Music Cataloging at Yale [1] ♪ Sound recording cataloging [2]
Internet
Performers' short biographies [3] (short biographies of every performer who has taken part in a recording of Bach's vocal works: mainly singers, conductors, chorus masters, choral and instrumental groups)
yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info [4]: in English, Russian, and Yiddish; performer biographies from the 79 RPM and 33 1/3 RPM eras.
Big bands, jazz, etc.
Big bands from Canada [5] | United States [6] | Great Britain [7] | Europe (1920s-1960s) [8]
Solid! [9] online encyclopedia of big band music and classic jazz
Singers
Dutch divas in opera & concert [10] (updates [11])
Grandi tenori [12] | Historical tenors [13] | Biographical list of tenors [14] by John Potter
Great Russian voices [15] (note: archived version of the site)
Great singers [16] from a personal collection; some have dates of birth/death
Malibran-Music [17] specializing in French song
Musicals
Opera
Čeští operni pěvci [19] (Czech opera singers)
Historic opera [20]
Includes images of singers (with biographical information) (listed near top of page)
and listings of singers without images
A [21] | B [22] | C [23] | D [24] | E [25] | F [26] | G [27] | H [28] | IJ [29] | K [30] | L [31] | M [32] | N [33] | OP [34] | QR [35] | S [36] | T [37] | UV [38] | WXYZ [39]
Operaone [40]
Cowden, Robert H. Classical singers of the opera and recital stages: a bibliography of biographical materials. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.
L128 V872 C8 1994
Kutsch, K.J. and Leo Riemens. Grosses Sängerlexikon. 3. erw. Aufl. München: K.G. Saur, c1997.
ML105 K97 G8 1997
Sources for authority work in cataloging popular music [41]: bibliographies of print sources for
blues [42], country and folk [43], jazz [44], musical theater [45], and miscellaneous popular music [46]
Jacobsson, Stig. Svenska tonsättare: diskografi. [Stockholm] Rikskonserter, 1986, c1985.
HSR ML156.4 N2 S9
Who's who in opera: an international biographical directory of singers, conductors, directors, designers, and administrators, also including profiles of 101 opera companies. New York: Arno Press, 1976.
lsf ML102 O6 W5 (LC)
Links
[1] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music
[2] http://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/sound-recording-cataloging
[3] http://www.bach-cantatas.com/
[4] http://yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info/
[5] http://www.nfo.net/can/
[6] http://www.nfo.net/usa/
[7] http://www.nfo.net/brit/
[8] http://www.nfo.net/euro/
[9] http://www.parabrisas.com/index.php
[10] http://www.dutchdivas.net/index2.html
[11] http://www.dutchdivas.net/frames2/updates_english.html
[12] http://www.grandi-tenori.com/tenors/
[13] http://www.francoisnouvion.net
[14] https://web.library.yale.edu/yalebooks.co.uk/pdf/9780300118735.pdf%E2%80%8E
[15] http://web.archive.org/web/20061017073219/http://russia-in-us.com/Music/GRV/
[16] http://www.cantabile-subito.de/index.html
[17] http://www.malibran.com/
[18] http://www.musicals101.com/whoswho.htm
[19] http://cestipevci.wz.cz/index.htm
[20] http://www.historicopera.com/index_main.htm
[21] http://www.historicopera.com/jlisting_singer_a.htm
[22] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_b.htm
[23] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_c.htm
[24] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_d.htm
[25] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_e.htm
[26] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_f.htm
[27] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_g.htm
[28] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_h.htm
[29] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_ij.htm
[30] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_k.htm
[31] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_l.htm
[32] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_m.htm
[33] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_n.htm
[34] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_op.htm
[35] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_qr.htm
[36] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_s.htm
[37] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_t.htm
[38] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_uv.htm
[39] http://www.historicopera.com/listing_singers_wxyz.htm
[40] http://www.operone.de/
[41] http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.htm
[42] http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.blu
[43] http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.cou
[44] http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.jaz
[45] http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.the
[46] http://library.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.pop