ONLINE RESOURCES IN AMERICAN MUSIC - RESEARCH AIDS
This resource page provides recommended hyperlinks to specialist reference and archival websites, pages, and online databases devoted to diverse aspects of American music and musical life, where sources and information are displayed. 225 websites, pages, online databases, and YouTube channels listed to date; 57 Facebook pages of Organizations and Institutions specializing in American Music or specific aspects of it have been added since 11/24/2014. This page has been researched and compiled, and is constantly revised, by Aloma Bardi © 2011-2024 for ICAMus; last entirely checked on April 10, 2023; last updated on January 4th, 2024.
The African-American Art Song Alliance [Link not active as of 10-17-2019]
African American Sheet Music 1850-1920, Brown University Library
AfriClassical – African Heritage in Classical Music; William J. Zick, Editor
Afrocentric Voices in “Classical” Music
Alan Lomax Digital Recordings Archive
Amazing Grace – Chasanoff/Elozua Collection, The Library of Congress
American Century Music Radio [Stream not active since 02-11-2017]
American Classical Music Hall of Fame
American Dreams - Stephen Collins Foster’s Songs; Werner Tomaschewski, Author and Editor
American Gospel Music Directory
American Harmony: Inspired Choral Miniatures; Nym Cooke, Author; David R. Godine, Publisher
American Music: An Alternative Narrative. PostClassical Ensemble 2015-2016
American Music Center - currently New Music USA
American Music Collections at the Library of Congress [Link not active since 12-15-2017]
American Music Institute, The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
American Music on the World Wide Web, SAM - Society for American Music
American Music Preservation; Roger Hall, Author and Editor
American Music Research Center Journal at the University of Colorado Boulder
American Popular Song Sheet Covers 1890-1922, New York Public Library
American Song Sheets at Duke University
ASA - American Songbook Association
AVMM - American Vernacular Music Manuscripts
Americana Rhythm Music Magazine
The Anthony Philip Heinrich Society
AAAMC – Archives of African American Music & Culture at Indiana University
Bill Doggett Productions - African American Composers - The Lecture Series and The Archive
The Birthplace of Country Music
Black Music Research Journal of The Center for Black Music Research
Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives - Digital Collections
Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives - Performance History
Canadian Journal for Traditional Music
Canadian Music Centre / Centre de Musique Canadienne
Canadian Society for Traditional Music
Capricorn - The French Samuel Barber Society
The Catalogue of Brazilian Sacred and Religious Music – Works from the 18th and 19th Centuries
The Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh
Center for Black Music Research
Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at University of California, Riverside
The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University
Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University
Charles Ives - The Charles Ives Papers, Yale University; compiled by Vivian Perlis - Finding Aid
The Civil War Sheet Music Collection at the Library of Congress
Colegio de Compositores Latinoamericanos de Música de Arte
The Colonial Music Institute – Resources. Online Databases
Copland Society – Copland House
CDSS - Country Dance & Song Society Library – Online Collections
Dance Figures Index: American Country Dances, 1710-1830. The Colonial Music Institute
Dance Figures Index: English Country Dances, 1650-1833. The Colonial Music Institute
The Dancing Master 1651-1728: An Illustrated Compendium. The Colonial Music Institute
The Duke - Where and When – A Chronicle of Duke Ellington’s Working Life and Travels
Early American Sheet Music through 1820 - The Library of Congress Music Division
Early American Songsters, 1734-1800: An Index. The Colonial Music Institute
Elmer Bernstein - The Official Site
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Society
Film Music Archives; Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University
Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture, Washington, DC
George & Ira Gershwin - By The Gershwin Enterprises
GMA - Gospel Music Association
The Great American Songbook Foundation; Michael Feinstein, Founder
Heitor Villa-Lobos Website, Indiana University Latin American Music Center, Jacobs School of Music
Historic American Sheet Music at Duke University
The H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College
IBDB – Internet Broadway Database
ICAMus - The International Center for American Music
ICAMus - The International Center for American Music – Publications
ICAMus - The International Center for American Music – YouTube Channel
Index of Native American Music Resources on the Internet
Indian House – Traditional American Indian Music
Indiana University Sheet Music Collection
Institute for Canadian Music at the University of Toronto
Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University Library
International Hispanic Music Study Group, Dartmouth College [Link not active as of 09-24-2018]
Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project - American Antiquarian Society
Ives Fourth Symphony; Thomas M. Brodhead, Editor/Associated Music Publishers, Inc.
JazzUSA [Link not active since 02-11-2017]
The Jerome Moross Centennial (1913-2013)
Jewish Women and Jewish Music in America – Jewish Women’s Archive
John Cage – By the John Cage Trust
John Jacob Niles Center for American Music, University of Kentucky
John Philip Sousa and His Band; sponsored by the Dallas Wind Symphony
John Philip Sousa - The United States Marine Band
JSAM – Journal of the Society for American Music (SAM)
Juliana Hall, American Art Song Composer
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Latin American Music Center, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
Leonard Bernstein - The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc.
