| All American Music Festival |
Orlando annual festival for band programs. Includes information and schedule. |
| Marchingband.net |
Portal with music theory tests, photographs, forums, and guestbook. |
| Marching Band Planet |
Online community providing discussion forums, news, calendar, and articles. |
| Duke University Library: Women in Music By Musical Genre |
Text lists and links to library resources such as books, periodicals and recordings on women performers and composers by musical genre. |
| Ectophiles Guide by Genre |
Self-described "Guide to Good Music" from a group founded in 1991 to support the music of singer Happy Rhodes. Links to artists, almost entirely female vocalists, sorted by genre such as pop, blues, experimental, performance art,... |
| Music Classification by Genre: System Performance |
Research project completed in 2003 by Mitali Banerjee at Rice University used automatic process to determine musical genre of audio samples. |
| A Taxonomy of Musical Genres |
Two French experts re-define genres to improve musical databases for electronic distribution, paper submitted to a conference in Paris in 2000. |
| Representing Musical Genre: A State of the Art |
Journal of New Music Research article from 2003 discusses manual, prescriptive, and emergent approaches to genre classification for the European CUIDADO project, Content-Based Unified Interfaces and Descriptors for Audio/Music Databases Available... |
| Cylinder, Disc and Tape Care in a Nutshell |
Care, handling and storage of musical recordings in a collections environment, from the US Library of Congress. Includes an extensive bibliography. |
| 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. |
| Vinyl Bank Record and CD Fairs |
UK Midlands based record and CD fair organiser. Find fair dates, venue information, public and dealer information. |
| PickNET |
Global trading network and club for guitar pick collectors. |
| RockPosterCollector.com |
History of rock posters and information for collectors. |
| Vinylville |
Information about Usenet groups, dealers, resources and supplies, FAQs and discographies, cleaning and storage, and cataloging software; from a music collector. |
| PNPrecords |
Includes a history of Russian rock and information on Russian music labels. |
| Record Song Book |
Private collector presents information about and seeks copies of the UK music magazine published in the 1960s and 1970s. |
| 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." |
| Record-price-guide |
German-based database of record and CD prices for independent releases. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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]. |
| Mechanical Music Digest |
Moderated forum about musical instruments that play themselves. Published daily on the Internet and distributed primarily by e-mail. |
| 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. |
| MFA: Musical Instruments |
Photographs and information about instruments in the extensive collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. |
| 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. |
| Musical Automata |
Systematic recording project begun in 1980 documenting mechanical music devices from Vienna and Prague, with CDs available for sale beginning in 1999. Headed by Helmut Kowar of Phonogrammarchiv, the audiovisual research archive of the Austrian... |
| Duke University Musical Instruments Collections |
Collection built around a 2000 bequest of 400 instruments and 100 paintings from a Duke alumnus. Details of exhibits and performances. |
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