Electronic Texts & Documents
Abraham Lincoln Songster - UW restricted UW restricted
Integrates digital facsimiles of Lincoln campaign song sheets together with full-text searchable lyrics of these songs and some RealAudio sound recordings. The Abraham Lincoln Songster is an experiment conducted by the University of Chicago in collaboration with Lincoln/Net and the Chicago Historical Society
All songs considered NPR's online music show
Provides information about the music used in the radio new program All Things Considered that have aired since July 24, 1995
Blues
Bodleian Library broadside ballads the allegro Catalogue of ballads
Collection of ballads from the 16th through early 20th century
Ceolas
Home of celtic music on the net, with reviews, biographies, guides, audio samples, hundreds of links to real-world and internet resources, tunes, schedules, instrument guides and more
children's music archive Judy & David's online songbook
Lyrics to popular children's songs, sound clips, sing-along actions, and activities
Classical music events calendar
A daily musical calendar of classical music history
Composers
Almost 400 composers have representation with the Australian Music Centre. This site presents biographical information about each composer, photographs, composer email addresses and links to composer websites, and lists of works and recordings held at the Australian Music Centre Library
Dictionnaire des theatres de Paris, contenant toutes les pieces qui ont ete representees jusqu'a present sur les differens theatres francoise, & sur celui de l'Academie royale de musique: les extraits de celles qui ont ete jouees par les comediens ital
Digitale Beethoven-haus
Exploring notions of national style New Zealand orchestral music in the late twentieth century /
This is the first detailed study of New Zealand music that has investigated national style, concepts of landscape-in-music, and musical space through analytical examination. It thus contributes to the small but growing body of New Zealand musical studies, and to an overall picture of New Zealand cultural identity
Fall and redemption the essence of country music /
My initial focus as a final project in the Creative Pulse was to begin to sing again. Singing fulfilled the three requirements of choice in a project: risk, rigor, and the requirement of "having to do it." I had sung as a young man, and stopped as the result of listening to an adult tell me that I could not sing. During the following 23 years, I used percussion and became a dancer in order to express myself. The art forms of percussion and dance I was drawn to like a man is drawn to a woman that he must have. What about being drawn to an art form in order to continue existing? An artistic pursuit whose means of expression are a salvation? One can read about many artists who came into an art form out of necessity. Their life outside of expressing themselves was bleak and the art form became their cry. I by no means wish to place myself at the level of expertise of such artists that came to their art to survive, or to imply that I "paid my dues" to the extent that certain artists have (artists such as Hank Williams, or the blues artist Robert Johnson, for example). I do mean to express through this paper my experience of the catharsis in singing country music and the blues. My beginning singing came at a time when I really needed it; the music helped me through a difficult time. The title of the paper is Fall and Redemption: the Essence of Country Music for this reason. It is in narrative form, foot printing my process and discovery of the music. I attempted to combine life's experiences with the discovery of the music. The experiences were the inspiration behind playing the music. The essence of country music and the blues is its sincerity, and I hope that I have combined my life's narrative with the artistic process effectively, as the time period (December 2005 to June 2007) was a time in which art was defined by life, and life was defined by art
Fasola home page information resources for the sacred harp and other American shape note traditions
Contains a variety of information about the history of shape note singing, minutes and directories of Sacred Harp Singings, and links to related materials
Folksong meldex
general history of music, from the earliest ages to the present period - v.4
Great conversations in music a series of films hosted by Eugene Istomin /
Jazznet
Contains interviews of jazz musicians, jazz CD reviews, pictures of jazz musicians and articles about jazz
John Philip Sousa American composer, conductor & patriot
Features over 100 sound clips and MIDI files plus a biography, book reviews, pictures and more
lied and song texts page
This site houses an extensive archive of texts to Kunstlieder and other art songs in Czech, English, Finnish, French, German,Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Includes a biography of Gottschalk along with a facsimile reproduction of the 1881 Lippincott ed. of the Gottschalk's journal and links to other sites of interest to Gottschalk scholars
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) composer /
This site includes a complete listing of the works of Beethoven as well as additional biographical and bibliographical information
Necrology
Reports what appears in the current music media; maintained and updated by the Gaylord Music Library, Washington University
New music jukebox
Online library and listening room that provides access to biographical information about contemporary American composers. Composers choose to participate in the site and have control over the information presented. Most entries include how to contact the composer, a short biography, and a list of compositions. Some composers choose to include a score and/or a recording of the works listed
Sacred harp singing in Texas
Contains information about shape note singing in Texas, biographies of composers/poets whose work appears in the Sacred harp, and links to related resources
Sir Arnold Bax website
Web site devoted to the British composer Sir Arnold Bax (1883-1953). Includes interviews, essays, and articles on his life and music. Features reviews of the latest issues of Bax's music on compact disc or performances of it in the concert hall. Includes a photo gallery, discography, and links to other resources
Texts on music in English from the medieval and early modern eras
The database extends the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum and comprises all relevant manuscript and printed materials written in English from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century
TmiWeb
Electronic corpus of Italian music treatises from the Renaissance and early Baroque in facsimile and multimedial transcription
Variations algorithmic composition for acoustic instruments /
Variations is an algorithmic composition system that produces scores for acoustic instruments. Includes some 8-bit ulaw, mono, 8000hz sound bytes. Contains links to three additional pages about algorithmic composition
Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song correspondence, 1940-1950 /
Web site that highlights letters between Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center) at the Library of Congress. The letters were written primarily in the early 1940s, shortly after Guthrie had moved to New York City and met the Archive's assistant in charge, Alan Lomax


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