Classical Composers Entourage and Music Guide - Evaluations and Reviews


lib.washington.edu/music/composers.html
Provides links to numerous individual composers such as Bach, Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart and to more general sites including women composers and a classical composers database.
  
angelfire.com/biz3/alm/almsearch.html
The almanac is searchable by month. Provides a listing of significant dates in classical music history including those of births, deaths, and first performances of a range of composers and performers.
  
la.znet.com/~iwamura/page2.html
A search is then run against a database of over 1200 classical music melodies, and matches or near-matches are displayed. MIDI files of the search results are available for comparison. Enables users to enter melody via a Java-applet based piano keyboard.
  
w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/classmus.html
Information from sources including Grove Concise Dictionary of Music on the history of classical music, composers (with portraits and short sound examples), various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies.
  
musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/music.htm
Also features reviews of classical CDs and a section on non-classical music. List of links to classical music sites including British composers, orchestras, newsgroups, film music and publishers.
  
ipl.org/exhibit/mushist/
Includes RealAudio sound files. Extensive material and illustrations on Western composers and their music from the Middle Ages to the present.
  
wku.edu/~smithch/music/
Presents introductory information on classical music, an index of forms and styles of music, including details of over 400 composers, a listing of notable works and influences and styles of music, and a glossary of terms.
  
gprep.pvt.k12.md.us/classical/composers.html
Extensive set of links to resources about classical music composers.
  
leonardbernstein.com/
Site celebrating the life and music of Leonard Bernstein, including lists of his works, and images and transcriptions of documents and music.
  
essentialsofmusic.com/
Provides an insight into six historical periods of classical music, namely Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century, covering themes, musical context, and style. Biographical information is given on composers from each
  
music-scores.com/
Offers a collection of free classical sheet music for download, together with classical music MIDI files. Scores can be browsed alphabetically by instrument, ensemble type, style, or composer, a list of which include Bach, Chopin, Dvorak, Haydn, Mozart, P
  
cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/music/composers.html
Brief biographies of major composers, with related links.
  
hearts-ease.org/cgi-bin/index_c.cgi
Entries can be browsed chronologically, alphabetically, or by nationality. Information on classical music composers including biographies, work lists, a section called 'in the composer's words', and recommended discographies.
  
ucc.ie/ucc/depts/music/online/contcomp.html
Selection of links to resources on various contemporary composers.
  
ucc.ie/ucc/depts/music/online/e20comps.html
Links to 20th Century music resources covering Schoenberg, Debussy, Ravel and Britten and others.
  
ucc.ie/ucc/depts/music/online/e19comps.html
Links to resources on various composers including Robert and Clara Schumann, Berlioz and Chopin.
  
amc.net/
Offers online catalogues, and information about facilities and activities. Centre intended to foster and encourage the composition of contemporary American music and to promote its production, publication, distribution and performance.
  
classical.net/music/composer/
Also provides links to a list of works for over 60 composers. Composer data arranged chronologically, by dates of birth and death, by age at death and by nationality.
  
utopia.knoware.nl/~jsmeets/
Index of sources relating to over 800 classical composers.
  
lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html
Collection of material including information about composers from Medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, Baroque, Classic, and early and late Twentieth Century periods. Covers choral, instrumental, and electronic music, opera, instruments, and theory and compos
  
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