In 1956, the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University was established as the formal music library of the Harvard University Music Department. While the Library has embarked on a number of ambitious public outreach programs, this particular one will be a delight for musicologists as well as for those who just enjoy perusing unique musical scores. The layout of the site is pretty straightforward: as...

doubleTwist is a sleek and user-friendly music player. Available as a free desktop installation or as an Android app, doubleTwist automatically locates and organizes music, photos, and videos stored on your hard drive. It then syncs these files with Android devices, making for a seamless experience that rivals Apple for usability. Installation is easy, and reviews from users and critics alike are...

Jazz lovers may already know about the magazine Downbeat, but others with a developing interest in the current landscape of jazz music and jazz musicians may want to take a look at this site. As might be expected, the actual magazine is not available for free on the site, but there is enough free content here to warrant several visits. For the neophyte who may be looking to learn more about the...

Drummers and those who generally love the musical arts will appreciate Bernhard Castiglioni's very comprehensive website dedicated to the art and practice of drumming. Based in Switzerland, Castiglioni has spent a great deal of his personal attention and care in crafting a site that contains information about dozens of drummers, material on drum clinics, and reports from major drumming conventions...

We originally featured this resource in the 10-13-2017 Scout Report. Since then it has added several new components, including Early Music Sources PIE ("Please in English"), which "aims to take sources that were never translated, and in some cases never published, and publish them online for free, in English." Founded in 2014 by music scholar and composer Elam Rotem and musician and musicologist...

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Born in 1880 in Geneva, Ernest Bloch was a composer influenced by Richard Strauss and the Impressionist movement in art. This tendency found expression in many of his works, including his opera Macbeth and Schelomo, a work for cello and orchestra. Later in life, Bloch moved to the coast of Oregon, so it's not surprising that the Ernest Bloch Legacy organization is based out in the town of Newport....

The University of Washington Ethnomusicology Division houses over 400 musical instruments from around the world. Over the past six decades, the collection has grown substantially as musicians and collectors have donated all manner of instruments. First-time visitors should dive right in by clicking on the Idiophones section offered under Sample Searches. In case you are wondering, an idiophone...

The Exploratorium is in San Francisco's Palace of the Fine Arts, and contains science, art, and human perception exhibits. It has long promoted museums, including its own, as informal learning centers. The 40th anniversary of the Exploratorium is, in part, being honored with monthly podcasts of the radio series Speaking of Music, that ran from 1983-1992. Prominent musicians were interviewed in...

Felix Mendelssohn was a musical jack-of-all trades and he was renowned in his lifetime as an exquisite pianist, conductor, and of course, composer. To mark the bicentennial of his birth in 1809, the Library of Congress's Music Division has created this collection of primary source material related to Mendelssohn's life and accomplishments. A good place to start here is the section containing...