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April 27, 2005The Roger Reynolds Collection at the LOC
The Library of Congress has announced a new Web presentation called "The Roger Reynolds Collection at the Library of Congress", which is now available at http://www.loc.gov/rogerreynolds . Information here includes a photo gallery, list of works, discography, and interestingly enough...
Continue reading "The Roger Reynolds Collection at the LOC" » March 27, 2005Database of Travel Locations for Metal Music
My experience with metal includes only a little bit of Metallica and playing Yngwie Malmsteen's "Rising Force" a zillion times back in my younger loud-music days. (Though vedic metal sounds pretty interesting ... any recommendations?) However, if you're into metal,...
Continue reading "Database of Travel Locations for Metal Music" » October 12, 2004LOC Expands Online Gerry Mulligan Collection
The Library of Congress announced that they have added new materials to the Gerry Mulligan Collection Web site, including a 413 discography, in PDF format for easy download. There's also manuscript scores and some notated scores. The collection is available...
Continue reading "LOC Expands Online Gerry Mulligan Collection" » July 15, 2004Search Engine for Classical Piano Works
It's got information on over 5100 works and over 14000 movements/excerpts. It's got information on over 800 composers and almost fifty countries. It's called Pianopedia and it's available at http://www.pianopedia.com . As you might expect from the subject matter, the...
Continue reading "Search Engine for Classical Piano Works" » February 11, 2004Library of Congress Expands Flute Collection
The Library of Congress has expanded their online Dayton C. Miller Flute collection with the addition of almost 1,700 flute images (with 90 detailed views) and some other information from Dayton C. Miller's iconography and photography collections. It's available at...
Continue reading "Library of Congress Expands Flute Collection" » September 26, 2003Classical Music on Webcasts
Love classical music and want to get it off the Internet? No problem; visit http://classicalwebcast.com/ and you'll be on your way. This site lists dozens of sites all over the world which webcast classical music. From the front page you'll...
August 11, 2003Canadian Classical Music at New Site
The Canadian Music Centre has released a site containing information on classical composers of Canada. It's available at http://www.musiccentre.ca/. There's a variety of information on the front page, including composer and music news. There are also two finding aids. With...
March 03, 2003Moog Archives
Scholars of 20th century music history will enjoy MOOG memorabilia online at http://www.moogarchives.com/ . The index in the left column links to the Moog History, which tracks design and production of Moog electronic music instrumentation from 1953 until the...
September 18, 2002Classical Music Directory
Are you a classical musician or classical music enthusiast? Check out http://classicol.com/ , which in addition to a classical music link database contains a lot of other classical music-related information. I had to open this site with Internet Explorer since...
August 05, 2002Search Him Tender
Elvex' search section ( http://www.xs4all.nl/~arpt/elvex/lyrics_welcome.html ) allows you to search for several different aspects of Elvis Presley's music. Search forms on this page allow you to find song titles, lyrics, recording dates (looks like the format for date searching is...
January 31, 2002Electronic Music Directory
The little I know about techno and electronic music I got from a hopeless addiction to Dance Dance Revolution, but if you're hipper than me you might get some use out of undergroundhouse.net (http://www.undergroundhouse.net/) . This site describes itself as...
Search for Elvis, A-uh-huh
Of course there's an Elvis search engine. Did you doubt it for a second? The searchable subject index for all things Elvis is at ElvisFind ( http://www.elvisfind.com/main.asp). The site currently lists over 200 Presley-related sites, divided into categories that include...
November 14, 2001Rutgers Creating Site for Jazz Pianist-Composer Mary Lou Williams
The Mary Lou Williams Foundation has donated 180 cubic feet of music, papers, scrapbooks and photos related to Mary Lou Williams to Rutgers University. Currently they're working on turning some of the archives into a Web site. From a story...
Continue reading "Rutgers Creating Site for Jazz Pianist-Composer Mary Lou Williams" » March 07, 2001Scale This Piano Site
(Get it? Scale? Piano? Bahahaha-- uh, ahem. Anyway.) Piano World ( http://www.pianoworld.com/ ) has a variety of piano information for your piano jones. There are directories of piano tuners, teachers, dealers, movers, restorers, buyers, rentals, tuning schools, and performers and...
August 07, 2000Classical Music Index
A music librarian at Duke University has put together a classical music resource site at http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html . The front page is sparse, merely listing the seven sections of the site (from Composer Homepages to Databases) but take the time to...
August 03, 2000New LOC Collection: Band Music from the Civil War Era
The Library of Congress has announced a new collection, "Band Music from the Civil War Era," at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html . The collection contains 700 musical compositions, with 8 full-score modern editions and 19 recorded examples of performed brass band music. The...
Continue reading "New LOC Collection: Band Music from the Civil War Era" » Big Stach of Bach
Several institutions, including IBM, International Bach Academy in Stuttgart and the State Library in Berlin, have collaborated to launch the Bach Digital Project. The site, at http://www.bachdigital.org/ , contains most of Bach's existing hand-written scores. The site states it requires...
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