Music Research Guide:Websites

DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) is a leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts. We present images and metadata for thousands of manuscripts on this website. We also provide a home for scholarly resources and editions, undertake digital restoration of damaged manuscripts and documents, publish high-quality facsimiles, and offer our expertise as consultants.

This guide provides a basis for beginning electronic research on a wide variety of topics in music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, and performance practice. It collects links to archival collections, online scores and sound recordings; article indexes, discographies and bibliographies; scholarly societies; musical reference works; and a miscellany of useful websites. Each entry includes a brief description of the resource, with tags for subjects and resource types. (From the site description)

Created and maintained by Harvard University's Loeb Music Library, this growing collection of the scanned images of rate and unique musical scores is being made available via the Web for research use.

Published by the University of California, Santa Barbara, this list contains a lot of very useful links to scholarly (and not so scholarly) music research sites.

Published by Stanford University Libraries this list provides links to multi-topic music sites, music associations, music libraries and research centers, news, music copyright information, biographies, composer pages, voice sites, sheet music and scores, music theory, and popular music sites.

This freely available web site is a "special presentation" of the Library of Congress's Performing Arts Encyclopedia, which aims, according to the welcome page, to "provide online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives." Links direct users to the site at which full access to the actual scanned documents. Materials described include music manuscripts, early printed editions, and musicians' letters.