What's on the Internet?
* E-mail
* Finger
* Telnet
* Gopher
* Veronica
* FTP
* News Groups
* World-Wide Web
* LISTSERV
Cruising On The Information Superhighway
*E-mail
*World Wide Web.
*BBS
*Commercial Online services.
Adam Curry's The Vibe for the
latest information and comments from the MTV's man himself:
URL is http://metaverse.com/vibe/
Music Under
Soviet Rule: Offers a collection of documents related to the classical
music of the former Soviet Union.
URL: www.webcom.com/~beatlebk/musov/musov.html
Opera-1 Home
Page: Includes a guide to recorded opera, an A-Z guide to composers,
an A-Z guide to operas, synopses of operas, photos of opera stars, and
links to other opera sites.
URL: http://www.physics.su.oz.au/~neilb/operah.html
ROCKIN.COM: A music source for rock
bands, management companies, musicians and other music resources. Download
sounds, pictures and schedules of bands from all across America. Post your
band for $25.00 a month. They will build a site for you.
URL: http://www.Rockin.com
New Zealand
Symphony Orchestra: First symphony on the Web. Contains information
about musicians and administrators, their schedule and history and a sound
file of the symphony playing the New Zealand national anthem. Also includes
dozens of links related to orchestral and classical music and to musicians.
URL: http://www.actrix.gen.nz/users/dgold/nzso.html
Norwegian Music Information
Centre: Address guide, information on new and current bands and the
latest music news out of Norway.
URL: http://www.notam.uio.no/nmi/index.html
Russian Pop: Lyrics
of romantic Russian ballads and the latest bands from Russia.
URL: http://mars.uthscsa.edu/Russia/Music/
Mongolian
Folk Music: Has information on Tuvan and other Mongolian music, discography,
singers and groups. Most information in English, some available in German.
URL: Gopher:gate1zedat.fu-berlin.de:70/11/mongolei/music
Modern
Medieval Music: Features an Indiana medieval music ensemble with a
sense of humor and a Web page. Information provided about European medieval
music and links to pages about other groups with a similar interest.
URL: http://silver/ucs.indiana.edu/~smithcj/althome.html
The Guitar College: Curriculum
for learning guitar music theory.
URL is : http://www.artco.com/music.html
Music Theory
Online - electronic journal for professional and pre-professional music
theorists, composers, historians, performers, and others in allied fields.
URL is: http://boethius.music.ucsb.edu/mto/mtohome.html
Danielou, Alain
(1907-1994) - includes information on his life and work studying hinduism
and shivaism, Indian classical music and general theory about micro tuning.
(in French and
English.)
URL is: http://www.imaginet.fr/~jcloarec/danielou/
MusInc - a private
studio for the teaching a music theory, organ, and piano; also a
placement service for church musicians
URL is: http://www.umich.edu/emggiet/musinc.html
Architek - providing
high quality music composition, sound design and production for all
media. Graphic design and production in 2nd and 3rd techniques.
URL is :http://www.halcyon.com/drh/welcome
Bada Boom-Bada Bing - Sound Design
and Music Composition company specializing in
cutting edge music for television commercials, films and interactive media
projects.
URL is: http://www.badaboom.com/
Harrel Music, Inc
- arrangement and composition service maintained by Shawn Harrel.
Shawn is a music student at Southwest Missouri State University.
URL is: http://hamth213.smsu.edu/~shawn/inc/
Music by Request - Original
Music Compositions for Publishing, Music for Film and TV,
Non-Linear 16 Track Digital Recording, Professional Mobile Disc Jockey
Service.
URL is: http://www.musicbyrequest.com/
Oberlin
Music College : A guide to the classes and degrees available through
the college.
URL is : http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu/schools/oberlinsummary.html
Queensland Conservatorium
of Music - a wide range of sub-tertiary, diploma, degree,
postgraduate and short courses. Uniquely Australian.
