WWW Links

List of internet sites that discuss a variety of topics relating to Music.

Music-Related Sites

Classical Music-Related Sites | Music Associations and Clubs | Music Instruction and School Information | Fun Sites for Music's Sake | General Music Resource Sites | Live Show and Performance Information | Online Music Shops | Music Software Web Resources | World Music Resource Sites


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Classical Music-Related Sites

Classical Music Online
Contains a series of topics and subtopics for finding classical music resources. Web Search-One massive search engine that finds everything. Indices--Indexes of many other interent areas containing music resources.

Classical Net
Classical Net provides a point-of-entry into a wide array of informational files about classical music - over 2500 files at Classical Net and over 2200 links to other classical music web sites.

Pierre R. Schwob's Classical MIDI Archive
Pierre R. Schwob's classical MIDI archive contains over 5000 classical MIDI files.

The British Music Page
Dedicated to 20th century British classical music.

The Free-Reed Journal
Articles and essays featuring classical free-reed instruments and performers.

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Music Associations and Clubs

Music Teachers Association of California (San Diego)
Find teachers, programs, and festivals in the Southern California area.

CERL Sound Group
The CERL Sound Group is an informal research group at the University of Illinois, undertaking hardware/software development in digital audio signal processing and computer music.

American Music Conference
American Music Conference is a service for all those who care about the importance of music, music making and music education.

National Coalition for Music Education
The nations most influential advocacy organization for the music community, the National Coalition for Music Education area contains updates, tools and materials, information and LINKS to other related material that impacts music education across the country.

Music Library Association
The Music Library Association is the professional organization in the United States devoted to music librarianship and to all aspects of music materials in libraries.

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Music Instruction and School Information

The CERL List of Colleges and Universities
A CERL list of colleges and universities offering courses of study and degrees in computer music and/or other subjects related to computers and sound.

Music Education Online
Music education resource links page.

Texas Music and Video
Instructional videos on acoustic guitar, electric guitar, flat picking guitar, fingerpicking guitar, blues guitar, jazz guitar, rock guitar, bender style guitar, five-string banjo, clawhammer banjo, electric bass, acoustic bass, rock and roll bass, country fiddle, bluegrass fiddle, cajun fiddle, dobro, country piano, blues piano, gospel piano, rockabilly piano, accordian, harmonica, rhythm, drums, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, chords, songwriting, saxophone, hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, autoharp, Texas two step dance, line dance, and square dance.

The Piano Education Page
Pino and music Software Reviews : Compare Juilliard Music Adventure, Lamb Chop Loves Music, Lenny's Music Toons, MiBAC Music Lessons, Miracle Piano Teaching System, Music Ace, Music Time Deluxe, Piano Discovery System, Piano Professor, and Play Piano side-by-side before you buy.

The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
Harvard University's principal resource for music books, scores, sound recordings, and videos. It also serves as an international research facility for musical scholarship.

The String Pedagogy Notebook
A resource for teachers and performers.

West Bay Music Accademy
The West Bay Music Academy, located in the San Francisco/Peninsula area offers music for school, group, and private instruction.

Technology Based Music Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An overview of teaching music with technology.

Guitar4u
Free page designed for guitar players who seek to increase their music knowledge and abilities in todays guitar styles. Answers questions about improvisation, music theory, and comping.

EMUSIC-L
Items of interest to electronic musicians - including essays and summaries of experience, beginner's information, and an unmoderated, open discussion list.

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Fun Sites for Music's Sake

Random Midi Music Player
Randomly plays a different tune each time the "Click Here to Hear New Music" button on the Random Midi Music Player is clicked.

Aural Pleasure in RealAudio
Contains 4 tracks (1 hours 30 min) of ambient music by Jeffrey Zeldman in streaming RealAudio.

The Fractal Music Lab
Fractal music is a result of a recursive process where an algorithm is applied multiple times to process its previous output. Fractals provide extremely interesting musical results, and are becoming one of the the most exciting fields of new music research.

Gilbert and Sullivan Midi Homepage
MIDI and MIDI Karaoke files of over 100 songs from the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas, and other music by Sir Arthur Sullivan.

The Zappa MIDI Page
Many Zappa MIDI files, with more being added every month. Features a monthly challenge for MIDI composers who are also fans of Frank Zappa's music.

