Music Resources
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Contents
- General Resources
- Musical Instruments
- Music Theory
- Music History
- Styles of Music
General Resources |
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- A-Z Lyrics Universe Here you can get the lyrics to a variety of songs.
- All Music Guide Provides biographies, discographies, and more on a wide variety of music including artists, composers, and more.
- International Music Score Project Collects musical scores that are in public domain.
- Musescore Write music with this free app.
- The Musician's Way The companion site to the book of the same name, this is an excellent resource for musicians, music teachers, and music students with practice logs and more.
- National Jukebox Collects the historical recording's housed at the Library of Congress.
- Opera Glass From Stanford University, here you can learn about more than 25,000 operas and their composers including synopses, performance histories, and more.
- Smithsonian Music Explore the Smithsonian's music collection. Here you can listen to playlists or a podcast...
- Sound Junction Here you can learn about the history of music, musical instruments, how music is made, composing music, and more.
- Tunefind A directory of songs that have been used in television shows, films, or video games.
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Musical Instruments |
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- Hoffman Academy: Learn Piano Online Piano teacher Joseph Hoffman provides over 100 video lessons on how to play piano for free.
- How to Choose an Instrument This is a good introduction of musical instruments.
- Justin Guitar Justin Sandercoe provides over 900 free guitar lesson videos.
- Musical Instrument Archive Contains a collection of articles about how to play, history, and other information about musical instruments.
- Musical Instrument Museums Online This database gathers images and descriptions of over 100,000 musical instruments in museums around the globe.
- Stearns Collection From the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the Stearns Collection holds over 2500 historical and contemporary musical instruments from around the world.
- Violin Online Learn the basics of how to play the violin, includes music.
- Virtual Drumming Here you can build and play the drum set you've always wanted.
- Virtual Musical Instruments Play virtually the guitar, pan-flute, bongos, piano, and drums.
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Music Theory
- Chrome Music Lab Use hands-on interactive experiments to explore music.
- The Essentials of Music Theory Provides information on how to read music, music note values, music clefs, dotted notes, and more.
- Music Theory Contains interactive lessons on music theory.
- Music Theory Guy British music teacher Stephen Wiles created videos explaining various concepts about music.
- On Music Dictionary Defines musical terms, instruments, and symbols. Also briefly profiles composers.
- Read Music Free Contains games, tools, and resources to teach you how to read music.
- Teoria Learn how to read music, scales, chords, and other aspects of music theory with tutorials, exercises, articles, and more.
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Music History
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- Black Music History Library Compiles books, articles, documentaries, podcasts, and more relating to the origins of black music and its influence on popular music.
- Musicmap Maps out the history of music illustrating the relationships of the different musical genres.
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Primitive and Ancient Music |
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Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance |
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Baroque and Classical Music |
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- Beethoven: Life and Work Provides a biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, lists his works, offers a bibliography of other online resources, and more.
- J. S. Bach Home Page Provides a biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, lists of his work, and other resources.
- The Mozart Project Developed by Steve Boerner, this site describes the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and lists his compositions.
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Romantic Period |
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Nationalistic Period |
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- Edvard Grieg Museum Troldhaugen Official site of Edvard Grieg's home Troldhaugen, (Troll Hill), in Bergen, Norway. Contains a biography, list of works, and information about the museum.
- Tchaikovsky Research A comprehensive site about Russian composer Petr Il'ich Tchaikovsky including biographical resources, compositions, writings, links, and more.
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Later Romantics Period |
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- Johannes Brahms WebSource Contains a biography of Brahms, a works list, images, online resources, and more.
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20th and 21st Centuries Music |
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- American Songwriter: Behind the Song This blog from American Songwriter finds out the meanings behind beloved songs such as Despacito" by Luis Fonsi, "Macarena" by Los del Rio, "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor, "Hey Jude" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and more.
- Copland House The official site of the Copland House where composer Aaron Copland lived. Contains a biography, list of works, bibliography, and more.
- Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre is a popular choral, wind ensemble, and orchestra composer. This is his official website and contains a biography, videos and audio clips of his music, and more.
- The Official Website of George & Ira Gershwin Tells the stories of George and Ira Gershwin, including their biographies, anthologies, bibliographic resources, and more.
- Radiooooo Get a taste of the history of modern music by selecting a country and a decade from 1900 to present.
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Music Styles
Folk Music |
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Military and Concert Bands |
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- A History of the Wind Band Describes the history of the wind or concert band from its beginnings in the medieval era to present day.
- John Philip Sousa Home Page Explore the world of Sousa! Contains a biography, history of his band, listings of his work, and more.
- "The President's Own" United States Marine Band Get concert information, listen to music, and more from the band that was once led by John Philip Sousa.
- Sousa Archives and Center for American Music The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library collects "archival records and historical artifacts in multiple media formats that document America’s local and national music history and its diverse cultures" and includes online exhibits.
- Wind Band Literature Dr. Andy Pease of Hartwick College has created this informative site about band composers their works. For each piece, there is information about the composer, information about the work itself, and You Tube videos of the piece.
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Country Music |
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- Bristol: The Birthplace of Country Music Describes the history of country music in eastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia.
- Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns The companion to the documentary by Ken Burns with episode guide, biographies of film participants, timeline, and more.
- Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- Grand Ole Opry Describes the history of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee and profiles member artists.
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Jazz |
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- Bix Biederbecke Museum and World Archive Explore the life and music of jazz great Bix Biederbecke. Located in Davenport, Iowa.
- Hogan Jazz Archive Documents the history of jazz in New Orleans, from Tulane University.
- Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns The companion website of the PBS series includes a history of jazz, biographies, and more.
- The Milton and Nelma Filluis Jazz Archive Contains interviews and photographs of jazz musicians, arrangers, writers, and critics, especially from the jazz and swing era.
- New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park Explores the history of jazz and profiles key jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong, Charles Bolden, George Vetiala Laine, and Sidney Bechet.
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Big Bands
Rock and Roll and Pop |
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- Classic Motown Explore the history of Motown featuring artists such as Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, The Jackson 5, and The Four Tops.
- History of Rock and Roll Explore the origins and history of rock and roll.
- Memphis Rock n Soul Museum Discover the history of rock and soul music.
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
- Rock Music Timeline Chronicles the history of rock and roll from its birth in the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Rap/Hip-Hop |
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- Genius Full of stories behind the lyrics of hip hop songs and the latest news.
- The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop Matt Daniels maps out "the number of unique words used by some of the most famous artists in hip hop.
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