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.

Music Blogs

Find out who's spinning what about music on the blog scene, be it popular, classical, indie rock, jazz . . .

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).

The Dove Foundation
http://www.dove.org/

Reviews music, television programs, and movies to help parents identify family-friendly entertainment.

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

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.

Gnod
http://www.gnod.net/

Find new authors, music, movies, or people that you like based on authors, music, movies, or people that you know you like. For example, enter a name into the Gnooks (books) page and watch a constellation of similar writers be generated with the author you entered at the center. The more similar an author is to the name you entered, the closer they appear to the center of the constellation.

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.

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/directories/music_publishers/

The Music Publishers' Association (MPA) Directory of Music Publishers has a directory of music publishers with an index of publishers including links to entries in the directory of publishers. This can be used to locate publishers and find contact and copyright information.

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."

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.