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- Arab
Gateway — Music (useful links)
- Art
Crimes Hip Hop Links (rap and hip hop meta-site,
listed by artist)
- Art
of Record Production (online journal)
- ASCAP
database - ACE (ASCAP song titles, composer, authors and current publishers
- no dates)
- Alanis
Morissette Random Lyrics Generator (v. amusing if you’re familiar
with Morissette’s oeuvre)
- All-Music
Guide. Extensive and very useful database of the most recent issues
of recordings (almost exclusively from the realm of Anglo-North-American
jazz and popular musics, with a sprinkling of "world" music in the US-centric
sense). Artists as well as track and album titles are directly searchable.
The All-Music Guide supplies you with dates and other essential discographical
detail not provided by 'serious' institutions like ASCAP or BMI, and sometimes
offers links, potted biographies and an interactive review questionnaire.
The database does not, however, include information about either composers,
authors or publishers.
- allpianosheetmusic.com
Far from all piano sheet music but an OK selection of European art
music classics. A few titles are free of charge, otherwise you can subscribe.
- Bach,
J S — catalogue of his works
- Band
Sheet Music (costs, but might be what you need)
- Bibliographies
for Popular Music Studies (IASPM)
- Bibliography
of Indian Music (Carnatic and Hindustani)
- Blues
Lyrics Online (listed by artist or title: very detailed and very useful)
- Bluegrass
Singles (exhaustive discography, searchable by tune or artist, etc.)
- BMI
(includes search facility for registered song titles, composers, authors
and current publishers - no dates)
- Bord
du Cap (Émile Landry et son musée Gilles Vigneault)
- Both
Sides Now album discography (mainly Anglo-US pop/rock, by label —
extensive!)
- British
Film Institute
- British
Library (incl. site and catalogue search)
- British
Library Sound Archive
- Centre
for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition. ‘Ecological rationality stands
in contrast to theories of human or social behavior based on logic, probability
theory, or other universal domain-general systems, from expected utility
theory to Homo Oeconomicus's rational choice maxims.’
- Centro
de Documentação de Música Contemporânea (CDMC, Brazil)
- Ceolas
- The Fiddler's Companion (includes discography of numerousf Irish,
British & N. American tunes)
- Classical
(European art music) composers — online encyclopedia
- Conservatoire
de Paris
- Copyright
Monographs Database
(search facility, Washington DC). Over 15 million index items collected
since 1978 (‘monographic literary works, works of the performing and
visual arts and sound recordings, as well as renewals of previous registered
works of all classes’)
- Core
Music Reference Guide (University of Indiana)
- Critical
Musicology
- CTI
Musical discussion lists (includes popular music, film music and a host
of other potentially useful discussion lists).
- Digital
Games Research Association
- Digital
Sheet Music (costs, but might be what you need).
- Digital
Sound and Music in Computer Games - Excellent overview with tons of
MP3 clips.
- Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology - DDM
- dmoz
open directory project — metasite listing mainly US music research
and music industry resources
- Echo
— Music journal from UCLA (interesting)
- Electric
Earl (meta-site listing of artists and composers)
- Electronic
Dance Music Culture — mailing list
- Enciclopedia
da música brasileira (commercial)
- EPMOW (Encyclopaedia
of Popular Music of the World): commercial
publishing information; P Tagg's articles
- ethnomusiKa
— réseau interinstitutionnel destiné aux étudiants et chercheurs travaillant
sur la musique avec le regard particulier des sciences sociales (ethnomusicologie,
anthropologie, sociologie, sciences cognitives, etc.).
- Etnomusicología
(ICTM España)
- Festival
della musica di Mantova - the long-needed alternative to San Remo
- filmmusic.com
/SoundTrack
— mostly US news about film music
- Folksongs
index (US)
- Forschungszentrum
populäre Musik (Humboldt University, Berlin: good links for music
resources online)
- Franco
Fabbri
(sito personale ed informativo)
- Guillaume
Samson : site personnel
- The
Hyperreal Music Archive (DJ and ‘rave’ culture, UK)
- IASPM
- International Associaton for the Study of Popular Music
- IASS-AIS
International Association for Semiotic Studies -- Association Internationale
de Sémiotique
- IFPI
- International Federation of Phonogram Industries (official site)
- IIPC
- International Institute for Popular Culture (University of Turku)
- IMC
- UNESCO’s International Music Council
- Independent
Record Labels
- IPM
- Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool
- Internet
Movie Database (v. USA)
- Jazz
chords to over 600 standards for £10 ($15)
- Jazz
in Scotland
- Jimi
Hendrix catalogue
- Joel
Whitburn’s Billboard #1 hits
- Journal
of Interdisciplinary Music Studies — excellent Turkish-based music
studies periodical (in English)
- Karen
Collins home page
— very useful: games music, industrial music (incl. first-rate doctoral
dissertation), etc.
