Music in Art
Music and Dance in Art
A large selection of fine art print and poster images by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alfred Gockel, Marc Chagall, and Andy Warhol, plus works by emerging and contemporary artists.
Museums and Exhibits
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Music
View a collection of around 110 images online from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, includes paintings, manuscript illuminations, instruments, and other objects related to music plus thematic essays.
Brooklyn Museum: Music
View a small selection of paintings and other objects with a musical theme.
National Galleries of Scotland: Musical Instruments
A small collection of images including paintings by Pieter Roestraeten, David Allan, Sir William Allan, and others.
Smithsonian: Music
View music exhibitions and other resources from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Official site for the museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
Science of Music
An interactive exhibit that explores the science of music with a dot mixer, an online drum circle, movies, and more.
Experience Music Project
Explores creativity and innovation in popular music, online features include a guitar gallery timeline, hip hop timeline, Riot Grrrl retrospective, a harmony lesson and more.
Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Music Museum: The Business of Music
A museum on the Mississippi State University campus, browse selections from the collections online including musical instruments, recordings, and sheet music.
Museum of Science and Industry: Hip Hop
Explores the music, lifestyle, and language of hip hop music and its influence on American popular culture.
Image Collections
Joseph Muller Collection of Music and Other Portraits
From the NYPL Digital Gallery, the collection dates from 16th to the early 20th-centuries and includes over 4,700 portraits of mostly composers, musicians, and music patrons, but includes other artists, nobility, and philosophers as well.
Performing Arts Reading Room
Collections from the Music Division at the Library of Congress, around 12 million items spanning over 800 years of Western music history. Includes an illustrated guide to the music and book collections, manuscripts, artifacts, collections of musical instruments, and more.
Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
The William P. Gottlieb Collection, contains over 1600 photographs of jazz artists in New York City and Washington, D.C. from 1938 to 1948.
Musicians and Their Pets
A selection of portraits featuring musicians and their pets from the Yale University Music Library.
Music, Drama & Literature
Browse a collection of images in the WorldImages database, California State University IMAGE Project.
Resources
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
An online music research resource created by experts from all over the world, includes images, audio samples, and essays. Browse by genre, subject, instrument, cultural group, and more.
UW: Music Library
Collection of major music research databases and resources compiled by the University of Washington music librarians.
The Mutopia Project
Collection of classical sheet music in the public domain, free to download and use for any purpose.
Music Australia
Australian music collections and information on musicians, organizations and services.
MusicMoz: Open Music Project
A comprehensive directory of all things music, edited by volunteers, listing music-related reviews, articles, factual information, biographies, and websites.
BBC: Music
Guide to music including news, blogs, events, artists, albums, and more.
120 Years of Electronic Music
Electronic musical instrument archive from 1870 to 1990.
PBS: American Roots Music
Explores the roots of American blues, country, bluegrass, gospel, and Cajun music.
Smithsonian Jazz
Preserves and promotes jazz music, includes online classes on Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, and Louis Armstrong, plus history resources from the National Museum of American History and more.
Biographies
PBS: American Masters Database: Music
Images and biographical information on a selection of accomplished American musicians.
