Calhoun Community College Library - VRD - Humanities - Music
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Music
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General
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American
Music Resource -
http://www.amrhome.net/
Provides bibliographies, lists, Internet links and
text-files covering all styles of American music and related issues. |
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Worldwide
Internet Music Resources -
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
Links collected by librarians at the Indiana University Music
Library. |
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Libraries
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American Music Center: Online Library -
http://www.amc.net/library/default.aspx
Three searchable libraries - the Scores library of
over 30,000 scores, a catalog of American music for young audiences,
and a recordings library. The site also includes a virtual library
and listening room updated daily by the composers themselves. |
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Publishing
& Record Labels
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Record Labels on the Web -
http://allrecordlabels.com/
Searchable database of over 24,000 record labels on
the Web. |
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A-R Editions, Inc. -
http://www.areditions.com/
Publisher of scholarly editions of music and books
dealing with music. |
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JW Pepper -
http://www.jwpepper.com/catalog/welcome.jsp
Search for sheet music by composer, title, or
category from one of the world's largest retailers. |
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U.S.
Copyright Office - http://www.jwpepper.com/catalog/welcome.jsp
The official Web site with information on
registering a work and links to the database where you can search
for copyrighted music by composer or title. |
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Music Theory
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Essentials of Music -
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
From Bach to Wagner, find it all in this site from
W.W. Norton and Sony. |
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Music History 102 -
http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/
A guide to Western composers and their music from
the middle ages to the present. |
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Society for Music
Theory - http://www.societymusictheory.org/
Information about the society, access to full-text
journals, and links to highly relevant resources in music theory. |
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Classical
and Early Music
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Classical Net -
http://www.classical.net/
Provides wide array of information about classical
music with over 4200 files at the site and over 2500 links to other
web sites. |
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DW3 Classical Music Resource -
http://www.lib.duke.edu/dw3/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=177
Duke Univeristy Libraries collection of music links.
It includes a search engine and New Resources section.
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The Classical Music
Navigator - http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/
A project conceived by Dr. Charles H. Smith,
Associate Professor of Library Public Services at Western Kentucky
University, Bowling Green. |
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Medieval Music
Database - http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/
A database of 70,000 works that can be browsed or
searched. |
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Folk
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Mudcat Cafe - http://www.mudcat.org/
A site devoted to traditional folk music, it
includes a lyrics database. This site goes offline from time to
time due to lack of funding, but is worth retrying for its unique
content. |
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"Now
What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals -
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html
From the Library of Congress' American Memory Site's
Folklife Center, this online collection consists of sound
recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related
documentation created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis
Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943 at the
folk festival at Fort Valley College, now Fort Valley State
University, Fort Valley, Georgia. |
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Southern
Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip -
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html
From the Library of Congress' American Memory Site's Folklife
Center, is a multi-format ethnographic field collection which
includes nearly 700 sound recordings (102 of which are performed in
Spanish), fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts
documenting a three-month, 6,502 mile trip through the Southern
United States collecting folksongs. |
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