Guide to Music
Websites:
Recommended Web Sites |
Specialized Web Sites |
Music History
Classical & Symphonic Music |
Contemporary |
Opera |
News and Magazines | Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Books:
Subjects Headings | Reference Books
Databases
Check the Periodicals Guide to insure that the Library subscribes to the print journal you need. Request journals at the Circulation Counter.
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Recommended Web Sites
Search Engines:
- All Music
- Descriptions, critiques and discographic information for all genres and and styles of music.
- Free Play Music
- Music can be used for free for school projects or personal use (NOT for web, blogs, podcast). See terms of use.
- A - Z Lyrics Universe
- Access to over 50,000 lyrics by over 1500 artists. Browse by artist or band, album/song.
- Live Plasma
- Search for related musicians by typing in an artist's name. Also displays a partial discography and include sound clips.
- ASCAP
- Ever Expanding Web Music
- Extensive list of links to music search engines and directories.
- Music Resources
- Links to categories of: church, early music, folk, instruments, jazz and blues, theory, orchestra, rock, world, competitions, and schools.
- Music Selection Resources on the Web
- Extensive listing of annotated music sites: search sources to verify recordings and labels, recording labels, reviews, indexes, sources for tracing popular music, ezines...
- Public Domain Music
- Information on how to locate public domain music and a small database of free recordings.
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources
- Links to composers, genres, popular music sources, and ezines.
- African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
- 8 Notes: Sheet Music, Riffs, Info on Musical Instruments & More
- Links to sources of free sheet music for various instruments, music genres...
- Sheet Music Collection
- Sheet Music Consortium
- Digital Sheet Music Collection
- Digitized sheet music that includes ragtime, the blues, movie tunes, foxtrot, war songs, popular music of the era, Irving Berlin, and mistral shows. Includes information about each, along with some links to audio files.
- Free Sheet Music on the Web
- Free Sheet Music: Winds, Strings, Keyboard and More
- Performing Arts Encyclopedia
- Includes text, sound recordings, pictures and other documents related to the history of music in the United States.
- Internet Archive: Live Music Archive
- Live concert recordings, along with 115 White House recordings (1940-1973).
- Pianopedia: Composer & Pieces Search
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music (American Memory)
- Sheet Music Plus
- Archive of Misheard Lyrics
- Net Hymnal
- FolkLib Index (Library of folk music links)
- Instrument Encyclopedia
- Mojam: Calendar Of Live Music by City
- Concert search.
- Public Domain Music
- Links to public domain music, song lists, and royalty free music recordings.
- Singer Songwriter Directory
- Links to songwriters and songs, including fan clubs.
Music History
- Essentials of Music
- Introduction to the basics of music: eras, biographies of 70 composers, and music glossary.
- Music Notes: Interactive Music History
- Cover from the medieval to contemporary: thoery, history, styles, instruments, games and glossary.
- American Roots to Music (PBS)
- Musicals 101: musical theatre, tv and film
- Links to history, biographies, sample scenes, dance in musicals...
- Now What a Time: African American Music Through History
- Oracle ThinkQuest: Music History
- Online music history quiz - from composers to instruments.
- Virtual Talking Machine
- Early 20th century music, including Real Audio clips of old 78rpm recordings. Include little known to the well known artists of the early 1900s.
- Women Composers & Women's Music
Classical & Symphonic Music
- Classic Music Pages
- Classical Music Navigator
- Classical Music
- Portal to classical music: history, illustrated guide to instruments, recent news and events, and links to radio stations.
- Classical Net
- Composers Through Time
- Links to a variety of site providing information on composers, from classical to contemporary.
- Dr. Strella's Dictionary of Classical Composers
- Naxos: Classical Composer Biographies
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Contemporary
- All Music Guide
- Includes classical, rock, country, instrumental... Includes biographies and album reviews. Search by artist, album, song, style or label.
- GemM: Music Search
- Search for contemporary music.
- Live Music Archive
- Free recordings from live concerts.
- Musicals 101: Cyberencyclopedia of Musicals
- Big Bands Database
- Search engine plus glossary, Hit Parade, singers, timeline...
- Harmony Central: Techniques, Equipment, Software...
- Jazz Roots
- Timeline, biographies, Cotton Club, pictures... and more about the history of jazz.
- PBS Jazz: Biographies
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Opera
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
News and Magazines
The Library subscribes to the following publications. The most recent issue is on display and back issues are available at the Circulation Counter. Bound issues are shelved in the upper level of the Library. Check the Periodicals Guide for information on the previous years shelved or bound.
- Rolling Stone
- Downbeat
- Sound & Vision
Suggested Subject Headings
Do a SUBJECT or KEYWORD search in the Online catalog for your topic. After doing your search, you can limit the results to books at El Centro by selecting the Limit Your Search button.
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Afro-American musicians |
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Recommended Reference Books in-library use only
International Cyclopedia of Music & Musicians
REF ML 100 T47
New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
REF ML 100 N48
Bakers Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
REF ML 105 B16
Contemporary American Composers
REF ML 390 A54
New Encyclopedia of Jazz
REF ML 1561 J3 E55
Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American & African Musicians
REF ML 105 S67
Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music
REF ML 102 P66 G84
Harvard Dictionary of Music
REF ML 100 A64
Oxford Companion to Music
REF ML 100 S37
The best guide to resources is a librarian who can help you in using the catalog, databases and the Web. A librarian can also assist you in selecting materials appropriate for your needs. Please ask at any service desk for information or assistance!
The El Centro College Library does not guarantee the currency or accuracy of these websites. Links to these sites do not represent an endorsement of the site or of information contained within the site.
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