Library Home > Music Library Home > Music Internet Sites

While exploring the internet is easy, the effort of learning some search techniques will reward with the retrieval of more relevant resources. So select a topic and start exploring!

If you have a question about locating the information you need, contact us for expert assistance.

Reference

General

Search Tools Search Help Special sites

Competitions and Conferences

top of page up arrow

Dissertations

  • Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music
    International dissertations, complete and in progress. Alphabetical by author with links to abstracts.
  • The Australian Digital Theses Project
    This is a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by postgraduate research students at the participating institutions. Participants include the University of Melbourne, Australian National University, University of Queensland and others.Search the database by keywords or browse by partner institutions to locate theses of interest.
  • BAMER : Bibliography of Australian Music Education Research project : lists research studies (completed and in process), plus links to other sites - maintained by Deakin University.
  • The Center for Research Libraries - Foreign Doctoral Dissertations - Index.
  • DDM-Online : Doctorial Dissertations in Musicology, from Indiana University, no abstracts.
  • Doctoral Dissertations in Music Theory, Society for Music Theory, with abstracts.
  • ProQuest Digital Dissertations (restricted - University of Melbourne only)
    (Free access to the most recent two years of citations and abstracts.) Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available. This is a popular multi-disciplinary index of virtually all doctoral dissertations accepted by U.S. institutions since 1861. Also a selection of theses from Canadian, British, and European institutions, together with a few from Australia and New Zealand. Beginning with 1980, citations include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Selected masters theses are covered after 1962, with abstracts available after 1988.
  • Register of Postgraduate Music Dissertations, 1995-, from the Musicological Society of Australia.
    "This register lists titles of music theses in progress or completed since 1995 for doctoral, masters, and graduate diploma awards at universities in Australia and New Zealand."
  • Theses - Great Britain and Ireland 1970- : Index to theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the council for National Academic Awards.
  • MyOAI - the Open Archives Initiative is supported by 3 major American bodies, the Digital Library Federation, the Coalition for Networked Information, and from National Science Foundation . The mission of OAI is to `enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication`. Major insitutions worldwide have made their e-prints available through this service provider. OAI is also a great source for theses collections.
  • OAIster is digital library resource provided by University of Michigan. Over 139 institutions worldwide are part of the project. The collection includes theses and there is some overlap with ProQuest Digital Dissertations.
  • DMS : Dissertationsmeldestelle der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung. Recherche par divers critères accessible dans la rubrique Benutzerabfrage. Contenu : Répertoire des thèses en cours (Allemagne, Autriche, Suisse) élaboré par la Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (Kassel) et hébergé par l'Université de Münster.
  • SUDOC (Système universitaire de documentation). Géré par l'Agence bibliographique de l'Enseignement Supérieur (ABES). Choose Sudoc - Catalogue, then click on "search options" in top R.H. corner to limit to "dissertation". The Sudoc catalog lets you search bibliographic information on all types of documents held by French academic libraries, as well as other higher educational establishments, including theses from 1972.
  • Libraries worldwide. University library catalogues will generally list higher degree theses written by students in their own institutions. Connect to library websites and catalogues all over the world from the Libweb site hosted by the University of California, Berkeley. Search by keyword for a library, or browse libraries by region.
  • WorldCat - Access via the Library catalogue. (restricted - University of Melbourne only)
    WorldCat is a catalogue of books and web resources, including theses, held in libraries worldwide. It is an excellent source for tracking down obscure or hard to find titles.

top of page up arrow

Music Electronic Journals lists

top of page up arrow

News Groups

top of page up arrow

Institutions, Organisations and Scholarly Societies

top of page up arrow

Databases, indexes, bibliographies, etc.

Library catalogues

The Internet can provide quick and convenient access to the catalogues of the libraries of the world. University of Melbourne Library Catalogue and catalogues from other libraries are useful in conducting reviews of music literature, verifying bibliograhical references and locating items for interlibrary loans.

