General
- All Music GuideSearch for biographies, discographies, or reviews by artist, album, or song.
- Creative CommonsCreative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through copyright licenses that provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use creative work — on conditions of the creator's choice.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology OnlineAn international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
- Library of Congress Performing Arts EncyclopediaFind digital images from the collections of the Library of Congress.
Music by Time Period or Genre
- CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical ChantIndices of the chants in selected manuscript and early printed sources of the Divine Office. The texts are almost all in Latin, and the majority of them are drawn from the Bible, very often from the book of Psalms.
- Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music LinksA comprehensive set of links to various web resources in non-Western and Western "world" music, folk and vernacular idioms, and ethnomusicology. Compiled and maintained by the University of Washington Libraries.
- Essentials of MusicAn overview of classical music including composers, eras, and a glossary.
Sheet Music
- Naxos Sheet Music LibraryThis Naxos Music Library offers over 45,000 sheet music titles, powered by SheetMusicLib.com. The library delivers digital sheet music in all classical genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st century and composers from Bach to Arvo Part.
- Art Song CentralFree vocal sheet music.
- Choral Public Domain LibrarySearch by composer, genre, solo voice, accompaniment, etc.
- Free ScoresSearch for free sheet music by composer or instrument.
- Free Sheet MusicThis site, compiled by a commercial entity called Piano World, has some useful links to sites that feature free sheet music available for download, including some sites that feature classical scores now in the public domain.
- International Music Score LibraryA Wiki that includes over 85,000 freely available classical scores searchable by composer, nationality, time period or genre.
- Library of Congress American Memory Project - Sheet Music CollectionDigital reproductions of historic American sheet music including including bel canto, minstrel songs, protest songs, sentimental songs, patriotic and political songs, plantation songs, spirituals, dance music, songs from vaudeville and musicals, "Tin pan alley" songs, and songs from the Civil War and World War I.
- Sheet Music ConsortiumA catalog of digitized sheet music from the Library of Congress, Johns Hopkins University, Indiana University, Duke University, and UCLA.
- Sibley Music Library Musical ScoresOver 10,000 scores and books in the public domain from the University of Rochester's Sibley Music Library.
