A
Webliography Project
compiled and
briefly annotated with access addresses by
singer, songwriter, educator, composer, synthesist
An Introduction to Online Resources for Music Research
Commercial Music, Music Industry and Publishing:
1998
MEIEA Guide to Music Business Programs (Music
and Entertainment Industry Educators Association): by
Harmon Greenblatt, extensive links.
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mimusba/meiea/p/schools/
Archive
of American Popular Music: (UCLA),
a non-circulating research collection covering the history of popular music
in America from 1790 to the present. The collection is one of the
largest in the country, numbering almost 450,000 pieces of sheet music,
anthologies, and arrangements for band and orchestra, and 62,500 recordings
on disc, tape, and cylinder. Subject strengths within twentieth-century
holdings include music for theater, motion picture, radio and television,
as well as general popular, country, rhythm and blues, and rock songs.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/mlsc/apam/index.htm
ASCAP
Home Page: Performing Rights Organization
(American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)
http://www.ascap.com/
BMI Home
Page:
Performing Rights Organization (Broadcast
Music, Inc.)
http://ascap.com/
Billboard
Online: includes 1) Daily Music News with twice daily updates,
2) Features: Sites & Sounds - Billboard covers the convergence
of new technologies and the music industry; Reviews and Previews
Online - Visit an expanded version of online album reviews section, with
searchable archives and stereo sound clips. Includes album reviews
available; Concert Reviews; MusicScopes; Ask Billboard;
RIAA Gold & Platinum Certifications; Get updates of gold and
platinum album, single, and video awards; Fred Bronson's Chart Beat
Online Chart Beat; Billboard Book Of Number One Hits; and Resources
with Databases, Calendars and Online Shopping. Latin Music Charts
include - Hot Latin Tracks and - Billboard Latin 50.
http://www.billboard.com/
Live
Online: Complete Guide to Music Events on the Web, A guide
to Webcast concerts, including links to the software needed for the broadcasts,
and band reviews.
http://www.live-online.com/
M2:
Television Music: 24-hour online video broadcast, with live broadcast
or searchable clips database. Requires plug-in RealPlayer 5.0.
http://www.mtv.com/
MTV
Online: Music, news, chat and behind-the-scenes at MTV Network.
http://www.mtv.com/
Massey, Howard. "Firsttake:
Frank Filipetti: How to Cut a Grammy-Winning Album in a Makeshift
Studio." Musician Online:
The Art, Business, and Technology of Making Music , 1998.
http://www.musicianmag.com/tech/studiotech/filipetti.asp
Music
Resources on the Internet: Music Industry / Publishing: (UCLA),
links to Industry and Publishers/Record Labels/Music Dealers.
http://wwwstage.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/web/industry.htm
Music
Resources on the Internet: Popular Song: (UCLA),
links to six sites related to Popular Song.
http://wwwstage.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/web/popsong.htm
Pollstar:
The Concert Hotwire: Comprehensive and up-to-date information
on touring bands, booking agents, and venues from around the country and
around the world.
http://www.pollstar.com/
Sonic
Net: includes Alternative happenings, with show listings,
reviews, and live chat with artists.
http://www.sonicnet.com/
Sonic
State: "The Music and Pro Audio Theme Park." Home of Synth
Site, Tech Central, Music Industry listings, classifieds, charts and news.
Includes SYNTH SITE - one of the biggest synth directories on the web plus
Latest user reviews, News + listings, Synth Chat, and Submit a synth;
TECH CENTRAL - Software downloads, Mac Database, Tweak Of The Week,
Classifieds, and Session from Hell; DIRECTORY LISTINGS - one of the
largest and most comprehensive music industry databases on the Internet,
plus a listing of UK studios, US studios, Record companies, Submission
form, Rock + Roll Hotel Guide. In The Synth Site Bookshop you can
browse hundreds of synth and computer music-making titles."
http://www.sonicstate.com/
TEI
(That’s Entertainment International):
A professional booking agency located in Nashville, TN with great links
to major Record Labels (American Recordings, Ardent Records, Electra Records,
Geffen-DGC Records, JVC Music, MCA, Mercury, Motown, Razor & Tie Music,
RCA Victor, Reprose Records, Rhino, Sony Music Online, Virgin, Warner Brothers
Records), Industry Magazines (Billboard, Cashbox, Guitar World Online,
Hollywood’s Reporter, Jazz Guitar Online, Keyboard Central, Music Connection
Magazine, Performance Magazine, POLLSTAR - The Concert Hotwire), Media
(MTV and VH1), and Manufacturers.
http://www.globaltel.org/imtv.html
West
Virginia University - Music 29: (H. Gilbert Trythall), a multimedia
introduction to electronic music that prepares students for more advanced
study: "Music 29 is an 3 semester credit hour course that teaches
reading and writing instrumental music. Students compose a minimum
of 40 lead sheets using Band-In-A-Box® v. 6.0 or higher, computer software
that arranges and plays lead sheets over MIDI with piano, bass, drums,
and additional instrumental sounds, and saves and prints the lead sheets
upon request. Students e-mail the completed exercises to the instructor
with questions. The instructor e-mails answers and corrections to the students."
http://www.access.wvu.edu/special/Music29/music29.html
Dr.
Judith A. Coe
Assistant Professor of Voice and Commercial Music
Coordinator of Voice
Music & Entertainment Industry Studies Department
Arts Building 288H
Campus Box 162, P.O. Box 173364
Denver, Co 80217-3364
Phone: 303-556-6013
Fax: 303-556-2335
Please e-mail suggestions for new category inclusions and correlative URL's, corrections for and/or additions to existing entries, and cybermentoring queries regarding any aspect of cyberspace research and music. Comments and suggestions are most appreciated.
last modified 11/25/03