| MarchingArts Directory |
Comprehensive listing of all the marching arts on the web. |
| Marching.com |
Comprehensive source covering high school events, competitions and scores. Includes links to resources by topic and bands organized by state and country. |
| 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. |
| American Music Center: Musical Genres |
Links to articles and representative artists of styles such as pop, rock, blues, folk, classical, theater, jazz, and world 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. |
| 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. |
| DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler |
Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| RockPosterCollector.com |
History of rock posters and information for collectors. |
| Gigposters |
Images of gig posters, flyers and handbills from around the world. |
| A Child's Garden of Record Labels |
Scans of labels from 78s and 45s with anecdotes about each record, arranged alphabetically by label name. |
| 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 Covers Drawn by Comic Artists |
Listing of album covers (CD and vinyl) drawn by comic artists and illustrators. Includes many images. In French and English. |
| Record Song Book |
Private collector presents information about and seeks copies of the UK music magazine published in the 1960s and 1970s. |
| 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. |
| The Great Brazilian Virtual Guitar Picks Museum |
Listing of a collection with pictures, and a picture dictionary of guitar plectrum terminology. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A Practical Guide to Musical Composition |
Contents of the book by Alan Belkin. |
| The Institute Of Musical Instrument Technology |
The main professional body covering the music industry. Features publication and membership details. |
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