Allmusic - Contains the world's largest digital archives of music, including approximately 6,000,000 songs fully digitized Has more than 900 music critics' reviews of albums, songs, as well as artist biographies. Founded in 1991 by Michael Erlewine.
ArtistDirect.com - Premier annotated guide to Internet sites on specific artists.
American Memory from the Library of Congress - Sheet music, recordings, images, correspondence and other items in a number of collections including African American music, American Indian music, sound recordings and the recording industry, Woody Guthrie, Hispanic music, jazz, and folk music from various genres.
Classical Music MIDI Page - Files and biographical information on a number of popular composers.
Harvard's Internet Resources for Music Scholars - Provides a basis for beginning electronic research on topics in music. Several online reference databases are listed and available to the user.
Musical Films - A bibliography of materials in the UC Berkley Library consisting of books, videos and journal articles about individual films.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - A nonprofit organization that assists visitors and scholars around the world about the history and significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library and archives as well as its educational program.
Trouser Press - Information on selected artists from 1970 to present. Good source for reviews of many musicians.
UCSB's Music Links - Composers, copyright, instruments, Musicology and Music History, popular Music and Jazz are just a few of the Internet resources available to students and researchers
Virtual Sheet Music - 545,000 titles of sheet music including new hits, standards and classics
free-scores.com - Download classical sheet music for all types of musical instruments. Also biographies of various musical composers.
Mutopia Project - Classical sheet music. This site offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download.
WIMA: The Werner-Icking Music Archive - Contains a miscellany of subject-specific musical material
The Choral Public Domain Library - Begun in December, 1998, CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites. One can use CPDL to locate scores, texts, translations, and information about composers
The Sheet Music Archive - A popular classical sheet music web site holding over 22,000 classical music pieces and more than 100,000 pages of sheet music.
The International Music Score Library - Music scores free of charge to anyone with Internet access. Includes the Petrucci Library, a collaborative music score library with tens of thousands of scores composed by thousands of composers, all available for free download.
HymnWiki - HymnWiki is a site dedicated to hymns, children's songs (religious), religious anthems, and church music.
MusicAustralia - Australia's Music: Online, in Time. Music made and played by Australians. View and print Australian sheet music and full scores. Listen to sound recordings.
Open Directory Project: Music Sheets - Music site to access bands and artists, instruments, music styles and downloadable music sheets.
Arias Database - About opera and operatic arias. The database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions.
Folk Music Search Site - Folk music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales & America. A site of Traditional and popular music with lyrics, sheet music, MP3 files, chords and other Midis.
LyricInterpretations.com Search by keyword. This site allows users to post comments and interpretations of a wide variety of music lyrics.
Poemhunter.com - Search for poems by title, author or poem text. Search also for song lyrics by song title, song text, or singers name.
Song Lyrics.com - Searchable, browsable and a massive archive of song lyrics.
SongMeanings.net - Search for songs by artist, title or lyrics. This site allows users to post comments and interpretations of a wide variety of music lyrics.