Leonard Bernstein at 100 - The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc. 2018
The Leonard Bernstein Collection at the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress – American Folklife Center
The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America
The Library of Congress Digital Collections – Performing Arts Encyclopedia
The Library of Congress Music Division – Performing Arts
Marian Anderson: A Life in Song – Penn Library Exhibitions
The Marian Anderson Historical Society
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; Official Composer Site
Max Steiner: Man and Myth. A Symposium; California State University
The Milken Archive of Jewish Music: The American Experience
The Mississippi Rag: The Voice of Traditional Jazz and Ragtime
Moravian Music Foundation, Winston-Salem, NC
Music by Black Composers - MBC
The Music of Early America – Archiving Early America
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885 at the Library of Congress, American Memory
MUSA – Music of the United States of America
Museo Nacional de la Música, Cuba
Music of the Americas – Americas Society / Council of the Americas
Music of the War of 1812 in America
Music Unwound; Joseph Horowitz, Curator
Musical Passage: A Voyage to 1688 Jamaica
Musicals101; John Kenrick, Editor
NANM – The National Association of Negro Musicians
NEMA - New England Music Archive - American Music Preservation; Roger Hall, Author and Editor
New Music USA - formerly American Music Center
19th-Century California Sheet Music; Mary Kay Duggan, Editor
North/South Recordings - Archiv Music
Northern Virginia Ragtime Society - NVRS
OHAM – Oral History of American Music at Yale University
Old-Time Piano Playing Contest, Oxford, Mississippi
The Parlor Song Academy – Preserving America’s Popular Music Heritage
The Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers, 1690-1783. The Colonial Music Institute
PAMS - Preserving American Music Series - American Music Preservation; Roger Hall, Author and Editor
Public Domain Music; Benjamin Robert Tubb, Editor
The Rebecca Clarke Society, Inc.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library & Archives
Sacred Harp & Related Shape-Note Music Resources; Steven L. Sabol, Editor
Samuel Barber at the Library of Congress
Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation
SGMA - Southern Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame and Museum
Shaker Music - American Music Preservation; Roger Hall, Author and Editor
Sheet Music from Canada’s Past – Libraries and Archives of Canada
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
The Society for American Music
Society for American Music Digital Lectures in American Music – Sam YouTube Channel
The Society for Earlier American Music - American Music Preservation; Roger Hall, Author and Editor
Song of America Project - The Library of Congress and Thomas Hampson
Sourcebooks in American Music - The College Music Society; Michael J. Budds, Series Editor
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Southern Rock Hall of Fame and Museum
The Spirituals Database - An “Art of the Negro Spiritual” Project
The Spirituals Project [Link not active as of 02-08-2018]
The Star Spangled Music Foundation
Stephen Collins Foster’s Sketchbook – The University of Pittsburgh Digital Research Library
Stephen Foster Memorial Museum and Center for American Music Library
Still Going On: Celebrating The Life and Times of William Grant Still
Tanglewood Multimedia Archive Exhibit
Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz
Traditional Adirondack Music and Music Making - By TAUNY, Traditional Arts in Upstate New York
US Opera; Christopher Hapka, Editor
West Virginia Square Dances. Robert G. Dalsemer/CDSS
William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz, Tulane University
Yale University Library – Irving S. Gilmore Music Library
Yiddish American Sheet Music at the Library of Congress
Facebook pages of Organizations and Institutions specializing in American Music.
American Art Song Concerts - Public Group
American Classical Music Hall of Fame
American Music Preservation (page in existence until 10-31-2018; then canceled by administrator)
ASA - American Songbook Association
Archives of African American Music and Culture
Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Capricorn - L’Association des amis de Samuel Barber
GMA - Gospel Music Association
The Great American Songbook Foundation
The H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music
ICAMus - The International Center for American Music
International Anthony Philip Heinrich Society
Italian Americans - History & Culture
John Philip Sousa; sponsored by the Dallas Wind Symphony
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Latin American Music Center - LAMC; Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
Leonard Bernstein - The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc.
Marco Fumo - African American Piano Music
The Marian Anderson Historical Society
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; James Westby, Editor
Milken Archive of Jewish Music - The American Experience
MUSA - Music of the United States of America
Music by Black Composers - MBC
Music of the Americas – Americas Society
NANM - The National Association of Negro Musicians - Public Group
Northern Virginia Ragtime Society - NVRS
OHAM - Oral History of American Music
Performing Arts at the Library of Congress
“The President’s Own” United States Marine Band – John Philip Sousa
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum
SAM - Society for American Music
Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation
SGMA - Southern Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame and Museum
SIdMA - Società Italiana di Musicologia Afroamericana (Page active 2008-2014)
Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
The Spirituals Database - An “Art of the Negro Spiritual” Project
The Star Spangled Music Foundation
Stephen Foster Memorial Museum and Center for American Music Library
