Internet
Sites
OCC Music
Department
General information about the music department at Onondaga Community
College. Audition and concert schedules are provided on this site.
http://www.sunyocc.edu/academics.aspx?id=7325&TierSlicer1_TSMenuTargetID=7291&TierSlicer1_TSMenuTargetType=1&TierSlicer1_TSMenuID=324
Library
of Congress-Music
The Library of Congress has excellent resources encompassing many
areas of American music, all genres. Among them are: historical
sheet
music from 1870-1885, Hispanic music and culture, African American
music, indigenous Native American music and recordings, folk recordings,
and an
illustrated guide to Library of Congress musical instrument collection.
The sites are works in progress, as more materials are discovered,
catalogued and put on-line.
http://www.loc.gov/index.html/
(In the search box on the upper right corner of the page type
"music". Browse the headings to view a music related topic.)
Public
Domain Music
This site tries to provide researchers information about copyright
protection and offers public domain information. The information in
organized by performer, music arrange, film producer, etc.
http://www.pdinfo.com/
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| Databases
African
American Music - Covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other
forms of African American musical expression, Alexander Street's Music Online Listening Collection's African American Music
brings 50,000 tracks of music to students, scholars, and patrons. The
collection contains recordings by the top names in the history of black
American music. Premier artists such as Ma Rainey, Lead Belly, Mahalia
Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, and William “Bunk” Johnson
are showcased. At least 5,000 of the tracks are rare or never-before-published,
and the other 45,000 are in-copyright and included through arrangement
with distinguished labels.
American
Song - Alexander Street's Music Online Listening Collection's American Song provides access to American roots
music and pre-1960 American popular music. It encompasses the great
Article American musical genres including country, folk, bluegrass,
Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing—combined
with powerful recordings by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger,
Peggy Seeger, Si Kahn, Lead Belly, Sleepy LaBeef, the New Lost City
Ramblers, Otis Clay, Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater, Nanci
Griffith, The Lilly Brothers, Merle Travis, and many others.
Classical
Music Library - Alexander Street's Music Online Listening Collection's Classical Music Library is a fully searchable
classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished
classical recordings. Selections range from the earliest Gregorian chants
to works by modern composers—including symphonic music, vocal
and instrumental music, choral works, and other forms. Content is published
under licensing agreements with more than 30 music labels, including
major labels and independents, with ongoing license negotiations adding
to the range of available tracks.
Contemporary
World Music - Alexander Street's Music Online Listening Collection's Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds
of all regions from every continent, for scholarship and pure enjoyment.
Smithsonian
Global Sound for Libraries - Alexander Street's Music Online Listening Collection's Smithsonian Global Sound for
Libraries® is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and
aural traditions. This database includes the published recordings owned
by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival
audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet,
Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music
recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International
Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material
collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive
Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American
Institute for Indian Studies.
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