LibGuides: Music: Classical music

Journals

Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music (JSCM)
A refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century.

Websites

In addition to the sites listed below, you can also find classical music information under "Biographies" and "Scores & Recordings" and in the Oxford Music Online datebase on GALILEO.

Classical Connect.com
Site featuring thousands of recordings of classical music searchable by instrument, composer or performer.
Beethoven Gateway
A comprehensive and fully-indexed bibliography of materials relating to Beethoven
Digital Beethoven-Haus
The Digital Archives contains the unique collections of the Beethoven-Haus: Music manuscripts, first editions, letters and pictures.
British Library: Classical Music Sounds
Thousands of examples of classical music searchable by repertoire, performer, or conductor.
NOTE: Site is temporarily unavailable due to a cyber attack in November 2023.
Classical Music Navigator
Coverage of 500 composers and their work, musical terminology and links to major music sites.
Classical Net
The Classical Explorer is a place to discover works by lesser-known composers, and, occasionally, lesser-known works by well-known composers.
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)
Resource of digital images of European sources of medieval polyphonic music, captured directly from the original document.

For Conductors

The Conductors Guild is the only music service organization devoted exclusively to the advancement of the art of conducting.