Web Sites: MUSIC
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- Andante
- Provides news about music, performance reviews, reference resources,
event calendars, Webcasts, recordings, and link directories.
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British Library National Sound Archive
- The catalogue includes entries for almost two-and-a-half million recordings
held in the British Library National Sound Archive (NSA) and is updated
daily. The catalogue includes both published and unpublished recordings
in all genres from pop, jazz, classical and world music, to oral history,
drama and literature, dialect, language and wildlife sounds.
- Classical
Music MIDI Page
- Files and biographical information of a number of popular composers
including Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Mozart, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.
- Classical Net
- A point of entry into a wide array of informational files about classical
music, as well as links to other interesting Web sites.
- College Band Directors National Association
- The purpose of the College Band Directors National Association is
to assist members in seeking individual and collective growth as musicians,
educators, conductors, and administrators.
- Dowling
Hymnals Online
- The Enos E. Dowling collection is a collection of 9,000 hymns from
19 hymnals from the 19th century, complete with full text, sound files,
and scanned images of the actual hymnal pages.
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Early American Secular Music and its European Sources, 1589-1832: An
Index
- Describes more than 75,000 pieces of music found in over 1,200 sources.
Eight main indexes provide access to the data.
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Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
- The Encyclopedia aims to describe Canada's musical heritage
and culture in its breadth and depth: the historic and current manifestations
of popular, folk, religious, concert, and other forms of music, as well
as Canadian music's educational, critical, administrative, and commercial
aspects.
- Folk
Music Home Page
- Covers every aspect of folk music: artists, albums, commercial resources,
concerts, and folk music on the radio. Also contains information on
FTP Sites, mailing lists, and usenet newsgroups, and links to other
folk music sites.
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Gregorian Chant Home Page
- Supports advanced research on Gregorian chant. Contains an informative
essay on the state of Gregorian chant studies, sound files (coming soon),
links to other chant research Web sites, and links to resources on related
topics.
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Greg's Top Quality Guitar Links
- Dedicated to the best guitar sites on the Internet. Quality, not quantity,
is the rule here. Most of these are instructional sites or have some
instruction in them. Others are sites from which you can order excellent
resources to further your study of the guitar. Still others are merely
archives of tablature or links.
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Online Resources for Music Scholars
- Maintained by the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University.
- J.S. Bach
Home Page
- Information and links about Bach.
- Library
of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center
- The Recorded Sound Reference Center provides access to the Library
of Congress's commercial and archival audio holdings, which include
over 2 million items encompassing audio formats from cylinders to CDs.
- Lied and
Song Texts Page
- A non-profit archive of public-domain texts of art songs.
- Mozart Project
- The life, times and music of Mozart
- MuSICA (Music
and Science Information Computer Archive)
- The purpose of the MuSICA database is to foster interdisciplinary
knowledge. The MuSICA database includes thousands of citations/abstracts
of research publications concerning research on music as related to
behavior, the brain and allied fields. Topics included: the auditory
system; human and animal behavior; creativity; the human brain and the
neuropsychology of music; the effects of music on behavior and physiology;
music education; medicine, performance, and therapy; neurobiology; perception;
and psychophysics.
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Music Theory Online
- The online journal of the Society for Music Theory.
- Musical
Online
- The resource for locating professional musicians and Companies.
- National Association
for Music Education
- The mission of this association is to advance music education as a
profession and to ensure that every child in America has access to a
balanced, sequential, high-quality education that includes music as
a core subject of study.
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Nerd World: Music Site Map
- Comprehensive, annotated links to the world of music.
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Opera Base
- A searchable database of information on opera houses and festivals,
performance schedules, and timelines of opera history. Multilingual!
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Opera Glass
- An opera information site that provides detailed information, including
performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies, pictures,
and more on a rapidly growing number of operas.
- The Piano Page
- A Web page for all the piano lovers on the Internet. Provides a starting
point for information about piano.
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Society for Music Theory Home Page
- The Society for Music Theory was established to promote music theory
as both a scholarly and a pedagogical discipline. The goals of the SMT
include fostering the development of all aspects of the discipline of
music theory, including research and teaching. It provides forums for
the presentation of research, including workshops and other aspects
of professional development; and it both supports and encourages pre-professionals
in their pursuit of a career in music theory.
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Worldwide Internet Music Resources
- An extensive listing of music resources.
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Yahoo!: Musical Instruments
- Extensive listing of resources for musical instruments.
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