Recommended Websites
The following is a collection of performance-related websites. These websites have been collected from reputable library databases and/or have been used reliably by Boston Conservatory students and faculty. Please keep in mind that not all of these websites are peer-reviewed and we cannot necessarily attest to the accuracy of all data provided. It is strongly recommend that you evaluate each of these databases as you would any information that you find online. The library recommends the guidelines for evaluating websites stated in the following articles on the Indiana University School of Music website: http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/citing.html.
You are encouraged to submit your own recommendations!
Thank You,
Jennifer Hunt, Library Director
jhunt@bostonconservatory.edu
Recommended Websites Organized by Topic
Boston Conservatory Faculty Websites
- Aleo, Keith Percussion
- Altenbach, Andrew Music Director, Opera Studies
- Bernard, Rhoda Music Ed
- Bolter, Norman Trombone
- Boynton, Julia Dance
- Brady, Sarah Flute
- Brennan, Maureen Theater
- Caggiano, Chris Theater
- Cohler, Jonathan Clarinet
- Dalton, Jim Music Theory, Music Education
- Dellal, Pamela Voice
- Della Penna, Joe Accompanist
- Dunkel, Stuart Oboe
- Epstein, Eli French Horn
- Epstein, Marti Composition
- Felipe, Miguel Opera & Vocal Studies
- Frengel, Mike Composition
- Goldstein, Sara Voice
- Gregg, Thomas Voice
- Grimes, John Timpani
- Halloran, Stephen Music Theory
- Honeysucker, Robert Voice
- Hughes, Curtis Composition
- Hurel, Pierre Liberal Arts / Improvisation
- Isaacson, Larry Associate Director, Music Division / Trombone
- Jimenez, Tai Dance
- Jones, Steven Ladd Theater
- Larget-Caplan, Aaron Guitar
- Leventhal, Sharan Violin
- Levinson, Max Piano
- Lewin, Michael Piano
- Maira, Desiree Voice for Dancers
- Mansfield, Peter Theater
- McCarty, Patricia Viola
- McCusker, Daniel Dance
- Morgan, Marjorie Theater
- Muresanu, Irina Violin
- Murphree, John Music Theory
- Noren, Rictor Violin / Viola
- Norsworthy, Michael Clarinet
- Overton, Drika Dance
- Ovrut, Janel Nutrition
- Palance, Thomas Music Ed
- Placci, Markus Violin
- Price-Glynn, Cynthia Harp
- Radnofsky, Ken Saxophone
- Riedel, Jonathan Dance
- Rojahn, Rudolf Music Theory
- Roy, Dennis Double Bass
- Shea, Merrill Voice
- Sheena, Robert English Horn / Oboe
- Siegfried, Kevin Music Theory
- Solomon, Sam Z. Percussion
- Strong, Berit Guitar
- Subero, Angel Bass Trombone
- Troup, Nathan Voice
- Udagawa, Yoichi Conducting
- Vores, Andy Composition
- Warshaw, Dalit Composition
- Weber, Janice Piano
- White, Kate Liberal Arts
- Wolfe, Lawrence Double Bass
- Wray, Phoebe Theater
- Zdorovetchi, Ina Harp
- Zeltsman, Nancy Marimba
Career Resources
Be sure to check out the career databases on our electronic resources page as well.
