Annotated list of Music Web Sites

Submitted by Introduction to Music Technology students at Alabama State University

Edited by Dr. Doug Bristol

 

Vocal/Choral

 

National Association of Teachers of Singing

 

NATS Online is the official website of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.  NATS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging the highest standards of singing through excellence in teaching and the promotion of vocal education and research.  With over 5,000 members in the United States, Canada, and more than 25 other countries, it is the largest association of teachers of singing in the world.

 

The Choral Public Domain Library

 

This is a free sheet music archive!  The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) is the largest internet-based free sheet music website which specializes in devoted itself exclusively to free choral sheet music.  It begin in December 1998, the site has over 140 contributors and 3,200 scores.

 

The Journal of Voice

 

The Journal of Voice is widely regarded as the world’s premiere journal for voice medicine and research.  The journal contains articles written by experts throughout the world on all topics in voice sciences, voice medicine and surgery, and speech-language pathologists’ management of voice-related problems.  The journal includes clinical articles, clinical research, and laboratory research.

 

Online Aria Database

 

The Aria Database is a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias.  Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions.  The Database also provides access to a collection of operatic MIDI files to give visitors an idea of what each aria sounds like. 

 

Instrumental/Band

 

MarchingArts.com

 

MarchingArts.com gives you another way to keep up with Drum Corps as well as High School and College marching bands.  It contains a link section, scores for DCI competitions, photo gallery, and repertoires.

 

Horn Articles Online

 

John Ericson is the Horn instructor at Arizona State University.  He has included a library of over 65 articles on the performance, literature, design, and history of the French horn that every music educator should be informed about.

 

International Trombone Association

 

The International Trombone Association is an organization that informs and provides various types of information for trombone players.  The ITA Journal has been in production since 1971.  Published quarterly since 1982, it includes scholarly articles, trombone news, job announcements, and literature and record reviews.

 

American Band College

 

The American Band College hosts this website for concert band resource. The website makes it possible for band directors to hear and download musical examples.

It also posts any upcoming events that pertain to the Western International Band Clinic. The site makes it possible to register for the clinics and honor bands.

 

Online Horn Journal

 

The International Horn Society offers a variety of tangibles for your horn enthusiast.  For over 30 years, The Horn Call, the journal of the I.H.S., has presented news and announcements, feature articles, clinics, music and recording reviews, workshop reports, biographical features, and advertisements for horn-related products and services.

 

The National Flute Association

 

The National Flute Association was founded in 1973.  It is the largest flute organization in the world.  It was founded to encourage a higher standard of artistic excellence for the flute, its performers, and its literature; it has more than 6,000 members from more than 50 countries including leading soloists, orchestral players, and students of all ages. 

 

North American Saxophone Alliance

 

The online North American Saxophone Alliance publishes a bimonthly newsletter and an annual scholarly journal.  This newsletter serves to keep the membership informed of the many activities sponsored by the alliance and its members.  It also attempts to review new music and teaching materials and methodology.

 

International Trumpet Guild

 

The International Trumpet Guild is a non-profit organization founded in 1974 to promote communication among trumpet players around the world and to improve the artistic level of performance.  This web site also provides information on teaching and other literature associated with the trumpet.

 

Online Harp Society

 

The Historical Harp Society was formed in 1990 for North American friends of the harp interested in the exchange of ideas and information about early harps, their construction, and their music.  The society is devoted to encouraging research of the building of early harps, harp music of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque period, and the playing techniques of these eras and their harps.

 

International Double Reed Society

 

The International Double Reed Society (IDRS) is a worldwide organization of double reed players, instrument manufactures and enthusiasts.  This website offers visitors and members a registry of stolen double reed instruments, as well as related news and events. 

 

Percussive Arts Society

 

The Percussive Arts Society (PAS) is a music service organization promoting percussive education, research, performance, and appreciation throughout the world.  This website also provides information on news and events of this organization.  By becoming a member of the Percussive Arts Society, you are joining a community of players, teachers, students, and enthusiasts dedicated to advancing the art of percussion through inspiration and education.

