| Christian Music Place: Artists by Genre |
About two dozen musical genres including blues, a capella, dance/techno, and Southern gospel, with as many as several hundred links to Christian music artists in each. |
| Music Web Hunter: Styles & Genres |
Ken Davies has grouped resources in five categories: classical, folk/ethnic/world, jazz, musicals/operas/theater, and pop/rock/country. |
| Indiana University School of Music: Genres |
Categorized links organized by researchers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Unusual categories include 20th-Century music, ancient music, band music, tango, flamenco, ragtime, and choral music. |
| AllMusic Guide: Genres |
Musical style sort with detailed definitions from site maintained by musical journalists. Requires free registration. |
| The Care and Handling of Recorded Sound Materials |
Technical paper on the archival maintenance of music recordings. Expanded version of an article initially prepared for the National Library of Canada. |
| Record Collector's Heaven |
Yet another site about Exotica, Space Age Pop, Incredibly Strange Music, and weird recordings in general. |
| International Music Discographies |
Online music price guide, available by paid subscription. USA values in dollars; accepts submissions from users. |
| Nibble's Record Shop Guides |
Guide to record and compact disc shops in San Diego, Los Angeles and Albuquerque. |
| The Internet Museum of Flexi / Cardboard / Oddity Records |
Devoted to odd promotional and novelty records, usually printed on paper. Images and RealAudio from a collection. |
| PickNET |
Global trading network and club for guitar pick collectors. |
| Vinylville |
Information about Usenet groups, dealers, resources and supplies, FAQs and discographies, cleaning and storage, and cataloging software; from a music collector. |
| The History of Sound Recording Technology |
Explores the history and impact of the inventions that changed the way we listen; includes business, cultural, and techological sections. |
| Metro Detroit Record Show |
Includes dates and location. |
| Rare Record Price Guide |
Online guide to UK values for records (and a few CDs), mainly by 80's and 90's artists. Calculated from average prices charged by dealers in the UK magazine "Record Collector." |
| The Great Brazilian Virtual Guitar Picks Museum |
Listing of a collection with pictures, and a picture dictionary of guitar plectrum terminology. |
| Discogs |
User built music database. Store and organise personal music collection listings for free. Includes cross-referenced discographies of artists and labels, marketplace, and forums for music and general discussion. |
| Red Sister |
Archive of Mark Arminiski handbills. |
| Brahms' Rules of Musical Composition |
Johannes Brahm's philosophy and techniques. |
| Musical Instrument Information |
Annotated internet directory, and a help desk for personal assistance with your questions. |
| CHICO Instrument Encyclopedia |
Information categorized geographically and by type. Features histories and photos. |
| Pro-Music-News |
News from the music industry and professional recording and P.A. technology and well as keyboards and percussion product news. [English/Deutsch] |
| Society for Self-playing Musical Instruments |
Devoted to the devices and their use, design, history, and sale with links to museums and related organizations [English/Deutsch]. |
| Musiciansnews.com |
News for musicians about instruments, artists and competitions. |
| Musical Instrument Reference |
From MusicArrangers.com. Resource for teachers and students. Modern musical instruments, transposition, concert pitch and best sounding range. |
| Mxtabs |
Over a thousand tabs (tablatures) for drum, bass and guitar for alternative, metal and rock music. Lessons, articles, links and site reviews, how to read tabs. |
| NIU Musical Instrument Collection |
Photographs and audio samples of instruments from around the world, organized alphabetically, geographically, and by type. |
| World Musical Instrument Gallery |
Descriptions, photographs, and some sound samples of instruments in Randy Raine-Reusch's large collection. |
| Iberian Folk Instruments |
Photographs, descriptions, and audio samples of traditional instruments and music-related images from the Iberian Peninsula. |
| The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. |
Offers information about free reed instruments including the accordian, bayan, concertina, harmonica, sheng and reed organ. Includes definitions, descriptions, history, articles, reviews and a performers directory. |
| Taxonomy of Musical Instruments, by Henry Doktorsi |
Chart based on a 1914 scheme by Sachs and von Hornbostel classifies orchestral, folk, and electronic instruments into families. A second chart maps the free-reed family, which includes harmonicas and concertinas, supported by a scholarly history... |
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