LINKS & HOT MUSIC SITES

Here is a list of a few music sites (classical, jazz & general music information) that WMS students might find interesting. Email me and let me know about any broken or moved links and let me know of any great sites you think should be here.

 

LINK TO THIS!!

Link to This!! A page of links has been created, but this page is different - it is made up of links that have been reviewed by students. Jessi's suggestions are up; make some of your own and email them to me. (WMS band students: yes, it will count for enrichment!)

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LINKS OF LOCAL INTEREST

CAPA: Wayland High School's Creative Arts Parents Association web site is full of other music links, high school concert schedules

http://www.wayland.k12.ma.us/high_school/capa/

Boston Singers' Resource - a singing resource for the New England community at large and an information service for regional Classical Singers, Directors, Accompanists, Composers, and Managers of all levels.

Specically, check their Youth Directory, http://www.bostonsingersresource.com/youthdirectory.asp

http://www.bostonsingersresource.com
Swing 7 - and all women swing band based just south of Boston. They play all over. Check the site for sound clips. http://www.swing7band.com/

Boston Symphony Orchestra - Includes lists of concerts

http://www.bso.org

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GENERAL SITES: Sites with lots of different musical information

MusicTheory.net - this site helps you learn almost everything there is to know about reading music!

http://musictheory.net/

The Getty Education Institute for the Arts has a wonderful site for arts educators and anyone else who loves the arts.

http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/

Naxos Classicals: This site includes a glossary of music terms, composer bios, an intro to classical music and another to opera, a section on film music & lots more!

http://www.hnh.com/mgloss.htm

WGBH: Information about classical music on the radio station and channel 2 TV.

http://www.wgbh.org/

Classical Net: there are some biographies here and the site is a great source of links to other classical music sites.

http://www.classical.net/

Yahoo! has and excellent web search section for classical music. This link takes you right to that jumping off point.

http://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/genres/classical/

The Classical Music department of the Virtual Library. They have links to everything imaginable!!!! It is interesting to just browse for a while! They say, "The library is open all night, seven days a week. Please feel free to bring food and beverages with you. In this library, you have our permission to make noise--"

http://www.gprep.pvt.k12.md.us/classical/

WCRB: lots of classical music links and information about classical music

http://www.wcrb.com

From The Top - What an awesome radio program and website for young musicians!! Especially good for serious young musicians, the radio program consists of performances by and interviews with "pre-collegiate" musicians from all over the world. Our own Wayland High School student, Alex Rabin, has been featured! WGBH - Sunday at 6:00

http://www.fromthetop.org

K-12 Resources for Music Educators - It sounds like a site just for me, but there are links to the saxophone sites or horn players sites, or other instruments, links to jazz sites, vocal and string sites and even Beatles info!

http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html

The Music Composition site has composer information (classical & other, women, etc.), info about instruments (a very mixed bag from the Japanese Koto to band/orchestra instruments, guitars & amps, squeeze boxes, etc.!), info about pop/rock/folk bands & individuals, etc. Lots of links to other sites.

http://www.music-composition-list.com/

Northeastern District of SPEBSQSA, the Barbershop Harmony Society Youth Homepage

http://www.nedymih.org

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MUSIC GRAPHICS: Links to pages with free music graphics

Music Graphics Galore Links Page

http://www.cottagesoft.com/~songbird/links.html

Music Graphics Mania

http://www.geocities.com/musicgraphicmania/

Lizabeth's Music Images

http://www.gymell.com/doc/musicimages.shtml


COMPOSERS & MUSICIANS: Biographies, Discographies, etc. (Click here for Women Composers) (Students: If you are using these site for research, see warning below...)

Classical Net: there are some biographies here and the site is a great source of links to other classical music sites.

http://www.classical.net/

Catalogue of Classical Composers: Short biographies of many the great composers in the European tradition of music (includes US). Also includes a brief description of the era in which the composer worked (Baroque, Rennaisance, Classical...).

http://www.teleport.com/~lincicum/complst.html

The Classical Music Pages: Information about composers, styles, repertoire, some sound samples & pictures.

http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/classmus.html

British & Irish Composers: This page is dedicated totally to information about composers from Great Britten with special mention of Ireland.

http://musicweb.uk.net/british.htm

A John Philip Sousa site! And you know what I think of Sousa!! :-)

http://www.dws.org/sousa/

Unknown Composers: An odd title for a website... these pages include information about well-known & less well-known composers. Check here if you can't find that second reference...

http://www.kith.org/jimmosk/TOC.html

Classical Composers' Database: A collection of links to other sites.

http://utopia.knoware.nl/~jsmeets/links.htm

PBS - Jazz Kids: Now and Then: a great site with comments from today's kids in jazz and kid-friendly bios about jazz greats.

