All-Music and All-Movie Guide - Search All-Movie guide (131,000 films, 200,000 cast, 12,000 bios) by film title, artist or keyword search. Search the All-Music guide (192,000 albums, 16,000 bios) by title or artist.

AMG All-Music Guide  - Includes brief definitions for terms found in both classical and popular music.

Art Museum Network - "The official website of the world's leading art museums."

Arto Wikla's Homepage - Contains information and links regarding medieval and early Baroque music

Banjo Tablatures and Bluegrass Information - Explore this enormous page filled with banjo tablatures and bluegrass information. Besides basic tablature, users will discover a swarm of backup tablature, sound and MIDI files, banjo lessons, playing and tuning tips, banjo makers, tour and festival information, and just about any other topic a bluegrass musician would want to know about. Also includes searchable index of banjo tablature.

The BIMBETTA Home Page - "BIMBETTA is a five-woman ensemble that brings aspects of feminism, popular culture, and Baroque music into a unified concept expressed through theatrical performance. The group is dedicated to performing early music with original instruments and techniques, combined with 20th century interpretations and imagery." (quoted from Web site)

BMG Classics Web - Contains: information on musicians from Abbado to Zukerman, a beginner's guide to classical music, an opera area (with complete aria-by-aria synopses of great operas), a CD store, and a concert hall (multimedia section featuring audio clips and QuickTime movies of classical performances).

Brass Band Portal - Contains information about brass bands; also contains classified ads, information about software and a searchable index of brass bands.

The British Invasion: Pop Music in the 1960s - This new site from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica features brief histories of the influences, careers, and members of some of the principal British pop music invaders, including the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and the Hollies. Other resources include music clips, a section on London fashion with a movie of a 1966 Carnaby Street fashion show, band trading cards, and sections exploring the roots of British rock.

The Canadian Brass - Home page for The Canadian Brass ensemble.

The Capitol Steps - Musical political satire group.

CDnow! -- The Internet Music Store -

CHICO - Cultural Heritage Initiative for Community Outreach - Community Arts Project - working with local arts organizations to create resources for children and teachers studying culture through music and drama.

ChoralNet - "The Internet center for choral music" (quoted from Web site)

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online - This site, which is provided by the Indiana University School of Music, is the online version of a well-known book catalog of the American Musicological Society. Site is a searchable and browseable listing of bibliographic information about musicology dissertations. Completed and in progress dissertations from mid-1995 are available for all time periods, and dissertations from earlier print DDMs are available for the general, Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Renaissance categories. Also contains a complete index of authors. Information is available on the DDM codes that accompany each record.

FAST MP3 Search - The World's Largest MP3 Search Engine - After discovering that MP3 was one of the most requested terms on its search engines, Lycos decided to create a search engine just for MP3. Fast MP3 Search currently contains over 500,000 files, searchable by artist or song name. To assist users, an MP3 Server Reliability Guide ranks the more than 1000 FTP servers accessed. Additional resources at the site include ranked links to MP3 players and encoders.

Folk Phone - A list of folk music, folk dance and storytelling events for the Chicago area.

Gopher Guides to Internet Music Resources - Contains menu of links to folk music, musical societies, Gregorian chant and more.

Grateful Dead - Annotated Lyrics

Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande - The American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress has recently provided online access to this ethnographic field collection of "religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents in rural New Mexico and Southern Colorado." (quote from Web site)

Historic American Sheet Music - Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music Project presents digital images of 3,042 pieces of sheet music from Duke's collections, published between 1850 and 1920. Highlights of the collection include "antebellum Southern music, Confederate imprints, and Civil war songs." The search capabilities allow users to look for music by publisher name, composer, title, performer, and many other terms. There is online help for searching and a glossary of subject headings. Much of the sheet music is illustrated, and it is possible to search for pictures by "illustration type" (theme), allowing access to the subjects of the illustrations as well as the music itself. It is also possible to browse all the cover illustrations. (quote from Web site)

India via www_webindia - A huge collection of links to information related to India/Indian culture. Categories include movies, music, pictures, sports, regional information, news, humor and more. Searchable.

Indiana University Music Library -

Industrial Music via About.com

Instruments - "Did you know that instrumental music has just come into its own during our Renaissance? Up until this time, it was closely tied to vocal models of composition. Because of the new instrumental styles of music, there has been a need to create new instrumental forms" (quoted from web site). Includes links to numerous Renaissance related sites.

International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians - News, links, pertinent information and more regarding the conference.

Internet, Multimedia, MP3, MP3 Essentials: A Downloader's Guide to Fast, hi-fi Net Audio - This new report guides users through some of the basic requirements for finding and playing music in MP3 format. Contains an annotated list of links to download players, search tools, rippers and encoders, and MP3 jukeboxes. Along the way, the report offers tips and links to related resources. Users interested in using MP3 files but unfamiliar with the format will find this concise report a helpful introduction.

The Internet Renaissance Band - Information and links regarding Renaissance music.

Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) - Download sound clips of bands of many musical styles. Mostly obscure stuff.

Irish Folksongs - Contains lyrics to many traditional and popular Irish songs.

Jazz Magazine and Resource - This site offers a large number of resources for jazz lovers of any persuasion: straight ahead jazz, big band, fusion, acid, or latin. Users will find CD reviews and releases, recent concert information, interviews, topical articles, biographies, interviews, information on jazz's unsung heroes, a free email newsletter, discussion groups, and more.

The Jazz Photography of Ray Avery

John Murphy's Home Page from WIU - Special focus: ethnomusicology.

Journal of Music Theory Home Page - Online version of the Yale University Journal of Music Theory contains searchable archives, subscription information, related links and more.

