Research Guides: #Music & Music Appreciation: Web Resources

Magazines

Backstage Magazine
Backstage's magazine caters to actors and performers with career advice, industry news, profiles, and more.
Classical Singer
Articles profile singers, provide audition advice and listings, and information about the industry.
Symphony Magazine
The quarterly magazine of the League of American Orchestras reports on the critical issues, trends, personalities, and developments of the orchestra world.
Cashbox
Music news: focuses on popular performers.

Podcasts

Song Exploder
Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features an artist discussing a song of theirs, breaking down the sounds and ideas that went into the writing and recording.
Strong Songs
On each episode of Strong Songs, host Kirk Hamilton takes listeners inside a piece of music, breaking it down and figuring out what makes it work.
Aria Code
Each episode dives into one aria — a feature for a single singer — and explores how and why these brief musical moments have imprinted themselves in our collective consciousness and what it takes to stand on the Met stage and sing them. Aria Code is produced in partnership with WQXR, The Metropolitan Opera and WNYC Studios.
American Orchestra Forum Podcasts
Limited run series. Highlights from our live events and behind-the-scenes conversations with musicians, scholars, composers, executives, critics and technologists. Duration: approximately 10-15 minutes per chapter.

Sites

Aria Database
Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions. The Database also provides access to a collection of operatic sound files to give visitors an idea of what each aria sounds like.
The Classical Music Navigator
Institute for Composer Diversity
Composer Diversity Database allows users to search and browse through almost four thousand composers. Research projects will gather and curate data from the professional and educational concert worlds and provide simple, straight-forward analyses of current programming and curricular trends.
Interactive IPA Chart
Click the symbols to hear what sound each makes.
Juilliard Collection of Digital Scores: Public Domain
Free collections of public domain resources from libraries and archives around the world.
LiederNet Archive
Contains archive of texts and translations of art songs and choral works.
MusicTheory.net
Free online lessons, exercises, and tools to learn how to read music and understand music theory.
Music Theory Examples by Women
This is a database of excerpts and complete musical compositions by women composers. The music is categorized by theoretical concept for use in music education.
New Music USA Online Library
The Online Library is a searchable database that provides on-demand access to digital scores, sound files and biographical information on composers.
Open Music Library (closed May 26)
Curated by a community of music scholars, students, teachers and librarians, the Open Music Library brings together peer-reviewed journal articles, books and music scores from the world’s digital collections.
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The Open Music Library is an initiative from Alexander Street to build the world’s largest free index of digital resources for the study of music.
Teoría
Music theory tutorials, ear-training exercises, reference, and articles.
New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives
The archive was launched in February 2011, and currently comprises more than 1.3 million pages, including more than 14,000 printed programs, marked conducting scores, business documents, and photographs.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Rosenthal Archives
The majority of archival holdings are now fully searchable via THEODORE, the online database of the Rosenthal Archives. Included are corporate records, music manuscripts, selected photographs and recorded sound and moving image collections.