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Preserving a unique & priceless recorded heritage from choirs of gentlemen & boys singing in the English Cathedral tradition.Includes records, radio and TV broadcasts, church services, concerts, and documentaries from the early 1900s through today.
An essential guide to music on the BBC and beyond, this site has news, reviews, links to streaming music radio, and special features.
This is a living collection of books, articles, documentaries, series, podcasts and more about the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day. Resources are organized chronologically and by genre for ease of browsing.
Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.
Drummerworld is a noncommercial site – about Drums and Drumming for Drummers … The intention is, that the site should be kept clean, fast and free of charge for all drummers and friends.
The Library of Congress’s unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials.
We are building a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. … You can find and identify a tune even if the melody is all you know.or use a text-based search.
Find out who performed the original version of a particular song, or who covered that song.
From the Top is America’s largest national platform celebrating the stories, talents, and character of young classically-trained musicians. Through live events, NPR and video broadcasts, scholarships, and arts education programs, we empower these extraordinary young people to engage and inspire music lovers of all ages.
There’s nothing more annoying than humming a tune but not knowing what it’s called or where it’s from. Fear not – here are some of the most famous tunes from the history of music, complete with all the background information you need.
Classical music history is full of pioneers, practice-devotees and plenty of geniuses. We’ve done our utmost, below, to distil these great men and women into a list of 30 of the very best.
Classical World (www.classical.com) is a streaming platform that helps music lovers everywhere find, share and enjoy the best-loved pieces as well as the newest classical talent.
The term “classical music” describes orchestral music, chamber music, choral music, and solo performance pieces, yet within this broad genre, several distinct periods exist. Each classical era has its own characteristics that distinguish it from classical music at large.
This collection covers the best classical composers, performers, and conductors, past and present, as well as the most iconic symphonies and operas in the world. Learn the stories behind these incredible works of art and let yourself get swept away by their movements.
[t]he evolution, mechanisms, and playing methods of a range of instruments.From Yamaha.
Information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.Includes video and audio clips, illustrations, and tips for musicians.
A site produced by jazz fans for jazz fans. Our mission is to provide information and opinion about jazz from the past, present, and future.Tons of info and links, video, podcasts, and free mp3s.
Published since 1970, JazzTimes—“America’s Jazz Magazine”—provides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the jazz scene. Often controversial, always entertaining, JazzTimes is a favorite of musicians and fans alike.
Free Sheet Music, Free Piano Sheet Music, Free Popular Piano Sheet Music.
We have a large, legal, every day growing universe of lyrics where stars of all genres and ages shine.
Begun in December 1998, CPDL is one of the world’s largest free sheet music sites. You can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.
The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.(Duke University Library)
Our goal is to create a virtual library containing all public domain music, as well as music from composers who are willing to share their work with the world without charge.Includes over 550,000 scores from over 150,000 works.
Browse over 30,000 pieces of American popular music, dating as far back as 1780.
Lyrics.com is a huge collection of song lyrics, album information and featured video clips from endless number of artists…
Welcome to Lyrster, your interactive song lyrics search engine. Our team of professional developers, music fanatics and content editors have built an ever-growing database of songs spanning virtually all genres, time periods and artists.
MetroLyrics is the most popular lyrics website worldwide, boasting the most comprehensive database of legal lyrics in the world with over 1 Million titles.
Free sheet music, royalty free music, and public domain resources.
Sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others.Also has some midi files.
A large traditional and folk music library of songbooks, tune-books, sheet-music, lyrics, midis, tablature, plus music theory, chord diagrams, scales and other music educational & academic reference materials.
Like a powerful star, this dance-party scene quickly drew other art forms into its orbit. A growing movement of hopeful poets, visual artists, and urban philosophers added their visions and voices by whatever means available.
A new era was on the rise fueled by sentiments of anger, hardship, and abandonment. However, the emerging hip hop movement transformed despair and racial barriers into numerous creative outlets. It also became an outlet to deal with violence.
Oddmusic.com is for anyone interested in unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments.
You may not necessarily ~need~ to know how to read music to play music, but it certainly helps! Get started with this lesson.
LenMus is a free program for learning music theory. It allows you to focus on specific skills and exercises, on both theory and aural training. … It also includes an score editor.
A journal of criticism, commentary, research, and scholarship.For advanced musicians.
Develop your speed and accuracy in reading sheet music by identifying music notes in timed sessions.
A powerful full-featured application to edit, display and play back music notation in a standard web browser, integrated in an online library of musical scores that anyone can publish, link to, or embed.Includes Chrome Web Store app.
Open Music Theory is an open-source, interactive, online “text”book for college-level music theory courses.
Glimmerglass is a professional non-profit summer opera company dedicated to producing new productions each season.Based in Cooperstown New York.
Explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical performance, composition, learning, and expression.
Watch live streams as the operas themselves unfold in the opera house. View your favourite performances, subtitled, on demand. Learn about the art form and specific productions by browsing our richly populated digital library, stories, and articles.
IIn keeping with the history of our founders, Tri-Cities Opera’s mission is the production of professional quality opera using the talents of young artists. TCO sets the standard for artistic excellence while enriching, enhancing, engaging & educating our community through the power of live musical storytelling.
Music Charts, News, Photos & Video.
Your online guide to classical musiccovers classical instrumental and vocal music and opera.
Common Sense Media rates movies, TV shows, books, and more so parents can feel good about the entertainment choices they make for their kids. We offer the largest, most trusted library of independent age-based ratings and reviews.
Metacritic has evolved over the last decade to reflect their experience distilling many critics’ voices into the single Metascore, a weighted average of the most respected critics writing reviews online and in print.
explores the musical styles, influences, and complex creative processes that have allowed rock to endure…. Rock & Roll is an extensively researched and revealing history built on stories from and about the innovators who defined the music…
The history of rock music has been volatile and unpredictable as the genre has constantly redefined and reinvented itself since its emergence in the late 1940s.
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