Music

Theories, performance, and criticism of sounds having melody, harmony or rhythm; music technologies.

Sub-headings:

Audio Equipment & Technology

Electronic devises for creating or listening to music.

Genres

Musical styles.

Performance

Music presented for the public's enjoyment.

Musicians & Composers

Resources in this category:

All Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/

This is "a complete online database of recorded music." It has a search engine that allows searching by artist name, album title, song title, label, and musical style. Biographies, full discographies, and album reviews are available for artists. Essays and a glossary are provided as is a unique feature: music maps, which trace a particular style's development from other musicical styles.

American Music Resource
http://www.uncg.edu/mus/courses/flmccart/amr/index.html

AMR contains bibliographies, lists and text files about all styles of American music and related issues. The collection is indexed by subject-name (i.e. the last names of composers) or topic-name (e.g. Electro-acoustic music).

Billboard Music Charts
http://la.yahoo.com/external/bpi/music_chart/

Abbreviated versions of the sales charts from Billboard magazine, including hot singles and top albums, rock, alternative, country, R&B, rap, dance, and latin charts.

Experience Music Project
http://www.emplive.com/

Experience Music Project (EMP) is a music museum combining interactive and interpretive exhibts that document American popular music. Online exhibits feature both well known and underground artists and bands as well as interactive educational sections which provide instruction on harmony signing, recording techniques and guitar playing and more.

Eyeneer Music Archives
http://www.eyeneer.com/

Educational site with information on international, contemporary, classical and jazz music, instruments and musicians. Also includes a list of artists web sites, categorized by music genre.

History in Song
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/index.html

The editor of this site says, "These pages of (mostly) song lyrics owe their existence to an American Studies class taught by Dr. Heiner Bus at Johannes-Gutenberg- University, Mainz, Germany in the mid-1970s. While going through my collected papers these days, I was struck by the sheer number of song lyrics pertaining to the various stages of American history which had been collected by Dr. Bus and ourselves (his students) at that time -- and since a lot of these papers became yellowed and faded over the last 20 years, I decided to preserve them, transcribe them into HTML-format and eventually include them all on these pages." The contents of this site is organized by "SUBJECT" and "SONGS BY INDIVIDUAL SONGWRITERS/ARTISTS."

Lyrics World: A Collection of Lyrics Sites
http://ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/summer.html

This site links to several databases of song lyrics. Databases include the lyrics of top 40 hits dating back to 1930. You can search by year, by artist, or by title. There is also a database of lyrics for popular Portuguese artists.

The Media History Project
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/index2.html

Supported and hosted by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, the Media History Project site aims to promote "the study of media history from petroglyphs to pixils." Media history is organized into groups of media types - early, print, electrical, mass, and digital - and then divided further into subject areas such as printing & publishing, comics, radio, television, film, telephones, telegraphs, video games, computing, oral and scribal culture, photography, journalism, advertising, and recorded music. Within each area are web links, related museums and institutions, and history.

The Mozart Effect: How Classical Music Improves Intelligence & Learning
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/Mozart_Effec...

This site documents the continuing research of Dr. Gordon Shaw, who presented the original findings of this work in 1993. He and his colleagues discovered that participants in the original study improved their scores on spatial-temporal tests after listening to one of Mozart sonatas. Further research has continued to explore the relationship between music, intelligence, and learning.

MPA Copyright Search Resource Guide
http://www.mpa.org/

"Are you looking for the publisher of a piece of music?" This website serves as a guide to other databases that may help you find the music copyright information that you are looking for.

MPA Directory of Music Publishers
http://www.mpa.org/agency/pal.html

"The Music Publishers' Association (MPA) Directory of Music Publishers is comprised of a current directory of music publishers and an index of publishers' imprints with hypertext links to entries in the directory of publishers." A text version of the directory is also available for downloading.

Music Notes
http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/

Subtitled "An Interactive Online Musical Experience," this detailed and well-researched Web site covers many aspects of music, including music theory and history, musical styles, music professions, and musical instruments. There is also a glossary of musical terms and a list of the resources used to create the site. Interactive games allow you to test your knowledge. This site, which was created by high school students for ThinkQuest, provides good introduction for beginners, but is also helpful to those who are more knowledgeable about music.

Music Resources
http://www2.siba.fi/kulttuuripalvelut/music.html

Listed in PC Magazine's Top 100 of 1996, this site provides a directory to web sites about every musical genre under the sun, from jazz, blues and rock to folk, gospel and opera. Also includes links to pages about famous composers, research and theory, music schools, instruments and more.

MusicNewswire
http://www.vh1.com/news/newswire/

An index to music-related news stories from Web-based publications, organized into the following topical areas: top stories, general news, industry news, label news. Also includes daily critical reviews of rock, pop, jazz and world music in RealAudio format.

MusicSearch
http://www.musicsearch.com/

A large, searchable directory of music-related Internet sites, with descriptions provided by the sites.

Pandora
http://pandora.com/

This musical database helps users to find the music they will like. It finds songs with musical similarities to the user’s interest based on the name of the user’s favorite songs or artists.

The Picture Show Man
http://www.pictureshowman.com/

The website focuses on the history of motion pictures from the beginning of its development in 1890, to the end of 1960. "Although coverage will be primarily concerned with the development and evolution of the "American" motion picture industry, we will certainly not ignore the many important events that took place in Europe and the rest of the world during those years."

Save Our Sounds
http://www.saveoursounds.org/

A collaborative project by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution to preserve recordings of spoken word and music. Recordings on various media are being converted to digital formats to be preserved on CD-ROMs or placed on the internet. Recordings already added to the site include poetry from Langston Hughes, J.F. Kennedy honoring Robert Frost, and samples of the sounds of a steam locomotive and a space satellite. Recordings require RealPlayer.

soundgenerator.com: The essential resource for music
http://www.soundgenerator.com/

Independent European music site that offers breaking music news, features and reviews with extensive music industry and education resources.

The Ultimate Band List
http://ubl.artistdirect.com/

A monster list of recorded music related resources on the Internet; very well indexed. Focuses mainly on popular music but also has listings for classical, jazz, country, etc. If you can't find what you're looking for elsewhere, look here.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/

Developed by the Indiana University Music Library, this resource offers an index and links to academic sites, user-maintained information, non-academic sites, geographically local sites, artist-specific sites, and other lists and indices. An aging site but many of the links still work.

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