Song Lyrics

• Songfacts
  Songfacts is a searchable database of song information compiled by radio professionals, music enthusiasts, and visitors to the site. They provide the album, year the song was released, highest US and UK chart position, and "Songfacts" about each song. The "Songfacts" are interesting tidbits like what the song is about, who wrote it, and what makes it different. Songfacts is free for people to use.
• elyrics.net Free Lyrics Archive
  "Huge, browsable & searchable database of over 130,000 lyrics and 6,000 artists"
• Lyrics & Songs - lyrics-songs.com

Folk/Bluegrass/Country

• Dirty Linen The Magazine of Folk, Electric Folk, Traditional and World Music.
• folkmusic dot org Your best online resource for folk and acoustic music
  Looking for information on your favorite singer / songwriter / acoustic musician / "new contemporary folk" artist?
• Bluegrass World Bluegrass Music News
• Folk Music Home Page hosted by Jay Glicksman.
• Folk ROOTS Magazine Roots, Folk and World Music.
• Doyle Dykes Official Website "Doyle is a fingerstyle guitar virtuoso."
• The Flash Girls Winners of the 1994 Minnesota Music Award for Best World Folk Group.
• Loreena McKennit
• Sarah McLachlan
• The Digital Traditions Folksong Database Search Page A searchable index of folk song lyrics - presented by The Mudcat Cafe.
• Ceolas Celtic Music on the Internet.
• Bodhrán Homepage
• New American Folk Music Listserv by thread
• FolkWeb On-Web Folk CD Store and Listening Room

Rock & Roll

• Rockmine Archives
  Europe's largest independent rock music archive. Includes: The Ultimate Rock Cyclopedia, The Ultimate Rock Almanac, The Grim Reaper's Greatest Hits, more.
• LAUNCH
  "One of the Internets most comprehensive and interactive online music communities. LAUNCH.com currently offers users artist biographies, album reviews, concert reviews, and exclusive features, chats and interviews with chart-topping and emerging acts. Personalization capabilities allow members to create customized music home pages and to receive content that is personalized to individual's tastes. LAUNCH.com also provides members with various ways to meet other members with similar tastes through 'fan lists', chat and instant messaging." (Now part of Yahoo).
• Rolling Stones Official Fan Club

Blues

• BluesNet "The Online Blues Network"
• Harry's Blues Lyrics Online
  "Lyrics and soundclips of blues songs, blues tablature (tabs) & chords, blues terms and language defined and explained, the blues tree, blues history, blues books selection and more."
  This popular site often exceeds its bandwidth quota. You may want to check this mirror when that happens.

Indie/Alternative

• Yahoo's listings
• New Albion Records New music, from the fourteenth century to the end of time.
• The Official Elvis Costello Home Page Courtesy of Island Records
• Trainspotters Guide to Elvis Costello
  "The ultimate guide to Elvis Costello on the Internet, featuring The Elvis Costello Home Page + Real Life Becomes A Rumour and lots more links to EC info around the web."
• The Barenaked Heaven Barenaked Ladies' Home Page

Jazz

• JAZZ Online
• WNUR-FM JazzWeb Sponsered by Northwestern University.
• InterJazz: The Internet Jazz Plaza
  A meeting place for businesses related to jazz and people on the search for jazz.
• The Jazz Composers Collective
  "A musician-run, non-profit organization dedicated to presenting the works of composers who are pushing the boundaries of their self-expression."

Classical

• Classical Net
  "A comprehensive collection of information and news on classical music subjects including articles and CD reviews, composers and their music, the basic repertoire, recommended classical music recordings and a CD buying guide."
• Classical composer biographies Compiled by Michael Norrish.
• Fenway Libraries Online
  "Fenway Libraries Online (FLO) is a consortium of academic and special interest libraries in the Boston/Cambridge area"
• The MIT Music Library
• Sheet Music Online
  "The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960."
• Gems of Compositional Wisdom authored by Mathew Fields.
• Arto Wikla's Music Page

Early Music

• CANTUS - Database for Gregorian Chants for the Divine Office
• The Gregorian Chant Home Page
• Early Music Archives
• Early Music mailing list
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (Database for Latin Music Theory)

Opera

• The Opera Schedule Server
• New York City Opera
• Salzburger Festspiele Friends of the Salzburg Festival
• Operanetta (the first on-line opera)

Reggae

• Jammin Reggae Archives A collection of information about and Web Links to Reggae Music.

