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Aaron Copland collection, ca. 1900-1990 |
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AFM.org the online community for musicians Includes a large section on the history, administration, locals, and programs of the AFM, as well as information about how to hire musicians |
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African Music Archive Home page of the African Music Archive which includes extensive information about the Archive and it's resources as well as links to related African music resources |
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Alan Lomax database |
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American Orff-Schulwerk Association music and movement education Web site for the AOSA, a professional organization of music and movement educators dedicated to the creative teaching approach developed by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman. Includes information about the developers, the Association itself and its chapters, the quarterly journal, and links to related sites including the library at Univ. of Arizona that holds the Orff-Schulwerk Library |
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Bate Collection of Musical Instruments Features the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, housed at the Oxford University Faculty of Music in England. Includes news items, a history of the collection, images, visitor information, and descriptions of public and research services offered |
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Brass band world an independent monthly magazine for bands Contains material on brass bands in Great Britain including some articles from the magazine of the same name, as well as a directory to UK bands, list of professional band musicians, shopping, and competition reports |
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California Gold Northern California folk music from the thirties The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians |
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Dayton C. Miller flute collection The preview release of this digital collection contains catalog entries and images for 102 of the 1,650 instruments in the full collection, which includes flutes and other instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute |
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Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments Web site for the EUCHMI. Includes information about visiting the collection in person, catalog of all the instruments in the collection, demonstrations of some of the instruments, list of publications of the EUCHMI, research being done at the University, documents on the archive, and an electronic picture gallery that let's you see some of the instruments with descriptions of each. Also, includes some links to related Web sites |
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Fiddle tunes of the old frontier the Henry Reed collection, from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress / Presents a multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier. Many of the tunes have passed back into circulation during the fiddling revival of the later twentieth century. This online collection incorporates 184 original sound recordings, 19 pages of fieldnotes, and 69 musical transcriptions with descriptive notes on tune histories and musical features; an illustrated essay about Reed's life, art, andinfluence; a list of related publications; and a glossary of musical terms |
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Finchcocks living museum of music Guide to Finchcocks, a musical instrument museum in Kent, England. It is home to the Richard Burnett Collection of Historical Keyboard Instruments which includes more than a hundred instruments (clavichords, harpsichords, pianoharpa, cylinder music box, keyboard crystalphone, digitorium, dulcitone, organs, and pianos), many in full playing condition. Includes information about chamber concerts held there, recordings and plays hosted, and has a complete catalog detailing the instruments in the museum |
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Gakkigaku Shiryokan collection for organology, Kunitachi College of Music |
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Glenn Gould archive |
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Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: the Juan B. Rael collection, 1940- Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. In 1940, Juan Bautista Rael of Stanford University, a native of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, used disc recording equipment supplied by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center) to document alabados (hymns), folk drama, wedding songs, and dance tunes. The recordings included in the Archive of Folk Culture collection were made in Alamosa, Manassa, and Antonito, Colorado, and in Cerro and Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico. In addition to these recordings, the collection includes manuscript materials and publications authored by Rael which provide insight into the rich musical heritage and cultural traditions of this region. This presentation is made possible by the generous support of The Texaco Foundation |
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I hear America singing "'I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,' wrote Walt Whitman in a poem celebrating the American spirit -- adventuresome, strong, and inclusive. This Web site invites visitors to experience the diversity of American performing arts through the Library of Congress's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials." |
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IRCAM multimedia library |
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Irish World Music Centre Contains information about the Centre, its degrees offered, faculty, events, and links to other Irish traditional music Web sites |
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Irving Fine collection ca. 1914-1962 |
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Jewish music home page Catalog of Jewish music available on compact disc along with some WAV files for clips from recordings, and links to short biographies of artists appearing in the catalog. Includes popular (wedding/party music) and traditional Jewish music |
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Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center [Web site] Information about the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, which operates as a cultural performing arts center under the Seattle Dept. of Parks and Recreation. The goal of the Center is to provide quality cultural entertainment and educational components that meet the needs of the community. Every season, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center has new classes, events, and programs. The Center offers both performances and instruction, and the programming reflects the diversity of the surrounding neighborhoods, the Central District and the International District |
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Leonard Bernstein collection, ca. 1920-1989 Site featuring one of the largest and most varied of the special collections held by the Music Division of the Library of Congress. Devoted to the life and career of American composer, conductor, and teacher, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), this online collection presents a selection of 85 photographs, 177 scripts from the Young People's Concerts, 74 scripts from the Thursday Evening Previews, and over 1,100 pieces of correspondence all searchable with the collection's "finding aid." |
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MacEdward Leach and the songs of Atlantic Canada |
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Mechanical music digest archives Mechanical music digest is an electronic discussion group concerning mechanical musical instruments, those instruments that play themselves. Contains pictures and audio files |
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MENC home page Includes a variety of resources for MENC members and other music educators including online MENC publications, other MENC publications, job notices, and links to other music education sites |
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Milman Parry collection Includes text and audio materials from Parry and Albert Lord, including songs |
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Museum of Popular Instruments, Research Centre for Ethnomusicology Home page for information about a popular Greek music museum that contains the musical instrument collection of music historian Fivos Anoyanakis. Comprised of about 1200 Greek popular music instruments dating from the 18th century |
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Music awards and prizes Contains links to sites that list music award information as well as links to sites of specific awards |
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Music education at the University of Washington Home page for the Music Education Division of the School of Music at the University of Washington |
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Music history |
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Music in the Afghan North, 1967-1972 |
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music library of Sweden |
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Music software Contains links to sites that list music software as well as links to sites of specific kinds of music software |
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National Music Museum [home page] Founded in 1973 on the campus of the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, the National Music Museum & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments is one of the great institutions of its kind in the world. Its renowned collections, which include more than 10,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods, are the most inclusive anywhere |
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Now what a time blues, gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals (1938-1943) / Consists of sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation created by John Wesley Work III in 1941 and by Lewis Jones and Willis Laurence James in March, June, and July 1943 at the folk festival at Fort Valley College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. Also included are recordings made in Tennessee and Alabama (including six Sacred Harp songs) by John Work |
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Omaha Indian music from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Ethnographic field collection of traditional Omaha music from the 1890s through the 1980s. Contains recordings from wax cylinders, songs, speeches, interviews, photographs, field notes, and tape logs. Features material from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow, 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library of Congress, and 1983 and 1999 interviews with members of the Omaha tribe |
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Society for Ethnomusicology Home page of the Society for Ethnomusicology which includes information about the society, membership, programs, publications, and resources |
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Southern mosaic the John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States recording trip / Covering a three-month period in 1939, the John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip documents a wide variety of musical styles from eight different states. This collection consists of approximately 25 hours of audio recordings on 267 acetate recording discs and 1 linear foot of print materials. The online presentation provides access to 686 audio titles, 381 graphic images from the Lomax Visual Image Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division, and page images as well as transcribed, searchable text for all the print material in the collection. This includes the 1939 Annual Report for the Archive of American Folk Song, a 4-page trip report, 307 pages of fieldnotes, 57 items of correspondence, 37 song text transcriptions, and the 104 extant dust jackets from the recording discs with handwritten notes |
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Teatro alla Scala Web site dedicated to the theater |
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UNT Music LIbrary virtual rare book room |
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Welcome to the home page of the Davidsbundler This site contains information about the movement started by Robert Schumann through his journal, Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, to defend the tradition of classical music during the 19th century. Includes information about a number of Schumann's allies in this cause including Clara Wieck (Schumann), Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Johannes Brahms and Antonin Dvorak. Some WAV files are also included |
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