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Music
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General Information
- Festival Finder: Music Festivals of North America
Festival Find provides details for more than 2,500 music festivals in North America. Choose from the following categories: Alternative, Bluegrass, Blues, Cajun & Zydeco, Classical, Country, Eclectic, Folk, Jazz, Reggae & World music, Rock, and Miscellaneous. Also available is a link to information and savings for travel plans and hotel reservations through the Festival Finder Travel Center.
- Metacritic
Use MetaCritic.com to find reviews for music films, videos and DVDs, and games. MetaCritic.com combines individual review scores for an overall grade for each item.
- Patriotic Song Lyrics
ScoutSongs.com provides the lyrics to the following patriotic songs: America; America the Beautiful; God Bless America; God Bless The U.S.A.; I Am Thankful To Be An American; I Love You So; The Star-Spangled Banner; Taps; Yankee Doodle; You're a Grand Old Flag. Lyrics for scout songs, action songs, and round songs are also included. [back to top]
Blues
- The Blue Highway
The Blue Highway web site offers tributes to blues artists, blues radio listings by state and city, live and archived radio broadcasts, a searchable discussion board, a blues chat room, and a collection of links to more blues related web sites.
- Blues Lyrics Online
Blues Lyrics Online includes lyrics from blues songs organized into two indexes, Blues Lyrics by Artist (alphabetically arranged by artist’s last name) and Blues Lyrics by Title. A links page provides access to additional resources for blues and blues lyrics.
- Chicago Blues Archives (Chicago Public Library)
The Chicago Blues Archives provides information about the collection, its exhibits, and programs, as well as a bibliography of books about the blues and blues musicians compiled by the librarians from the Chicago Public Library Music Information Center.
- How the Blues Affected Race Relations in the U.S.
This web site offers a study of the blues during the late 19th and 20th centuries, and its positive impact on race relations in the United States. A bibliography of works consulted is included, as is a request form for permission and information about citing this material for school assignments. [back to top]
Classical
- All Classical Guide
Use the advanced search of the All Music Guide to search for composers/performers, work titles, or album titles, or text in their classical database.
- Classical CD Review
Use Classical CD review to find reviews of CDs and special features on recordings and performers. The composer/artist index is organized alphabetically but can also be searched.
- Classical Composers Database
Classical-Composers.org offers a searchable database with entries for more than 2,000 classical composers. Browse entries by the first letter of the composer’s last name or search for names, places, and dates, or for keywords within the full-text.
- Classical Music Dictionary
Access the Karadar Classical Music web site to find biographies of composers organized by nationality, libretto’s of famous operas, a photo gallery dedicated to composers, classical music Mp3 and midi archives, catalogues of classical compositions, and more.
- Classical Music Navigator
The Classical Music Navigator offers a basic library of notable works arranged by genre, alphabetical and geographical lists of composers, an alphabetical index of forms and style of music, and a limited music glossary.
- The Classical Music Pages
The Classical Music Pages includes information about the history of classical music and composer biographies. Locate information by browsing by musical epoch, musical form, composer’s name, or musical instruments.
- Classical Net
Classical Net offers a basic repertoire list with representative works from all periods and styles of the last millennium in Western art music, a CD buying guide, recommended classical CDs, and information about classical composers. This site provides a search engine and a composer index for easy access to all its resource collections.
- Essentials of Music
The Essentials of Music was built around and includes excerpts from the Essential Classics series. It includes three main collections: Eras (overviews the history of music from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century), Composers (provides biographies of nearly 70 artists), and the glossary (offers definitions for 200 musical terms).
- The Opera Critic
Log on to the Opera Critic to find opera news, reviews, articles, quizzes, and festival information. Registration (no cost) is required to use most of the resources provided on this site. [back to top]
Country
- Country.com
At CMT.com find information about CMT programs, read country music news, watch/listen to video and audio clips, search for artists, enter sweepstakes, participate in discussion boards, or buy CDs from the CMT online shop.
- Women of Country
The Women of Country web site provides featured artist articles and album reviews, news, interviews, concert reviews, fan clubs, links to artist web sites, and an online music store. [back to top]
Popular
- All Music Guide
Through the All Music Guide, users will find introductions, essays, information about artists and albums, style explorations, maps of the music origins, and new releases for the following categories: rock, country, jazz, new age, world, folk, bluegrass, rap reggae, blues, vocal, gospel/ccm, and easy listening. [back to top]
Musical Instruments
- All Things Strings
At All Things Strings, the online component of Strings Magazine, users can take advantage of subscription services, read articles and music news, search past issues of the magazine, find instrument reviews and articles, read CD reviews, locate summer study programs and scholarships, or participate in online forums.
- Music for Brass
Music for Brass provides arrangements, compositions, and CDs for brass instruments, brass related resources and articles, a free newsletter, and a link to income tax preparation assistance for musicians.
- RhythmWeb
The RhythmWeb is dedicated to sharing information about rhythm, music, and percussion instruments. This site offers pages devoted to the history and care of a single instrument and percussion through selected cultures, as well as a bulletin board and links to free lessons and other resources.
- Woodwinds
This site provides fingering charts for basic, alternate, quarter tone, trill, tremolo, flattement, and multiphonic fingerings for each of the following instruments: Flute, Piccolo, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet Saxophone, Bassoon, Recorder, Tin Whistle, Fife, Charanga Flute, Irish Uilleann Pipes, Shakuhachi Flute, and Sarrusophone. Links and a discussion forum are also available.
- The Piano Page
Maintained by the Piano Technicians Guild (PTG), the Piano Page includes information about the PTG, the piano industry, and buying a piano, as well as music Resources, mailing lists, piano images, and a virtual piano museum.
- About.com: Guitar
About.com provides this index of guitar information. This web site provides an overview of a number of guitar related topics and articles, including: guitar tabs, information for beginners, lessons, reviews, song writing, guitarists, repair, and more.
- PlayMusic.org
Designed for children, PlayMusic.org provides interesting and entertaining information about the sections of an orchestra. With both general and detailed instrument and section descriptions, games, music, and animated graphics, this site makes learning about music fun. [back to top]
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