Guitar

• On-Line Guitar Archive
• Guitar.com - Your guitar guide!
  "Being a registered member of Guitar.com gives you access to all of its features: discussion boards, artist pages, instructor pages, upload your band Mp3's and bios, customizable interfaces, musician matching, product and band reviews, shopping, and up-to-date industry news."
• C. F. Martin & Co., Inc.
• Guild Guitars and Basses
• Taylor Guitars
• Gibson's USA Gibson Guitar's Home Page.
• Guitar Tab Universe
  "Search over 35,000 songs. Find guitar and bass tablature. Search by song title or artist. Submit and Request files. Fast and Easy. The largest and best guitar tablature collection on the internet." They also have a Tablature FAQ.
• Guitar Tab at Guitar Tricks
  "Guitar lessons free with guitar tab and mp3 audio files. Listen and learn to play guitar for free at the largest mp3 guitar lesson site on the net!" A good resource if you can tolerate all the pop-up ads.
• Adam Schneider's Guitar Chord & Tablature collection
• Beavertabs Guitar Tab Archive Canadian's supporting free online music education!
• Rob Bradley's FLATPICK-L Page The cyberplace where flatpickers meet.
  How to subscribe to FLATPICK-L mailing list, photos, music theory, guitar technique, tablature, lyrics, etc.

Instruction

• D3 Music Learning Network "Learn music online with video, sound and notation. Fast, fun, and easy."
• Reed Kotler Music Slow down those licks without changing pitch!
  Makers of cool transcribing aids that help you learn by ear from your favorite recordings.
• MIDI Manufacturers Association Home Page
  ``The MMA was formed in 1984 as a "trust" to maintain the MIDI specification as an open standard. The MMA provides forums for discussion of proposals aimed at improving and standardizing the capabilities and marketability of MIDI-related products, and provides a process for adoption and subsequent publication of any enhancements or clarifications resulting from these activities.''
• Harmony Central®: MIDI Tools and Resources

Miscellaneous

• Library of Congress
• Harmony Central®
  "The leading web resource for musicians with daily news, product announcements, reviews, free classifieds, tablature, and software, covering guitar, bass, synths, MIDI, recording, drums, and more."
• Yahoo:Entertainment:Music. [If it's not here, it probably doesn't exist!]
• Compact Disc Connection 100,000 Music CD's on-line
• Viacom
• Sony Music
• LSDS Music Archives A mirror for OLGA and archive.uwp.edu
• The Info Service - Instruments Everything from "Accordion" to "Violin"
• Music Resources from the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
• LoMML - List of Music Mailing Lists "The definitive database of music-related e-mail discussion groups (mailing lists)."
  It appears the LoMML is no longer being maintained. The most recent copy I could find is dated May 1, 1996.
  Your best bet may be to search CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV lists for "music".
• WWW Music Database hosted by Andy Burnett. Huge resource - mostly Rock & Roll.
• Music Resources -- an Extensive list [Sibelius Academy, Finland]
• American Music Resource
  Bibliographies, lists and text-files about all styles of American music and related issues.
• The English Server: Music Run by Carnegie Mellon Institute.
• The "Ever Expanding Web Music Listing" Massive!
• Galaxy: Music (Leisure and Recreation)
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University)
• Online Music References Sponsered by Art on the Net, a collective of artists.
• Ultimate Band List
• UC San Diego Music Library
• MTO - Music Theory Online The Online Journal of the Society for Music Theory.
• Music, Mind, Machine
  "Site on the computational modeling of temporal structure in musical knowledge and music cognition. It describes the research, and contains papers with sound examples, Quicktime animations, and other material."
• MuSICA Music and Science Information Computer Archive
  Formerly Music and Brain Information Database (MBI)
• HUT Acoustics Laboratory The Helsinki University of Technology Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing
• Instrument Jokes

Storefronts / Stuff for Sale

• Lark in the Morning
  A musician's service that specializes in hard to find musical instruments, music and instructional materials.
• RCA Victor
• BMG Music Service

Unverified links

• Folk Music Mailing Lists
• Society for Creative Anacronism--East Kingdom Home Page. If you like renaissance music, you may like this.
• Alberto's Nightclub. Sometimes they have Andean music.
• Musi-Cal (live music information: concerts and musical events) MISC
• Leningrad Cowboys Home page
• Wolf Marshall's Guitarland

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