- American Composer's Forum
- American Dance Guild
- American Federation of Musicians (AFM)
- American Guild of Musical Artists
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
- Art Job Online
- Backstage.com
- Boston Casting Incorporated
- Boston Dance Alliance
- Boston Singers Resource
- Chronicle of Higher Education
Job Search Site - Council on International Education Exchange
- Dance.net
- DanceArt.com
- Foundation Center
- J.F.K. Center for the Performing Arts
- Massachusetts Arts Council
- Massachusetts Department of Education
- Massachusetts Music Educator's Association
- National Association for Music Education: Music Educator's National Conference
- National Association of Teachers of Singing
- National Endowment for the Arts
- New England Foundation for the Arts
- Open Directory Project - Classical Singers
- Opera Stuff
- Stage Agent
- Stagesource: The Greater Boston Theater Arts Alliance
- Technology in the Arts
- YAP Tracker
Citation and Style Guides
- Citation and Style Guides (Bennington College)
- Citation Machine
Templates for Citation Styles: MLA, APA, Turabian and Chicago - Citing Electronic Resources Using MLA Style (IU)
- Help with citing (IU)
- MLA Citation Style (Cornell University)
- Owl, The (Purdue University)
APA, MLA, and Chicago Formatting and Style Guide - Student Writing Guides on EasyBib
Composers
- American Brahms Society
- American Handel Society
- Arnold Schoenberg Center
- Bach Digital
- Beethoven Bibliography Database at San Jose State University
- C.P.E. Bach Performing Parts
- Composer Necrology (Gaylord Music Library)
- Digital Bach Project
- International Gustav Mahler Society
- Prokofiev Page
- Tchaikovsky Research
- Verdi Libretti
- Wagner Society of Northern California
Composition and Theory
- American Composer's Forum
- American Music Center
- Center for Schenkerian Studies
- Center for the History for Music theory and Literature
- Finale Music Composition Software
- Noteflight
Free web-based music notation application - Ricci Adams' Music Theory.net
Music Theory lessons, Interval Ear Trainer - Society for Music Theory
Dance
- American Dance Guild
- American Dance Therapy Association
- Boston Ballet
- Boston Dance Alliance
- Boston Dance Company
- Dance Dictionary - American Ballet Theater
- Dance Educators of America
- Dance Heritage Coalition
- Dance Masters of America
- Dance Notation Bureau
Labanotation symbol system for creating dance scores - Dance USA - The National Service Organization for Professional Dance
- Dance Writing Site / Library
Read and write movement with Sutton Dance Notation - Dance.net
- Dance: Music Library Guide, Guide to Reference Sources (Univ. of Maryland)
- Free to Dance - Companion to the PBS Series
- Notated Theatrical Dances (NTD) Catalog
Early Music
- Boston Early Music Festival
- Cantus: A database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the liturgical office - Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
Collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts - Early Music Network
An International Early Music Society - Early Music Online
Digitized images of some of the world's oldest surviving volumes of printed music - Hymn Tune Index
Comprehensive census of tunes associated with English-language hymns found in sources printed in or before the year 1820 - Medieval Music Database
Searchable medieval music sources - Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (Indiana University)
Database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Health & Wellness for Performers
- Alexander Technique International
- Alexander Technique, The Complete Guide
- American College of Sports Medicine
- American Council on Exercise
- American Dance Therapy Association
- Ease of Being.com
Alexander Technique teacher training program - MyPlate (US Dept. of Agriculture)
- National Eating Disorders Association
- Nutrition.gov
- Pilates Studio.com
- US Food and Drug Administration
Instruments
- Acoustic Guitar
- American Musical Instrument Society
- American Viola Society
- Bassoon Resource Page
- Chamber Music America
- Clarinet Pages at Woodwind.org
Resources for the clarinet and other woodwinds - Drum! Magazine
- Flute World
- Galphin Society - For the Study of Musical Instruments
- Henselt Library of Nineteenth-Century Piano Music
View and download piano music - International Clarinet Association
- International Double Reed Society
- International Horn Society - Horn Call
- International Trombone Association
- International Trumpet Guild
- International Tuba Euphonium Association
- Internet Cello Society
- National Flute Association
- New Millennium Guitar Publishing
Articles, sales - North American Saxophone Alliance
- Online Trombone Journal
- Opus Cello Cello arrangements and interviews
- Percussive Arts Society
- Piano Technicians Guild
- Strad String music
- Strings magazine
- Violin Masterclass.com
- Violin Society of America
- Windplayer.com Tools for musicians
- Windsong Press Limited
Retail and information for brass players - ZMF New Music
Zeltsman Marimba Festival, New Music - Fostering the creation of new works for solo marimba
Literature
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - American and English Literature
Full text - Bartleby.com: Literature Online
Full text - Bibliomania
Free texts, bibliographies and reference - Classic Authors
Full text - Classic Short Stories
