Music & Music Research

List of common terms used in German music publications and thematic indices.

Find records to primary source materials from over 1,000 archival institutions with OCLS's ArchiveGrid. Search by location or keyword.

Database of works by women and gender-marginalized composers.

Blog post from the Library of Congress.

A Database of ALAANA, Women, and Gender Non-Conforming Composers. Chamber Music America uses the acronym ALAANA to indicate composers who identify as African/Black, Latinx, Asian/South Asian, Arab/Middle Eastern, and Native American.

Includes Resources of Underrepresented Composers.

Housed at the Free Library of Philadelphia.

The Institute for Composer Diversity, housed at the State University of New York at Fredonia, is dedicated to the celebration, education, and advocacy of music created by composers from historically underrepresented groups through database resources and programming analysis. Search the ICD's databases for composers and links to their websites and works.

IMI, formerly African Musical Arts, is a concert and education outreach program highlighting contemporary works by lesser-known composers, along with standard repertoire.

MBC's mission is (a) To inspire Black students to begin and continue instrumental training by showing them that they are an integral part of classical music’s past as well as its future; (b) To make the music of Black composers available to all people regardless of background or ethnicity; (c) To help bring greater diversity to the ranks of performers, composers, and audiences, and help change the face of classical music and its canon.

The world's largest freely accessible database of information on musical instruments held in public collections, with records for over 60,000 instruments.

Open access PDF that presents the most significant Polish music collections and sources of information of the Polish music culture.