Reference Titles on the Web for RichLyn Library

Music

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Online General Web Sites

American Memory     American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections with an extensive music collection, both in print and sound.
Arts and Music: See also Drama and Theatre Sites at the
Drama and Theatre page.
Band Music from the Civil War Era    Printed and manuscript from LC and the Walter Dignam Collection.
Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals (1938-1943)"Now What a Time"; LC: Consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation
Classical Archives by Composer, Artist, Album: Mozart--Choose free download Queue.
The Classical Music Navigator "The approach taken here--focusing as it does on identifying what might be termed the 444
            currently most relevant' classical composers--forces us to take some care in interpreting the results. ....
Composers Biographies
Copyright Guide for Music Librarians FAQ: Music Library Association
J.S. Bach Homepage Somewhat Searchable
Leopold Stokowski    Making Music Matter: Musical selections and interviews, etc.
Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems  Created by Charles H. Smith and Nancy Schimmel
Mozart Radio: Audio Music;
Mozart Project
Music Portal.com Compares various online music dealers' prices. Searchable
The 111 Greatest (Anglo-American Folk Music Artists by Charles H. Smith, PhD.
Organ History  
Save Our Sounds; American Folklife Center: A Joint Project of the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress"The collections include thousands of recordings from every state of the union and include every genre of spoken word and music -- speeches, tales, biographical narrative, poetry, blues, gospel, jazz, folk, ethnic, country, bluegrass and old time, polka and contra, western swing and conjunto, pow wow and sacred song -- providing a documentary aural history of the nation from the late 19th century to the present."
Smithsonian Global Sound "Smithsonian Folkways"--Choose by Genre. "Download [audio and video] and learn about traditional music from all around the world. ...."

Online Journals & Magazines

Arts & Letters Daily Sponsored by The Chronicle of Higher Education: online magazines, newspapers, radio, reviews, articles, essays, reference, etc.
FindArticles.com Free, over 700 full text online periodicals. 
Music Journals and Magazines, Newspapers and Periodicals: William & Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music
William and Gayle Cook Music Library; Indiana University School of Music; Worldwide Internet Music Resources; Music Journals and Magazines, Newspapers and Periodicals

Online Reference Works

APA FORMATTING AND STYLE GUIDE: THE OWL AT PURDUE
Abridged Dictionary of Composers: Searchable
Dictionaries
Encyclopedia.com General encyclopedia
Music Technology Glossary

Online Scores, etc.

The Choral Public Domain Library Searchable. Largest public domain collection of online choral sheet music
Net Hymnal Searchable. Over 2,400 hymns and gospel songs. Audible.
Indiana University School of Music: Listen: Searchable
IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana Searchable. Online sheet music archives. 
 

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