Resources

MSN Music Guide - Includes news, reviews, charts and links.
http://entertainment.msn.com/Music/

Web Music Database - Collaborative user-submitted database of cross-referenced artists, albums, tracks, and sound files.
http://www.webmusicdb.com/

Online Tuning Fork - Click to hear sustained pitches including C, E, and concert A 440mHZ. With links to similar sites.
http://www.onlinetuningfork.com/

Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities - Stanford University project founded in 1984 offers free public access to large databases and online tools for music research and scholarship. Includes printable scores, voice-leading checkers, and scores and MIDI files for koto and tabla.
http://www.ccarh.org/

Music Player Network - Portal with artist interviews, news, equipment reviews, and forums.
http://www.musicplayer.com

Hidden Songs.com - Lists hidden and unlisted tracks found on albums and CDs, accepting submissions from site users.
http://hiddensongs.com/

Solo Performer - Veteran singer-songwriter Steve Rapson of Quincy, Massachusetts offers extensive self-help articles on practical aspects of being a working musician, including legal and music business issues.
http://www.soloperformer.com/

SongTrellis - Collaborative site offering chord changes to more than a thousand tunes as submitted by contributors, along with chat forums and FAQs.
http://www.songtrellis.com/

Musician Biographies - Thousands of authoritative articles, many with discography, bibliography, and awards. In two alphabetized lists, individuals and bands or groups.
http://www.musicianguide.com/

American Hit Network - Reviews, release dates, music news, concert dates and reviews, music history, games and web radio.
http://www.americanhitnetwork.com

Music Bibliography at IUP - Course syllabus and brief articles for students of Carl Rahkonen at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, with links to a dozen significant music libraries and online archives.
http://www.lib.iup.edu/depts/musiclib/MusBib/MusicBib_home.htm

Grove Music Online - The mothership of musical scholarship offers links to nearly 50,000 articles, images and sound files from 6,000 contributors. Access by paid subscription, free trials and reduced rates available for libraries and schools.
http://www.grovemusic.com

Music Bibliography - Links to research materials, musical societies, scholarly journals, and various uncategorized sites annotated and maintained by Professor Bruce C. McIntyre of the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College (CUNY).
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/music/inetmus/#INDEX

Music-Atlas - Portal with artist and band biographies, polls, top ten lists and musician jokes.
http://www.music-atlas.com

Themefinder - Search by note names, intervals, or solfege to see matching classical themes or folk melodies in musical notation. From the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities at Stanford University.
http://www.themefinder.org

Evolutionary Music Bibliography - Companion to 2007 book discussing applications of evolutionary computation to music, by computer music professor Eduardo Reck Miranda of Plymouth, UK, and information technology professor (and trumpeter) Al Biles of Rochester, New York, US.
http://www.it.rit.edu/~jab/EvoMusic/EvoMusBib.html

Glossary for Music Bibliography - Definitions of terms used in music bibliography, both English and German, from the Arthur Friedheim Library at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, US.
http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/2352

Computer Music bibliography - Large plain text annotated list of publications on MIDI, synthesis, and computer music, with links to music and artificial intelligence, maintained by Piet van Oostrum.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/midi/bibliography/preamble.html

Auralgasms - Biographies, discographies, sound samples, tour dates and user comments focusing on new artists.
http://www.auralgasms.com/

A2Gmusic.com - Resources, tips, news, classifieds, forums and music related databases. Includes information about copyrights, trademarks, marketing and locating a record label.
http://a2gmusic.com

Who Does That Song - Find artists by song title or titles by artist, cross-referencing artists who have changed names or joined different groups.
http://www.whodoesthatsong.com

Shavano Music Online - Self-help articles about band equipment, lighting systems, speakers, equalization, and business including contracts. Free submissions for bands seeking musicians and vice versa.
http://www.colomar.com/Shavano

Rhythm and Meter, A Bibliographic Glossary - Links to dozens of scholarly books and articles with glossary of terms, accepting user contributions. Created by graduate students at Indiana University in 1996.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/courses/rhythm/

Music Bibliography - Exhaustive text list of books on writing film scores as well as subjects such as composition, harmony and counterpoint, with links to sites on classical composition and composing for films. Maintained by Dimitrios Markatos.
http://members.aol.com/dmarko1/brahms/bibliography.htm