Music Resources Online

Reference, technology, ezines and portals

music technology

Adept Music Notation Solutions Nightingale music notation software

Audacity
shareware audio editing

cyberarts boston
biennial spring festival odd-numbered years

Cyber Arts International
tenth anniversary festival in September 2001

Cycling '74
Max graphical music programming environment

EastWest
Quantum Leap virtual orchestra sounds

Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) current events and history of electronic music

Laurie Spiegel
her Music Mouse is one of the first generally available algorithmic composing programs

MakeMusic!
makers of Finale music notation software, formerly Coda

Mark of the Unicorn
aka MOTU, makers of Digital Performer and more for Mac

MOTUNation
community support for MOTU users, formerly Unicornation

Metasynth sound design environment for Macintosh

MIT Media Lab
all sorts of projects to enhance our daily computing, including the Opera of the Future project

MIT Press
including Computer Music Journal and Leonardo Music Journal

Native Instruments
Kontakt sampler & sound library

Propellerheads
Reason virtual audio processing

Roxio Toast
burn CDs, DVDs, bluray

Shareware Music Machine
music software and hardware of all kinds

Sibelius
popular music notation software - it's what I use
owned by Avid since 2006

 

music reference

Spindrift Thesaurus of Musical Terms

Folk Music Index to Recordings
a bibliography of recordings

Grove Music at Oxford Univ Press
online access to the Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians; subscription required

Instrument Encyclopedia - Stearns Collection
world instrument collection

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library
large collection of online scores scanned from public domain sources

Lied and Song Texts

wikiRecording
manuals, recording how-to, reference, wiki-style

listening

Bandcamp
CDs and downloads from independent artists

CDBaby
CDs and downloads from independent artists

freesound project
sounds, not songs, with Creative Commons licensing

Naxos Music Library
great subscription service for music recordings

SoundClick
audio from independent artists

YouLicense
audio for streaming, licensing and mp3 sales

 

 

ezines and music portals

About.com - 20th Century music

Alternate Music Press
reviews of all kinds of CDs, mainstream labels and independents in many genres. Send them your CDs for review!

NYFA Current
newsletter on artists' issues from New York Foundation for the Arts

Electronic Musician
online features for the music technology magazine

Gramophone
news and record reviews

Kalvos and Damian New Music Bazaar
archive of radio program ('95-'05), composer pages and interviews

La Folia
CD reviews and essays on other musical topics

Leonardo Electronic Almanac
online project of Leonardo Music Journal; subscription required

Music Information Resources
Music Publishers Association links page

New MusicBox
monthly coverage of topics for composers from the American Music Center

NetNewMusic
new music reblog

Sequenza21
the composer's blog