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Music
Resources on the
World Wide Web
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General Web Sites
AMG's All
Music Guide
Search by artist, album, song, style,
or label. Provides information on new releases, music styles, history,
reviews, and discographies.
Glossary - musical and computer
terms
Dictionary with concise
definitions and illustrations of terms and concepts, including
electronic technology.
Music
Resources on the Internet
A comprehensive list of music resources,
not annotated - maintained by the Indiana University Music Library.
Ricci Adams' musictheory.net
Online instruction and tools for learning music theory.
teoria
Music theory, including interactive tutorials and exercises.
Web Sites by Musical Genre
Instruments and Recording
Create Digital Music
News, reviews, articles,
and forums for musicians relying heavily on technology.
Creative Keyboard
Articles about playing keyboards as well
as about related topics.
Hometracked
Home recording techniques and tips as well as links for independent
musicians who record, produce, and promote their own music.
KVR Audio
Information resource for open standard audio plugins, including virtual instruments, effects, and hosts. Includes a searchable plugin database, forums, download links, and lexicon of audio terms.
Instrument
Encyclopedia
General and historical information for
musical instruments from around the world.
Electronic
Music Instruments 1870 -1990
History of hundreds of electronic
instruments
over a 120 year period.
The
Museum of Musical Instruments
Articles and virtual exhibits with a
strong
emphasis on guitars.
Music Business
Sheet Music &
Lyrics
Historic
American Sheet Music
Digitized images of over 3000 pieces of
American sheet music from 1850 to 1920 from the Rare Book, Manuscript,
and Special Collections Library at DukeUniversity.
Lester
S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
Collection spans the years 1780 to 1960.
Part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The
Johns Hopkins University.
LyricFind.com
Searchable database featuring rock and
pop, soul, and rap/hip hop lyrics.
Publishing &
Copyright
ASCAP
(American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)
Provides a database searchable by
titles,
writers, publishers and performers of millions of performed works in
the
ASCAP repertory.
BMI -
Broadcast
Music Inc.
Provides a searchable database of who
owns 7.5 million song titles.
Public
Domain Music
Searchable list of music in the public
domain as well as information about intellectual property with respect
to musical works.
United
States Copyright Office
Official source of copyright law
information,
including forms and procedures for registering musical works for
copyright
protection.
Comments or questions? E-mail Jon
Luckstead.
Page maintained by Jon Luckstead.
Revised June 13, 2008
Graphic courtesty of dgl.microsoft.com.