Catalogues of particular libraries

top of page up arrow

Directories

Comprehensive internet links of music resources from other sites. Ideal for browsing through topic listings and useful for broad and specific information searches. top of page up arrow

Citation Styles & Writing Guides


Writing Guides

top of page up arrow

Australian Music

  • Annotated guide to music collections, archives, libraries & museums (CSM ANU)
  • Anthology of Australian Music on Disc, series I to IV - CDs available for borrowing from the Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library, Univ. of Melbourne.
  • Australian Culture 1789-2000 by Paul Bentley, Wolanski Foundation. Contents: With a roar of laughter 1789-1850; The Crown of Wattle 1851-1900; Strike Me Lucky! 1901-1950; The Coming of the White Elephants 1951-2000.
  • Australian directory of Institutions, Societies and Associations . Includes industry links, agents, publishers, copyright, directory of people, etc. from NFRAM website. Choose "Guides to Information" link.
  • Australian Folk Songs - this collection has words, music and information about each song. Quicktime movies play a midi version of the tunes.
  • Australian Music Centre. Online resources including composer biographies, Online Public Access Catalogue of scores, books and recordings in the collection, selected articles from backissues of Sounds Australian , the Australian Music Calendar Online, links and more.
  • Australian Music Resources from Institute of the Arts Library, Australian National University. Includes lists of Universities & Music Schools, Scholarships & Grants, Arts Organisations, Music Libraries, Articles/books, Music Electronic Journals, Music Sites, Festivals, Performers, Music Publishers & Recording Companies, Promoters, Radio & TV, Music Societies, Music Copyright, Worldwide music sites, Australian Art Sites, and Listservs.
  • Australian Music Sites & Services, Portals and gateways, Government organisations, Libraries, archives and museums, Opera companies, Orchestras and orchestral networks, Other organisations.
  • Australia's Oral History Collections : a national directory "...provides electronic access to oral history endeavour in Australia. Based on the printed publication of the same name (published in 1997) the database allows you to search within tens of thousands of hours of oral recordings. These collections document Australian life, customs, politics and traditions and cover a wide range of subjects."
  • Australian Performing Arts Sites and Services, from The Wolanski Foundation (Australia). Australian portals and gateways, Australian government sites & services, Australian non-government sites & services, Media.
  • Bibliography of Australian Popular Music (PDF). Originally from the journal Popular Music 13 (1994) 371-372, and now updated online.
  • Composer Biographies Online from Australian Music Centre. Includes email addresses and websites.
  • Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation "The site is a one-stop shop for exploring Chinese-Australian Heritage. Designed basically as a research-site, it houses text and image databases, introduces bibliographies and research aids, provides information on conferences and exhibitions, offers links to relevant museums, libraries, archives, community centers, university departments, historical societies and other web sites, and carries a range of personal stories and graphics."
  • Directory of Australian cultural organisations and resources (formerly Australia's Cultural Network) - gateway to Australian cultural organisations, resources, activities and events.
  • Digital Collections, National Library of Australia.
    "The digitised printed music collection comprises all Australian sheet music and some published albums held by the National Library published before 1930. Music is defined as Australian if it involved an Australian composer, librettist, arranger, subject or place of publication. The initial release includes over 2000 sheet music items and is exposed to Internet search engines through a URL list. This is expected to grow to more than 3000 items in the next year."
  • Directory of Archives in Australia from Australian Society of Archivists
  • Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne.
  • Guide to Australian Research (Music Council of Australia)
  • Jenkins, John. 22 Contemporary Australian Composers. "First published by NMA Publications in 1988, the original chapter texts of this book are reproduced in full."
  • Papers of Keith Humble (1927 - 1995) - National Library of Australia. Includes online information, Biographical Note, Series List, Series Description and Box List.
  • Music Council of Australia "This site is full of useful information about the musical world in Australia and internationally."
  • MusicAustralia "...will be developed and delivered as a collaboration between the National Library of Australia, ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and Sound Archive and other national cultural institutions and the wider Australian music community.... aims to make Australian music resources and information widely accessible: music in all its formats, across styles and genres, and including both heritage and contemporary material."
  • Musicological Society of Australia - official website, includes newsletter, conference information, listing of publications, etc.
  • NFRAM : National Networked Facility for Research in Australian Music "aims to make more accessible the scattered and often hidden materials and resources related to Australian music." Includes music related resources in text, sound, score and image; guides to information; special projects and collections; online publications; and shop.
  • Pandora, Australia's Web Archive. A variety of subjects - choose "Arts and Humanities", then choose "Music".
  • RAAM: Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts - a guide to collections of personal papers and non-governmental organisational records held by Australian libraries and archives.
  • Research Manual : Music in Australian Cultural Studies . "This is an electronic book publication in progress" by Robyn Holmes & Jeff Brownrigg (1999). Includes an overview of chapter headings - currently under development.
top of page up arrow