Element 115
Intense, experimental instrumentals. Element 115 features aboriginal chanting, hip-hop loops, middle-eastern flavorings, Indian tones and industrial noise.

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General Music Resource Sites

Harmony Music Site
One of the finest music resources on the WWW, expertly indexing thousands of music links from around the world for over three years.

New Zealand Digital Library (Music)
Two unique Internet services. The first is Melody Index. This service allows you to search a database of tunes by melody rather than by title and composer. The second is an Optical Music Recognition Service. This service allows you to acquire music "on-line" by optical scanning, rather than laboriously entering the information by hand.

The Music Review
Music Charts, Radio Stations, Record Labels and Music Artists.

EQUAL TEMPERAMENT SERVICES
Piano music resources including instruments, literature, instruction and concert events etc. (Originally designed for members of the US Armed Forces stationed in Okinawa Japan).

Songs Online
Promotes songs, songwriters, songwriting and music publishers by showcasing their songs / music in RealAudio. Music professionals can find new song / songwriting material for their upcoming projects.

Lugares de Interes
Several Jazz, Raggae, Hip-Hop, Country, Blues and Flamenco links.

RockWeb
A virtual community bringing music and people together.

All Music Guide (AMG)
All types of music are included in summaries of192,000 albums and 16,000 artist bios.

Jazz Online
"Everybody needs a little jazz in their life and Jazz Online is the place to find it." Their words, not ours.

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Live Show and Performance Information

FestivalFinder
Find the latest details on more than 1,300 music festivals in North America. Featuring: Alternative, Blues, Bluegrass, Cajun & Zydeco, Classical, Country, Eclectic, Folk, Jazz, Reggae & World Music, and Rock.

Magic Bus Musical Forum
HUGE list of bands and clubs across the nation and abroad. Plenty of tour-based resources.

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Online Music Shops

CDnow
CDnow purports to be the internet's number one music store, and they may well be. They certainly are the most visible. Locate hard to find albums from your favorite artists and have them shipped directly to your home.

Music Minus One
The most extensive catalogue of participatory recordings- play-along, sing-along - for all Musicians and Vocalists. The most unique albums in the world. Music Minus One provides your own orchestra.

Sony Music
Each month, new Sony Music locations from around the world are coming onto the Web. These Sony Music locations are online now: Australlia, Belguim, Brazil, Austria, Canada, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Sweden , and Taiwan.

J&J OnLine
Browse through, listen to, and order Choir Music. Includes plenty of Church Music Links.

Sheet Music Unlimited
One of the largest databases of Christian sheet music and accompaniment tracks.

Ragtime Press
Ragtime, Oldtime, Stride, Dixieland, Blues, Bluegrass, MIDI, Sheet Music and much more.

www.DJ-ONLINE.com
Disk Jockey resources featuring sound, lighting, and accessories.

Horn Place
Horn Place is an online catalogue of music instruction books, CDs, videos and software for tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, trombone, and trumpet.

Harp Depot
"The net's most popular harmonica store!" Or so they say...

Melody's Traditional Music and Harp Shoppe
Harp Music Collections: Books of harp music consisting of two or more pieces from the Baroque to the Modern era.

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Music Software Web Resources

Shareware Music Machine
The biggest music software collection and related links on the web today. Download hundreds of free and shareware programs, read reviews, post your own comments.

Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology (DDBMT)
Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology seeks to offer disabled individuals access to information that can widen opportunity and enrich lives.

Yamaha Corporation of America
Access information about Yamaha's various music products, including the MIDPLUG web browser plugin which features a Yamaha "Soft Synthesizer" which makes it easy to enhance web pages with high-quality MIDI music.

Mining Company - Music
Freeware/Shareware Mac/PC Music Resources - Links to eight free applications including "Chord ID" to identify basic chord progressions and "Guitar Chord Buster" to create and transpose chords.

Sound America
Over 24,700 free sounds and a few sound editor/players.

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World Music Resource Sites

Musical Traditions
The Magazine for Traditional Music throughout the world.

Black Metal
Black Metal is the state-of-the-art pinnacle in extreme music and the most alternative, most underground form of demimonde culture this side of Hades!

Jammin' Reggae Archives
An excellent collection of Reggae music information, festivals, samples and RealAudio broadcasts.

Primarily A Cappella
Dedicated to the discovery, dissemination and celebration of the best vocal music from around the globe.

In Search of the Lost Chord
The re-discovery of chakra music.

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