Classical and Contemporary Music and Their CDs/LDs

Contents

• Music in General, including Pops
• Classical and Contemporary Music, including Indices and General Information, Operas, Composers, Orchestras, Performers, Instruments and Miscellaneous
• Computer Music
• Recorded Media, including CDs and LDs
• Miscellaneous, including Pops

Music in General

• Music FAQs
• General Music Resources
• Yahoo Server
  • Entertainment: Music
  • Corporations: Music
• CultureFinder -- orchestras, performing arts series, opera, dance and ballet companies in the U.S. and Canada
  • Calendars of American Orchestras, ...
• Classical Music Information Center (Japanese)
  • Home Page: this or this
  • Concert Info
  • Concerts in Tokyo: 96-3, 96-4-
• Japanese Open Yellowpage: Music/Classical
• Classical Music Information, including Basic Repertoire List, Classical CD Buying Guide, Recommended Classical CDs and Composer Data
• Music Resources on the Internet in Indiana University
• Music Link Web Page
• Epsilon: The Ambient Music Information Archive -- ``Epsilon is a repository of information about ambient music of all kinds.''
• Music: by Period, Instrument, Genre, Artist, or Area
• Music -- Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
• World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Music
• ``Classical Music'', including Information on BMG, Harmonia Mundi, ...
• The "Ever Expanding Web Music Listing!"
• Music at EINET
• Nick & Cyrene's Classical Music Links
• Classica: Classical Music News and Links
• Mailing List Lists
  • Music Mailing Lists

Classical and Contemporary Music

Indices and General Information

• Links to World Music Sites (Japanese)
• The American Music Center -- ``America's not-for-profit contemporary music information and resource center''
• Large Classical Music Database (240kB?) by Shuichiro Kita (in Japanese)
• Sibelius Achademy -- not only Sibelius but much much more...
• Classical Music Resources
• DOS Orchestra -- Weekly (Managemental) News from the World of Professional Orchestras (6/20/94-)
• Orchestralist New Repertoire List (Evauation of newly composed works)
• What is `classical' music?
• FAQ of Classical Music (not really a hypertext)
• rec.music.classical
• Yahoo Server: Entertainment:Music: Classical
• Rice University - Lots of info and links to more
• Basic Repertoire List for Building A Library of Classical Recordings in Caltech (L. D. Lampson)
  • Shortcuts: Medieval & Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern (20th Century)
    
  • Its textual version (?)
    
  • Its root (Music Reviews) containing recommended recordings.
• Visit These Other Musical Web Sites by San Jose Symphony World Wide Web Center
• Music Database by Info Ryukyu (Japanese), including a list of orchestras, ...
• The Genres of Contemporary Art Music in Mozart Among Us

Operas

• Yahoo Server: Entertainment: Theater: Opera
• The Opera / Vocal Area!, including Origins of Opera, Vocalists, Opera Talk BBS and
  • 40 Opera Stories and Background -- actually 20!?
• Opera Schedule Server
• Opera-L Servers on Recorded Operas
  • In IRCAM
  • In Australia
• OperaGlass
• The Nibelung's Ring -- a synopsis of the plot
• Verdi Opera

Composers

• An Alphabetical List of Composers, containing a home page list of more than 500 composers from medieval period to contemporary.
• A Guide to Composer Data & Works Lists, including birthday list, death day list, ...
• The Great Composers, including Bach, Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Puccini, Schubert, Schumann, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Wagner.
  • By Name
  • By Period
• ``Underrated Masterpieces'' by Steve Schwartz, contains brief comments on many composers
• Classical Music WWW-Page by Johan Alkerstedt, contains Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Dvorak, ...
• Unknown Composers, including Audio

Orchestras

• Yahoo Server: Entertainment: Music: Classical Music: Symphony Orchestras
• OrchestraNET: The Association of British Orchestras
• Freude: Amateur Orchestra Home Page (in Japanese)
• Orchestras in Japan, including info on Osaka P.O., Kansai P.O., Kyoto S.O., Kobe Chamber O., Shinsei Nippon S.O., Tokyo P.O., Japan P.S.O., Nagoya City P.O., Nagoya P.O., and Yomiuri Nippon S.O.
• Orchestras in Italy

• Seattle Symphony Orchestra
• The New York Philharmonic
• Los Angeles Philharmonic -- Symphonix --
• Cleveland Chamber Symphony Orchstra
• Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
• San Francisco Symphony
• Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, including concert info
• Gunma Symphony Orchestra (Japanese)
• Internet Music Circle
• The Sinfonica -- an amateur orchestra
• Saitama University Orchestra
• Keio Wagner Society Orchestra
• Stanford University Symphony Orchestra
• Concerts in USA by the Orchestra of Toshiba Group Employees
• Shoin Philharmony Orchestra
• New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
• Symphony Nova Scotia: old home page (?) and subpages)

