Resources for Music Scholars – extensive and well-organised guide to key resources in music
• IAML (UK) Music Internet Resources – music internet resources listed on the International Association of Music Libraries (UK Branch) website
• Indiana University School of Music: Worldwide Internet Music Resources – useful directory of freely available online resources
• Royal Holloway College Music Department’s “Golden Pages” – classified and alphabetical directories of freely available online resources in music
• Sibelius Academy (Finland): Music Resources – list of freely available online resources in music
• University of California, Berkeley Music Library’s Selected Web Links – includes guide to online music resources and useful “How to” section on finding and using library resources
• University of Washington: Music Resources – extensive links of interest to musicologists
• Virtual Library of Musicology – including links to databases, journals and digitised documents