| 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. |
| Marchingband.net |
Portal with music theory tests, photographs, forums, and guestbook. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Record Collector's Heaven |
Yet another site about Exotica, Space Age Pop, Incredibly Strange Music, and weird recordings in general. |
| 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. |
| More Music Collectors Resource Pages |
British guide to music collecting, featuring many annotated links and a glossary. |
| 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 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. |
| Recordjunkie.com |
Collectors' community and worldwide record store guide. |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| A Practical Guide to Musical Composition |
Contents of the book by Alan Belkin. |