URL is: http://www.gu.edu.au/qcm home.html
Berklee College of Music:
Founded in 1945, Berklee College of Music is the world's largest
independent music college and the premier institution for the study of
contemporary music.
URL is http://www.berklee.edu/
Colorado State University:
Check out the home page of the music department. Easy access 24 hours-a-day
e-mail to all faculty.
URL: http://www/ColoState.EDU/Depts/Music
Cantate Recordings
- Specialists in Church music recordings - choirs, organs, bells and
handbell music.
URL is: http://www.atlantica.co.uk/lifestyl/cantate.html
There's Power -
by Rev. Yvette Flunder, Grammy nominated artist and pastor of progressive
United Church of Christ in San Francisco.
URL is: http://www.sfrefuge.org/CD.html
Roland Synthesizers : A list of available synthesizers and related products available from Roland. URL is : http://www.intergate.com/%7Egreene/roland.html
Mel Bay Publications: Music education
publisher that has an extensive library especially for guitarists but also
in all areas of jazz improvisation, pop and rock music.
URL: http://www.melbay.com
SoundBlaster
AWE32: FAQ (frequently asked questions on the SoundBlaster AWE32
sound card).
URL: http://brahms.fmiuni-passau.de/%7Ezukowski/midi/awe32faq.html
Kurzweil Music:
Synths welcome to Young Chang Worldwide Kurzweil Music, the pro choice
in MIDI instruments. Contains a bibliography on synthesizers,MIDI, computer
and electronic music and more.
URL: http://www.telerama.com/%7Eecb/bookmark/bookmar
Jethro Tull Music Archive:
focuses on the band Jethro Tull. Provides information about the band
and lyrics to all the band's songs and a connection to an FTP server that
provides pictures, articles and a few MIDI sequences.
URL: http://remus.rutgers.edu/JethroTull/
Kinks, The:
Includes everything fro pictures, sounds and videos to a complete discography
and lyric database.
URL: http://hobbes.it.rit.edu/kinks/kins.html
KISS Network:
Focuses on the musical group KISS and contains information about collectibles,
band history, discography and more. Sound files can be downloaded.
URL: http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/~aure/strwys.html
Beastie Boys:
Recent releases , tour information, solo projects, product formation,
movies, photos and sound clips galore. Three large articles, a discography,
and answers to frequently asked questions.
URL is http://www.nando.net/music/gm/BeastieBoys
Amy Grant:
Provides information on Amy Grant.
URL: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~xiaoquin/ag.html
Introduction to MIDI:
Incredible home page for learning about MIDI and related music technologies.
In-depth instruction covering: What is MIDI?, A Basic MIDI Configuration,
Approximate costs for developing a MIDI station, Key terminology related
to MIDI (glossary, appropriate software and suggested reading materials
for working with MIDI.
URL: http://www.iupui.ed...1musc/inromidi
MIDI: Musical
Instrument Digital Interface
URL is http://www.eeb.ele.tue.n1/midi/index.html
MIDI Farm: A massive selection
of WWW links to manufacturer materials, a Macintosh digital audio group
and several other MIDI sites.
URL is http://www.midifarm.com
Alabama Jazz Hall
of Frame: Contains information about the organization whose
stated mission is "to foster, encourage, and cultivate a general appreciation
of the medium of jazz music.
URL: http://www.the-matrix.com/jazz/aljaa.html
Jazz
Roots Home Page: Provides information on the early jazz masters,
such as Fats Waller and Benny Goodman. Includes photos, bios, band members,
discographies and more.
URL: http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~tm4q/next/JazzRoots/Introduction.html
Montreux Jazz Festival:
Covers an international jazz festival held in Montreux, Switzerland
annually. Contains general festival information, programs, artists' photos,
and bios, band lineups and a catalog of festival merchandise.
URL: http://www.mhm.fr/festival/montreux/
Pat Metheny Home
Page: Provides a Pat Metheny discography, concert reviews, tour
dates and more along with downloadable pictures of every album cover and
links to related sites.