 

Organizations

 

Drum and Bugle Corps International

 

The DCI is short for the Drum and Bugle Corp International. An organization which has been active ever since the 1970's.  The Drum and Bugle Corps are professional marching ensembles. Each ensemble consists of nothing except brass, percussion, and auxiliary dancers.

Music Library Association

 

The Music Library Association is the professional organization in the United States devoted to music librarianship and to all aspects of music materials in libraries. Founded in 1931, MLA provides a forum for study and action on issues that affect music libraries and their users. MLA and its members make significant contributions to librarianship, publishing, standards and scholarship, and the development of new information technologies.

 

American Musicological Society

 

The American Musicological Society was founded in 1934 as a non-profit organization to advance "research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship."

 

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity of America,Inc

 

This is the official site of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity of America, Inc.  The site provides a brief and somewhat detailed history of the fraternity’s humble beginnings in 1898 up to present day Sinfonia.

 

Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity

 

This is the official site of Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity.  The site provides a brief history of the highly musical organization.  It also provides a reason behind SAI being a fraternity for women.  The site has links to several of the various chapters within the fraternity.

 

New Orleans Jazz Club

 

The New Orleans Jazz Club (NOJC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting traditional, New Orleans style jazz music.  Since 1948, the NOJC has helped to promote jazz all over the world.

 

The Women's Philharmonic

 

The Women's Philharmonic is an orchestra comprised entirely of women performing music composed by women.  The Women's Philharmonic has grown into a naturally acclaimed orchestra with a loyal following since 1981.

 

The Guitar and Accessories Marketing Association

 

GAMA is the Guitar and Accessories Marketing Association. This group is comprised of guitar and guitar accessory manufacturers and consumer magazines that promote guitar usage in school.

 

The Music Publishers’ Association of the United States

 

Ever since 1895, The Music Publishers’ Association has been the best way for

orchestra arrangers to copyright their music.

 

American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers

 

ASCAP is a membership association of over 140,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, and publishers of every kind of music and hundreds of thousands worldwide.  ASCAP is the only U.S. performing rights organization created and controlled by composers, songwriters and music publishers, with a Board of Directors elected by and from the membership.  ASCAP protects the rights of its members by licensing and distributing royalties for the non-dramatic public performances of their copyrighted works. 

 

Women’s Music Online

 

Women’s music online showcases music that has been composed, arranged, performed, and published by women.  You will find not only a database of women composers, past and present, whose works have been programmed on Eine Kleine Frauenmusik (A Little Women’s Music), the weekly radio broadcasts I host on Southeastern Public Radio, but you also have the opportunity to meet with others who share your interests.

 

Education

 

 Music Educators National Conference

 

MENC Online is the official website for the National Association for Music Educators. From this website, a music educator, whether a student or an active music teacher, can check on the national standards for music programs within school systems.

 

International Association for Jazz Education

 

With a mission to ensure the continuing growth and development of Jazz through education and outreach, the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) serves 8,000 members in 40 countries.  The IAJE is a voluntary non-profit organization, which nurtures the understanding, and appreciation of jazz and its heritage, provides leadership to educators regarding curriculum and performance, and assists teachers, students, and artists with information and resources.  This site also offers information on its annual conference, which is acknowledged as the largest annual gathering of the global jazz community. 

 

Teach-nology

 

Teach-nology was designed for today's teacher in mind.  They have included many helpful lesson plans for all teachers.  It contains a wide selection of plans for the Elementary music teacher as well as Middle and High School Band Directors. 

 

Jazz at Lincoln Center

 

Jazz at Lincoln Center is the largest non profit organization devoted to the education of Jazz in schools. Led by famed jazz trumpeter, Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln is determined to educate and inform the nation about the educational value of jazz and how it is a music form in itself. The site includes news about the education programs that the Lincoln Center offers.

 

Music Depot

 

This site was created especially for the music educator. The site gives great ideas to motivate students with awards, seals, certificates, incentive charts and much more. It also includes teaching aides that are creative to the student grade 1-6.

