Music collections and M Guide - Resources and Review

Collection of national anthems for countries throughout the world arranged alphabetically. Includes travel information, news, and details of flights and accommodation for each country.
 
Information about public domain materials, facilitating the identification of freely available music and songs. Includes details of individual music, collections and compendiums, and also features an alphabetical list of royalty
free music.
 
Collection of material including information about composers from Medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, Baroque, Classic, and early and late Twentieth Century periods. Covers choral, instrumental, and electronic music, opera, instruments, and theory and composition. Also provides birth and death dates of musicians, details of local musical events in regions throughout the world, and an index of fully searchable music databases.
 
Tools for finding music related articles, research papers, dissertations, and similar materials.
 
Searchable database containing records describing Dundee's Wighton Collection of National Music, an extensive repository of Scottish music assembled by Scottish musician Andrew John Wighton (1804
1866).
 
A collection of classical music MIDI files. Includes Renaissance, baroque, classical and modern music and links to other classical MIDI sites.
 
Offers a collection of free classical sheet music for download, together with classical music MIDI files. Scores can be browsed alphabetically by instrument, ensemble type, style, or composer, a list of which include Bach, Chopin, Dvorak, Haydn, Mozart, Puccini, and Vivaldi.
 
A collection of sheet music comprising pieces, lessons, and riffs, suited to a range of instruments. Also offers a selection of classical, popular, jazz, world, traditional, and film and tv music. Material is available for download as midi or PDF files.
 
Browsable collection of music resources, arranged alphabetically by artist. Offers material pertaining to a wide range of styles such as Ambient, Blues, Celtic, Folk, Funk, Gospel, Industrial, New Age, Punk, Rap, Reggae, Ska, Techno, and Urban. Audio files requiring Windows Media Player or RealPlayer accompanies each entry.
 
Collection of free high
quality music in MP3 format, as well as spoken word, and audiobooks. Genres covered include blues, classical, country, folk, dance, electronic, experimental, hip hop, rap, jazz, swing, pop, reggae, ska, punk, rock, and heavy metal. MP3 is a file format which stores audio files on computer so that the file size is relatively small but the sound quality is near perfect. Typically 1 Mb is equal to one minute of music.
 
The Repertoire International des Sources Musicales represents a worldwide effort to identify and describe sources of music and writings about music from the earliest times until 1825. It provides access to online databases of bibliographic records for manuscripts after 1600, libretti, libraries and citations.
 
Online exhibits investigating many musical time periods and genres. Includes audio files providing examples of movements such as Riot Grrrl, Hip Hop, and Punk. A specific artist is profiled on a weekly basis, a series of interviews are available, and special events are documented. Also contains video footage of various projects undertaken by those at 'emplive' such as touring with an Indie band, and learning how to sing in two
part harmony with Ann and Nancy Wilson.
 
Contains more than 62,500 pieces of American historical sheet music made available through digitisation. Includes popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. Collection is searchable and browsable by author, subject and title. As well as providing historical sheet music, the collection aims to document social and political attitudes of a bygone era with music of many varieties and sources, and provides numerous exhibitions and commentaries.
 
Aims to provide a continually developing collection of politically aware and representative materials, which span all areas of political persuasion and cultural representation. Location, preservation, promotion, and dissemination of ephemera in printed, recorded, visual, and in the oral traditions, is the key aim of the Centre, for the education of popular political expression worldwide.
 
Provides over 2500 reference and information files about classical music, including A Guide to Composer Data and Works Lists. Also offers over 2200 links to other interesting Web sites.
 
A collection of over 6000 classical music files in Midi format, from over 390 composers. Composers include Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Scarlatti and Schubert.
 
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