Music Studies Organizations & Centers

SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
"...lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime). Not only basic information about the institution is provided, but also information about the collections which are to be found within the institutions."
Editor: Paul S. Ulrich
SIBMAS - SociÈtÈ Internationale des BibliothËques et des MusÈes des Arts du Spectacle (International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts)
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American Beethoven Society

American Music Center

American Music Therapy Association

American Musicological Society (AMS)

Artists Network of Refuse & Resist
"Artists dedicated to creating a Culture of Resistance"

Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Inc. (ARSC)

The Banff Centre Music and Sound Home Page - (dead link)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Center for Black Music Research

Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)

Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca (Italy)

College Music Society

Country Music Hall of Fame

Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music (DIEM)

Experience Music Project (EMP)
Includes an expanding EMP Digital Collection
Popular music museum at Seattle, USA.

Historic Brass Society (HBS)

International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML)

International Association for the Study of Popular Music

International Computer Music Association (ICMA)

International Machaut Society

IRCAM: Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique

Israel Musicological Society

M.U.S.I.C. - (dead link)
Musicians United for Songs In the Classroom
Includes a Song Directory of 1,400 songs relevant to education, tools for teachers and a Gallery of students' visual and written work.

Music Education Online

Music Library Association

Music, Mind, Machine: Computational Modeling of Musical Knowledge and Cognition

Norwegian Music Information Centre

Onde-Spirale
"Onde-Spirale is a group of talented people that compose music for films and television. Many tracks to listen to in free streaming audio."

Recording Industry Association of America

RÈpertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)

Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies

San Jose State University - Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies

Society for American Music
(formerly known as The Sonneck Society)

Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)

Society for Music Theory

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

Stanford University - Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)

University of Birmingham - Electroacoustic Music Studios

University of Edinburgh - Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments
"...is one of the most important collections of its kind. It attracts musicians, instrument makers, organologists, as well as students and non-professional visitors from all over the world. It consists of over 50 instruments dating from the end of the sixteenth century through to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Instrument types include the harpsichord, spinet, virginal, clavichord, organ and fortepiano. All are authentic examples from the historical period, many of which retain important and interesting original features."

University of Texas - Institute for Music Research