LibGuides: Music History: Online Resources

Useful Websites

American Musicological Society
"The American Musicological Society was founded in 1934 to advance research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship. 3,600 individuals and 1,100 institutional subscribers from over forty nations participate in the Society."
College Music Society
"The College Music Society promotes music teaching and learning, musical creativity and expression, research and dialogue, and diversity and interdisciplinary interaction. A consortium of college, conservatory, university, and independent musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines of music, the Society provides leadership and serves as an agent of change by addressing concerns facing music in higher education."
History of Classical Music
International Music Score Library Project
Sharing the world’s public domain music.
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
The Center is the only institution in North America devoted solely to the life, works, and accomplishments of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).
Musical Periods: The History of Classical Music
Music History from Primary Sources
The Art of Musical Notation
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
"The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music is dedicated to the study and performance of seventeenth-century music and related arts."

Wolfram Demonstrations: Music

Conceived by Mathematica creator and scientist Stephen Wolfram as a way to bring computational exploration to the widest possible audience, the Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts in science, technology, mathematics, art, finance, and a remarkable range of other fields.