Essentials of Music -- Basic introduction to classical music, including eras, composers, a glossary, and audio excerpts.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare -- OpenCourseWare provides free, searchable access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
American Memory, by the Library of Congress -- The American Memory Database is an extensive collection of primary source documents. You can either browse a collection or search them all at the same time.
Artslynx International Music Resources -- Portal to music sites worldwide, arranged by topic and searchable by keyword.
Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music (1999) -- Part of the eNotes study guide site, this electronic encyclopedia covers biography, terminology, instruments, specific pieces, and genres.
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music (University of Washington) -- Portal to an extensive collection of links arranged by geographic area and topic.
Music Information Meta-Sites (Harvard University) -- Meta-portal to Internet music sites.
Maine Music Box (Fogler Library, University of Maine) -- Created through a collaboration among Fogler Library and several music collections, Maine Music Box includes public section with more than 22,000 digitized musical scores, sound files, and cover art. A password-protected instructional section is available for teachers who request access. The instructional pages correspond to Maine Learning Results requirements for several different areas. The collection ranges from vocal popular music to uniquely valuable violin and piano scores. Users may search the collection by keyword or browse by subject, collection, and date.
Music Resources (Sibelius Academy) -- Portal to music websites worldwide arranged within a wide range of categories, including church music, composing, early music, jazz and blues, music and arts education, opera, and rock and pop.
Musipedia -- An open music encyclopedia inspired by Wikipedia, Musipedia consists of text, sheet music, and a search engine that identifies tunes the users sings, hums, whistles, or plays on a piano or keyboard.
Mutopia Project -- Modeled on Project Gutenberg, Mutopia offers free sheet music for music in the public domain. Browses by composer, instrument, or style.
Women and Music (ACRL) -- A collection of links created and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