Performers

• Artists, from soloists to orchestras
• Ensemble Vindobona
• Classics World: Performers
• Classical Artist Info of Sony Music Entertainment, contains biographies and discographies of artists, including Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Horowitz, Midori, ...
• Information on Artists
• Conductors Home Page
• Osaka Mozart Ensemble (in Japanese)
• L'Ensemble InterContemporain
  • EIC Discography
• Kronos Quartet
• Boston Chamber Ensemble
• Earplay -- A San Francisco-Based New Music Ensemble
• San Jose Symphony World Wide Web Center
• Redwood Symphony 1994-1995 Season
• Le Triomphe de l'Amour -- ``is an ensemble devoted to music of the Baroque ...''
• Musical Groups in Italy
• a quattro gitarrenquartett
• Progetto Avanti - The Swedish Guitar Project
• Mito Community Band -- a brass band in Mito, Japan.
• Ohmiya Brass Band
• Genius Girl Pianist: Yu Kosuge -- Profile and Sounds
• Masato Usuki's World (Japanese)

Classical Music Institutes and Societies

• Sibelius Achademy
• ``Classical Music'' Audio Center
  • Contemporary Music Examples, including Mad Rush by Philip Glass, Concerto for Piano by Kevin Oldham, ...
• SIC!: Salzburg Information Center
  • SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE
    • Concert Ticket Information
• IRCAM music software info and concert calendars (Paris)
• Leeds University Department of Music, including Musical Information on the Web
• Waverley Philharmonic Society -- an amateur musical society in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney
• Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh

Instruments

• Violin Home Page (in Japanese)
• Violin & bow makers on the Net
• Lute Mailing List Archive in Hitachi FTP Server
• Classical Guiter Home Page: In English and In Japanese
• World Percussion Sample Library (demo disk advertizement)

Miscellaneous

• Auf Fluegeln des Gesanges... by Japan Phil.
• Medieval Music Collections
  • In Basic Repertoire List
• Gregorian Chant
  • In Basic Repertoire List
• CLA: SIG on Classical Concert Hall (Japanese)
• Music Biennale Zagreb -- 18th International Festival Of Contemporary Music
• Budapest Early Music Forum, May 23-30, 1995, Budapest, Hungary
• Early Music by Justin Renquist
• Early Music Links
• Classical Music in Italy, contains Festivals and Concerts, Theatres, Orchestras, Musical associations, Musical competitions, Music press, Learning classical music in Italy, and Musical groups
• Music on dulcimer -- Sounds played by Dave Neiman and Junko Niwa
• SKR Classical in SchoolKids.Com
  • SKR Classical Newsletter, including Events, CD Reviews, and so on.
• Renaissance Consort by Yasuhiko Higaki at Chiba University
• Wired Magazine contains Music Reviews.
  • For example, Issue 2.07 (1994) includes ``She is a Phantom'' by Harold Budd, etc.
• Classical MIDI Archives
• The Classical MIDI Connection
• MusicTeX - Fine Music Typesetting for Everyone
• Music Groups and Series in Pittsburgh
• Electric Early Music by Yasuhiko Higaki in Chiba University
• MC-link: Classical Music Home Page By Marco C. Benedetti
• BBC Radio 3 listings (9 days) First day
• Rudiments of the Theory of Music
• Music Room: [1], [2], [3].
• NUMUS Concerts ``is a presenter and promoter of contemporary classical music concerts in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada''
• Pacific Music Festival 1995 Academy Audition at Sapporo, 1-2/95
• Basic Terminology of Music Bands (-: Japanese :-)
• Perth's Classical Music Scene, containing West Australian Music Scene
• Classical Music with Audio Files
• Chicago Concert Search
• Tradetion Creatrice'95 -- Music of Today, Concert with Nature -- (at Cyber66)
• Wedding Music Information Source, ``offers a catalog of over 300 musical selections appropriate for weddings. It includes both classical and contemporary selections.''
• imr: independent music reviews

Computer Music and MIDI

Indices and General Information on Computer Music

• Yahoo Server: Computers: Music
• International Computer Music Association

MIDI

• Crescendo MIDI Plug-In for Netscape
• MIDI and Computer Music
• MIDI Home Page
• MIDI File Format
• Uli's MIDI Page

Miscellaneous

• Computer Music Bibliography
• Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC)
• Computer Music Journal
  • Its Archives
• Music Room by D. J. E. Nunn
• Music Notation Programs - a list in answer to a FAQ (for Macintosh)
• Lime -- Macintosh-based notation software
• Csound -- Music synthesis language for Unix, Macintosh, IBM PC. (``Csound programme from the Music and Cognition Group of the MIT Media Lab.'')
• Chua's Oscillator: Applications of Chaos to Sound and Music -- Sounds are not available (?)
  • Annotations: Musical Structures in Data From Chaotic Attractors
• EMUSIC-L home page -- ``This page allows you to access items in the EMUSIC-L FTP site via the World Wide Web and Mosaic.''

