Features biographies of inductees, exhibits, a museum, and other information about rock and roll through history.
The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces of sheet music published in America between 1850 and 1920.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic
A musical instrument museum and research center located in vermillion, South Dakota ...
Varied information about Western music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
The Alabama Music Hall of Fame was a dream and goal of the Muscle Shoals Music Association, a Shoals area based professional organization of recording studio owners, producers, musicians, songwriters and other music professionals. In 1980, through their efforts, the State legislature, with the leadership of State Senator Bobby Denton, created a state agency, the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Board, ...
Website and community dedicated to the preservation of all things related to the 80s decade ...
The Best place for exploring the Boldest and the Brightest Music of the 1980s on the Web, with weekly features, chat rooms, discussion boards and links.
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Effort by the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress to preserve the greatest historical recordings of America's spoken word and music.
Literature Music Visual Arts Other British Authors Musical Genres Smart-Ass Guide to Art Gallimaufry Name Database Loops Renderings About Us Mp3s Photos Music Styles If you are unsure of what these are, you can use this info to impress your friends of how cultured you are. If you have something to say - by all means mail me. The Motet - 1200-1750 The Canon - 1345-1890 The Fugue - 1540-1850 The ...
This Day in Music History. Has a daily listing of what happened on this day in history. Includes a search engine and calendar info.
Indiana University School of Music Thomas Binkley, Founder Paul Hillier, Director Contents Introduction: About the Early Music Institute The Faculty The Students (Gamma-Ut: The Early Music Student Association) Degrees Offered EMI Student Handbook Performing Organizations Pre-college Early Music Programs Special Resources Admission and Financial Aid Concerts and Recitals The Thomas Binkley ...
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Dedicated to the pop charts of the eighties, with lyric quizzes, trivia, links, and sound files.
The Civil War Music Site offers information on the music of the Civil War as well as civil war songs, fife music, drum music, bugle calls, midis, and more!
Quarterly ewsletter for players, teachers, collectors, makers, and students of historical flutes and flute-playing. Articles, news, information, and ideas.
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Dedicated to the pop culture of the 80s, featuring free memberships to access 80s music, trivia, discussions, movies plus other great content of the eighties.
5th Michigan participates in the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Civil War Days District-wide school field trip. Friday, April 26, 2002 (view Photos). The 5th Michigan Regiment Band was once known as the 5th Michigan Infantry Band. For 108 years, from 1865 - 1973, it was just a memory. Then as a State of Michigan Bicentennial project it was recreated in the form of the Fifth Michigan Regiment Band. In ...
Information on the Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments ...
www.music.ed.ac.uk/russell
Site devoted to the Australia-based Scarlatti Project - devoted to researching, performing and recording the works of the 18th century Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti ...
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Dedicated to the baroque cantata repertoire, this site intends to further the opportunities to research and perform this vast and fascinating genre. Cantatas, arias etc.
Banjo instruction books in the modern-day clawhammer banjo or frailing style and the minstrel banjo style. We have researched and faithfully recorded old songs, many dead over a hundred years.
Music of the Civil War by Bobby Horton. Albums of Civil War music on compact discs and tapes. One hundred forty songs of the War Between the States.
www.civilwarmusicstore.com
Site has links to information on various topics in Western music history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
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THE CIVIL WAR ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC (LAMAR FONTAINE/JOHN HILL HEWITT) (1861) ALS DAS LAND RIEF (DER ERSTE RUF/FORT SUMTER IST GEFALLEN) (ALBERT WOLFF) (1861) AWAY DOWN SOUTH IN THE LAND OF TRAITORS (ANONYMOUS/DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT) (1860s) THE BATTLE-CRY OF FREEDOM (GEORGE F. ROOT) (1861) BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC (JULIA WARD HOWE/WILLIAM STEFFE) (1861) DIXIE (I WISH I WAS IN DIXIE LAND) ...
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Collection of memorable rock and pop lyrics from the 1980s, also features interactive quiz.
Encyclopedia of dance music in the 1980s including Euro, Hi-NRG, Disco, House, and Techno
Introduction to site related to David Conway's thesis 'Jewry in Music' ...
www.smerus.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
The Texas Music Museum is a non-profit corporation that was founded in 1984.
