Music -- General Resources: Music Resources on the Web
This guide identifies general information resources useful to music including library research databases, journals, news, and career resources and other reference sources.
"The Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) is an independent research unit of Columbia College Chicago devoted to documentation, research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale."
"You can base your search on melody (i. e., pitch and rhythm), melodic contour, or just rhythm." Melody-based searches can be done on a Flash or Javascript piano or by whistling.
Remember a tune but don't know the name? You can search these databases by title or composer, or by the music itself (solfeggio, intervals, scale degrees, rhythms, etc.)
""Themefinder provides a web-based interface to the Humdrum thema command, which in turn allows searching of databases containing musical themes or incipits."
Web version of Tom Moon's valuable resource 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life Lists. Includes purchasing information for recordings and other useful links.
"A collector's guide to jazz music CD/FLAC, iTunes/MP3 and vinyl records (LP/EP/45/78, etc.): Blue Note, Prestige, Riverside Records (the big three labels of modern jazz); bebop, cool/west coast, hard bop, modal/mode, free/avant-garde jazz musicians; Miles Davis' personal connections, and more."
Web version of Tom Moon's valuable resource 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener's Life Lists. Includes purchasing information for recordings and other useful links.
"JazzCorner.com is the largest portal for the official websites of hundreds of jazz musicians and organizations with more than a 1/2 million pages views a month. We pioneer practical methods of using technology to benefit the Jazz community, and offer customized solutions for individual Jazz musicians as well as Jazz organizations and businesses."
"We, the contributors, love and support well-made music and make every effort to support the artists we love by purchasing their work (it is our policy only to post what we own). Through this site, we're simply trying to share good music with others who will also hopefully continue to support these artists. We encourage everyone to purchase music and concert tickets for the artists you feel merit your hard earned dollars. Also, if you own the copyright to one of these songs and would like a song removed, please let us know."
