Music
This site features free downloadable sheet music, free lessons on various instruments, free riff lessons by Rock and Pop artists, and free guitar and piano chord charts.
outsideshore.com/primer/primer/
This online version of Marc Sabatella's textbook covers jazz history, jazz fundamentals, improvisation, and chord/scale relationships,
Provides general and critical information on a wide variety of artists, albums and musical styles.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/amsshtml/
Library of Congress collection of song sheets (lyrics, not music) spanning the turn of the nineteenth century to the 1880's.
Contains information on over 1,000 operatic arias as well as links to texts and translations, and MIDI files.
Features music charts, news, reviews, and information about the artist.
Provides information on basic classical repertoire, recommended cd lists, and reviews and articles.
This classical music site covers Eras - from Middle Ages to 20th Century - Composers, and Glossary of musical terms. Audio excerpts included.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/hasmhome.html
Over 3,000 pieces of historic sheet music from Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
www2.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
This browsable site features information about instruments from around the world, glossary of musical terms, and links to selected web sites.
Use this website to access a music library of free, downloadable music scores.
Created to accompany the ten-part PBS film, JAZZ uses audio clips, biographies of jazz greats, and transcripts of interviews to provide the history of jazz from Slavery to the present.
This online database provides thousands of reviews covering film, video/DVD, music, games, books and television.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/
Library of Congress collection of historic American sheet music from 1820 to 1885 includes popular songs, operatic arias, sacred music, and solo instrumental music.
Site provides introduction to the history of Western music from the Middle Ages to the present. Includes audio excerpts.
Provides discussion forums, synopses, and song lists for popular broadway musicals.
Features history of musicals on stage, TV and film, as well as reviews and essays on specific shows.
Noteflight, an online music writing application, allows you to create, view, print, and listen to music notation.
PD Info provides lists of public domain music titles, sheet music reprints, and sheet music books, as well as royalty free music for download.
Helpful site provides basic information about public domain music, lists of public domain music and royalty free recordings.
Provides history of the symphony, biographies of major composers, timelines, information on musical forms, and guide to instruments of the orchestra.