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MUSIC APPRECIATION

• DW3: Classical Music Resources

• Introduction to Classical Music (HNH)

• Classical Music Beginners Guide  

• Essentials of Music W. W. Norton

• AllMusic.com

• Leonard Bernstein

• Placido Domingo

• Allegro

• Early Music America

• Ceolas: Celtic Music

• H & B Direct: Outstanding source for classical recordings

• Music Boulevard Online CD Store with some interesting deals

• CDnow! The Internet Music Store

• Tower Records

• GEMM Search for new and used recordings

• Music for a Song cheap used, cutout recordings

• Music by Mail specializing in imports from Europe and Japan

• myLAUNCH Information on popular music, the music industry

• World Wide MusicThousands of sound samples. Requires registration.

• ECM Records

• Alligator Records (blues)

• Junior's Juke Joint

• Neil Young Official site

• Neil Young The unofficial site

• "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943

• Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection

• Louis Armstrong Discography

• Muddy Waters

• UnfURLed: MTV/Yahoo Guide to Web Music

• At the Hop 50s Oldies

• Joni Mitchell

• Bob Dylan

• Laurie Anderson

• Jazz Online

• Jazz

• All About Jazz

• The Jazz Review

• Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns

• America's Jazz Heritage

• Red Hot Jazz Archive

• Golden Age of Jazz historic photos

• Monterey Jazz Festival

• Duke Ellington

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Frank Sinatra

• Kansas City Jazz

• Kansas City: Paris of the Plains

• George Gershwin

• Bing Crosby

• Microsoft Music Central

• Music Index at Indiana University

• Naxos The world's largest and best-selling classical music company, selling inexpensive, high-quality recordings

• Sony Music Licensing for professionals seeking music

• Virgin Records

• John Adams America's greatest living composer

• The Brain Opera Tod Machover's interactive musical site.

• Philip Glass

• Aaron Copland Collection

• Bernard Herrmann Society

• Rediscovering Dave Brubeck

• Festival Finder Find music festivals in North America

• Carnegie Hall

• Eyeneer Music Archives

• Piano on the Net

• Meet the Composer, supporting contemporary composers

• The Leonard Bernstein Collection

• Great Women Composers

• Bach Bibliography

• Bach Digital

• Mozart Project

• Wagner on the Web

• The Symphony: An Interactive Guide

• Hilary Hahn

• William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz

• Great Day in Harlem story of the making of a famous1958 photograph of jazz performers, based on the film of the same name

• The Official George and Ira Gershwin Web Site

• The Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection

• California Gold Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties

• Southern Mosaic The Lomax recordings

• Omaha Indian Music

• River of Song Music along the Mississippi

• FolkLib Index A Library of Folk Music Links

• Band Music from the Civil War Era

• Union Songs

• Streamland full-length music videos

• From Frying Pan to Flying V: The Rise of the Electric Guitar

• Ladysmith Black Mambazo

• Van Morrison

• The Beatles.com

• Rolling Stone Network

• Rolling Stone Radio

• Britannica.com Head Sounds: Psychedelic Rock

• Quadrophenia

• Tinfoil cylinder recordings

• Instrumental Encyclopedia

• Universe of Bagpipes

• Varèse Sarabande soundtrack recordings

• Imagine Radio

• Music in the Public Domain

• Mutopia

• Seattle Baroque Orchestra

• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 Selected from the Collections of Brown University

• Echo Online music journal

• Virtual Gramophone Canadian music

Online music sites

• Classical Midi Archives

• Tunes.com

• Epitonic

• Internet Underground Music Archive

• Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders

• Max Hunter Folk Song Collection Ozarks field recordings