Music Resources

This list is a somewhat random conglomeration of links that might help or amuse you (or both). If you have suggestions of things to add or want to alert us to a broken link, please email me at sbdorsey@uncg.edu. Thanks and enjoy! Thanks to Holly Mabry for all her good work summer of 2008!

Directories

  1. AllMusic
  2. American Musicological Society (AMS): WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists
  3. Blog Catalog: Music Blogs
  4. Harvard University: Online Resources for Music Scholoars
  5. Indiana University: WorldWide Internet Music Resources
  6. Musical Online: Classical Music Directory
  7. UC Santa Barbara: Internet Resources in Music
  8. University of Washington: Music Library (See bottom of page)
  9. Yale University: Music Resources on the World Wide Web

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Copyright

  1. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Copyright & Intellectual Property Policies
  2. Digital Rights Management
  3. Music Library Association Copyright for Music Librarians
  4. Music Publishers' Association: Copyright Resource Center
  5. Plagiarism Defined and Clarified in UNCG F.I.R.S.T. Tutorial
  6. Purdue: Avoiding Plagiarism
  7. UCLA Copyright Infringement Project
  8. U.S. Copyright Office

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Dance

  1. American Ballroom Companion
  2. Ballet Dance
  3. Dance Notation
  4. Voice of Dance

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Digital Scores

  1. Digital Mozart Edition: Neue Mozart Ausgabe Online
  2. Downloadable Classical Music
  3. Eastman School of Music: Musical Scores
  4. Free Scores: The Sheet Music World Center
  5. Free Sheet Music Guide
  6. Indiana University: Variations
  7. International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

  8. Juilliard Manuscript Collection
  9. Library of Congress: American Memory, Music
  10. Music Notes: Free Digital Sheet Music
  11. Music Scores: Classical Sheet Music
  12. Mutopia Project: Free Sheet Music for Everyone
  13. Piano Street
  14. Public Domain Music
  15. Public Domain Piano Music
  16. RowyNet: Free Scores
  17. Smithsonian Institution: Aeronautical Sheet Music
  18. University of Chicago: Chopin Early Editions
  19. University of North Texas: Digital Collections, Jean Baptiste Lully

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Ethnomusicology

  1. Afrocentric Voices In Classical Music
  2. Global Music Archive
  3. Multicultural Media
  4. National Geographic: Listen to the World
  5. Salsaholic
  6. UCLA: Frontera Collection- Archive of Mexican American Music
  7. University of Washington: World Music Directory

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Film Music

  1. Classics from the Silver Screen
  2. IMDb: Internet Movie Data Base
  3. Movie Soundtracks
  4. Soundtracks

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Folk

  1. Folk Music of the United Kingdom and America
  2. Folk Songs for the Five Points
  3. Max Hunter's Folk Song Collection
  4. Smithsonian Folkways

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Jazz/Blues

  1. A Passion 4 Jazz
  2. Blues Foundation
  3. Jazz Foundation
  4. Mudcat Cafe
  5. Red Hot Jazz
  6. The Blue Highway

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Local Interest: Greensboro/NC

  1. Community Arts Cafe
  2. Greensboro Local Music
  3. Greensboro Symphony
  4. Music Maker Relief Foundation
  5. NC Symphony
  6. Triad Performing Arts (Go Triad)
  7. UNCG Cello Collection- The Largest Cello Collection in the World!

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Music Education

  1. Children's Music Workshop
  2. Kennedy Center: Music Education Page
  3. Music Education Resources

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Music History

  1. Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
  2. Gregorian Chant Homepage
  3. Music and Dance Bibliography and Reference Resources (Duckles online, kinda)
  4. Music History Resource

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Music Theory

  1. 8Notes: Free Sheet Music, Riffs, Lessons and Tools for Musicians
  2. Ricci Adams: Music Theory
  3. Schenker Guide: Tom Pankhurst's Guide to Schenkerian Analysis
  4. Teoria: Music Theory Web
  5. Tonal Centre: An Interactive Site for Music Composers and Theorists

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Pop/Rock

  1. Billboard: Now the Music Moves You
  2. Oldies Music: Music of the 50's, 60's and 70's
  3. Reason to Rock: Rock Music as Art Form

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Recordings

  1. Digital Podcast
  2. Downloadable Classical Music
  3. UCSB: Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
  4. Vintage Phonograph Recordings: 1900-1939

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Research Centers, Museums, and Libraries

  1. Center for Black Music Research
  2. Country Music Hall of Fame
  3. Exploratorium's Science of Music
  4. Frank's Vinyl Museum
  5. Gardner Museum Classical Podcast
  6. Museum of Musical Instruments
  7. National Music Museum
  8. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  9. Songwriter's Hall of Fame
  10. Virtual Instrument Museum

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Societies and Associations

  1. American Choral Directors Association
  2. American Federation of Musicians
  3. American Music Center
  4. American Music Resource
  5. American Musicological Society
  6. American Orchestras
  7. American Orff-Schulwerk Association
  8. American Society for Composers, Authors, and Publishers
  9. American String Teachers Association
  10. Arts USA
  11. Broadcast Music Inc.
  12. College Music Society
  13. Country Dance and Song Society
  14. Electronic Music Foundation
  15. Film Music Society
  16. Gender Research in Music Education
  17. International Alliance for Women in Music
  18. International Double Reed Society
  19. National Association for Music Education
  20. Society of Music Theory
  21. Seamus
  22. Southeast Chapter of the Music Library Association
  23. Suzuki Association

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Vocal/Opera

  1. ChoralNet
  2. Classical Singer
  3. Gracenote Lyrics
  4. MusicaNet
  5. Opera America
  6. OperaBase
  7. Stanford Opera Page

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Women in Music

  1. Lady Slipper Music
  2. Women in Music
  3. Women's Music Groups and Websites

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Miscellaneous/Fun

  1. Alexander Street Press: Classical Music Library Free Download of the Week
  2. Am I Right? Lyric Parodies
  3. Bluegobo: The Online Musical Theatre Video Archive
  4. Braille Music Scores
  5. Classical Live Online Radio
  6. Classical Station
  7. Find Sounds
  8. Internet Radio Locator
  9. LastFM
  10. Legos Harpsichord
  11. Mashable: Top Places to get Free and Legal Music
  12. Midomi: The Ultimate Music Search
  13. Odd Music
  14. Palatine: Dance, Drama, and Music
  15. Pandora Radio
  16. Pitchfork Media
  17. PluggedIn: On Demand Music Videos
  18. Rojaro: The World's Largest Free Music Magazine Index
  19. Slacker Personal Radio
  20. Sleeveface
  21. SomaFM
  22. Songza
  23. SoundSnap
  24. Sound Toys: Online Virtual Instruments, Interactive Music Guides, Digital Media Artworks
  25. ThemeFinder

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