Music

allmusic provides information and downloading capabilities for a wide range of musical styles and includes biographical information on over 62,000 musicians from classical composer John Adams to New Age keyboardist Yanni.

An archive of policy-relevant data on culture and the arts. Users may access current and past research, such as public opinion, city-specific data, and statistics pertaining to the arts.

Resources are broken down into:
• Data sets
• A literature database (monographs, serials, reports, papers, proceedings, articles and books)
• Research guides
• Other CPANDA resources (i.e. tips for evaluating studies, glossary of statistics terms, etc.)

A directory website, established by the Library of Congress, with a list of links pertaining to: Performing arts libraries and research aids, periodical indexes, doctoral dissertations, obituaries and necrologies, dance sites, theater sites, opera, film music, church music, music organizations, music industry sites, music publishers’ sites, copyright information, sheet music sites, and song lyrics.

A lyrics search engine.

Accessible resources on this site include sheet music from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Civil War band music, discographies compiled from recordings by two prominent Wisconsin recording companies (Paramount & Cuca), and an accumulation of “Wisconsin ethnic heritage materials.”

Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of UWSP library's Alexander Street Press music databases.

A collection of links to music information, resources, graphics and organizations, with an emphasis on classical and jazz. Categories include General Music Information and Indexes, Music Artists, Composers and Groups, Music-Related Graphic Images, Healing Music, Lyrics Sites, Music Sources, Purchase CDs Online, News Groups and E-Mail Lists, Online Publications, Classical Music Indexes and Resources, Music Artists, Composers and Groups, Music Organizations, Commercial Services, Instruments and Performance Resources, Music Sources, Sources for Scores and MIDI Files.

Launched in 1996, this noncommercial, educational resource site contains close to 900 Web pages of information about the history, development, and current traditions of musical theater.

Yahoo's music listings, including categories such as Artists, Awards, Band Naming, Blogs, Bootlegs, Charts, Classifieds, Composition, Computer Generated, Contests, Surveys, Polls, Cultures, Discographies, Education, Events, Film Music, Games, Genres, History, Humor, Instruments, Karaoke, Lyrics, Music Videos, News, Organizations, Photography, Producers, Recording, Reviews, Software, Soundtracks, Theory, Trivia.