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All Music Guide: Guide to music artists, including information on albums, songs, publishing, and biographical information. Searchable by name, album, song, style and label, it encompasses a wide range of musical styles, including rock, country, reggae and folk. Also includes recent music related news.
Author: Matrix Software
Subjects: folk music, music news, musicians, popular music
DeweyClass: 780
Resource type: biography, reference documents
Antonio Stradivari: Available in German and English and created by Thomas Knierim, this resource is dedicated to Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737). It offers a portrait the violin maker, a teacher/pupil generations tree, and a bibliography on Stradivari, violin making and bowed instruments.
Author: Knierim, Thomas
Subjects: musicians, stringed instruments
DeweyClass: 787
Resource type: directory
Benny Carter Web Site: Information about jazz musician Benny Carter, including his career and current activities. Features biography, discography, image gallery and a list of forthcoming appearances.
Author: Berger, Laurence
Subjects: jazz music, musicians
DeweyClass: 781.65
Resource type: biography, discography, images
Bob Marley: Collection of information about the Jamaican recording artist categorised into three areas covering his life, his music, and his legacy. Provides details of Marley's beliefs, politics, influences, lyrics, festivals, tributes, and albums recorded with the Wailers.
Author: Bob Marley Music
Subjects: musicians
DeweyClass: 781.646
Resource type: documents, images
BobDylan.com: Searchable and browsable listings of Bob Dylan's songs and albums. Lyrics are available for most songs, which are all available in RealAudio format. There is also a selection of live performances.
Author: Bob Dylan and Columbia Records
Subjects: musicians, popular music
DeweyClass: 781.64
Resource type: sound collection
Cadenza: Provides classical music resources and information for and about contemporary and classical music and musicians. Includes a list of upcoming events from around the world, programme notes and a list of composers, publishers, choirs and other performers. A multi-lingual glossary translates musical terms into various languages. Offers a free musicians' directory and free classified ads for musicians.
Author: Cadenza
Subjects: classical music, composers, musicians
DeweyClass: 780.9033
Resource type: directory
Classical Music UK: Searchable classical music information, offering news, concerts and vacancies listings, and a comprehensive UK directory of music addresses and links.
Author: Web Projects
Subjects: classical music links, music news, musicians
DeweyClass: 781.68
Resource type: documents
CLASSICalmanac: Provides a listing of significant dates in classical music history including those of births, deaths, and first performances of a range of composers and performers. The almanac is searchable by month.
Author: MUSIClassical
Subjects: classical music composers, musicians
DeweyClass: 781.68
Resource type: reference documents
Different Music Periods and Specific Composers: Links to information on instruments and music of specific time periods, together with an alphabetical index of biographical notes on individual composers.
Author: Osborn, Tracey
Subjects: music composition, musical instruments, musicians
DeweyClass: 780.9
Resource type: index
DW3 Classical Music Resources: Collection of material including information about composers from Medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, Baroque, Classic, and early and late Twentieth Century periods. Covers choral, instrumental, and electronic music, opera, instruments, and theory and composition. Also provides birth and death dates of musicians, details of local musical events in regions throughout the world, and an index of fully searchable music databases.
Author: Fineman, Yale
Subjects: classical music composers, classical music links, music collections, musicians
DeweyClass: 781.68
Resource type: index
Experience Hendrix Interactive: Provides details of a Jimi Hendrix memorial project led by his family, with information and a discography of Hendrix's work. A selection of material including Purple Haze, Hey Joe, All Along the Watchtower, Stone Free, Foxy Lady, and Star Spangled Banner is available for download.
Author: Experience Hendrix
Subjects: musicians, rock music
DeweyClass: 781.66
Resource type: documents, sounds
Harmony Central: Collection of home pages devoted to specific topics of interest to musicians.
Author: Harmony Central
Subjects: musicians
DeweyClass: 780.92
Resource type: index
Henry's Gallery: Collection of photographs taken by Henry Diltz, the official photographer of the Woodstock and Monterey pop festivals, and of many album covers from the late 1960s onwards. Includes coverage of Chuck Berry, Booker T and the MGs, The Byrds, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Eric Clapton, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and James Taylor.
