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Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of 25 reference books and encyclopedias in electronic format.
Acoustic Music
Links to hundreds of acoustic and folk musicians, as well as listing music stores and dealers in recordings (both on and off line), folk music radio shows (mostly in Southern California), organizations that promote and support acoustic music in Southern California, and lists of and links to live acoustic and folk music venues in Southern California. Also links to sites about instrument manufacturers, booking agencies, instrument accessories, magazines, and reference sites about folk and acoustic music.
All-Music Guide
A comprehensive guide to all forms of popular music and musicians. Searchable by artist name, album or song title, music genre, or record label. Offers detailed biographies, reviews, and links to other Internet resources for most artists.
British Music Information Centre (BMIC)
BMIC database holds details of almost 45,000 scores and recordings of 20th Century British music,which are available at BMIC. To do a search, see 'database search' on their website.
Essentials of Music
This site offers an introduction to classical music built around Sony's Essential Classics series. It features Eras , Composers , and a Glossary . Eras covers the six main periods in classical history, discussing historical themes, context, style, and major composers. Composers includes brief biographies and works of nearly 70 composers. Glossary provides 200 terms with examples (recordings or pictures). It also includes almost 200 excerpts from the series in RealPlayer format. From the W.W. Norton & Company and Sony Classical.
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
A collection of links to Web resources about the study of folk and primitive music arranged by categories such as organizations, bibliography, recordings, and geographical region or ethnic group. Includes links to folk dance sites as well. From the University of Washington Music Library.
Jazz Composers Collective
This site is a non-profit, New York City-based, musician-run organization dedicated to presenting the original works of composers who are pushing the boundaries of their self-expression. Provides links to Composers, the Collective's Newsletters, Concerts, and Recordings.
Opera Glass
Opera Glass is an opera information server on the World Wide Web. Here you can get detailed information, including performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies, pictures, and more on any of a small but rapidly growing number of operas, plus pointers to many other opera servers.
OperaResource
Let your trip into the fascinating world of opera begin with OperaResource. Links to the lives and works of Verdi and Puccini as well as a section called Making Of, which provides background information on the creation of some well-known operas. Includes links to Synopses and Libretti and a picture gallery of composers and opera houses.
Opera Web
Active as late as 1/24/2002, this site is still accessible through The Internet Archives. The site is divided into the following sections: Operas; Misc.; Insight; Reference; News; and the Fun zone. Links to the OperaWeb Archives. Audio clips, personal data, biography, greatest recordings of the greatest opera stars available as well as multimedia synopsis of individual operas.
Yahoo!: Music
Contains music news and videos, interviews with popular musicians, reviews, and more. Represented styles include pop, hip-hop, rock, adult pop, country, and electronic/dance. |
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