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/kids/nowthen/index.html

Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers: Very little information about the composer, but includes links to other sites and books about and CDs/Music by the person.

http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/

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WOMEN COMPOSERS

Great Women Composers page: This site is a good place to start to see who a few of the great women composers are. Historians have ignored women and minority composers; we now have some web site working to fix that problem!

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/3744/

Here is another link to a page of Early Music Women Composers. It starts with a lovely baroque painting!

http://150.252.8.92/www/iawm/pages/

Early Music Women Composers WEB-Ring. This is a series of pages with information and some sound files relating to women composers / musicians from Ancient times through the Late Baroque and Early Classical era.

http://music.acu.edu./www/iawm/pages/webring.html

Women of Note: Celebrating two hundred and fifty years of music by women. Many thorough bios plus links to other sites.

http://www.womenofnote.co.uk/

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ETHNIC MUSIC

Chazzanut Online Comprehensive site on Chazzanut, featuring a large collection of cantorial sheet music, midi audio and background information concerning Jewish music. Also has a number of links to other Jewish music sites.

http://www.chazzanut.com/

Cuban Music - Information and sound files, including a "Juke Box" feature to listen to Cuban music while you surf. In English and Spanish.

http://www.timba.com/music/songs.asp

The Main Klezmer Modes: An excellent (but technical) article on the Jewish prayer modes (scales - like the ahava raba), and how they are used in Klezmer

http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/horowitz/horowitz.klezmodes.html

HNH International. This site is created by Marco Polo and Naxos & White Cloud - all are recording companies that deal with music from other parts of the world. They all have Chinese music in their libraries. This site contains information about classical music in general, bios of composers, a glossary of musical terms, advise on building a classical CD collection and lots more!

http://www.hnh.com/hnh.htm

Sound clips of Chinese music in the Western style and music that includes traditional instruments with orchestral accompaniment.

http://www.hnh.com/rahome/rampc.htm

The Bamboo Curtain -- Composers from the People's Republic of China. This site helps us locate Chinese music that is written in the Western style.

http://kith.org/jimmosk/clements.html

Afrocentric Voices in "Classical" Music: A small, but useful collection of Black composers in the classical style.

http://www.afrovoices.com/

African-American Music: Includes a biographical dictionary of African-American musicians and research bibliographies of information pertaining to African-American music.

http://www.music.indiana.edu/~l631/afammus.html

Israeli Composers: Information on many composers from Israel

http://kith.org/jimmosk/israel.html

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INSTRUMENTS: Sites about particular modern and ancient instruments

A guide to Medieval and Renaissance instruments. Want to know what a crumhorn looked like? How about a hurdy-gurdy or bagpipe? Check out this site for pictures and details. Do a report on the history and development of an instrument for enrichment. (see warning below...)

http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html

This site is a jumping off point for finding other sites about a type of instrument. Want to find the clarinet page or something about flute history? How about checking out the sackbut page! (Remember that a sackbut is an early form of the trombone - this page has trombone links, too!) You can find history of instruments, jokes, recordings and lots of other info.

http://www.classical.net/music/links/instlink.html

The Instrument Encyclopedia gives the origin of instruments, present-day information, pictures, and information on families of instruments.

http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/

The Clarinet Pages is a great site pointed out to me by a former student who is now in college and happened in on our site! It includes lots of interesting information and even a section for beginners & intermediate players (including an article about getting the high notes on bass clarinet!)

http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/

Play Music has info about and sound clips from the different instruments, games, a musician of the month, movies of kids who play, a juke box where you can hear different pieces featuring particular instruments and lots more!

http://WWW.playmusic.org/index.html

Percussion Information has all kinds of info for the percussion student! Check it out!!

http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcz/index.html

Percussion - Vic Firth has lots of resources for students, everything from how to properly play rudiments to how to play the bass drum.

http://www.vic-firth.com

Percussion - timpani The Ludwig site has information specifically on how to play and take care of timps

http://www.ludwig-drums.com/content/education.php

Percussion - Drumming Newsletter (this is the email I received)

"I write and publish a twice-monthly drumming e-newsletter, "News From and About the Drumming Community." I invite you to subscribe. I make you these promises:

  • The newsletter is free and I will never ask you for money;
  • I will never share your name or email office with anyone;
  • The newsletter contains no offensive language or images. If you like, your children can read it without any concern on your part;
  • You can unsubscribe anytime. Each issue of the newsletter contains an unsubscribe link.

