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Music: Music Websites

A guide to resources on Music

Music web resources

National Jukebox
From the Library of Congress, this site makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. All available songs can be listened to online, but not downloaded.
Performing Arts Reading Room
Access point for the vast and diverse collections in the custody of the Music Division at the Library of Congress.
African American Band Music & Recordings, 1883-1923
"Stock” arrangements for bands or small orchestras of popular songs written by African Americans, as well as a smaller selection of historic sound recordings of these songs and others by the same composers. Includes short biographies of composers and performers of the time and historical essays.
Global Music Archive
The Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas. It is a public facility that promotes education in African and American traditional and popular music through its own activities and by supporting the activities of others.
The Alan Lomax Collection
"The Alan Lomax Collection contains pioneering documentation of traditional music, dance, tales, and other forms of grassroots creativity in the United States and abroad," said James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress. "We are extremely pleased that this collection has come to our American national library, where its creator did such important work in the 1930s." - From the web site.

Citing Music Resources

Citation Styles for Music
Research guide created by Paul Carey of the Jones Music Library at Baldwin Jones University. Contains examples of bibliographic citations in music for APA, MLA & Chicago Manuals of Style.

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