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Resources in this category are:
- Barbershop Web Server
- http://timc.pop.upenn.edu/
- Large body of information about barbershop music and other forms of a capella singing. Much of the information still resides on their gopher server.
- Author: Tim Cheney (tcheney@pop.upenn.edu)
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance
- Keywords: Barbershop; A Capella; Singing
- 8notes.com
- http://www.8notes.com/
- An extensive collection of free, downloadable sheet music and lessons. Categorized by instrument and musical styles (popular, classical, film, christmas, etc.). Also includes short pieces and riffs. Site has a search function, chat forum, and newsletter.
- Author:
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance
- Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music
- Harmony Central
- http://www.harmony-central.com/
- An extremely useful and well organized guide to Internet resources for musicians. Also contains industry news. Annotated and Searchable.
- Author:
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance
- Keywords: Musicians; Resources
- Historic American Sheet Music Project
- http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
- "The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3,042 pieces from the collection, published in America between 1850 and 1920."
- Author: Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University (specoll@mail.lib.duke.edu)
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance
- Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music
- Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States
- Keywords: Sheet music; United States history
- Lost Musicals
- http://www.lostmusicals.com/
- Musical theater failures past and present. Biographies of stars of flopped musicals, full-length articles, chat forum, and bibliography of musical-related sources. Includes Flopwatch, a guide to unpromising current theater offerings.
- Author: Kyle Scott (editor@lostmusical.com)
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Showtunes & Soundtracks
- Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance
- Entertainment & Leisure--Theater
- Keywords: Musicals; Theatre
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/
- "Consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra." Search by keyword or browse indexes of authors, titles, or subjects. The sheet music is viewable online as page images.
- Author: Music Division, Library of Congress
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance
- Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music
- Keywords: Sheet music
- Musicals 101.com
- http://www.musicals101.com/
- "A lovingly crafted resource for that uniquely American art form -- the musical. A former Broadway professional and devoted fan has assembled year-by-year stage chronologies from 1930 to the present, and an index of screen musicals for the same period. Opinionated, informative reviews, a bibliography, and an encyclopedic collection of essays cover the glamour and the camp." Also features a history of musicals, bios of musical stars, a musicals calendar, and a photo gallery.
- Author: John Kenrick (jbk@musicals101.com)
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Showtunes & Soundtracks
- Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance
- Entertainment & Leisure--Theater
- Keywords: Musicals; Broadway; Stage; Movies; Acting; Television; Actors
- PD Info: Public Domain Music
- http://www.pdinfo.com/
- "A reference site to help the ordinary person identify public domain songs and public domain music... royalty free music you can use anywhere and any way you choose... performance, sing-along, film, video, advertising, business, or personal." Includes info on copyright and public domain, an FAQ, and a song list of titles in the public domain.
- Author: Haven Sound, Inc. (webmaster@pdinfo.com)
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance
- Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music
- Law, Government & Political Science--Law--Intellectual Property
- Sheet Music from Canada's Past
- http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/sheetmusic/
- "This site is a source of sheet music published in Canada before 1921, selected from the National Library of Canada's historical collection. This website currently features sheet music published before Confederation (1867) and during the era of the First World War (1914-1920), selected from the historical collection of the National Library of Canada. Future phases will include digitized sheet music published between 1867 and 1913." Scores can be searched or browsed, and are downloadable in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
- Author: National Library of Canada (webadmin@nlc-bnc.ca)
- Subjects:
- Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance
- Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music
- Arts & Humanities--History--North America--Canada
- Keywords: Sheet music
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