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Music WWW Resources
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DW3 Classical Music Resources
"This site offers thousands of Web sites and accurate, scholarly biographical and historical data on all musicological periods. The main page offers seven categories: Chronologies and Necrologies, Composer Homepages, Databases, Electronic Journals and Newsletters, Genres, National and Regionally Oriented Pages, and Organizations and Centers for Scholarly Research."
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
Attempting to collect a wide variety of links useful for the study of ethnomusicology, this gateway site has listings for organizations, institutions, archives and research centers; bibliography, periodicals and online publications; recordings (including both labels and distributors);and links arranged by geographical region (regions include British and American folk music, Native American, Asia, Middle East and North Africa,Eastern Europe and Russia, Europe, Africa, Latin American/the Caribbean/South American and Oceania). There is also a list of general dancing and dance music. The site is maintained by John Gibbs , Assistant Head of the Music Library at the University of Washington.Internet Resources for Music Scholars
As the name implies, this site is a list of 300 scholarly music resources. Most sites listed are current, thoughtful and easy to use. Categories of information listed on the main page include scholarly societies and organizations, online journals and newsletters, music databases and information sources, and library and music department home pages. The site is maintained by the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University.
LIBWEB: Library Servers via WWW
Use this site to connect to and search academic, public, national, state and special library catalogs on the World Wide Web in the United States and world wide. It currently lists 6600 pages from over 115 countries. This site is sponsored by the Library at the University of California at Berkeley.
Music at UCC: Web resources for research in music
This online music resource is maintained by University College Cork in Cork City, Ireland. It contains a variety of information and links to information on Western music by period, genres and thematic studies, and traditional, nonwestern& popular musics. It has a great research and musicology page that contains a vast amount of research information and research tools.
Music Librarian's Choice
This is a very extensive online resource for information on the field of music in general. It has a variety of links on music research resources, copyright information, lyrics and sheet music, major composers, music education links, music journals and magazines online, music obituary indexes, reviews and program notes, professional music organizations, events, and a number of commercial sites with information on recordings, printed music, and performing rights organizations. This resource was created and is maintained by Linda Mack, Music Librarian at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
Music Resources
The Sibelius Academy provides a list of links that include: music catalogues, church music, composing, computer music, MIDI, etc., early music, finnish music, folk and world music, instruments, jazz and blues, music magazines, music and arts education, music libraries and archives, music schools and departments, music theory and research, opera, orchestras, etc., rock and pop, etc. and other interesting links.Oxford Music Online
"Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content."Red Hot Jazz Archive
The Red Hot Jazz Archive contains streaming audio format recordings of 1,000 significant recordings by some of the most famous early jazz performers and composers such as Buddy Bolden, Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson, Clarence Williams, Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. Biographies of musicians are included. Rare items, oddities and film are also represented on the site. The site is maintained by Scott Hamilton and he provides information on the site at About the Red Hot Archive.
Search for Articles
Info Trac's Expanded Academic, listed under databases on this page, indexes 1500+ periodical titles. Music and music education titles are included in this coverage. Full-text and full-image articles are available for selected titles.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources
The primary purpose of this site is to serve as an Internet directory to musical organizations and individuals. The information on this site is organized by genres of performers, composers, compositions, and music-related organizations. The site includes links to publishers, copyright resources, reviews, and music software; an extensive alphabetical listing of publications; and a searchable database of composers, manuscripts and repertoire. This site is maintained by the staff of the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University.
Yahoo! Symphony Orchestras
This index has a huge list of links to symphony orchestras from American cities, as well as international orchestras from universities and cities around the world.
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