Music in Words
World Wide Web sites
The list of music sites below is followed by a list of other useful sites. You will find that many of the sites mentioned here are linked to each other. These links are regularly updated with relevant new sites.
Music sites
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM’s own site):
http://www.abrsm.org
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Publishing) Limited:
http://www.abrsmpublishing.com
BBC Education site (includes keyword search facilities for music education):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education
Classical Search (widely based, commercially sponsored portal for music):
http://www.classicalsearch.com
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online (run by Indiana University Music School):
http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm
Early Wind Instruments (a rich collection of illustrations of early wind instruments; the site lacks proper citation details and contains unnecessary animations, but it is a valuable resource):
http://perso.club-internet.fr/cjsax/index.html
Indiana University Bloomington Libraries: William and Gayle Cook Music Library (the front-running university music Web site in the USA, wide-ranging with an impressive collection of links):
http://www.music.indiana.edu/musicref
International Association of Music Information Centres (gives links to the sites of music information centres in most countries):
http://www.iamic.ie/
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: Selected Music Resources on the Internet (a well-organized American public library site with good links):
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/mus.resources.html
The Open University (the UK’s largest university and the biggest distance-teaching institution in the world; this link goes straight to the music department but it is also worth following links to the Open University Library):
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/music/
PALATINE (Performing Arts Learning and Teaching Innovation Network - the UK universities’ focus for on-line music facilities):
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/palatine
RIPM (Répertoire international de la presse musicale - on-line information about indexes of earlier music-periodical literature):
http://www.nisc.com/ripm
Royal Holloway College, University of London, The Golden Pages: Links for Musicians on the WWW (one of the best UK sites - also includes an archive of music PhD abstracts):
http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Links/index.html
Shrine to Music: University of South Dakota (one of the largest museums of musical instruments in the world):
http://www.usd.edu/smm
Sibelius Academy: Music Resources (excellent Finland-based site):
http://www.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/music.html
Bibliographical sites
Amazon.com (well-known as a commercial shopping site, this is also an invaluable tool for tracing information about books and recordings that are currently available):
http://www.amazon.co.uk
The British Library (allows you to access and search the music catalogues of the British Library, as well as all its other catalogues including that of the National Sound Archive):
http://www.bl.uk
(Go to ‘Collections’, then ‘Music’.)
General encyclopaedias, dictionaries and other reference sites
Britannica Online (Encyclopaedia Britannica in its on-line form - comprehensive and with many links):
http://britannica.com
Cartography Department of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands (a huge, impressively organized and apparently comprehensive collection of maps):
http://cartography.geog.uu.nl
CIA Factbook (contemporary statistical information with maps on every country in the world):
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
The Library of Congress (sophisticated and extremely useful American site that includes many sound recordings, photographs and sheet music held by the library):
http://www.loc.gov/
Oxford English Dictionary (the best dictionary, but password-protected; worth looking at for its explanation of how it works):
http://oed.com/public/guide
Refdesk.com (includes links to several free on-line dictionaries and encyclopaedias):
http://www.refdesk.com
On-line Internet tutorials
BBC Education WebWise site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet:
http://milton.mse.jhu.edu/research/education/net.html
(Go to 'Use It', then 'Is it worth using?')
Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL (UC Berkeley):
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Safari: A free Open University’s site providing tutorials in finding accessing and reviewing information (click ‘Guest’ at the home page).
http://sorbus.open.ac.uk/safari/signpostframe.htm
TONIC: Interactive Netskills (excellent on-line tutorial course from the University of Newcastle, UK):
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/TonicNG/cgi/sesame?tng