Recorded Media

Compact Discs

• EMusic Search Engine
• ``Classical Music'' CD Catalog -- BMG Classics
• Sony Music, including
  • The Vault: the list of current CD's and Tapes that are in production.
• CD Connection (80,000 CDs) and Other Music Resources
• The UCI Bookstore
  • Five Guides To Recorded Classical Music, including introductions to
    • The NPR Guide to Building A Classical CD Collection
    • The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and Cassettes and The Penguin Guide to Bargain Compact Discs and Cassettes
    • Gramophone Good CD Guide 1994
    • The Record Shelf Guide To The Classical Repertoire
  • E-mail Order Information
  • WAIS Search on Books, CDs, etc.
    • WAIS Search on Classical Music, including CDs, LDs, Tapes, ... -- Quite good for CDs.
• Noteworthy Music Main Menu, which contains unusable search and ...
• Grand Royal Records, including
  • Ordering (Not online, and Money Orders Only)
  • Magazines
• GUIDE TO BUILDING A CLASSICAL CD COLLECTION
• Classical record and CD suppliers
• CD Connection - an Internet retailer (by telnet)
• CDnow! -- The Internet Music Store, including Music of the World, Classial Store, ...
  • Search the Classical Store
  • The CDnow! Music Magazines
• Tower Records
  • Classical with Search (Very limited! Order by Phone)
• CD Database Search, including only about 4000 titles.
• CD World
  • A Catalogue
  • Search by Artist
• ECM Records
  • New Series List
  • Titles in Alphabetical Order (no search!)
• Virgin Record -- not very interesting?!
• Johan's Recommended CDs Page
• Reviews by Tom Moore -- written for Fanfare Magazine in 1994
• H&B Online Magazine `` specializes in Classical and Jazz CD Sales.''
• Delos International

Laser Discs

• Yahoo Server
  • Laserdisc
  • Corporations: Video: Laser Discs
• Classical LaserDiscs in Web Intertainment, Inc., which also contains CD-ROM, 3DO, Karaoka, and so on.
  • Search Engine -- Usable, but not quite complete and the interface is not good
  • Alphabetically Ordered Catalog
• LaserDisc on the Web by European LaserDisc Group (Hardware-cenered)
  • LD Shops in UK and other Europe
• Video Disc International -- ``The Internet's First Searchable Laserdisc Catalog'' (Only a few music titles)
• Magazines on LaserDiscs
  • Video & Movie Magazine List (in UK and US)
  • Laserdisc Magazines (in US, by Phil Kim)
• NTSC Laser Disc Announcements from Laser Disc Newsletter
• Phil Kim's Laserdisc Home Page
  • LaserDisc Mail Order Dealers
  • Laserdisc Distributors
  • Laserdisc Software Page
• Articles on LaserDiscs written by Robert J. Niland
  • LaserDisc Dealers
• Bob Niland's Laserdisc Articles
  • In www.rpi.edu
  • In CMU (Unusable!)
• Lycos Search Results
  • ``Music Laserdisc'' (with large database)
  • ``LaserDisc'' (with small database)

Miscellanenous

• Classical Insites, including Magazine contents, News, Real Audio, etc., with search
• Piano on the Net
• Japanese Music -- introduction, from traditional to pops.
• The Banff Centre for the Arts: Music & Sound
• Gagaku: Japanese and English
  • CD & Books
• KANI's Music Linker by Shigeru Moriya
• Music in CMU AI Repository, including Common Lisp Music, Common Music, and Common Music Notation
• JapanEdge Music Page, including SYZYGY RECORDS, TRANSONIC RECORDS, TCP (Techno Chaos Productions), DIGITAL BISCUIT, Proxy Records, and so on.
  • Proxy Records `` is the first net's label in Japan. This label is not release records. We release audio-data.''
• Brent Hugh's Music Instruction Software Page
• IUMA: The Internet Underground Music Archive (at www.iuma.com)
  • Music News of the World
  • IUMA mirror sites: this (at sunsite.unc.edu), or this (at www.southern.com).
• Metaverse (formarly called MTV)
• Virtual Radio(TM)
• Art Tower Mito
  • Exhibition: John Cage's Rolly Holly Over Circus (until 2/26/95)
  • Jenny Holzer Exhibition
• Music Search Results at EINET
• WebCrawler Search Results
  • Classical music search result
  • Contemporary music search result
  • Classical and contemporary music search result
• Lycos Search Results
  • Classical (or) Contemporary Music (with large database)
  • Classical Music (with large database)
  • Contemporary Music (with large database)
• InfoSeek Search Result on +Classical +Music +Contemporary
• San Francisco Music Box -- ``Our mail-order catalog contains over 200 unique musical gifts!''
• U2 on WWW
• The LEO MUSIC Archive of Munich's anonymous ftp server
• ?
• Music Players Mailing List -- Home Page (in Japanese)
• COMPOSER'S PORTRAIT : AMY BEACH (1867-1944) - CHAMBER MUSIC -- one of the most important American woman composer (2/10/96, in Japanese)