| Marching.com |
Comprehensive source covering high school events, competitions and scores. Includes links to resources by topic and bands organized by state and country. |
| Marching Band Planet |
Online community providing discussion forums, news, calendar, and articles. |
| Bands United |
Open to students in marching and concert bands, Colorguard, dance team, jazz ensemble and orchestra. [Yahoo! Groups] |
| Wikipedia: Musical Genre |
Brief explanation of the way styles can be defined by region, chronology, technical requirements, marketing trends, or the ideas of critics. Extensively linked to sub-genres and examples of significant artists. |
| 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. |
| InfoUSA: Musical Genres |
Links organized by genre such as blues and jazz, classical and opera, folk and country, and early American music. |
| Audiogalaxy: Glossary of Musical Styles |
Hundreds of sub-genres defined in non-technical language mentioning sample artists. Organized under headings such as pop, hip-hop, jazz, blues, classical, Latin, modern rock, rock, and heavy metal. |
| 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. |
| DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler |
Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| AllMusic Guide: Genres |
Musical style sort with detailed definitions from site maintained by musical journalists. Requires free registration. |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| Nibble's Record Shop Guides |
Guide to record and compact disc shops in San Diego, Los Angeles and Albuquerque. |
| Vinyl Bank Record and CD Fairs |
UK Midlands based record and CD fair organiser. Find fair dates, venue information, public and dealer information. |
| Vinylville |
Information about Usenet groups, dealers, resources and supplies, FAQs and discographies, cleaning and storage, and cataloging software; from a music collector. |
| Recordjunkie.com |
Collectors' community and worldwide record store guide. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The Institute Of Musical Instrument Technology |
The main professional body covering the music industry. Features publication and membership details. |
| 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. |
| Musical Instruments - The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
The Met presents an international array of musical instruments of historical, technical, and social importance, as well as tonal and visual beauty, from accordions to zithers. |
| NIU Musical Instrument Collection |
Photographs and audio samples of instruments from around the world, organized alphabetically, geographically, and by type. |
| Iberian Folk Instruments |
Photographs, descriptions, and audio samples of traditional instruments and music-related images from the Iberian Peninsula. |
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