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Music

A quick guide containing links to selected websites, books, movies, magazines, online databases and other resources to help you find what you are looking for.

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Websites

All-Music Guide
A comprehensive database of popular and classical music that provides access by artist, album title, and song.
Billboard.com
Includes weekly chart highlights as well as new features (daily music news, trivia column, new releases and reviews).
Pollstar: The Concert Hotwire

A major national source for what's happening on the concert scene. Search by artist, city and even venue. Includes a section on what are the hottest concerts at the time and helpful gossip about potential tour cancellations.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources
A highly rated, comprehensive index of music related sites on the Internet by our colleagues at IU's Music Library.
Artist Direct
An impressive popular music searchable site with links to tens of thousands of new to minor to major bands. Includes a section where the bands are arranged by genres and has other links to music radio stations, record labels, record stores, charts, etc.
DW3
Very comprehensive collection of links to biographical and historical information on all periods. Includes links to music chronologies and necrologies.  Prepared by Duke University?s Music Library.
Classical Music Pages
For the beginner to the professional, find information about musical periods, forms, composers, instruments, and history.
Classical Net

A comprehensive site with music reviews and over 4000 links.

Festival Finder
Wide ranging database of hundreds of musical gatherings in North America. Search by location, festival name, or performer or simply browse by genre. Many listings are linked to individual festival web sites, and most include contact information.
Music-In-Print Series

Identify music in print from sacred choral to woodwind to handbell.

Andante - classical music
Archives of African American Music & Culture
American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers
BMI
Historic American Sheet Music
Oldies Sound Clips
Song Lyrics Libretti
Yahoo's Music Business Page

Library Materials

Harvard dictionary of music
by:
780.3 H3392r 2003
How to read music reading music made simple
by: Burrows, Terry, 1959-
781.633 BUR
new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
by:
780.3 NEW 2001
Bakers biographical dictionary of musicians
by:
780.92 BAK 2001
encyclopedia of popular music
by:
780.3 1998
new Grove dictionary of jazz
by:
780.9064 NEW 2002
enjoyment of music an introduction to perceptive listening
by: Machlis, Joseph, 1906-
780.15 1990

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