Full text - Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Full text - Dante Project (Princeton University)
Interactive, searchable database studying Dante’s Comedy - Greatest Books of All Time
Ultimate book list - Hypertexts - American Studies
Full text - Literature.org
Full and abridged text of classic works of English Literature - Online Medieval and Classical Library
Full text - Open Library
Thousands of e-books available for free - Oxford Text Archive
Literary and linguistic resources - Page by Page Books
Full text of classic books - Perseus (Tufts University)
Greek and Roman texts, sources and photography - Poets.org (Academy of American Poets)
Poetry, Poems and Biographies - ReadPrint
Full text
Miscellany
- American Memory from the Library of Congress
- Blank Sheet Music.net
Free customizable music paper - GloPAD
"authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators" - HathiTrust Digital Library
Digital repository of dozens of participating libraries - Internet Acronym Server
Need to know what NFGOCM, BPM or AMS stand for? This is the place. - Internet Culturale
Broad compilation of digital archival collections from Italy - Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia
"Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress"
Music - General
- All Music (AMC)
Recordings, reviews, etc. - Allrecordlabels.com
- ArkivMusic
Sound recordings for purchase - Burt & Company Music Supply
Printed music for pedagogy and serious performance, articles - CD Sheet Music
Purchase and download - Danish National Digital Sheet Music Archive
- Di-Arezzo Sheet Music
- Dolmetsch Foundation's Music Dictionary
- Eastman Library Digitized Scores
- Electronic Dictionary of Musical Themes
- Every Note.Com: Digital Music Library
Purchase & download - Harvard Guide to Digital Scores
- Historic American Sheet Music (Duke University Library Digital Collection)
- IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library
Public domain music score library, Free full-text access to 98,964 scores, and counting - International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
- J.W. Pepper
- Music Publisher's Association
Information about music publishing and issues relevant to the publishers of print music for concert and educational purposes - MusicScores.com
Out of copyright music, free or for a small fee - Music Treasures Consortium
- Musical America
- Mutopia Project
Public domain sheet music - National Jukebox
Historical recordings from the Library of Congress - New York Philharmonic Digital Archives
- Partifi
Extracts parts directly from a PDF score, including those found on IMSLP - Sheet Music Consortium
Open collection of digitized sheet music - Sheet Music Plus
- Society for American Music
From the publishers of The Journal of the Society for American Music - Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
Music Education
- America Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA)
Music and movement education - American School Band Director's Association (ASBDA)
- Choral Net - The Internet Center for Choral Music
- Chronicle of Higher Education - Job search site
- Dalcroze Society of America
- Educator's Reference Desk
- El Sistema USA
- Gordon Institute for Music Learning
Music Learning theory - Gramercy Kids
Interactive educational website - Institute for Music Research
- International Society for Music Education
- Massachusetts Department of Education
- Massachusetts Music Educator's Association
- National Association for Music Education
- National Association of Teachers of Singing
- New Horizon's for Learning - Arts in Education
- Organization of American Kodály Educators (OAKE)
- Richards Institute of Education and Research: Music/Brain/Child Development Articles
- Suzuki Association of America
- Teachers.net
Music lesson bank - West Music
Retail site for Music Ed materials
Music Research and Musicology
- American Musicological Society
- Citing and Evaluating Internet Resources (Indiana University)
- College Music Society
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
- Dolmetsch Foundation's Music Dictionary
- Early Music Online
Digitized images of some of the world's oldest surviving volumes of printed music - International Alliance for Women in Music
- International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
- Music Research
Online companion to Laurie J. Sampsel's Music Research: A Handbook (REF ML113 .S28 2009) - MusRef
Music and dance bibliography and reference - Recent Researches in Music, A-R Editions
Lists and describes the contents of each volume in the Recent Researches series - Saggi Musicali Italiani (Indiana University)
Database for Texts on Music Theory and Aesthetics - Scholarly Societies Project - Music
Access to websites of scholarly societies across the world. - WorldCat
Connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
Music Libraries
- Berklee College of Music - Stan Getz Library
- Boston University Libraries
- Harvard College - Loeb Music Library
- Institute for Music Research (USTA College for Liberal and Fine Arts)
Research in the areas of music psychology, music learning, and music technology - International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
- Library of Congress Classification Outline - M: Music
What do all those Library of Congress call numbers mean, anyway? - MIT - Lewis Music Library
- Music for the Nation, American Sheet Music (LOC American Memory Project)