Composition, music theory and analysis

  • Analysis Index -from the University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville. "The Analysis Index provides access to program notes and descriptions or analyses of musical compositions in books owned by the UTK Music Library."
  • Composer's Tools: an Interactive Idea List, by Kenneth R. Rumery.
  • IAMIC : International Association of Music Information - " open to the public and have extensive resources to offer. In addition to large libraries of sheet music and sound archives, some centres maintain up-to-date collections of biographical and research material, many issue publications and recordings, and all serve as a focus of musical activity in their country or region".
  • IAWM The International Alliance for Women in Music : Resources for Composers and Contemporary Music, lists Resources for Composers, Composer Collectives, Copyright and Licensing Resources, and other Internet Resources.
  • Music Composition Resource - created by James Fry & Christopher Bartlette, lists sources... for today's composers, including books, articles, internet sites, sound recordings and FAQs for beginning composers.
  • Music Theory and Analysis, by Larry Solomon. Includes useful links to Theory, Analytical Tools, Analyses, Miscellaneous - highly recommended.
  • Music Theory and Composition : DW3 Classical Music Resources.
  • Musical Instrument Range Chart - by Larry J. Solomon. Also other links on music theory, analysis, etc.
  • Online Music Therory Reference - intervals, chords, scales © 1997 José Rodríguez Alvira.
  • saggi musicali italiani : a database for texts on music theory and aesthetics. "This database, initiated and run by Andreas Giger, is designed to extend the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum and to continue the endeavor of capturing all texts on music theory and aesthetics in electronic form. saggi musicali italiani focuses first and foremost on the major treatises written in Italian, allowing them to be downloaded, browsed, and searched. The database will eventually comprise all printed materials from the Renaissance to the present."
  • SchenkerGUIDE : a guide to Schenkerian analysis for the intrigued or bemused, by Tom Pankhurst, Graduate Student, University of Manchester.
  • A Schenkerian Primer | Symbols for Schenkerian Analysis, by Larry Solomon.
  • teoria : Music Theory Web - Articles about music, Music Theory Questions, On-line music theory reference, Interactive music theory exercises (Java), Music theory and ear-training software.
  • teoria's links - Basic & Advanced Theory, Ear-training, Rhythm, Music Notation, Discussion Groups, Organizations
  • TME: Texts on Music in English from the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (CHMTL, Indiana University)
  • The Tonal Centre - an interactive site for music composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some of the key
    concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences, and modulation.
top of page up arrow

