Tools for Musicians

• Worldwide Internet Music Resources
  • William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music
    
• assorted bibliographies (brass, woodwind, etc.)
  
  • Indiana University
• Essentials of Music
  • basic composer bios, some repertory
    
• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
  
  • A list of all the completed (and in-progress) music history dissertations in the U.S.
    
• Good Ear
  
  • practice your ear-training online, for free
    
• Gramophone magazine
  
• Sheet Music Consortium
  
• Colonial Music Institute
  
• American Music Preservation
  • various American musical topics
    
• Musical Jokes
  
• allmusic
  • commentary on many, many pieces

Useful Tools for Specific Genres

• Internet Broadway Database
  
• Internet Movie DataBase
  
• Musical Theater International
  
• Tony Awards
  
• Academy Awards
  
• The Aria Database
  
• LiederNet Archive
• Opera Arias Database

Online Sheet Music and Recordings

• Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digitalisierte Version
  
  • All of Mozart’s music available in PDF format—for free!
    
  • Online Resources for Music Scholars
    • Harvard College Library
    • gateway to a gazillion score sites
      
  • The Classical String Quartet, 1770-1840
    • Duke University Libraries
    • downloadable string quartet sheet music
  • historic American sheet music
    • Duke University Libraries
      
  • huge collection of scanned music
    
  • cheap sheet music
    
  • free scores and recordings
  • Musical Scores
    • PDFs from Eastman
      
  • Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) – Virtual Library
    • digital medieval music from St. Gall
      
  • Masses from the Renaissance: Look and Listen
  • PDFs & recordings of Renaissance masses
    
  • Renaissance Masses 1440-1520
    • Princeton University
    • audio recordings

Guidance for Teachers (and Prospective Teachers)

• State requirements for music instruction
  
• Cal Poly's GRE Site
  
• California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
  
  • The place to go if you’re interested in earning a CA teaching credential
• Teacher.org
  • An advocacy site for teachers with many resources such as free lesson plans, guides, teacher grants, scholarships, continuing education information, and more.
  • Career guide

Online Marvels

• Earliest known audible vocal recording
  
• time-lapse video of Cal Poly’s Fisk Organ construction