Music of Church/Synagogue/Mosque/Temple: Web Sites

An access point to the collections of some of Europe’s most important musical instruments museums.

MIM collects and displays musical instruments from every country in the world, preserving, protecting, and sharing these gifts with future generations

A Saint Paul institution whose collections include:
historic keyboard instruments, the Kugler Collection of Musical Instruments, which includes brass instruments, strings, winds, and percussion instruments from around the world, music boxes, early phonographs, and home-made instruments from 20th-century America.

Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the liturgical Office.

Features over 10,000 Christ­ian hymns, Author Bios, Composer Biographies, Hymn Histories and Gos­pel songs from ma­ny de­nom­in­a­tions. You’ll find lyr­ics, scores, MI­DI files, pic­tures, his­to­ry, & more.

An online forum for academic, organizational, and individual activities in Jewish music.

Gives information about the history, development and practice of liturgics and liturgical music in the Judeo-Christian milieu AND audio samples of many genres of liturgical music.

A comprehensive site about Bach's life, his importance, and recordings of his work.

A detailed biography with illustrations.

An extensive site of resources concerning Sacred Harp, other Shape-Note music, Gallery music, etc.

A one-stop center of Smithsonian images, videos, sound files and archives

Information about scores, composers, musical news from one of the world's largest music publishers.

An online manuscripts, books and documents relating to Renaissance music.

The American Music Center is dedicated to building a national community of artists, organizations, and audiences creating, performing, and enjoying new American music.

An enormous categorized database.

This index lists those composers for which there is a dedicated page at this site that may include a biography, recommended works, recommended recordings, and other related reviews and articles.

A helpful resource for music educators