URL: http://www.cecam.fr/~lensink/metheny.html
The Contemporary List of
Jazz Links by Piotr Marek, Jr.: Claims to be the worlds biggest
jazz links on the Internet with over 1033 URL's "hot linked."
Organized by artists, electronic jazz magazines on the Internet, recording
companies, a short list of must jazz places on the WWW, jazz education,
radio stations, jazz festivals around the world with detailed information
and other resources.
URL: http://www.pk.edu.pl/~pmj/jazzlinks/
Classical
Music: Following composers covered: Antonio Allegri, Johann
Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, William Byrd, Frederic
Chopin, Aaron Copland, Claude Debussy, Anton Dvorak, Gabriel Faure, George
Gershwin, Percy Grainger, Edvard Grieg, George Handel, Franz Haydn, Gustav
Holst, Alan Hovhanness, Leos Janacek, Franz Liszt, Gustav Mahler, Felix
Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Mozart, Modest Mussorgsky, Carl Orff, Joahann Pachelbel,
Palestrina, Maurice Ravel, Ottorino Respighi, Camille Saint-Saens, Erik
Satie, Robert Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich, Bedrich Smetana, Richard Strauss,
Igor Stravinsky, Thomas Tallis, Peter Tchaikovsky, Georg Telemann, Antonio
Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber, and Ralph Vaughan Williams
along with musical clips of each composer.
URL is http://weber.u.washington.edu/~sbode/classical.html
Johann Sebastian
Bach: One of the most musical families of all time.
URL: http://classicalmus.com/composers/bach.html
Ludwig van
Beethoven: Beethoven's story is one of personal triumph over
tragedy and supreme musical achievement.
URL is http://magic.hofstra.edu:7003/immortal/index.html
Richard Wagner:
Collects and displays all kinds of material dealing with the German composer
Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883).
URL is http://www.utu.fi/~hansalmi/wagner.spml
The Composers:
Franz Joseph Haydn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Ludwig
van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky.
URL is http:/busker.trumpet.com.au/adm/composer.htm
Accordiana:
Provides information on accordions and all free reed instruments. Information
provided on how to purchase instruments, where to study, and where to get
accordion music.
URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/phoebe/mosaic/accordion.html
Autoharp:
Provides information about the autoharp, including publications, recordings,
concert and festival schedules and how to buy and get started playing the
autoharp.
URL: http://www.realtime.net:80/~fmouse/harppage.html
Acoustic Guitar Digest:
An electronic magazine for the acoustic guitar enthusiast.
URL is http://www.acns.nwu.edu/guitar
Classical Guitar
Home Page: Contains arrangements, MIDI files, articles and frequently
asked questions related to classical guitar.
URL is http://www.teleport.com/~jdimick/cg.html
African Music: Music from
Africa. Contains information on African and African influenced
music and musicians from all over the world, including South American and
the Caribbean. Also links to the home pages of the various countries.
URL: http//matisse.net/~jal/afrcanmx.htm
Afropop worldwide:
Presents the popular African/world music programs on National Public Radio
online.
URL: http://majorca.npr.org/programs/afropop/
Le Nozze
di Figaro: Contains information on the opera, The Marriage of
Figaro. Offers sections on the composer (Mozart),music and more.
URL: http://serfer.music.vt.edu/lenozze/lenozzehome.html
Classical
Music Reviews: Reviews of baroque, classical, orchestral, romantic
and modern keyboard music.
URL is http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/People/marca/music-reviews.html
RHYTHMIC
MUSIC EDUCATION - Transcripts of sessions discussing different music
topics such as Latin American Music.
URL is : http://inet.uni-c.dk/%7Ejanole45/imc/session.html
Music Education Online
- Links to other sites about various topics such as instruments, instruction,
music education and more.