Author: Diltz, Henry
Subjects: musicians, photographs
DeweyClass: 779
Resource type: image collection
intermusic.com: Information on musicians, equipment, techniques, news and reviews for music makers.
Author: Future Publishing
Subjects: computer music, electroacoustic music, musical instruments, musicians, percussion instruments, popular music
DeweyClass: 780.92
Resource type: index, news
International Gustav Mahler Society: Society founded at the suggestion of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1955. Some elements, such as meeting minutes and the library catalogue, are accessible to members only.
Author: International Gustav Mahler Society
Subjects: music composition, musicians
DeweyClass: 780.92
Resource type: documents, opac
List of Italian Composers: List of Italian Composers, providing information and links, where appropriate.
Author: TheFreeDictionary.com
Subjects: italian composers, music composition, musicians
DeweyClass: 780.92
Resource type: biographies, reference
Nick Drake: Information about English singer-songwriter Nick Drake. Features a discography, lyrics, interviews, and an A-Z of Drake's life covering topics such as guitar technique, influences, and live performances.
Author: Ledin, Mikael
Subjects: musicians
DeweyClass: 781.66
Resource type: documents
OrchestraNET: OrchestraNet is a resource guide which links to a number of Web resources connected with orchestras and classical music. Categories include UK orchestras, World orchestras, books, videos, Web casts and radio, MP3 files, and classical music vacancies and message boards.
Author: OrchestraNET
Subjects: musicians, orchestras
DeweyClass: 784
Resource type: directory
POLLSTAR Concert Hotwire: A searchable database of concerts. Searching is by artist, city or venue.
Author: Pollstar
Subjects: music news, musicians
DeweyClass: 780.78
Resource type: news
Sony Music International: Details and links to the company's various divisions, labels and mostly mainstream artists based in Europe, New Zealand, Africa, Asia, the United States and elsewhere. Current tourdates of Sony's major artists are also provided. Some of the sites feature soundclips, videos and community sections.
Author: Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Subjects: musicians, popular music, rock music
DeweyClass: 781.66
Resource type: news, sound collection
Stephen Collins Foster: Collection of information about musical composer Stephen Foster, who wrote 286 works in less than 20 years. Provides biographical facts, details of his professional career, alphabetical and chronological listings of his compositions, bibliographical information about material available for sale, and a selection of FAQs about his birth, family, lifestyle, and death.
Author: Center for American Music, University of Pittsburgh
Subjects: musicians
DeweyClass: 780.92
Resource type: documents
Thelonious Monk Website: Searchable set of documents about Thelonious Monk, a jazz musician who contributed to the birth of bebop. Includes a discography of Monk's audio and video recordings, a selection of papers and articles about the musician and his life, quotations by and about Thelonious Monk, and a collection of pictures, magazine covers, and album covers from Riverside, Columbia, Blue Note, Prestige, and other labels.
Author: Howard, M.
Subjects: jazz music, musicians
DeweyClass: 781.65
Resource type: documents, images, sounds
Ultimate Band List: Index of sites relatings to a wide range of musicians and bands. Includes lyric archives, links to mailings lists, and links to digitised versions of songs. Indexed alphabetically, by genre and by resource type.
Author: Maverick Recordings
Subjects: musicians, popular music, rock music
DeweyClass: 781.66
Resource type: index
Velvet Underground: Information about the Velvet Underground, a group established during the 1960s and 70s. Includes a discography, a bibliography, full text articles and interviews, photographs, and details of bootlegs, films, videos, rehearsals, and live performances. Also gives news of reunion CDs and tours.
Author: Landemaine, Olivier
Subjects: musicians, popular music
DeweyClass: 781.64
Resource type: documents, images
Yehudi Menuhin School: International music school, based in Cobham, Surrey, which was founded by the violinist and conductor, Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) in 1963. Given special status as a centre of excellence for the performing arts in 1973, the school educates musically gifted children, aged between 8 and 18.
Author: Yehudi Menuhin School
Subjects: music education, musicians, stringed instruments
DeweyClass: 787
Resource type: institution