- American Composers Alliance
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http://www.composers.com/
The American Composers Alliance is a membership organization serving over 200 professional American composers of concert music. The ACA was founded in 1937 by Aaron Copland. ACA will publish any work submitted by a member of ACA, and the composer retains the copyright. ACA's collection of master scores and parts is now housed at the University of Maryland Performing Arts Library.
- American Composers Forum
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http://www.composersforum.org/
The American Composers Forum is committed to supporting composers and developing new markets for their music. Through granting, commissioning, and performance programs, the Forum provides composers at all stages of their careers with valuable resources for professional and artistic development.
- Asian CultureLink
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http://www.asianculturelink.net/
Asian composers, musicians and ensembles, linking to biographies, sound files, email addresses, and artists' web sites.
- Composers Anniversary Dates
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http://www.musicanet.org/en/annivgb1.htm
List for 2006 of birthdays of composers, in two lists, by birth and death dates.
- Classical Composers Archive
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http://voyager.physics.unlv.edu/webpages2/picgalr2.html
Biography and images of composers organized by nationality
and birth year. Includes a timeline of composers, Pulitzer prize winners in
music, and a calendar to find music events by date.
- Classical Music Composers List
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http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/composer.html
Alphabetical list of composers, organized by the Indiana University School of Music.
- Composers Obituary Index
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/music/mla/necrology/
Biographical information about composers, keyed to music reference works.
- Dictionary of African Composers
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http://sacomposers.up.ac.za/
A-Z list of composers born in Africa, with available biographical information, lists of works, and photographs.
- Latin American Music Center
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http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/lamc/
Based upon a collection at Indiana University, the Latin American Music Center web site is useful for Latin American composers of all genres of music, with links to related sources.
- Women Composers
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http://www.iawm.org/
A resource developed by the International Alliance for Women in Music.
- Women Composers Database
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http://www.kapralova.org/DATABASE.htm
Search by name of composer for biographical information. This site also includes lists of recordings.
- CascadeLink: Arts and Entertainment
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http://www.cascadelink.org/fun/mus.html
Regional arts and music listings. Covers Portland and surrounding counties.
- Festival Finder
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http://www.festivalfinder.com/
A resource for music festivals in North America, with over 2500 listings. Use the search feature to locate festivals by type of music, date, location, performers or festival name.
- Music Institutes and Schools
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http://www2.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/institutes.html
International directory of schools for music study, developed by the Sibelius Academy in Finland.
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Music in Oregon
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http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/musor.html
Festivals, concerts, organizations, and other links for Oregon music.
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Musi-Cal
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http://www.musi-cal.com/index-contents.html
International calendar of concerts: search by band name or city.
- OregonLive Music Events Calendar
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http://www.oregonlive.com/music/
The Oregonian website list of local music events, updated daily; search by name of
concert or type of music.
- Pollstar: Concert Hotwire
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http://www.pollstar.com/
Touring schedules for popular music bands; search by artist, city, and venue.
- Willamette Week Online
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http://localcut.wweek.com/
The current week of music events and reviews.
- African American Music
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http://www.multcolib.org/guides/black_music/
Multnomah County Library guide to recent books and videos in the Library's collections, plus websites about the history of African American music in the US.
- Alan Lomax 1915-2002
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http://www.alan-lomax.com/
Web site about the life and work of Alan Lomax.
- American Variety Stage
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
American Memory multimedia collection with audio files of Edison recordings of popular music and vaudeville songs--including well-known favorites from the Civil War and World War I.
- The Blue Highway
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http://www.thebluehighway.com/
The history of blues music.
- Country Music Hall of Fame
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http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/site/
Web site for the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.
Explore the
museum online through histories of country music, video clips, sound files,
virtual tours, sources for recordings and publications of the museum.
This site features descriptions of the
styles
of country music, with photographs and history.
- I.W.W. Songs: To Fan the Flames of Discontent
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http://www.angelfire.com/nj3/RonMBaseman/songbk.htm
Lyrics only for the 19th edition of this songbook, published
in 1923.
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Lomax Southern Mosaic - American Memory Project - Library of Congress
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html
The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip.