URL is : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2405/
Nerd World : Music - Education
- Information and links discussing Jazz Education CD's
URL is : http://www.nerdworld.com/nw931.html
Kurzweil K2000:
URL: ftp.uwp.edu Directory: /pb/kurzeil/sounds
Roland D-70: URL:
kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov Directory: /pub/D70
Roland Samplers:
URL: lotus.UWaterloo.ca Directory: /pub/sgroup
Ensoniq
EPS-16+: URL: ftp.reed.eduDirectory: /eps/docs/samples/sa mple.index.txt
and /pub/kurzweil/sounds
MIDI Sample Dumps: URL: alfuib.no
Directory: /pub/sds
(Up-to-the-minute news and opinion on almost any topic you can imagine)
Alternate tunings: It's not just 12-tone equal temperament anymore.
URL is listproc@varese.mills.edu
Creative Labs Sound Blaster: Forum about programming the Sound Blaster.
URL is listerv@porter.geo.brown.edu
E-mu Emax: Forum about E-mu's samplers.
URL is emax-request@foobar.hpl.hp.com
Internet Underground: Alternative means of publishing recordings
URL is majordomo@www.echo.com
Korg Wavestation: Forum about this Korg synthesizer.
URL is listserv@otax.tky.hut.fi
Music Theory: An online seminar on music theory.
URL is listserv@husc.harvard.edu
rec.music.christian
Christian Music, both contemporary and classical
rec.music.a-cappella
Vocal music without musical accompaniment
alt.music.hardcore
Guitar based hardcore music
rec.music.makers
For performers and their discussions
*Telephony
*Video Conferencing
*NoteView by Musicware/TAP.
*WebCompass
What is MIDI Lesson Plan?
Students are expected to do a report on MIDI in terms of its definition of terms, its basic configuration, approximate costs for developing a MIDI station and key terminology related to MIDI along with specific software applications (sequencing, sound generation, notation and interactive music theory).
Grade Levels: 7-12
Objectives:
* To learn what is MIDI is and how it can function in a music education
setting.
*To learn what a basic MIDI configuration is comprised of?
*To budget for putting together a MIDI station.
*To learn key terminology related to MIDI.
*To demonstrate MIDI music software applications pertaining to music sequencing,
sound generation, notation and interactive music theory.
Materials:
*Personal computer with an Internet connection.
*Graphical World Wide web browser and sound viewer (optional)
*Suggested reading materials for working with MIDI.
*Music software: sequencing, notation, sound generation, music scanning
and interactive music theory.
Procedures:
1.Have students use graphical web browser to surf for web sits that
cover information about MIDI.
2.Have students diagram a basic MIDI configuration.
3.Have students budget for a MIDI workstation for hardware and software.
4.Require students to be able to define basic MIDI terminology.
5.Have students download Standard MIDI files and play them back through
their own sequencing/notation software applications.
6.Assign students to study suggested reading materials for working with
MIDI.
The importance of this lesson plan is to be able to use Standard MIDI files from the Internet. For information about learning about MIDI on the Internet, students can access these World Wide Web sites.
Introduction to MIDI:
Incredible home page for learning about MIDI and related music technologies.
In-depth instruction covering: What is MIDI?, A Basic MIDI Configuration,
Approximate costs for developing a MIDI station, Key terminology related
to MIDI (glossary, appropriate software and suggested reading materials
for working with MIDI.
URL: http://www.iupui.ed...1musc/inromidi
MIDI: Musical
Instrument Digital Interface
URL is http://www.eeb.ele.tue.n1/midi/index.html
MIDI Farm: A massive selection
of WWW links to manufacturer materials, a Macintosh digital audio group
and several other MIDI sites.
URL is http://www.midifarm.com
MIDI Home Page:
A MIDI archive containing lots of tools and sequences in Standard MIDI
File format.
URL is http://www.eeb.ele.tue.nl/midi/index html
Internet Related Bibliography
1. Telecommunication Training Sessions
2. Training Videos
3. Books
4. Articles
5. Magazines
6. Software Recommendations:
7. Modems
8. Full Service Internet Providers
9. Commercial Online Service
10. Automatic Switch Box.
11. Virus Protection
12. Sound Cards