Computer and Electroacoustic Music

top of page up arrow

Early Music

  • Ancient Greek Music at the Austrian Academy of Sciences © Stefan Hagel.
    "This site contains all published fragments of Ancient Greek music which contain more than a few scattered notes. All of them are recorded under the use of tunings whose exact ratios have been transmitted to us by ancient theoreticians (of the Pythagorean school, most of them cited by Ptolemaios). Instruments and speed are chosen by the author. The exact sound depends on your hard- and software."
  • Arcadia Early Music Archive
  • Arto Wikla's Early Music Page
  • The Cantigas de Santa Maria - Facsimiles, Illuminations, Transcriptions, Modern Editions, Related Links, Discography, Bibliography (in progress).
  • CANTUS : a Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant. Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the liturgical Office.
  • DIAMM : Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music - University of Oxford and Royal Holloway University of London.
    An online resource for the study of fragments and complete manuscripts of European Medieval Polyphonic Music. "a resource for scholars which aims to digitize, archive and make available images of British manuscripts of medieval polyphonic music, and to develop techniques of digital image enhancement, or 'virtual restoration', to retrieve lost data or improve the legibility of materials that cannot at present be read." (October, 2000)
  • Early Music FAQ : reference for Medieval and Renaissance music. Includes topics, biographies, discographies, performers, lyrics, concerts, etc.
  • Early Music : Worldwide Internet Music Resources Compiled by David Lasocki, Indiana University.
  • Early Music Links from the Sibelius Academy server
  • SCA Medieval and Renaissance Music Homepage from Society for Creative Anachronism.
  • Early Music Periodicals: Past and Present Annotated bibliography from Indiana University Music Library
  • Facsimiles, Editions & Texts, from Early Music FAQ.
  • Gregorian Chant Home Page
  • Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments created by Musica Antiqua, a group of musicians based at Iowa State University.
    This web page showcases a collection of 12th-17th century replica instruments. Descriptions of each instrument include a history, construction, and how they are played. In addition, most include a short bibliography and a recorded sample in .wav format.
  • Index to Printed Music : Collections & Series (restricted - University of Melbourne only)
    Combines the Index Database, the Bibliography Database and the Names Database into an index for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions. Also useful for searching names (composers, poets, librettists, editors); titles and alternate titles; language of text and text incipit; performing forces (medium); identifying numbers (item numbers, opus/thematic catalogue numbers, key); formats (full score, piano vocal score, parts, etc.); language; presence of non-standard clefs; figured bass and how treated; duration of piece (if given in item); genres; musical incipit (if needed for identification); citations for performing editions based on the main work; and RISM source numbers.
  • Index to Renaissance Vocal Music in Collections, compiled by Carol Ohlers, Scott Library, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
    The period covered is roughly 1450-1600 (since the English Renaissance started later, English composers may extend well into the first quarter of the 17th century). The index is limited to sacred and secular vocal music. Volumes in indexed collections that contain only instrumental music have been excluded as well as instrumental selections in indexed volumes
  • Introduction to Medieval Music (Cynthia J. Cyrus) from the ORB Online Encyclopedia. (On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies)
    Related entries include : a medieval music glossary ; an introduction to church modes ; a table of items for the medieval Mass.
  • Resources: Medieval and Renaissance Center - from New York University.
  • Medieval Drama Links - A personal selection made by Sydney Higgins.
  • Medieval Music Database, from John Stinson, La Trobe University.
    Includes Fourteenth Century Music Database of medieval secular music, liturgical chant and Scribe database.
  • Medieval Music - from Labyrinth site, maintained by Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart
  • The Medieval Review, 1993- "The Medieval Review (TMR; formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review) has been publishing reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies, a field it interprets as broadly as possible. The electronic medium allows for very rapid publication of reviews, and provides a computer searchable archive of past reviews, both of which are of great utility to scholars and students around the world." Use the Search or Browse links within the website banner.
  • Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, University of Copenhagen, Institute for Greek & Latin
  • Renaissance Liturgical Imprints : a Census (RELICS).
    Database of information about nearly 10,000 worship books printed before 1601.
  • Renaissance & Baroque Music Chronology by Gordon J. Callon.
  • RISM Online : series A/II Manuscripts after 1600 (restricted - University of Melbourne only).
    An International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600.
  • saggi musicali italiani - a database for texts on music theory and aesthetics.
    "Designed to extend the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum .... and to continue the endeavor of capturing all texts on music theory and aesthetics ... It focuses on the major treatises written in Italian, allowing them to be downloaded, browsed, and searched and will eventually comprise all printed materials from the Renaissance to the present."
  • Short Bibliography of Early Music from various contributors, page maintained by Greg Lindahl
  • Texts on Music in English (TME): from the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
    "Designed to extend the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum and to continue the endeavor of capturing all texts on music theory and aesthetics in electronic form. Texts on Music in English focuses on major treatises written in English, allowing them to be downloaded and browsed. The database will eventually comprise all relevant manuscript and printed materials written in English from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century."
  • Theory of the Middle Ages (THEMA) = (Music) THEory of the Middle Ages. Comprises hypertext transcriptions of 18 manuscript copies of 14 Latin theoretical treatises related to musica mensurabilis of the thirteenth century.
  • Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum from Centre for the History of Music Theory and Literature.
    A searchable database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
  • Thesaurus Precum Latinarum. A collection of Latin prayers and hymns with English translations and commentaries.
  • Traités français sur la musique.
    "Designed to extend the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum... Traités français sur la musique focuses on major treatises written in French, allowing them to be downloaded and browsed. Searching capacity will be added in the future. The database will eventually comprise all relevant manuscript and printed materials written in French from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century."
top of page up arrow

Ethnomusicology

Directories - selected sites