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The Louis Armstrong Online Exhibit
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http://www.satchmo.net/
Photographs from the Louis Armstrong Archives.
- New World Records
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http://www.newworldrecords.org/index.shtml
Founded with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation with a mandate to produce a 100-disc anthology of American music encompassing the broadest possible spectrum of musical genres. This set of recordings, together with their extensive liner notes, provides a core curriculum in American music and American studies. The
liner notes for these recordings include interviews and fascinating essays about American composers and music.
- NPR 100
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http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html
Based upon votes by NPR audiences, the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century, from a wide variety of genres -- classical, jazz, rock'n'roll, country, R&B, musical theatre and film scores. Audio files and related NPR stories.
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The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz before 1930
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http://www.redhotjazz.com/
Biography, photographs, and recordings of jazz musicians.
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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AdvancedSearch.aspx
Search the Smithsonian Folkways Collection by genre, title, artist name, track title, country of origin or other terms.
- This Land is Your Land: Rural Music and the Depression
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/RADIO/c_w/cw-front.html
This site explores the evolution of traditional rural music into the commercial genre of Country & Western in the context of the Depression. It is intended to offer a look at the creation of a marketable product, the diverging trends that sprang from similar origins, and the music's appeal in a time of hardship. Created by the American Studies Division of the University of Virginia.
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Trail of the Hellhound: Delta Blues in the Lower Mississippi Valley
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http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/blues/
Tour with photographs, about the bluesmen and blueswomen
who created a rich legacy of American music.
- International Mozart Foundation
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http://www.mozarteum.at/
The International Mozarteum Foundation, founded in 1880 by citizens of the city of Salzburg, celebrates the year Mozart's birth with historical background, museums, and events for Mozart's life and music.
- The Mozart Project
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http://www.mozartproject.org/
A site edited by Mozart scholars that lists all of Mozart's works, an illustrated biography, essays to read online, links to events for the anniversary year of Mozart's birth, plus selections of books.
- NPR: Celebrating Mozart's Birthday in Salzburg
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5009844
National Public Radio weekly series of commentaries, stories and musical tributes to the classical composer, with musical excerpts, images, recommendations for recordings, and more.
- NewMusicBox
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http://www.newmusicbox.org/
Quarterly online Web magazine about all aspects of American music, from the American Music Center in NYC. Each journal features new interviews of American composers, video and audio clips, and current news about music and musicians. Includes an archive of all issues.
- NewMusic JukeBox
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http://www.newmusicjukebox.org/
Online library and listening room that provides immediate access to scores, streaming audio, and vital information about music by American composers, from the American Music Center. A-Z composer index, updated by the composers and publishers, of titles of works.
- Classical Net: 20th Century Works List
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http://www.classical.net/music/rep/lists/20th.html
List of significant 20th century composers and their major works, linking to biographies and photographs of the composers.
- Serial music
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http://www.sci.wsu.edu/math/Lessons/Music/
Tutorial for 12 tone music, developed at Washington State University.
- Musical Cast Album Database
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http://www.castalbumdb.com/
Online index of musicals; search by musical titles, composers, lyricists, book authors, artists, conductors and songs. Over 20,000 songs listed. Includes record album covers when available and song track listings.
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Musical Theatre in Europe
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http://www.eur.com/
Directory of European opera companies.
- Northwest Opera Schedules
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http://www.scn.org/arts/nwopera/
Schedules for opera companies in the Northwest.
- Operabase
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http://www.operabase.com/
International site for opera schedules and reviews; touring schedules for singers; historical background of composers and works.
- OperaGlass
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http://operetta.stanford.edu/main.html
Opera plot summaries, performance notes, discographies, and reviews.
- Opera Net
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http://www.culturekiosque.com/opera/
Opera reviews are featured in this online journal.
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allmusic.com
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http://www.allmusic.com
A music encyclopedia; use to identify musicians and recordings for specific types of music.
- Billboard.com
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http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/index.jsp
Online version of Billboard magazine: popular music
news, previews/reviews of new CDs, album charts, rankings for music-related
activity on the internet, including sales, downloads, webcasts, and more.
