- Archives of Traditional Music
- The core of this archive, the largest ethnographic sound archive in the USA, extends to over 250,000 hours of recorded time and consists of some 2,000 field collections, focusing on Native American, African and Latin American music and spoken word, including several collections from Somalia. The archive also houses several large collections of early jazz and blues 78s, and the Hoagy Carmichael Collection. Tables of contents of the archive’s publications, The Folklore and Folk Music Archivist (1958–68) and the quarterly Resound (from 1982) are available online.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online (DDM-Online)
- This website contains a database of bibliographic records for dissertations, both completed and in progress, in the fields of musicology, music theory and ethnomusicology. More than 10,800 records include those in the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology. You can search by author and/or by as many as three simultaneous key words.
- The Grove Dictionary of Art
- The Grove Dictionary of Art Online provides access to the Grove Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 volumes). 45,000 signed articles, including 21,000 biographical entries, provide extensive coverage of world art, and there are 130,000 searchable images and 30,000 links to colour images from other art sites. More than 1,000 links connect to high-quality art-related websites. You can gain access to The Grove Dictionary of Art Online via the Postgraduate Music Website Databases.
- Medieval Music Database, La Trobe University Library
- This database, focusing on fourteenth-century music, contains an annual cycle of liturgical chant taken from medieval sources, and information on works by selected twelfth- to fifteenth-century composers. Each listed work is documented under the following headings (where relevant): Sources, Facsimiles, Editions, Literature, Recordings and Texts.
- The Mudcat Café
- Included in the website of the blues and folk magazine, The Mudcat Café, is a database of the texts and music of over 7,000 folk songs. These can be searched by keyword or browsed alphabetically.
- Multimap.com
- Multimap.com offers detailed maps of the world, and street-level maps of Europe. Maps of British locations can be accessed via a quick search (by postcode, town or place) and there are aerial photos of many of the main cities. (Northern Ireland is included with the rest of Ireland.)
- Music Preserved
- Music Preserved, established in 1987, aims to record and save music performances for posterity. It maintains a collection of 1,500 archive recordings of live performances recorded at concerts and ‘off-air’ from 1934 to the present day, and publishes its journal, Reflections, annually. (Note that Music Preserved does not hold commercial recordings.)
- The Performing Right Society
- M Magazine, the quarterly publication of the Performing Right Society, provides a platform for news and discussion of topics relating to its role as collector of licence fees for public musical performance, including broadcasting, and its redistribution of these funds to its members. Articles are available online, as is a collection of press releases dating back to 1997.
- Society for Music Theory (USA)
- The Society for Music Theory, established in 1977, aims to develop music theory in all its aspects, including research and teaching. Three useful databases can be searched. The first contains information on the research profiles of scholars worldwide; the second is an inventory of analyses; and third is a bibliographical database listing citations of articles and reviews published in the major music theory journals. Apart from its newsletter, the society also publishes the journal, Music Theory Spectrum, now online, and Music Theory Online.