- All Music Guide
Comprehensive commercial guide to popular music and musicians. Searchable by
artist name, album title, song title, music style, and record label. Includes
music genre overviews, artist biographies, discographies, reviews, articles,
and glossary.
http://www.allmusic.com
- Alternate Music
Press: The Multimedia Journal of New Music
The focus here is on acoustic, ambient, bluegrass, classical, Celtic, electronica,
world, jazz, fusion, and avant garde music. Site features include music industry
news, reviews, articles, interviews, and a few free MP3 files.
http://www.alternatemusicpress.com/amp.html
- The Aria Database
Designed and maintained by Robert Glaubitz for both singers and fans, this
site indexes information on over 1,200 arias from 170 operas, offering some
380 translations, 10,000 aria texts, and 223 MIDI files. Visitors can undertake
a quick keyword search from the splash page or proceed to the main page for
advanced searches and browsing by alphabetical entry or resource type (translations,
MIDI file, operas, etc.). The entries are cross-referenced, and most include
links or information on finding recordings and related materials. Also included
on the main page are a what's new listing and a respectable collection of
briefly annotated links.
http://www.aria-database.com
- Digital Mozart Edition (Mozart Institute) – English Version
Hosted by the International Mozart Foundation based in Mozart's birthplace Salzburg
and the California-based Packard Humanities Institute this database contains a wealth
of Mozart’s music and other Mozart-related items. Users can search for a specific
work using key words and a scroll down menu. They also have the option of printing
out individual movements. The site is based on the Neue Mozart Ausgabe, a compilation
of Mozart's works and critical commentaries that used to be available solely in paper
form and that has been in publication since 1954.
The above link takes you to the search page of the digitial archive. Please remember
that searching this page means you are abiding by the terms of the digital archive's
licensing agreement on http://dme.mozarteum.at/mambo/index.php.
http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/nmapub_srch.php?l=2
- Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD)
GloPAD is a multilingual product of an international collaboration led by Cornell University and supported by seven other US or Asian universities, three US or Russian museums, and five US or Asian performing arts organizations. This online open-access resource includes images, sound recordings, three-dimensional models, and video clips, among other offerings.
http://www.glopad.org/pi/en/
- A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
Created by a group of musicians at Iowa State University. Highlights 12th to
17th century replica instruments, with pictures and descriptions of instruments
including the Hurdy-Gurdy, Dulcian, Recorder, and many more. Includes links
to other internet music resources.
http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
- Music Heritage Network Instrument Encyclopedia
Developed at the University of Michigan. Comprehensive resource about instruments
from around the world. Browse by Sachs-Hornbostel classification scheme, geographic
origin, or major instrument type. Search full text, or by instrument title,
origin, maker, materials, or description. Click on Resources for Educators
to find a glossary of musical terms and links to instrument resources and a
few collections.
http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument
- Popular American Music Digital Archive
Includes scanned images of late-19th- and early-20th-century sheet music with
the ability to browse song titles and search by title, tempo, key, composer
or lyricist, publisher, date, or keyword.
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/apam
- Sibelius Academy: Music Resources
Created by a conservatory in Helsinki. Provides extensive links to jazz, blues,
rock, and pop pages. Covers famous composers, gospel, instruments, research,
theory, and opera.
http://www.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/music.html
- Temple University Esther Boyer College of Music and Department of Dance
The Links section of this site includes internet resources arranged by the
following subjects: Music Education, Music History, Music Industry, Music Performance
and Events, Music Technology, Music Theory, Music Therapy, and Other. The web
sites maintained at Temple University include Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged
Dictionary of Composers, which lists composers alphabetically or according
to time period.
http://www.temple.edu/boyer
- Werner Icking Music Archive
Music related information, including "free," printable sheet music
(see site for copyright information). Maintained by Christian Mondrup, this
site is a continuation of the late Werner Icking's GMD Music Archive.
http://www.icking-music-archive.org
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Music resource list maintained by the William and Gayle Cook Music Library
at Indiana University. Topics include individual musicians, groups and ensembles,
composers and composition, genres and types of music, research and study, commercial
world of music, journals and magazines, and performance. There is also an extensive
list of general and miscellaneous resources.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources
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