This page provides pointers to web-based resources for music
history and study. Subject sections include links to classical
music, country & folk music, jazz & blues, lyrics
& songwriting and rock music sites.
Academic
Info: Music History & Studies
The music links section
of Academic Info -- a nonprofit gateway to online educational
resources for high school, college and research-level
searchers.
AMG
All Music Guide
This popular music
resource from the publishers of the print "All Music
Guide" contains reviews and ratings for over 400,000
albums.
BUBL
LINK: Music
This catalogue of
music resources is part of the BUBL directory of selected
Internet resources arranged and catalogued according to
the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
Canadian
Music Centre
The CMC collects,
distributes and promotes music by Canadian composers.
Canadian
Music Periodical Index
CMPI is an index to
Canadian music periodical literature which provides bibliographic
sources for information on all aspects of musical activity
in Canada. Created by the National Library of Canada.
Librarian's
Index to the Internet: Music Topics
The Librarian's Index
Music Topics page provides pointers to selected music
sites, evaluated and annotated by librarians for their
usefulness to public library patrons.
ChoralNet
ChoralNet is the Internet
Center for Choral Music. The site provides links to over
1,000 choral music and related resources, including discussion
lists and associations.
Classical
Music Navigator
This site is designed
to help the browser find familiar composers or forms within
the realm of classical music. Includes a list of the 111
most influential composers. A good site for the novice
listener.
Classical
Net
This comprehensive
site features reviews of over 1,650 classical discs, 5,500
files and over 3,800 links to classical music resources.
Classics
Today.com
Classics Today focuses
on the world of classical music recording, offering the
user a daily update of reviews, ratings and classical
music news.
Gramophone
Online Record Reviews
The British music
magazine's online database of record reviews provides
access to over 25,000 reviews of classical music published
since March, 1983.
Manitoba
Opera
This Winnipeg-based
site provides information on the current Manitoba Opera
season.
Operabase
This immense site
offers information on composers, artists, opera houses,
festivals and more. Operabase includes a link to the Grove
Dictionary of Opera.
Operaglass
This useful opera
information server provides links to libretti, source
texts, performance histories, synopses and discographies.
Winnipeg
Symphony Orchestra
Visit this site for
information on the current season of Winnipeg's Symphony
Orchestra.
Country
& Folk Music
CMT
Canada
This commercial website
focuses on the programming and activities of Country Music
Television Canada.
Ethnomusicology,
Folk Music & World Music
This University of
Washington Music Library site is a comprehensive and scholarly
guide to the study of folk and world music.
Folk
Music Home Page
A folk music meta
site that provides folk music fans with a well organized
directory of web-based information resources.
Folk
Music Index
A searchable, browseable
index to nearly 30,000 song titles and 13,000 performers
of recorded folk music. Song entries include cross references
to related tunes, performers and parodies.
Jazz &
Blues
BluesNet
BluesNet is a clearinghouse
for web-based blues resources. The site includes fan opinions
and provides an e-mail directory of "mentors"
or experts on blues performers and genres.
Downbeat
The website of the
renowned jazz magazine features album reviews, articles,
jazz news and much more.
Jazz/Blues
Archives, Collections & Museums
The Jazz/Blues Archives
provides links to institutions which have archives or
significant collections of jazz and blues materials. A
project of the Chicago Jazz Archive.
Jazz
Online
Created in 1991, Jazz
Online claims to be the world's first commercial jazz
website. Inclusive in scope, the site works under the
assumption that "everyone needs a little jazz in
their life".
Jazz
Review.com
This is another "big"
jazz site with links to artist interviews, photography
and a large database of CD reviews.
Jazz
Winnipeg Festival
All the information
you need on performers and events for the current Jazz
Winnipeg Festival.
JazzTimes
Magazine
The website of one
of the best magazines in the jazz realm has links to feature
stories, columns, reviews and an online version of the
"Before & After" section.
Miles
Ahead: A Miles Davis Website
Miles Davis' musical
biography is, in many ways, a history of modern improvisational
music. Miles Ahead, named for a seminal Davis recording,
is one of the better sites dedicated to the recordings
of Miles.
One
Final Note
This online journal
is "dedicated to improvisation and all things related,
including but not limited to music known as free jazz,
avant-garde jazz, new music, Great Black Music, ecstatic
jazz, etc."
WNUR-FM
Jazz Web
An essential resource
for jazz information on the web, provided by Northwestern
University's WNUR-FM radio station.
Popular
Song Index
An index to selected
books of popular songs in the collection of the Patchogue-Medford
Library. There are approximately 102,786 entries from
1,118 books which have been indexed.
Singer/Songwriter
Directory
A clearinghouse for
web-based resources on singer/songwriters. The site focuses
on popular music genres.
SOCAN
Want to publish your
song? Check out the Society of Composers, Authors and
Music Publishers of Canada website.
Rock Music
Canadian
Music Encyclopedia
This Jam! hosted website
chronicles the history of 1,200 Canadian contemporary
music artists from the 1950s to the present.
MuchMusic
Canada's music TV
station has a large website devoted to pop, rock, hip-hop
and much more.
Perfect
Sound Forever
This online music
magazine throws some light upon talent deserving wider
recognition, music industry politics and the realm of
parody, satire and plain old humour. Worth a visit!
Rockmine
Calling itself the
Internet's "largest rock music resource", Rockmine
is worth visiting for the sleekly minimalist home page
design alone.
Rolling
Stone
What was once subversive
is now comfortably mainstream. Rolling Stone magazine's
digital home contains links to music news, articles, CD
reviews, video, MP3 and more.
Spin
The born-in-the-eighties-era
Rolling Stone competitor vies for attention with this
flash website for rock music news, articles, reviews and
much more.
UBL.com
The Ultimate Band
List has grown weighty with advertisements in recent years
but it's still a valuable resource for finding band and
musician websites.
