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Associations

American Composers Forum
American Music Center
American Musical Instrument Society
American Musicological Society
Association for Recorded Sound Collections
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres
Music Library Association
Music Publishers' Association
Recording Industry Association of America
Society for American Music
Society for Ethnomusicology
Society for Music Theory
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music


Music libraries & research centers

USA:
Library of Congress (LC): Performing Arts Reading Room
LC: Recorded Sound Reference Center
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
American Music Center
Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive
Music Cognition Resource Center
Music Libraries in the US & Canada

California/Bay Area:
UC Berkeley Music Library
Melvyl (UC Union Catalog)
San Francisco Public Library
Museum of Performance and Design (formerly SFPALM)
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies

International:
British Library Music Collections
Turning the Pages (British Library)
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Musikabteilung
Bibliothèque nationale de France Departement de la Musique
IRCAM
The European Library (consortium catalog of national libraries)


Bay Area performance

American Bach Soloists
Ballet San Jose
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
California Bach Society
Carmel Bach Festival
Chanticleer
Golden Gate Men's Chorus
Ives Quartet
Kronos Quartet
Monterey Jazz Festival
New Century Chamber Orchestra
Other Minds
Paramount Theatre
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
St. Lawrence String Quartet
San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
San Francisco Early Music Society
San Francisco Opera and the Performance Archive
San Francisco Symphony
Silicon Valley Symphony
Smuin Ballet
Symphony Silicon Valley
West Bay Opera

Instruments & ensembles ~ voice ~ chorus ~ sheet music & scores

Instruments & ensembles

National Music Museum
Virtual Instrument Museum
CHICO Instrument Encyclopedia
Orpheon Foundation
The International Shakuhachi Society
Tai Hei Shakuhachi
Experimental Musical Instruments page
Atlas of Plucked Instruments
International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections (CIMCIM)
Musical Instrument Museums Online (MIMO)
Piano Technicians Guild
Pianonet
Piano Society
Van Cliburn Foundation
Player piano rolls (MIDI files)
American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers
Violin master class (Sassmannshaus)
Polyphonic.org (for orchestral musicians)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic
New York Philharmonic and its digital archives
Philadelphia Orchestra Podcasts
Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Voice

Aria Database
Lied and Art Song Texts
Bach: Cantatas
Bach: Texts of the Complete Vocal Works
Cyber Hymnal
Hymn Tune Index
San Francisco Opera
Metropolitan Opera
MetOpera Database
Operabase
Operacast
Ballad Operas Online
Song Index (University of Tennessee)
Choral Public Domain Library


Chorus

ChoralNet
International Federation for Choral Music


Sheet music and scores

LC: I Hear America Singing
LC: African-American Sheet Music

Sheet Music Consortium
19th-Century California Sheet Music (UC Berkeley)
Digital Archive of Popular American Music (UCLA)
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (Johns Hopkins)
Historic American Sheet Music (Duke)
Downloadable Scores from Acadia University
Mutopia
International Music Score Library Project (public domain scores)
Juilliard Manuscript Collection online
Sibley Music Library (public domain scores)
Sheet Music from Canada's Past
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads

Musicnotes (purchase popular sheet music downloads)
SheetMusicPlus (good selection for mail order printed music)

Popular music ~ jazz & blues ~ music jobs ~ amusements & miscellany

Popular music

Billboard Music Charts
Downbeat
Rolling Stone
Soul Patrol
Spin
Internet Broadway Database
Pandora.com online radio--try it!
Seventh String index to fake books
ARChive of Contemporary Music
Hip Hop and Rap Resources Columbia College, Chicago
Musicals 101
BlueGobo video clips of musical theatre promos
Slacker Personal Radio pop/rock/alternative online radio
Blackgrooves (recording reviews from Indiana University)
Plugged In (free HD music videos)
Wolfgang's Vault: Where Live Music Lives!
Encyclopediae Metallum : the Metal Archives


Jazz & Blues

San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation
Jazz Improvisation Primer
Jazz Pronunciation Guide (NEJRC)
A Passion for Jazz
Jazz on the Screen
The Blues (Scorsese/PBS)

SameDayMusic jazz links

Music jobs

My Auditions
MENC Career Center
Musical chairs (jobs, competitions, directories)

Stageagent.com (theatrical character descriptions, audition information, etc.)


Amusements & miscellany

Find-a-grave
Radio-locator (internet radio stations)
Pandora & the Music Genome Project
Classical live online radio
Pronouncing Dictionary (Iowa Public Radio)
LEGO harpsichord
Bug bytes (digitized insect sounds)
Oddmusic (experimental instruments, etc.)
Rocklopedia Fakebandica
Am I right? (misheard lyrics & song parodies)
Whistling records
Musicians & injuries
Digitized cylinder recordings (UC Santa Barbara)
Great conversations in music (films from the Library of Congress)
Public domain music
Themefinder
Voices: a world forum for music therapy
Women's music groups and websites
National Public Radio podcasts
Folk Songs for the Five Points (tenement soundscape project)
Frank's Vinyl Museum (recordings only a mother could love)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (concert podcasts)
Godchecker ("your Guide to the Gods")
Sleeveface (fun with LP cover art)
Music and the Brain podcasts
Music and Science Online (Royal College of Music)
Electronic Dictionary of Musical Themes
ArtPromote (music in pictures)
MusicBrainz information on music and recordings
Music and dance resources (Brigham Young University)

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