Over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885 - New England Conservatory - Firestone Library
- New England Conservatory - Spaulding Library
- Northeastern University Libraries
- WorldCat
Connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
Summer Festivals
- Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music
- Aspen Music Festival
- Atlantic Music Festival
- Bang on a Can Summer Festival
- Bard College Conductors Institute
- Brevard Music Center
- Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme
- Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale
- Eastern Music Festival
- Jacob's Pillow
- Lucerne Festival
- Music Academy of the West
- National Orchestral Institute
- National Repertory Orchestra
- Pacific Music Festival Sapporo
- Pierre Monteux School
- Round Top Festival Institute
- Sarasota Music Festival
- Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice
- Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute
- Tanglewood Music Center
- Texas Music Festival
- Yellow Barn
- Zeltsman Marimba Festival
Theater, Musical Theater
- Actor's Equity Association
- American Association of Community Theater
- American Musical Theater
Recommended sources in American Musical Theater - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
- Backstage.com
- Boston Playwrights Theater
- Cast Album Database
Musical Theater cast album information - CastAlbums.org
Even more comprehensive cast album information - Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Diotoma: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
- Doollee.com
Guide to Modern Playwrights and theater plays - Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Modern American plays, retail - Goodspeed Musicals
- International Dialects of English Archive
Primary source recordings of dialects & accents - International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
- Internet Broadway Database
Official database for Broadway theatre information, provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today - London Theater Guide
- Musical Notes and More
Musical Theater synopses and production notes - Musicals 101
Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film - Musicals.net
Musical Theater forums and resources - National Center for Voice and Speech
Studies on the enhancement of human voice and speech - Playbill
Website for the periodical - Playbill Vault
"The largest Broadway database on the internet" - Romantic Circles - Electronic Editions
Searchable archive of texts of the Romantic era - Samuel French, Inc
Play publishers and author’s representatives - Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
- Stage Agent
Community for the performers, producers & fans of musicals, plays, & operas - Stagesource: The Greater Boston Theater Arts Alliance
- Tabula-rasa: A History of Special Effects
Timelines documenting the history of special effects in theater - Theater Mirror
- Theatre Database
Information about playwrights through the centuries - Theatrical Scenery, A Brief History
- Variety
Vocal Performance
- Aria Database
Collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias; includes translations and aria texts and a collection of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles - Boston Singers Resource
Events, resources, vocal heath, products and services - Choral Net - The Internet Center for Choral Music
Resources and communications for the global choral music community - Choral Singer Newsletter
Featured articles from the publication - Classical Singer
Website for the periodical - Diction Domain
Voice dictation resources for singers - FreeTranslation.com
- Gilbert & Sullivan Archive
G & S libretti, synopses, photographs of productions, scores, audio files, and more - International Dialects of English Archive
Online primary source recordings of dialects & accents - IPA Source
Archive of texts of song repertoire with IPA and translations (This is a Library electronic subscription, please log on to proxy for off-campus access) - Lied and Art Song Texts Page
- Metropolitan Opera - Stories of the Operas
Source for opera synopses - Musica International - The Virtual choral Library
- National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)
- National Center for Voice and Speech
Studies on the enhancement of human voice and speech - Naxos Education Page
Includes Opera synopses - New York City Opera
Includes Opera synopses - Opera America
Sources for the creation, presentation and enjoyment of opera - Opera Critic
Current happenings in Opera from around the world - Opera Glass
- Opera Liber
Opera libretti - Opera Stuff
Lists of opera houses, services, competitions and other resources - Operabase
Documents operatic activity worldwide since 1996, records the work of artists in over 600 theatres, publishes season information - Parlor Songs, 1800s - 1920s: In Search of American Popular Song
Dedicated to the acquisition and rescue of the historic musical manuscripts that are a part of the popular music scene in America - Schubertline: The Online Score Service for Singers
- Sullivan Foundation
- U.S. Opera
American opera, discographies, synopses, downloadable music, timeline and a listing of recommended arias for different voice types - Verdi Libretti
- YAP Tracker
Programs, competitions, workshops for vocalists - Zarzuela.net
Reference and information on zarzuelas