 

Children’s Music Workshop

 

Children’s Music Workshop provides quality instrumental music instruction to public and private schools throughout the greater Los Angeles area.  Children’s Music Workshop currently coordinates instrumental music programs at more than seventeen public and private schools in grades Kindergarten through 12. 

 

Sales

 

Art's Music Shop

 

Art's Music Shop, with locations in Montgomery, Dothan, and Birmingham, Alabama, carries supplies for the student musician as well as professionals.  They also have a large, in-stock, library of concert and marching band music as well as many of the top name brand instruments.

 

Alfred

 

Alfred is a website that was inspired by Alfred Piantodosi, composer and musician, who founded Alfred publishing Company in New York in 1922. The company is resourceful in their customer service and provision of highly recommended methods for woodwinds, brass, and strings as well as software.

 

Download.com

 

Download.com is a website that offers a broad variety of products for computer downloads.  Some examples of the downloads that it offers are: screen savers, games, computer software, computer drives, and sites for music downloads.  This website offers downloads for Windows, Mac, Linux, Palm, and handheld computers. 

 

Completely Free Software

 

The completely free software website was created to list the very best software which is completely free for non-commercial use.  The programs that are offered on this site are fully functional and do not time out. 

 

Hal Leonard Online

 

Hal Leonard Online is the internet home for the world’s largest music print publisher.  For more that 50 years Hal Leonard has been publishing and distributing publications and products for virtually every instrument and performance group. 

 

Midi Classics

 

Midi Classics.com is a website that could be used to purchase music hardware.  Some of the products that may be purchased from the website are: sound cards, extended sound modules, Midi interfaces, keyboard controllers, and speakers. 

 

The Woodwind and Brasswind

 

The Woodwind and Brasswind have just about everything imaginable for woodwind and brass instruments as far as equipment, instruments and accessories.  This website offers highly competitive prices. 

 

Sheet Music Plus

 

Sheet Music Plus is the world’s largest online sheet music store.  The types of sheet music it offers includes: Classical, Broadway, Soundtracks, Pop, R&B, Jazz, and Rock n Roll. 

 

Sweetwater

 

For over 20 years, Sweetwater has provided musicians and audio professionals with the best value in music equipment retail.  Sweetwater offers a value that goes beyond a great price.  They are the leading specialists in all aspects of music technology.  Sweetwater is an authorized dealer and service provider for the industry’s top manufactures.

 

J.W. Pepper and Son

 

J.W. Pepper and Son, Inc. is a company that has been named the world’s largest sheet music retailer.  They carry a wide variety of music, from instrumental to vocal, in all genres.  On some selections, customers can listen to a song or view part of the score before purchase.

 

Walking Frog Records

 

This site represents just the first step in providing a comprehensive web page that will allow you to discover wonderful recordings.  CDs are of special interest to band directors, wind and percussion instructors, student musicians, former band musicians or just about anyone who is frustrated by the lack of wind band CDs at their local CD shop. 

 

Taylor Music

 

Taylor Music carries a wide of musical instruments.  Their instruments range from student, intermediate, and professional models.  They have constant specials and programs for schools with beginning band programs. 

 

MacBeat

 

MacBeat carries hard disk recording equipment, music notation software, midi sequences, microphones, hard disk drives, synthesizers, keyboards, mixers, mixing and editing software, midi interfaces, audio processing software, and more. 

 

Resources

 

Essentials of Music

 

Essentials of Music contains information on over 200 excerpts of classical music.  It allows you to listen to the excerpts by using Real Audio.  It also includes background information on Eras of music, composers, and a Glossary of 200 definitions.  This site was created in cooperation with W.W. Norton & Company.

 

Harmony-central.com

 

Harmony-central.com is the leading internet resource for musicians, supplying valuable information from news and product reviews, to classified ads and chat rooms.  This all-in-one web site gives musician benefits not available through traditional physical retail channels and provides extensive product information.

 

Online Music Glossaries

 

This website allows you to define any musical term.  All of the information and examples shown will come from the 4-CD Norton Musical Example Bank.

 

Technology

 

Technology Institute for Music Educators

 

The Technology Institute for Music Educators is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to assist music educators in applying technology to improve teaching and learning in music.