Music Copyright

• Music Publishers Association - Web site for information provided by the Music Publishers' Association about music publishing, copyright laws, editorial standards, and the correct use of printed music.  Also contains a guide to copyright searching.

• ASCAP - Searchable database of all compositions in the ASCAP repertory which have appeared in any of ASCAP's domestic surveys, including foreign compositions licensed by ASCAP in the United States.

• BMI HYPER-REPERTOIRE - an internet song title database for publisher information on songs licensed by BMI.

• SESAC ON-LINE REPERTORY - works in the SESAC repertory which have been compiled from various sources.

• U.S. Copyright Office - Search records of registered books, music, art, and periodicals, and other works. Includes copyright ownership documents.

Classical

• American Classical Music and Hall of Fame Museum - Dedicated to honoring and celebrating the many facets of classical music in the United States.

• Andante - An excellent source for all things classical. Contains searchable databases of music in print, discographies, the Concise Grove, concert notes from Steinberg's Listener's Guides, and the New York Review of Classical Books.

• Classical Net - Offers a comprehensive array of files about classical music, including links to other web sites and information about music mailing lists; covering the last 900 years in Western art music.

• DW3: Classical Music Resources - The world's most comprehensive collection of classical music links. DW3 (Duke World Wide Web) Classical Music Resources is the most comprehensive collection of classical music resources on the Web with links to nearly 2,000 non-commercial pages/sites in over a dozen languages.

• Rochester Oratorio Society  - Overview of a major Rochester choral group.  Includes news about the group's July 2008 trip to China, information on the new Music Director, map of performance space with ticket prices, and more.

• RPO - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra - You will find the orchestra's schedule and news here.

Jazz

• Jazz Online - World's first commercial interactive network devoted to jazz.

• NPRJazz - Ken Burns examines the roots of a true American art form.

Opera

• Operabase - Over a thousand links to opera resources on the Web, opera houses and festivals; composers and operas (biographies; synopses, libretti, discographies; timelines); mailing lists and newsgroups; record companies; magazines and e-zines. Includes CORPUS, the Cooridinated Opera Resource Pages. CORPUS offers information on opera houses and festivals, composers, schedules, and newsgroups.

• Opera Glass - An opera information server on the World Wide Web wher you can find libretti source texts, performance histories , synopses and discographies.

Popular

• All-Music Guide - The world's largest and most comprehensive entertainment information database for music, videos, DVDs and video games, All Media Guide offers expert reviews, biographies, ratings, and images.

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honors the legendary performers, producers, songwriters, disc jockeys and others who have made rock and roll the force in our culture that it is.

• Music in the Public Domain - A reference site to help the ordinary person identify public domain songs, public domain music, and royalty free music you can use anywhere and any way you choose.

• Musicals 101:  The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film - The history of musicals, musical reviews, and essays, who's who, stage and screen chronologies. . .it's all found here.