- Let
them sing it for you.
Hilarious Swedish Radio (SR) site. You enter words and great pop artists
sing them.
- Library
of Congress (Washington DC) catalogue search page
- LYRICS
- Alanis
Morissette Random Lyrics Generator (v. amusing if you’re familiar
with Morissette’s oeuvre)
- Blues
Lyrics Online (listed by artist or title: very detailed and very
useful)
- kissthisguy.com
— Archive of misheard lyrics. Site name based on mishearing the
Hendrix line 'Excuse me while I kiss the sky'.
- learningfromlyrics.org
— ‘social studies curriculum involving the use of popular
song lyrics to engage students and raise their awareness of important
environmental, historic, social, and political issues as a prelude to
action and activism.’
- lyrics.duble.com
— Extensive collection of mostly English-language pop lyrics arranged
by artist/author name: a useful, no-nonsense site.
- Misheard
lyrics archive (English-language pop/rock, etc. only)
- SongMeanings.net
— Numerous online interpretations of pop songs, mostly of their
lyrics, but also often connoting what the music is perceived
to be communicating.
- Maqamat
with transpositions (ed. S Asmar: v useful). Try
also this site (basics of makam).
- Multimediabyrån
- Music
and Emotion: A Selected Bibliography (from Ohio State Uni.)
- Music
Library UCLA: Special Collections
- Musicians'
Union (UK)
- MusiClassical.com
— quite a useful search facility
- Musicology
— The best sites chosen by humans (links)
- MusicWeb
Encyclopaedia of Popular Music
- Musikindustrie
im Internet (more good links to music industry sites)
- Muslim
rap
- Muzak
ban? (BBC)
- Netizens
Cyberstop Music (extensive metasite)
- New
Musical Express
- Newcastle
on Tyne University Music Department's "Useful Links".
Useful!
- Ntama
- Journal of African Music and Culture
- Oddments
of [US] American Music. Really useful historical sight: includes excellent
no-nonsense list of early US pop songs with composers and original dates,
detailed annotations of the songs, etc.
- Online
Music Scores (European art music, historical, incl. facsimiles of valuable
documents)
- Open
Semiotics Resource Centre
- PALATINE
(Lancaster University — Web resources and reviews for music, incl Music
Teaching and Learning Resources, Performance and Performance Studies, etc.).
For comments on this site, see http://www.palatine.org.uk/directory/search
and enter < Tagg >
- Parlour
Songs (English-language, 1800-1920: useful details on hundreds of songs)
- Popular
Music (Journal, Cambridge University Press)
- Popular
Music Research Center, Berlin (English language version of Forschungszentrum
populäre Musik)
- Popular
Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology
- The
Progressive Rock Bibliography
- Rave,
Techno, etc. - "Hyperreal" (extensive rave culture site, incl. DJ downloads)
- Real
Guide's radio station overview by genre/style with links to some online
broadcasts
- Recommended
Records
- Rejected
Film Scores
- RéR
- Recommended Records
- Revista
Electrônica — useful musicology journal produced by Eduardo
Paiva (Universidade Federal do Paraná: in Portuguese)
- RoJaRo
Data Base (Norway: x-refs to reviews and info about mainly pop and rock
artists)
- Roots
Knotty Roots — A Jamaican Discography
- Royal
College of Music (UK) — Professional Development for Musician-Teachers
(useful materials)
- Royal
Musical Association (UK) — journal, etc.
- Scales: nearly
3000 of them! Greenwich
publishing site. Actual download
site.
- Schillinger’s
composition system
- Serge
Lacasse's home page — popular music analysis courses and an excellent
doctoral thesis about 'vocal staging'
- SQRM
- Société québécoise de recherche en musique
- ‘A
Song for Peace’: the competition that wasn’t. (I was on the
jury and nothing ever happened!)
- SongMeanings.net
— Numerous online interpretations of pop songs, mostly of their
lyrics, but also often connoting what the music is perceived to be
communicating.
- Songwriter's
Hall of Fame Search Page — Wikipedia - very useful
- Sound
of India — quite basic about Northern Indian classical music (raga
tradition)
- STM
Online (1999, vol. 2: in English or Swedish; Svensk tidskrift för
musikforskning = Swedish Musicological Journal)
- Terry
Hounsome, Record Researcher.
How to get hold of the excellent and reasonably priced RockRom CD with full
discographical details of thousands and thousands of recordings
- TUNING
& PITCH
- University
of Iowa symphonic instruments samples
- University
of North Texas sheet music listings (mostly interwar jazz and popular
music)
- Det
virtuelle musikbibliotek (English version of useful Danish online resource)
- While
My Guitar Gently Weeps (ukelele - excellent!)
Miscellaneous
sites (see also political sites)
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