Internet Resources
J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library/Loyola
University New Orleans -- http://library.loyno.edu/
Music Resources on the Internet
- American
Memory from the Library of Congress Sheet Music Collections. Some of
the collections include:
- African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920, selected from the collections
of Brown University;
- "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation,
and the Civil War from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana;
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 and 1870-1885;
- Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920.
- American
Music Therapy Association, AMTA Code of Ethics
- American
Psychological Association (type "music" in the search box) Excellent
full-text articles on music and psychology.
- Andante Covers
new performers, concert reviews, interviews, concert dates around the world
- Aria
Database Lieder translations
- ArkivMusic.com
Search for and buy CDs according to genre, composer, performer, or performing
ensemble. For classical music, it's much easier to use than Amazon.com
- ArtsOpportunities
is a free resource for artists, students and arts administrators seeking
to further their careers in the arts. This service is brought to you by
the Southern Arts Federation.
- Basin
Street Records
- The
Costumer's manifesto premier site for costume and fashion information.
Approximately 800 pages on all aspects of costume.
- DW3
Duke University's Music Library site with composer homepages, chronologies
and necrologies, national and regionally oriented pages, and organizations
and centers for scholarly research.
- Education World - Visual & Performance Arts
Center "The educator's best friend." Resources, articles, interviews,
and more, for any educator.
- Filmsound.org
organized in sections that include links to articles (from practical to
scholarly) on how sound is used in films. There are also links to articles
on the history of film sound and questions and answers, databases (e.g.,
a sound effects library), bibliography, and resources on related topics
such as film music and sound in animation films.
- The
Future of Music Coalition is a not-for-profit collaboration between
members of the music, technology, public policy and intellectual property
law communities. The FMC seeks to educate the media, policymakers, and the
public about music / technology issues. The FMC also aims to identify and
promote innovative business models that will help musicians and citizens
to benefit from new technologies.
- Indiana University's William and Gayle Cook Music Library
Excellent collection of sites along the same lines as DW3 (see above)
- Internet archive: live
music archive noncommercial recordings--more than 16,000 to date--of
"trade friendly" artists. Users should be aware that all shows
are in the little-used SHN (.shn) format (a lossless audio codec) instead
of the more ubiquitous MP3. Other music pages of the audio archive include
Netlabels, which offers independent, alternative music labels in a variety
of formats, including MP3, and Open Source Audio. The audio archive also
includes Presidential Recordings, some 115 White House recordings, most
1940-73.
- Internet
Broadway database
- Jazz Online
All-in-one site for jazz enthusiasts; very well laid out
- Knitting
Factory What's happening in jazz in NYC
- Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
more than 29,000 pieces of popular American music from 1780 to 1960.
- Louisiana
Music Educators Association
- Louisiana
Music Factory retail and mail order sales of New Orleans- and Louisiana-related
recorded music and other items. A great place to buy Louisiana music, and
to find out what's happening locally
- LSU's
webliography Useful especially for local music links and information
- Mainely
A Cappella sells 3,000+ items related to a cappella: singing without
instruments. We sell CDs, sheet music, videos and other a cappella items
from all over the world.
- MENC's Music Code of Ethics
- MLA:
Copyright for Music Librarians
- Music
Business Journal "The Internet Publication for the Global Music Business."
Covers issues and laws from both the US and the UK.
- Music
Business Solutions Helping musicians, songwriters and industry careerists
start and grow successful music businesses through vital information and
creative management strategies.
- Music
Library Association's guide to copyright in terms of copying and streaming
music.
- Music
Publishers' Association Founded in 1895, the Music Publishers' Association
is the oldest music trade organization in the United States, fostering communication
among publishers, dealers, music educators, and all ultimate users of music.
This non-profit association addresses itself to issues pertaining to every
area of music publishing with an emphasis on the issues relevant to the
publishers of print music for concert and educational purposes.
- Music,
Theater, and Dance From Library of Congress. Patriotic Melodies, The
Gerry Mulligan Collection, Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio, and Walt Whitman
(focusing on his poem "I Hear America Singing"). The Featured Collection,
Historic Sheet Music, now covers from 1800 to 1922 .
- Music Theory Multimedia
A collection of interactive quizzes, crosswords, and mazes on everything
from the basic elements of music theory, to late nineteenth-century harmony
and post-tonal theory and analysis.
- Music
Theory Online The online journal of the Society for Music Theory
- www.musictheory.net
- National
Association for Music Education
- National
Music Publishers' Association, Inc. Since 1917, NMPA has been a strong
and effective champion for the protection of music copyrights in an age
of rapid technological changes. NMPA was a leading voice for music publishers
in connection with the enactment of the Copyright Act of 1976, and has successfully
advocated amendments to that Act where necessary to protect the interests
of music copyright owners.
- New
Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Official site
- Nordoff-Robbins
Music Therapy UK
- Pronouncing Dictionary
of Music and Musicians from radio station WOI in Iowa
- Public Domain Music
for performers, composers, and teachers to determine whether a song is in the public domain and,
therefore, available for performance, publication, or arrangement without fear of infringing upon
copyright.
- REC
Music Foundation An archive of texts to Lieder and other Classical
Art Songs (Kunstlieder, Mélodies, Canzoni, Romansy, Canciones, Liederen,
Canções, Sånger, Laulua, etc.) as well as many choral works and other types
of classical vocal pieces, with thousands of translations to English, French
and other languages
- Songfile
Find lyrics to popular music
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording
Trip - “ballads, blues, children’s songs, cowboy songs,
fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas,
spirituals, and work songs.” Lots of other goodies, including a fascinating
photo archive.
- Theodore
Front music publishers for all types of music, books, CDs
- T.I.S.
Music Piano, vocal, CDs, books
- United
States Government Copyright Office
- VH1 Save The Music purchases new musical instruments to restore
music education programs that have been cut due to budget reductions in
the past or to save programs at risk of elimination due to lack of instruments.
The Foundation also conducts awareness campaigns, musical instrument drives
and fundraising events.
- www.schenkerguide.com
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