You can see the current issue here:

http://highenergydrums.com/newsletter/110105.html

Online Trombone Journal - A site for and about trombonists & their instruments.

http://www.trombone.org/

From the School Band & Orchestra Magazine, How to Buy a New Instrument. Hints for those looking from those who sell them.

http://www.sbomagazine.com/howtobuy.html

Brian Kay, one of our low brass teachers, has a GREAT website - lots of good advice for brass players of all levels. Lots of advanced information for those who are really serious.

Tips for Trombone Players

http://www.apollobrass.com/teaching/about.htm

The Horn Resouce

http://www.frhorn.com/index4.html

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MUSICAL PERFORMANCE GROUPS

Boston Symphony Orchestra - Includes lists of concerts

http://www.bso.org

Canadian Brass Quintet site.

http://www.canbrass.com/

Zamir Chorale of Boston: On the web site it says, "Zamir means "Nightingale" in Hebrew, an appropriate name for a choral ensemble specializing in the full spectrum of music arising out of the various Jewish traditions." Check out the site for a full listing of concerts for this season.

http://www.zamir.org/

Apollo Brass: A great brass quintet in our area.

http://www.apollobrass.com/index.html
Swing 7 - and all women swing band based just south of Boston. They play all over. Check the site for sound clips. http://www.swing7band.com/

See our Local Concerts page for more...


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JAZZ

Jazz Central Station: a jumping off point for all that is jazz.

http://www.jazzcentralstation.com

Jazz Music Reviews - this site reviews jazz recordings and gives lists of the top jazz recordings in different areas like classic jazz, contemporary jazz, etc.

http://www.jazzreview.com/
Swing 7 - and all women swing band based just south of Boston. They play all over. Check the site for sound clips. http://www.swing7band.com/

Ryles Jazz Club in Inman Square, Cambridge. Ryles often has performances that it designates for all ages. Mr. Piermarini often plays with the Ryles Jazz Orchestra to back up the soloist!

http://www.rylesjazz.com/index.html

Jazz - Don't Be Scared: this site is about scales & chord progressions and how to use them in improvisation

http://www.petethomas.co.uk/jazz/index.htm

a local radio station with great jazz programing.

http://www.wicn.org/

PBS - Jazz Kids: Now and Then: a great site with comments from today's kids in jazz and kid-friendly bios about jazz greats.

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/kids/nowthen/index.html

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MARCHING BANDS & DRUM CORP & MILITARY MUSIC

Introduction to Marching Bands & Drum & Bugle Corps: A tidbits page from this website. Pictures, links, info on all kinds of marching.

http://users.massed.net/~muffitt/tidbits/tidbits-may.htm

Drum Corp International Website: DCI is the group that sets all the rules for Drum Corp competition. Includes links to all of the Corps' websites.

http://www.dci.org/

A listing of all of the DCI Drum and Bugle Corps and links to their websites

http://www.dci.org/corps/

Mars Music follows the DCI Summer Music Games!

http://www.marsmusic.com/lessons/drum_corps/;$sessionid$KMZZEQYAAEAKDQFIACHSFFGAVAAJAIV0

-- Boston's Drum Corp!

http://www.crusaders.com/crusaders/


This terrific site has Confederacy Music and Union Music with lyrics, information about the songs & midi files.

http://users.erols.com/kfraser/music/


ORCHESTRA STUDENTS' LINKS

Southwest Strings: Where Mrs. E. suggests students buy their strings.

https://www.swstrings.com/index.html

Shar Products On-line Violin Shop: Another suggestions from Mrs. E.

http://www.sharmusic.com/

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Help me fill in more great web sites!! Email me with the address, name of the site and a short description & I will add it to the list (and give WMS band members enrichment points!!). Email me at: muffitt@MassEd.net

WARNING!! - ATTENTION STUDENTS!!!!!!

Yes, you may use Internet sites for your bios or research on an enrichment project, but use the web pages just like you would a book - you may not copy the information word for word or (worse yet!) just print out the web page!! Take the ideas and information from the page and put it into your own words. Don't forget the bibliographic entry! Write down the URL (address) of the site (that is the "http:_______" at the top of the browser page) and be sure to include it along with the name of the site and (if you can find it) the author of the site and the date it was created. Click here to see how to correctly write a bibliography.

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