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The Porpora Project has been established in order to display and support the investigations into the life and music of Nicola Porpora by performer and musicologist James Sanderson. ...
Bad Songs of the '70s- the worst musical refuse ...
www.furious.com/perfect/badsongs.html
Devoted to the bands and their songs that made the 80s a memorable part of our lives.
Vintage and traditional cowboy and western song lyrics.
lonehand.com/cowboy_songs.htm
Midi music collection of Early American Music from the 19th Century and Early 20th Century.
Museum of Musical Culture, Russia, Moscow, Ioc e iocueaeuiie eoeuoo u eeiee, i e , Ii eaa, i U E I UUEAI I E E I O OU cIEIEE, o OOE , i OE A ...
www.museum.ru/glinka/Defengl.htm
Copyright 2002 Elsa Scammell Last Updated 22 June 2002 ALL YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT THE CASTRATI ......... BUT NOT QUITE !! LOOK OUT FOR THE FLAGS AND SCROLL DOWN TO VIEW THE VERY LATEST! Contents Introduction Where are they now Why What were they Who were they FAQs Sources Castrati in Fiction Castrati music on CD Hot Links Some Castrati with Interesting Careers Pictures Domenico ...
www.cix.co.uk/~velluti/cast.htm
A daily post of major events including births and deaths that happened on that day in classical music history. Join CLASSICALmanac-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Members are encourage to discuss the events and post additional suggestions and topics for a specific day in classical music history.
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The Boswell Museum preserves and presents, popular music, jazz, and social history of the 1920's and 1930's through live performance and exhibits, and explores their relevance to present and future developments.
Home page for Southern Horizon, a Civil War era band featuring authentic period arrangements and instruments ...
An e-zine for fans and fanatics of R & B vocal groups of the 40s and 50s.
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An annotated bibliography of musical compositions related to chess ...
www.greschak.com/muschess.htm
Makers of two dozen baroque and classical flutes scrupulously copied after great historical models; information and research tools.
teachers.baroqueflute.com
Baroque-music.co.uk - a directory and resource for baroque music performers and researchers with a UK bias. Now including a diray service to avoid concert date clashes.
Tell me when this page is updated What is 'Natural' Vibrato | Vibrato as ornament vs. Continuous Vibrato | Historical Evidence | A Matter of Taste | Bibliography | Suggested Recording Artists | Links Use of Vibrato in Baroque Vocal Music Introduction The topic of performance practice in early music has produced a veritable flood of emotionally charged criticism from both sides of the ...
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Old Towne Brass Old Towne Brass of Huntsville, Ala., is a group of musicians who perform in the manner of early American bands. They dress in uniforms of these bands, perform on original instruments and play original music from this period. The group performed for the dedication of the Confederate flag poles in Montgomery, Ala.; Gen. Joe Wheeler Home, Wheeler, Ala.; the 1864 Tennessee Campaign ...
The Legend of John Henry There are two John Henrys - the man and legend surrounding him. Defining the first is a matter of assembling facts. Pinning down the legend is not as easy; it's as varied as the thousands of people who have studied, sung and recorded it over the years. What's New Read More Listen to music about John Henry ...
www.ibiblio.org/john_henry/henry.html
Stuff-Everyone-Should-Know(TM) Series Aesthetics - Music - Baroque If it ain't Baroque In every way Baroque music is like a teen-ager. Ok, maybe not in the pimply-faced-criticize-everything-even-though-you-don t-pay-for-it kind of way we have come to expect from our modern teen-agers. But what is a teen-ager anyway Simply put; a teen-ager is no longer a child and not yet an adult. It is that ...
www.sesk.org/Aesthetics/Music/Baroque.htm
Music of the Augustan Age Historical Background Let me take you back in time to April 1694, to Dresden, the residence of the Electors of Saxony who were descended from the champions of the German Reformation. An event that was to create the most brilliant and extravagant period in its cultural history is about to take place. When Friedrich Augustus succeeded to the electorate upon the unexpected ...
www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/articles/dresden/history.html
Dedicated to the baroque aria and operatic repertoire, this site intends to further the opportunities to research and perform this vast and fascinating genre. ...
Boy Choir Costumes: History--Castriati ...
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