Jumbo! Download Network - The site now boasts over 300,000 freeware and shareware titles in sixteen different categories, including Desktop Publishing, Games, Fonts, Internet, Music, Developer City, and Multimedia. Users can browse by category or search a selected category or the entire site by keyword. Brief descriptions of programs and their file size are provided, as well as additional documentation when available. Additional resources include a New Content Gallery and a daily mailing list.

Latin Music On-Line - Extensive site consists of Latin music focusing on salsa, tropical and contemporary Latin pop and rock music. Includes interviews, reviews, live music club guides and other related resources. English language.

Macromedia ShockRave - Shockrave is a Macromedia-hosted site that highlights creative and innovative implementations of the Shockwave technology. Shockwave allows the viewing of interactive multimedia content inside a Web browser. Flash is the emerging standard for vector graphics and animation, allowing smaller files than traditional multimedia delivery. A new download and install feature requires a small initial download (~800K), which then downloads the necessary components for your specific browser.

MTV - Most popular among the new generations.

The Mudcat Discussion Forum - "A magazine dedicated to Blues and Folk music." Formerly the Digital Tradition, it is a searchable data base containing the words and music to thousands of folk songs.

Music by Genre via Yahoo

Music Charts From Around the World - Extensive listing of "hits" from around the world. Contains current and past charts.

Music Dissertation Information - "The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the 1.4 million titles listed, UMI offers over a million in full text." Much more. (quoted from Web site)

Music Education--BUBL LINK / 5:15 Internet Resources

Music Education Online - "This page is designed to aid music educators, students and parents in connecting with a variety of music education resources located on the Internet as well as providing an interactive bulletin board for posting questions and comments on music."

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 - American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 is an addition to the American Memory Collection of digitized historical materials at the Library of Congress. The online collection currently includes 22,000 musical compositions that were registered for copyright between 1870 and 1879. Both catalog records and digital images of the sheet music are available, allowing users to search or browse by author, title, or subject, and view the complete musical notation.

Music Library at Indiana University -

Music Publishers' Association - Contains publishing and copyright information, awards, events calendar, resources and more.

Music References

National Music Publishers Association

New York Philharmonic

Online Journal of the Society for Music Theory - "MTO is published six times a year. Each issue includes a target article, book reviews, and reports from a distinguished panel of International Correspondents. In addition, MTO publishes announcements of upcoming conferences and calls for papers, a list of job opportunities, abstracts of recently completed and in-progress dissertations, and summaries of recently published books." (quoted from Web site)

Opera Performance Schedule Server -

Opera Server -
 

Operabase Welcome! - The site features a database of 500 opera houses and festivals, searchable by keyword or browseable alphabetically or by means of clickable maps. Database entries feature full details on each house, including contact and booking information, accessibility, neighboring venues, a link to the house's Website, and details on current, past, and future seasons. Operabase also includes a Performance Search page, which allows users to search opera schedules by any combination of date, composer, title, or location. Users may also search for their favorite singer or role, conductor, or producer. Opera news and reviews, timelines, and links to new opera house and festival Websites are also included.

Pacific Palisades Brass Quintet - "The Pacific Palisades Brass Quintet is a Los Angeles based brass ensemble comprised of some of the area's top studio, jazz and orchestral musicians. Acclaimed for its unique and eclectic library of musical arrangements, the group performs all styles of music - including Classical, Jazz, Pop, Ethnic, Religious, Seasonal, Show and Ceremonial." (quoted from Web site)

The R. Jones Trumpet Page - Comprehensive links, resources, and information for trumpet players.

River of Song: Folk Music of the Mississippi - Featuring live performances and discussions with musicians along the river, the series explores the musical heritage of the heart of the nation, from an Ojibwe powwow in Northern Minnesota to brass bands in New Orleans. At the site, users can read artists' biographies and discographies, listen to sound clips, and view video segments from the interviews. Additional resources include articles and related links on the culture of the four geographical sections of the Mississippi River featured in the project and an interactive Teacher's Guide.

Scream Tracker and Other Sound Programs and Files -

Sound Utilities and Some Samples -

Ticketmaster Online -

Transcultural Music Review  - "TRANS explores all kinds of music from transcultural and interdisciplinaray perspectives. TRANS is a forum for dialog and critical debate on the production of musical knowledge. TRANS is addressed to researchers musicians and to all persons interested in thinking about the meaning of music in contemporary society. TRANS aims at crossing borders and establishing alliances with neighbouring disciplines (anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, aesthetics, etc) which could broaden the epistemological limits of contemporary musical thought. A particular interest of the review are contributions about music of the Iberic Peninsula and of the Iberoamerican countries." (quoted from Web site)

Trombone Home Page - Information and resources for trombone players.

Trombone Page of the World -

Vibe Magazine - Online music magazine featuring access to some full text articles from current and past issues (beginning in 1994).

Wall of Sound Top 100 Albums - Wall of Sound, a music news and review site, has recently polled users on the ten best albums of the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. Over 400,000 votes were received, and Wall of Sound has compiled lists by decade and a list of the top 100 Albums of All Time. To create the final list, Wall of Sound ranked each album based on the percentage of total votes it received within its decade. A capsule review and RealPlayer sample is provided for each.

William Blake Digital TextProject - Contains complete poetry and prose of William Blake, as well as songs and a concordance.

Windplayer Online - "Windplayer is filled with in-depth profiles on top players and what these players are doing to earn their money. Technical lessons, important news and reviews you can't find anywhere else. Windplayer gives you the inside scoop on how to be a better musician, and shows you what keeps the best players on top. Finally, this essential player's journal covers all styles a wind player can profit from. Every issue is full of tips and advice from working pros. Use it to be a better player, performer or teacher." (quoted from Web site)

WNUR-FM JazzWeb -

You Sound Like A Ladies Orchestra - Impressive documentation of alleged sexism and fascism in the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.