This list, which began life in the 1990s, is not regularly checked for broken links, but the maintainer, J. P. E. Harper-Scott, would be very grateful to be alerted to the need for any changes or additions (email).
- American Musicological Society
- British Forum for Ethnomusicology
- British Harpsichord Society (“extensive source of harpsichord related information with a UK focus”)
- British Society for Music Therapy
- Canadian University Music Society (CUMS)
- Cinco Siglos (cultural society, offering medieval music pages)
- College Music Society
- Czech and Slovak Music Society
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für elektroakustische Musik, Technical University Berlin
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie
- Deutsche Musikrat
- Dvořák Society
- Elgar Society
- English Folk Dance & Song Society, Cecil Sharp House, London NW1 (with Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, containing library, picture and sound archive of traditional dance, music and song of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and related cultures overseas (e.g. Appalachian)
- European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
- Film Music Society
- Société Française d’Ethnomusicologie (French Society of Ethnomusicology)
- Galpin Society
- Gesellschaft für Musikforschung
- Gregorian Association
- Incorporated Society of Musicians, London
- Institute for Russian Music Studies
- International Alliance for Women in Music
- International Association for Word and Music Studies
- International Computer Music Association (ICMA), Computer Music Software Library and Resource Locator
- International Computer Music Association (ICMA) Software Library
- International Gustav Mahler Society, Vienna
- International Musicological Society
- International Sebastian Erard Society (Erard harps and pianos)
- International Society for Contemporary Music
- Israel Musicological Society
- Italian Musicological Society (Società Italiana di Musicologia, SIdM)
- LandesMusikRat Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. (the regional music council of North Rhine Westphalia)
- Ludomusicology Research Group
- Lute Society
- Lyrica Society (Society for Word-Music Relationships) (which sponsors, in part, H-musTXT, a moderated list devoted to musico-textual studies (go to http://h-net2.msu.edu/~mustxt)
- Musicological Society of Australia
- Musicological Society of Southern Africa, SAMUS
- NABMSA (North American British Music Studies Association)
- Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society
- Renaissance Society of America
- Royal Musical Association (RMA)
- RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group
- Slavic and East European Folklore Association (“a non-profit organization devoted to an exchange of knowledge among scholars interested in Slavic and East European folklore. It seeks to promote instruction, to organize panels at national and international conferences, to encourage the preparation of teaching materials and translations, and to foster exchanges, summer programs, and research in Slavic and East European Folklore and related fields such as anthropology, ethnic studies, history, literature, and musicology”)
- Société francaise de Musicologie
- Society for Ethnomusicology
- Society for Music Analysis
- Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI)
- Society for Music Theory, including facilities for joining the society
- Society for Music Theory, Committee on the Status of Women (with information about the committee and its projects, including a Bibliography of Resources in Music and Women’s Studies, SMT’s Guidelines for Non-Sexist Language, and an Archive of Syllabi from Women and Music Courses)
- Society for Music Theory, VPS (Virtual Poster Session, index of current abstracts in music theory, linked to remote sites that contain the abstracts themselves)
- Society for Music Theory Conference, 1995, abstracts of papers
- Society for Research in Psychology of Music and Music Education
- Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
- Society for Slovene Studies (University of Alberta)
- Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (SSPHS)
- Swedish Musicological Society
- Viola da Gamba Society
