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Music Resources

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

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Audio Equipment & Technology

Electronic devises for creating or listening to music.

Genres

Musical styles.

Performance

Music presented for the public's enjoyment.

Resources in this category are:

All Music Guide (AMG)

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.

Author: All Media Guide (amg@allmusic.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music

Reference--Biographies--Musicians & Composers

Keywords: Recorded Music

American Music Resource (AMR)

http://www.uncg.edu/~flmccart/amrhome.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).

Author: Frank McCarty (mccartyf@iris.uncg.edu)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music

Keywords: Rock; Jazz; Country; Folk; Bibliography

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.

Author: BPI Communications, Inc. (info@bpicomm.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

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.

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Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

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.

Author: Eyeneer Global Communications (eyeneer@eyeneer.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

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."

Author: Manfred Helfert (manfredh@mainz.netsurf.de)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States

Keywords: Song

The International Lyrics Server

http://www.lyrics.ch/index.htm

This site contains a searchable database of the lyrics to over 130,000 songs. Search for your favorite song by song title, artist name, or album name. You can also search this site if you can remember some of a song's lyrics, but don't know the song title. Search results will display the song titles, and the lyrics to about half of the songs in the database are available for viewing.

Author: lyrics.ch (feedback@lyrics.ch)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Keywords: Song Lyrics

Lyrics World: A Collection of Lyrics Sites

http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/

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.

Author: Paulo Filho (pfilho@summer.com.br)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Keywords: lyrics; top 40; pop hits; number one hits

MPA Copyright Search Resource Guide

http://www.mpa.org/copyright/searchenter.html

"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.

Author: Music Publishers' Association (mpa-agency@mpa.org)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music

Law, Government & Political Science--Law--Intellectual Property

Keywords: music copyright; sheet music; music publishing; music publishers

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 ofpublishers' imprints with hypertext links to entries in the directory of publishers." A text version of the directory is also available for downloading.

Author: Music Publishers' Association (mpa-agency@mpa.org)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

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.

Author: Ryan Damico, Lauren Mirsky, and Jesse Friedman

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music

Keywords: music theory; music history

Music Resources

http://www.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.

Author: Sibelius Academy (webmaster@siba.fi)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

MusicNewswire

http://www.musicstation.com/musicnewswire/

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.

Author: Mischief New Media Inc. (webmaster@mischief-newmedia.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Keywords: News

MusicSearch

http://www.musicsearch.com/

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

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Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music

Keywords: Resources

Sample Spotter

http://www.samplespotter.com/

Trying to figure out the name of a song that is sampled in another song? Look for it in Sample Spotter, "an internet resource dedicated to the 'art' of sampling. The scope of the site is intended to be as broad as possible, encompassing the full spectrum of musical sampling activity." The heart of this site is a database of sample-based tracks, which you can search in a variety of ways (sampled artist and track or sampling artist and track). Most of songs in the database are hip-hop and house (these being the genres that do the most sampling), but pop, rock, soul, disco, jazz, techno, and funk are also represented.

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Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Audio Equipment & Technology

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Hip Hop & Rap

Keywords: Sampling; DJs; Pop; Rock; Samplers; Dance

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.

Author: Library of Congress (lcweb@loc.gov)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States

Keywords: Sound recordings

The Ultimate Band List (UBL)

http://www.ubl.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.

Author: ARTISTdirect Inc.

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Keywords: Artists; Popular; Jazz; Country; Classical

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. Has links to FAQs, mailing lists, newsgroups, and virtual libraries.

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Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music

Keywords: Instruments; Classical; Contemporary; Artists; Festivals; Symphonies

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