Musical Organizations and Professional Societies

1. 415: Italian Association for Early Music and Historical Dances
2. Acoustical Society of America
   • Acoustical Society of America: Abstracts from recent ASA meetings
3. Alabama Bluegrass Music Association
4. American Beethoven Society
5. American Brahms Society
6. American Choral Directors Association
7. American Composers Forum
8. American Federation of Musicians US and Canada
9. American Federation of Jazz Societies
10. American Federation of Violin & Bow Makers (AFVBM)
11. American Federation of Violin & Bow Makers (AFVBM - Unofficial Website)
12. American Guild of English Handbell Ringers
13. American Guild of Organists
14. American Handel Society
15. American Harp Society
16. American Liszt Society
17. American Music Conference
18. American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) (Silver Spring, MD)
19. American Musical Instrument Society
20. American Musicological Society
    • Directory of Musicologists' Email Addresses
21. American Musicological Society Midwest Chapter
22. American Musicological Society South-Central Chapter
23. American Orff-Schulwerk Association - Music and Movement Education
24. American Pianists Association (Indianapolis, IN)
25. American Recorder Society
26. American Recorder Society, Denver Chapter
27. American Recorder Society, Miami Chapter
28. American Recorder Society, Pittsburgh Chapter
29. American Recorder Teachers Association (ARTA)
30. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
31. American Society of Music Copyists
32. American Songwriters Network
33. American String Teachers Association
34. American String Teachers Association of California
35. American Symphony Orchestra League
36. American Viola Society
37. Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
38. Arizona Cello Society / Taki Atsumi, President
39. Arizona Friends of Chamber Music (Tucson, AZ)
40. Asociación Argentina de Intérpretes (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
41. Associated Male Choruses of America
42. Association for Latin-American Music & Art (ALMA-USA)
43. Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music - the world leader in music examinations (London, England)
44. Association of British Orchestras
45. Association of California Symphony Orchestras (Sacramento, CA)
46. Association of Canadian Orchestras
47. Association of Concert Bands
48. Association of Texas Small School Bands (Sugar Land, TX)
49. Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
50. Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI)
51. Associazione Internazionale Studi di Canto Gregoriano (Gregorian Chant)
52. L'associazione Musica Antica a Magnano (Magnano, Italy)
53. Atlanta Brass Society
54. Atlanta Federation of Musicians
55. Audio Engineering Society University of Colorado at Denver
56. Australian Computer Music Association
57. Australian Trombone Association
58. Automatic Musical Instruments Collectors' Association (AMICA is a non-profit, tax exempt group devoted to the restoration, distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using perforated paper music rolls and perforated music books... Instruments of interest include player pianos, reproducing grand pianos, nickelodeons, orchestrions, circus/fairground organs, player pipe prgans, disk/cylinder music boxes)
59. Baltimore Choral Arts Society
60. Barbirolli Society
61. Bel Canto Society
62. Boston Clavichord Society
63. British Columbia Choral Federation
64. British Double Reed Society ?
65. British Flute Society Performance Plus Competition
66. British Horn Society
67. British Music Society
68. Calgary Pro Musica Society (Chamber Music Society) (Calgary, AB)
69. Canadian Arts Presenting Association (CAPACOA)
70. Canadian Association of Music Libraries Archives, and Documentation Centres ?
71. Canadian Association for Music Therapy
72. Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA)
73. Canadian Music Educators Association
74. Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. / Canadian Music Publishers Association (CMRRA/CMPA)
75. Canadian On-line Musicians' Association (COMA)
76. Canadian Society for Traditional Music
77. Canadian University Music Society
78. Catgut Acoustical Society (primary interests is the application of scientific principles to the construction of instruments in the violin family)
79. Cello Club of Great Britain
80. Cello Society of Korea
81. Central Florida Musicians Association (AFM local 389)
82. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center / David Shifrin artistic director
83. Chicago Viola Society
84. Children's Music Network
85. Chinese Music Society of North America
86. Choristers Guild (Garland, TX)
87. Chorus America (A national, nonprofit service organization created to promote the highest artistic quality, development and growth of vocal ensembles, to advocate remuneration for singers, and to stimulate greater understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of choral music by all segments of society in the United States and Canada).
88. Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers
89. The College Music Society
90. Composers Guild of New Jersey
91. Conductors Guild (West Chester, PA)
92. Consortium of Vermont Composers
93. The Consortium to Distribute Computer Music CDCM
94. Contemporary A Cappella Society
95. Contemporary Performers' and Composers' Fellowship (Sydney, Australia)
96. Cosmopolitan Music Society
97. Country Dance and Song Society (Haydenville, MA)
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98. Country Music Association of Australia
99. Dallas Fort Worth Prefessional Musicians Association (Arlington, TX)
100. Danish Filmmusic Society
101. Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity
102. Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity at Newberry College
103. Denver Musicians Association of Colorado (regional focus of Colorado, Wyoming and eastern Utah)
104. Duke Ellington Society
105. Early Music America
106. Early Music Guild of Seattle (Seattle, WA)
107. Early Music Minnesota (an organization of Minnesota musicians who perform early music)
108. Early Music Organisation of Ireland
109. Early Music Vancouver (Vancouver, B.C., Canada)
110. Early Music Vancouver (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) (Contact info.)
111. East Tennessee Gospel Music Association
112. Edmont Composers Concert Society (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
113. Edward Elgar Society
114. English Folk Dance and Song Society (Unofficial)
115. Ernst Bacon Society (American composer)
116. European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM)
117. Europa Cantat - European Federation of Young Choirs (EFYC)
118. Europe Jazz Network (Ravenna, Italy)
119. Film Music Society
120. Film Music Network
121. Finnish Amateur Musicians Association - SULASOL (Helsinki, Finland)
122. Finnish Flute Association
123. Florida Association of Music Therapy
124. Florida State University Society for Musicology (Tallahassee, FL)
125. Galpin Society (for the study of musical instruments)
126. Gamma Lambda: A professional, honorary, band service fraternity
127. Gamma Ut (The student organization of The Early Music Institute (EMI) of the IU School of Music)
128. The Graduate Theory Association (GTA) - student organization at Indiana University School of Music
129. Guild of American Luthiers
130. Guild of Carillonneurs in North America
131. Handel & Haydn Society
132. Havergal Brian Society (hyperion-records)
133. Havergal Brian Society
134. Historic Brass Society
135. Historical Harp Society
136. Houston Harpsichord Society ?
137. Hungarian Music Council (Budapest, Hungary)
138. Hungarian Trombone and Tuba Association
139. Incorporated Society of Musicians (London, United Kingdom)
140. Indiana Music Educators Association
141. Indiana Music Teachers Association ?
142. Intermountain Acoustic Music Association
143. International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
144. International Association of Electronic Keyboard Manufacturers (IAEKM)
145. International Association of Jazz Educators
146. International Association of Jazz Record Collectors
147. International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC)
148. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives
149. International Bluegrass Music Association
150. International Clarinet Association
151. International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections (CIMCIM)
152. International Computer Music Association (ICMA) ?
153. International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers
154. International Council for Traditional Music (UNESCO)
155. International Double Reed Society
156. International Fasch Society (IFG) (aim to research the lives and the musical works of the Kapellmeister at the Court of Anhalt-Zerbst, Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) and of his son Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736-1800)
