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MUSIC
AMG-All Media Guide -Music
Tremendous source for classical and modern popular music types. Attempts to rate all recorded music on CDs or vinyl, both available and not. Essays, glossaries, music maps and audio samples.
Billboard Online
The daily (popular) music news source.
CNet Music Center
A commercial site that nonetheless has answers to questions about Internet music technology. If you don't know what MP3 is all about, start here.
Classical Composers Archive
Pictures and biographies of 1000 composers
Essentials of Music [RealPlayer]
Sponsored by Sony Classical and Norton, this site offers an excellent introduction to classical music with over 200 excerpts available via RealPlayer.
Folk Music of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Tunes, lyrics, information, historical background, and tune related links, by Lesley Nelson. Includes Child Ballads and a Folk Microencyclopedia. Very valuable site
Honky Tonks, Hymns, and the Blues, by Kathy Farnell, Margaret Moos Pick, Steve Rathe. - An introduction with samples from 'old time' music from an NPR feature program.
Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
Music from the Ozarks.
Omaha Indian Music [RealPlayer]
Part of the Library of Congress American Memory Project; ethnographic field recordings from 1890-1980.
Parlor Songs
Sheet music from popular songs from the 1800s to the 1920s.
Red Hot Jazz.com [RealPlayer]
The early history of jazz up to 1930 with many audio examples. Reference:Rough Guides The Rough Guide used to publish a full text version online; now it offers its current reviews across the music spectrum of all new performances. It's still a great bargain. Check Online Public Access Catalog for Rough Guides owned by BMS
The Symphony: an Interactive Guide [Real Audio]
A fine example of a student-produced ThinkQuest website
Worldwide Internet Music Resources - a portal site for all the best in music from Indiana University Outstanding Site /
Yahoo! Rock & Pop
Daily news, reviews, charts, artist and album information
March, 2010