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Harmony Central
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http://www.harmony-central.com/
For rock music: guitar tablature, musical instruments, and other information.
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Popular Music in Portland: Cascadelink
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http://www.cascadelink.org/fun/mus.html
Multnomah County Library CascadeLink list of concerts, radio stations, and local music events.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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http://www.rockhall.com/
The Cleveland Museum site with online exhibits on the history of Rock and Roll.
- Classicalmanac
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http://www.classicalmanac.com/
A glance of what was going on in classical music history for each day of the year. Birth and death dates of composers and performers and first performances of famous works.
- Encyclopedia of Microtonal Music Theory
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http://tonalsoft.com/enc/encyclopedia.aspx
A-Z index of music theory terms and concepts.
- Interactive Circle of Fifths
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http://randscullard.com/CircleOfFifths/
The Interactive Circle of Fifths is a tool designed to help musicians figure out the key of a piece of music,
easily transpose music to a different key, compose new music, and understand key signatures, scales, and modes.
- Introduction to Reading Music
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http://datadragon.com/education/reading/
Clearly written and useful guide for learning how to read music. For more on this subject, see: How to read music : the fundamentals of music notation made easy, by Roger Evans ( 780.148 E92h 1978 ) and other books at Multnomah County Central Library.
- Key signature terms in French, German, Italian, and Spanish
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http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/keylang.htm
A useful chart for translations.
- Lilypond: open-source music notation software
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http://lilypond.org/web/
LilyPond is free notation software that runs on all popular platforms: Linux, MacOS X, and Windows.
- Music Staff Paper
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http://www.lib.virginia.edu/artsandmedia/dmmc/Music/Musicpaper/
Print out blank staff paper based upon combinations of instruments, vocal/piano, or solo piano.
- Music Terms
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http://www.austinsymphony.org/music/index.asp
Online dictionary of music terms, compiled by the Austin Symphony.
- Musical Intervals Tutor
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http://www.musicalintervalstutor.com/
The Musical Intervals Tutor is a study aid to help you learn the sounds of the basic music intervals from minor second to perfect octave.
- Musictheory.net
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http://www.musictheory.net/
Flash-based piano tutorials for learning about music theory with quizzes for scales, chords and other terms.
- Musical Borrowing: An Annotated Bibliography
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http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/borrowing/
A listing of the reworking of one or more particular musical works in new compositions, both classical and popular music.
- Musical Instrument Terminology
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http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/instname.htm
The names of musical instruments and voices in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
- Pulitzer Prize in Music 1943-2001
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http://www.american.edu/heintze/Pul1.htm
List of past winners and historical background of the Pulizer Prize.
- The Symphony Orchestra
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http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/orchestra.html
Chart layout of the arrangement of the modern symphonic
orchestra, linking to short essays about each instrument, with illustrations
and sound files.
- African Music Encyclopedia
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http://africanmusic.org/
Contemporary African musicians and music guide.
- African Musicians Profiles
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http://www.africanmusiciansprofiles.com/
Profiles of musicians, sources for books, recordings and tour information.
- Ceolas: Celtic Music on the Internet
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http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html
Celtic music in the US and Canada. Tunes & songs online, instrument links, books, music festivals and concert schedules.
- Ethnic and National Music
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http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/ethnic.html
Indiana University Library's extensive site for international music.
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festivals.com
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http://www.festivals.com/
International music festival guide; search by title or location.
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Global Rhythm
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http://www.globalrhythm.net/
An online magazine featuring world music festivals, concerts, world music downloads plus music reviews from Africa, Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.
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Latin American Network Information Center: Music
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http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/music/
Sources for Latin American music information, organized by country.
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Rootsworld
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http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/
An online magazine of world music CD reviews, interviews, and music files; search by name of musical group, instrument, and country of origin.
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World Music Central
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http://worldmusiccentral.org/
World music news, CD and concert reviews, articles, an events calendar, and resources for music fans, industry professionals and researchers. This site includes traditional and contemporary folk and roots music worldwide, as well as cross-cultural fusions and hybrids.
