Visual and Performing Arts

MUSIC

All Music Guide Explains the different styles of popular music, from bluegrass and country to gospel and rock. Includes essays and background information on the styles, performers and other aspects of popular music. Includes a glossary, discographies, and "music maps" which trace the development of various styles, with a nice "decades" listing section.

Andante Music Reference Collection A number of  reference works related to classical music. Includes: Concise Grove Dictionary of Music, Compositions Database (comprehensive list of over 180,000 classical compositions), New York Review of Books (classical music coverage from 1963, Full-Text), Einaudi Encyclopedia of Music, The New Kobbé's Opera Book, Music In Print, and "an interactive chronology covering a thousand years of music and world history." 

The Aria Database "Information about opera and operatic arias. 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."

Worldwide Internet music resources: song lyrics; libretti. A list of almost forty sites on the Internet that provide song lyrics.