Music: Websites

A searchable database to recordings of popular music in all styles and genres, including rock, country, jazz, world and rap - with ratings and essays on performers. Also provides links to other All Media sites: Classical, All Movies, and All Game.

A gateway site of varied and useful links in ethnomusicology.

Worldwide music samples by decade. Select a country to hear songs from the decade of your choice, from 1900 to present.

The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Jukebox content will be increased regularly, with additional Victor recordings and acoustically recorded titles made by other Sony-owned U.S. labels, including Columbia, OKeh, and others.

Archives of the Metropolitan Opera (New York City), including updated information on performers and repertory, photos and musical samples.

Information related to opera. Offers access to a database of opera houses and festivals, a performance and artist search engine, and opera-related news and reviews.

A reference site to help identify public domain songs and public domain music.

Resources on all aspects of music therapy.

Commercial website containing jazz news, performance listings, musician bios, articles, photos, and more.

More than 15,000 digitized pieces of vocal and choral sheet music in the public domain, plus texts, translations, and other useful information.

(Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano)
A portal which provides access through a single search to digitized materials from the national libraries of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Panama, Portugal, and Spain.

International Music Score Library Project - Petrucci Music Library A database of works in the public domain:
69,215 works · 243,974 scores · 24,637 recordings · 7,657 composers · 226 performers

Digitized sheet music editions of Classical and Contemporary Music based on public domain editions. Includes some MIDI files.
Includes works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, and Mozart. As well as a number of modern editions, arrangements and new music where the respective editors, arrangers and composers have chosen to make the works freely available.

An open collection of digitized sheet music drawn from collections around the world, including the Library of Congress and the National Library of Australia.

(Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester)
Contains more than 12,000 digitized manuscripts and scores in the public domain. Many of these are unique to the Sibley Music Library collection.
Also try the Dissertation and other collections

Texts of Bach's complete vocal works with English translation, commentary and performance history. (University of Vermont)

Library of Congress has many online digital collections, including musical recordings and sheet music manuscripts.