157. International Federation of Choral Music
158. International Machaut Society
159. International Military Music Society Netherlands branch
160. International Music Council (IMC) -- UNESCO
     • Hungarian Music Council
     • Music Council of Australia
161. International Music Products Association (NAMM)
162. International Musicological Society
163. International Society for the Performing Arts
164. International Society of Bassists
165. International Society for Music Education
166. International Trombone Association
167. International Viola Society
168. Internet Cello Society
169. Internet Cello Society
170. Internet Viola Society
171. Israel Musicological Society
172. Charles Ives Society (Bloomington, IN)
173. Jeunesse Musicale Austria - aims to provide music for young people (Vienna, Austria)
174. Jugend Musiziert (München, Germany)
175. Jussi Björling Society
176. K-W Chamber Music Society (Waterloo, Ontario)
177. Keyboard Teachers Association International, Inc. (Westbury, NY)
178. Kodály Society of Canada
179. Koussevitzky Recordings Society, Inc.
180. Los Alamos Concert Association (Los Alamos, NM)
181. Lute Society (England)
182. Lute Society of America (Lexington, VA)
183. Other Lute Societies
184. LYRICA Society for Word-Music Relations
185. Malcom Arnold Society
186. Meet the Composer
187. Monterey Bay Recorder Society
188. Music Educators National Conference - MENC (Reston, VA)
189. Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association (USA)
190. Music & Entertainment Industry Student Association
191. Music Industry Association of Newfoundland & Labrador (Newfoundland, Canada)
192. Music Industry Human Rights Association (MIHRA)
193. Music Library Associations
194. Music Publishers Association (MPA)
195. Music Teachers' Association of California
196. Music Teachers National Association (Cincinnati, OH)
197. Music Theory Midwest
198. Musica di Tradizione Classica
199. Musical Instrument Technicians Association
200. Musicians Network
201. Musicological Society of Southern Africa (Pretoria, South Africa)
202. Nashville Songwriters Association International
203. National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. -- The Recording Academy actively represents the music community on such issues as intellectual property rights, home taping, record piracy, archiving and preservation and censorship concerns. (Grammy)
204. National Academy of Songwriters (NAS)
205. National Association of Music Merchants -- The International Music Product Association (NAMM) (Carlsbad, CA)
206. North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents (NAPAMA)
207. National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) - serves the music and other prerecorded entertainment software industry
208. National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD)
209. National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)
210. National Association of Teachers of Singing
211. National Band Association (NBA)
212. National Coalition for Music Education
213. National Endowment for the Arts
214. National Flute Association
215. National Music Publishers' Association, Inc. (NMPA) (New York, NY)
216. National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA)
217. New Directions Cello Association: Cello City Site (alternative or nonclassical cello)
218. New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA is a non-profit educational organization for the development of youth through music)
219. New Zealand Society for Music Education (NZSME)
220. NewMusNet Conference Homepage
221. Northern Australian Regional Performing Arts Centres Association
222. Norwegian Performing Right Society (TONO)
223. Norwegian School Orchestra Association
224. Norwegian Society of Composers
225. Ohio Collegiate Music Education Association (Wright State Chapter, Chapter 576)
226. Ohio Music Education Association
227. OPERA Amercia, Inc. (Washington, DC)
228. Oregon Band Director's Association (Gresham, OR)
229. Organization of American Kodály Educators
230. Ottawa Valley Bluegrass Music Association (Ontario, Canada)
231. Pacific Composers Forum
232. Percussive Arts Society
233. Percy Grainger Society
234. Performing Right Society (PRS) - UK association of composers, songwriters and music publishers. It administers the "performing right" in their music.
235. Philatelic Music Circle (PMC)
236. Piano Tuners' Association
237. Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society
238. Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society ?
239. The Serge Prokofiev Association
240. The Rachmaninoff Society
241. Recorder and Early Music Society of West Australia
242. Recorder Society of Connecticut ?
243. Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh
244. Rock Record Collectors Association (RRCA)
245. Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory
246. Sacramento Recorder Society
247. San Diego Songwriters Guild (San Diego, CA)
248. San Francisco Early Music Society (SFEMS) (Berkeley, CA)
249. Scala: Songwriters, Composers and Lyricists Association (Australia)
250. Robert Schumann Society, Düsseldorf
251. Scottish Music Information Centre (Glasgow, Scotland)
252. Scriabin Society of America
253. Seattle Recorder Society
254. SESAC, Inc. (a performing rights organization, with headquarters in Nashville and offices in New York and London)
255. Sigma Alpha Iota (Asheville, NC)
256. Sigma Alpha Iota - Fort Wayne Alumnae Chapter: International Music Fraternity for Women
257. Sir Thomas Beecham Society
258. Société française de musicologie
259. Società Italiana della Musica e del Teatro
260. Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI)
261. Society for American Music: American Music Network (formerly known as The Sonneck Society)
262. Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS) ?
263. Society for Ethnomusicology
264. Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California Chapter (SEMSCC)
265. Society for Ethnomusicology Southwest Chapter (SEM-SW)
266. Society for Music Perception and Cognition
267. Society for Music Theory
268. Society for Music Theory
     • Committee on the Status of Women
269. Society for Research in Psychology of Music and Music Education
270. Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
271. Society for the Preservation & Encouragment of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) (Kenosha, WI)
272. Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth (SPICMACAY)
273. Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth (SPICMACAY) - University of Virginia
274. Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth (SPICMACAY) - Pittsburgh Chapter
275. Society of Recorder Players
276. Society of Swedish Composers (Stockholm, Sweden)
277. Songwriters Guild of America (SGA)
278. South Western Ontario Musicians' Publication page ?
279. SouthEastern Bluegrass Association (SEBA)
280. Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society
281. Southern California Recorder Society
282. State College Choral Society (Pennsylvania)
283. Stradivari Society
284. Suzuki Association of the Americas
285. Swedish Horn Society
286. Swedish Society of Popular Music Composers
287. Swedish Strauss Society
288. Swedish Wagner Society
289. Sweet Adelines International (an organization of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education and performance) (Tulsa, OK)
290. Leopold Stokowski Society
291. Leopold Stokowski Society of America
292. UConn Cello Society Thomas Morehouse, editor
293. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
294. Vancouver 'Cello Club
295. Vancouver Recital Society (Vancouver, BC)
296. Ralph Vaughan Williams Society
297. Viola da Gamba Society of America
298. Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain
299. Wagner Society of Great Britain (London, England) ?
300. Washington Blues Society (Seattle, WA)
301. Washington Recorder Society
302. West Coast Amateur Musicians' Society (British Columbia, Canada)
303. Westwinds Music Society
304. Wilhelm Furtwängler Society of America
305. Winchester & Portsmouth Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers
306. Wolverine Antique Music Society 78rpm Phonographics & Traditional Jazz Web Site
307. Worchester Hills Recorder Society
308. World Carrillon Federation
309. World Folk Music Association
310. Young Composer's Guild - Distance Learning Project ?
311. Young Concert Artists, Inc. (New York, NY)

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