| African Music Page | Toshiya Endo. Discographies of musicians from Senegal and Nigeria. |
| American Gamelan Institute | Information on groups by geographic region. The Links section includes links to US and international gamelan groups, instrument builders, and an international discussion group on Indonesian performing arts and culture. The Catalog and Bookstore sections contain materials (available for a fee) on gamelan and related arts in Indonesia and other countries. |
| American Music Center | Guides to finding published and unpublished scores and librettos, lists of musical works written for specific instruments, and lists of composers, organizations for musicians, grants to support people in the field, and future musical competitions. |
| Andante | Classical music information. Reference works, news, performance and recording reviews, calendars, gateway sites, etc. |
| Attempted Ska Page | Bill Tanner. Information and links related to ska music. |
| Beethoven-Haus Bonn Digital Archives | Thousands of pages of manuscripts, audio files, letters, paintings, musical instruments, etc. |
| Blues Lyrics Online | Lyrics of over 2,500 blues songs, arranged by artist and title, with soundclips provided for approximately half of the entries. Information on guitar tabs and chords, and blues history, glossary of commonly used blues slang, with links to songs containing the selected term. Searchable. |
| Choral Public Domain Library | Scores, texts, translations, and information about composers. Most scores are public domain editions of music whose copyright has elapsed, but some scores are newly composed and offered for download by the composer. |
| Classical Music Pages | Matt Boynick. History, composer biographies, explanation of forms, and terminology. |
| Composers Bureau Online | Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies. For over 200 composers: biographical information, lists of compositions, contact information, etc. Indexed by composer and composition category. |
| Digital Mozart Edition | DME is a collection of Mozart's works digitally on the web. |
| Electronic Music Interactive | University of Oregon. An on-line textbook on electronic music. Uses sound, animation, and an innovative interface to teach students about digital-music technologies and the science of sound. |
| Electronic Musical Instruments | History of electronic instruments from 1870-1990. Links to other instruments and manufacturers of instruments. |
| Essentials of Music | W.W. Norton & Company/Sony Classical Music. Introduction to classical music featuring Eras, Composers, and a Glossary. Eras covers the six main periods in classical music history, discussing historical themes, musical context, style, and major composers. Composers includes brief biographies and works of nearly 70 composers. Glossary provides 200 terms with examples (recordings or pictures). Almost 200 musical excerpts. |
| Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music | University of Washington. Links arranged by geographical location; recording label; organizations, institutions, and archives; bibliography, periodicals & online publications. |
| The Evolution of Rap Music in the United States | Henry A. Rhodes, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. 1993 essay, with bibliography and lesson plans. |
| Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America | Lesley Nelson. Folk and traditional music and popular songs, with lyrics, MIDI renditions, tune information, and history. These songs include Francis J. Child ballads, country tunes, the works of Turlough O'Carolan, and sea shanties. The collection is also browsable by country of origin, subject, or compiler. Also available is an introductory encyclopedia of folk music and related resources. |
| William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz | Library of Congress. More than 1,600 images of jazz musicians form 1938-1948 primarily from New York and D.C. |
| House of the Rising Punk | Robert McBrady. Links to bands, labels, stores, zines, and regional scene and club information. Also features reviews. |
| Jazz History | Harlem.org. Brief information and links on jazz musicians from the 1950s, hypertext lists of musical styles and instruments, and a timeline of birth and death dates. Also contains biographical information and a gallery of photographs by Art Kane. |
| J.S. Bach Complete Works | Philip Ambrose site featuring translations and various works of Bach. |
| The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection | Johns Hopkins University. More than 30,000 pieces of American sheet music published between 1780 and 1980. Music printed before 1923 may be retrieved. |
| Loeb Music Library | Harvard University. Gateway site with >600 links to all sorts of music resources; a small number are restricted to the Harvard community. |
| MusicalOnline | Intrepid Pixels Technology. Links to classical competitions, festivals, management firms, academic research, online magazine, concerts, etc. |
| One More Once | This website if full of music, photographs, reference books and audiovisual materials. |
| Operabase | Opera Schedules, Opera Houses, Opera Festivals, Opera Reviews, Opera Links. |
| Operissimo | Searchable database of operas, performers, composers, and opera houses. Brief biographical information, not always in English, on performers, including contact information. Birth and death dates are given for composers, and their works are listed. Opera houses of 45 countries are covered, with performance dates. |
| Piano Education Page | Articles, lessons, and downloadable music software. |
| Public Domain Music | Public Domain Information Project. Information about music copyright and links to music in the public domain. |
| RhythmWeb | Lots of information and links, browsable by Cultures (including Africa, Caribbean, Brazil/South America, Asia, Cajun, jazz; and drum circles), and Instruments (featuring djembe, bongo, doumbek, frame drums, and homemade percussion instruments). See also Woodshed for studies of various styles of rhythm, and Community for discussion forums. There are some MIDI and RealAudio sound files. |
| Songfile | Lyrics to over 60,000 songs. Search by artist, album, or song title. Sources of lyrics are not noted. |
| Tarang Classical Indian Dance and Music | Brief essays and many annotated links. |
| Women Composers | Vitezslava Kapralova. Names, dates, and country of more than 200 women composers, with links to Web sites with more information for more than half of them. In addition, there are extensive bibliographies on women in music and links to further resources and samples of some of their music. |