Intro to Musicology: Selective List of Music Research Internet Resources

ArchiveGrid provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions for institutions in the United States, making information available about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and other archival materials. It also provides contact information for the institutions where the collections are kept.

This website provides links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists.

GALILEO stands for GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online, an initiative of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. GALILEO is an online library portal to authoritative, subscription-only information that isn’t available through free search engines or Web directories. Participating institutions may access over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. Over 10,000 journal titles are provided in full-text. Other resources include encyclopedias, business directories, and government publications.

A site devoted to music and dance bibliography and reference.

The Association Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale Association promotes, supports and conducts worldwide cataloguing and research projects, workshops and conferences dealing with visual culture related to music, dance, and the dramatic arts.

Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (International Inventory of Musical Sources)—represents a worldwide effort to identify and describe sources of music and writings about music from the earliest times through ca. 1850.

A portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts (the resource does not include plainchant).

On this site, you can browse or search an open-source bibliography of nearly 200 specialized digital resources and born-digital projects in music.

The Global Jukebox is presented as a free, non-commercial, educational place for everybody ‐ students, educators, scholars, scientists, musicians, dancers, linguists, artists and music fans can all explore expressive patterns in their own cultural-geographic and diasporic settings and alongside others'.

An online collection of 138 autograph manuscripts, engravers proofs, & first editions.

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Provides online access to a variety of historical documents, includes those in the field of musicology.

Consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia.