Music Links
Last update: October 21, 2004
As of Sep. 21, 2002 (yes, I'm that far behind), I have manually verified all of these links. (They are only partially categorized, though...)
Just because there are links here does not mean that I, personally, like the music or site. So if you know of a cool music site, please
send me an e-mail. (My address is at the bottom of every page. Sort of. I'm sure if you're smart enough to be e-mailing me, you're
smart enough to figure out how to decode it! :-)
If you're curious, my favorite types of music are ragtime, boogie, jazz, jazz-fusion, classical, classical rock and (some) progressive rock.
Musician type stuff
Sheet Music and Music Books
(Some free, some commercial)
- Master Class: Basic Blues Workout with Jan Garfinkle
- I Hear America Singing (Music, Theater and Dance Collections from the Library of Congress)
- The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection An archive of more than 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs
- Join Yahoo! Groups Boogie Woogie Sheet Music A few free downloads for members! (Free membership. Click files, and photos.)
- Free Sheet Music
- The Free Sheet Music Guide (@rainmusic.com)
- free sheet music (@rudolphmusic.com)
- The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection - Home Page
- My Sheet Music! Free and commercial downloads.
- Virtual Sheet Music - classical music downloads
- copy-us - News Lets artists publish their own works, free or commercially.
- Sheet Music USA Commercial
- Burt & Co Discount Music Supply Retail discount sheet music supplier (a little hard to navigate, but good deals)
- Sheet Music Plus (commercial site) Kinda like the Amazon of sheet music
- MusicRoom.com Commercial site
- Schott (English page) Commercial site in Germany
- ABRSM Pub Commercial site in UK
- Free-scores.com Links to lots of goodies!
- Free Sheet Music (.net) Links to hundreds of sites! (Hint - click the letters for the big collection.)
- The Sheet Music Archive A huge collection of free, classical music downloads.
- Commercial & free sheet music pieces, lessons, riffs and downloads from 8notes.com
- The Free Sheet Music Guide (@freesheetmusicguide.com)
- America Singing Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
- Musica Viva - Free sheet music and more
- Jazz & Blues Piano Music Books (@vandaking.com)
- Mahavishnu Music Book
- ComposerMusic.com- Free sheet music downloads
- Werner Icking Music Archive
- GMD Music archive - sheet music English intro Most of this site is in German, but if you know what you're looking for, there is a lot of good stuff here.
- Johan Tufvesson's Free Sheet Music Archive 17th & 18th century music I've not seen elsewhere (currently 4098 pages of downloads!)
- Free Sheet Music from Gilbert DeBenedetti (@Pitt.edu) Has PDF music, along with MIDI you can hear. Also see his:
- Free Music Theory Workbooks which you can download!
- The Choral Public Domain Library If you love something, set it free
- Dogstar Music - Free and Sample Sheet Music Links
- American Memory Collection Finder Search
- African-American Sheet Music from Brown University (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- California Sheet Music Project (Duggan)
- University of North Texas Libraries' Catalog
- Public Domain Music at Web-Helper.net
- Finale Showcase Home
- Ragtime Music @ MS State
- Music Station A few free titles in NoteWorthy Composer format (free download via link)
- Jazzbone Records Sheet Music Page Original jazz sheet music by Stuart H. Tresser
- UNC-Chapel Hill Music Library Table of Volumes Indexed
- Music for the Nation American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 @ LOC
- Music for the Nation American Sheet Music @LOC (Index of indices)
- African American Sheet Music Collection from Brown University
- LOC - From the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War.
- UCLA Music Library If you click Search, there is a listing of songs on that page.
- Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
- Historic American Sheet Music @ Duke.edu
- Library of Congress award page for above
- Nissimo - Free sheet music!
- UCB Libraries Digital Sheet Music Collection
- Welcome to the NWC Scriptorium
- Music-Scores.com
- Charlies Piano Click the Composer Index for over 350 pdf scores - mostly classical
- CD Sheet Music If you like old &/or public domain music, this is a must see!
- Music Staff.com - Links A lot of links - some are other than sheet music.
- Concertina Music Celebration Lots of free downloads in .GIF format - especially polkas
- Harmonicity music book categories
- Jazz Handbook - Jamey Aebersold's free online book! The best things in life are free and the free jazz handbook is one of them.
- Encore Music commercial site
- J.W. Pepper & Sons Claim to be the world's largest sheet music retailer.
- Musicnotes.com Commercial site.
- Find Free Sheet Music Links to Links...
- Jazz Piano Sheet Music Transcriptions... and more! Looks like a lot of goodies - commercial
- Public Domain Music Information Has good information about how to determine if a work is PD or not. Also has links to some PD sources.
- Sunhawk.com Digital Sheet Music Downloads (commercial)
- Lamplight Music Downloads, including sheet music with original arrangements, MIDI files, etc.
- Original Jazz Charts
- OddRealm.com Links to a lot of sheet music sites I've not found elsewhere!
- Jeanie's Online Music Studio - Piano & PVG Sheet Music
- CharlesPiano.com Hundreds of free PD downloads, links for buying the rest
- The Sheet Music Warehouse has "tens of thousands of pieces of old, original and out of print sheetmusic."
- Kyzik.com Kyle Kyzik has a couple of Boogie Woogie Sheet music downloads. (Click downloads.) Also some video and MP3s of him playing some mean boogie woogie! Boogie on, Kyle!
- Edward A. Berlin's Website of Ragtime and Scholarship Author of King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era (Oxford University Press, 1994)
- John Sarta's Boogie Woogie Salad
- Heroes of Parlor Town Pianist Brent Watkins traces the musical development of Ragtime. (Some samples of his playing and brief history online.)
- Club Kaycee -- Kansas City Jazz Histroy
- Yahoo! boogie_woogie group A UK discussion group (members from all over, of course)
- SibeliusMusic.com ** Check out their software!
- FinaleMusic.com ** And theirs, too!
- Musicdyne.com Free download of Audio/MIDI sequencer, sampler, karaoke plus software!
- Andante Lots of music resources here
- EMusicTheory.com Lots of music theory practice drills. (Free. Requires Java.)
- PianoEducation.org Has reviews of music education software, plus.
- Theory On Tap Free online music theory lessons
- PracticeSpot.com A lot of free online resources, including scales fingering, practice guidelines and even resources for teachers.
- American Music Research Foundation AMRF is a federally registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and promotion of all American musical forms.
- Blues Free Press Online-only blues magazine
- Independent Songwriter Check out their "Music Books Plus"
- Piano Practice Methods Home Pageby Dr. Brent Hugh, Assistant Professor of Piano, Missouri Western State College Department of Music
- Piano Lessons by C. C. Chang This has an entire book online with advice on how to practice piano.
- Virtual Piano Chords Shows you graphically which notes comprise which chords. Enter a number of ways.
- Piano Key Finder A kind of flash cards for pianists. (Java applet)
- Happy Note Computer games that teach music. (Shareware and freeware.)
- Arts Network, Classical, Jazz, Opera, Theater, Ballet, World, etc. Music
- Free Piano Lessons Online! A very good site - starts with the basics, too.
- Player-Care.com - Care for Player Pianos+
- The Transition from Ragtime to Improvised Piano Style
- Outside Shore Music Online School A free jazz improv tutorial, free original sheet music and more.
- Free Piano Lessons Online for the beginner
- Earplane.com Free multi-lingual online ear training as a game! Study alone, or compete with others for high scores!
- Piano Fun - The New School of American Music Some free "One Minute Lessons" (tips, etc.) Offers commercial products, too, including books and audio tapes.
- Music Related Software @Piano Technician's Guild. Has "For Pianist" & "For Technicians"
- ColinDavey.com Articles If it's a history of Boogie Woogie you want, ya just gotta see this!!!
- Free Jazz Piano Lessons! Click the "Lesson Pages" on the top right.
- Keyboard Online Has some cool stuff - check out the Master Class
- Jazz Improvisation at University of Wisconsin Madison Part of their Jazz Improvisation course syllabus!
- Warren Tractman's Ragtime Midi Files He has a few free sheet music downloads, too. (Rotates different selections.) Links to sheet music sources, too.
- Mike Knudsen's Ragtime Music MIDI Linux Ultimuse
- Benjamin Intartaglia's Ragtime Francais
- Harmony Central®: Keyboards and Synths: User Review Database
- Jazz piano teaching materials @piano-pal.com
- Google web directory of jazz pianists
- DMOZ list of jazz pianists
- All About Jazz
- Doctor Jazz Some excellent histories! See his Jelly Roll Morton section! :-)
- Analogue samples - your first choice for free samples on the net
- Chicago Jazz Archive
- Classical & Jazz Musicians @ PrivateLessons.com
- Jan's Music Korner
- A Jazz Improvisation Almanac
- Jazz Institute of Chicago
- KAWAI K4
- Halcyon Days Music - Early American Music from 1900 - 1920 - MIDI files
- MusicWeb (UK) This site has a lot of good musical resources, including some great biographies of musicians, classical CD reviews (posted daily!), bulletin boards, etc.
- Mechanical Music Digest A virtual museum of player pianos, etc. Has sounds, photos, links and info.
- JSynthLib Home Page
- NPR 100: Master List of top 300 Songs
- ReasonStation - Connecting the Reason User Community
- Pegasus' Reason Website
- Reasonfreaks A dedication to the best music software available!
- r a a p i e - links
- Peff.com A lot of Reason stuff, plus
- Sonic State - Synths, Digital Audio, Classifieds, Chat
- Ragtime Music Books Lists which songs each book contains. (Not for sale here.) Be sure to see the main site at:
- Swedish Ragtime Page A lot of information about ragtime.
- Songwriter and Music Copyright Resources
- Music Theory Online - Introduction This is a very impressive resource! I recommend it, even for experienced musicians.
- Free Music Theory Lessons Including chord theory, chord progression, and more.
- Music Dictionary Online - Intro
- Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary Excellent reference - has AIFF (and some midi) samples of the illustrated musical principles - very helpful if you're in doubt!
- Music Dictionary Includes some abbreviations.
- List of music dictionaries I think this needs updating, but still a good resource.
- Music Theory and Orchestration from MusicArrangers.com
- jazztheo.txt
- Piano Nanny - Online lessons for free!
- jazzprimer.pdf
- Perfessor Bill Edwards - Ragtime Resources This site is really cool if you like ragtime music! A Must See!
- Irwin's Ragtime/Stride/Swing/Novelty Midi Web Site by Irwin Schwartz. Has a lot of intersting info about the history of these ragtime derivations!
- Scott Joplin WebRing hub
- Anvil Studio Free MIDI recording software
- User Songs @ ReasonStation
- Music Software for Windows (@Hitsquad.com)
- Boogiewoogie.com Info about contemporary artists. A free service to artists.
- Learning the Code Features a free music introduction book! (GPL!)
- Bluebook of Pianos Self explanatory
- Rhodes Super Site History, manuals for download, etc.
- rec.music.makers.piano newsgroup FAQ Actually has several FAQs linked from this one page, including playing from memory, etc.
- Library of Piano Roll MIDI files
- Organ History Ever wonder how an organ works? This page has that and much more.
- Mechanical Music Digest's Sound Gallery
Groups - Individual musicians
- James P. Johnson Foundation For Music and The Arts
- Wendy Dewitt - The Queen of Boogie Woogie
- Caroline Dahl Boogie woogie originals++
- Jeff Harrington Some interesting original music. Download MP3s and PDF sheet music!
- Fritz Steinegger - Concert Pianist
- Elena Hammel and Dúo Hammel - Sánchez Concert Pianists Elena Hammel and Laura Sánchez
- John Kimura Parker Virtuoso classical pianist
- Ragtime Press (Sue Keller plays a few tunes) 132 ragtime midi files (as of 03/01/03)
- Leslie Bridges - A lot of ragtime and classical downloads from mp3.com
- Aerosmith WWW Site - The Official
- Aerosmith
- Alice's Attic
- Beatles Audio and Sounds Page Index
- Benny Carter Web Site
- Bird and Diz
- Billy Taylor - Jazz Pianist and Educator
- bobdylan.com
- CharlieDaniels.com (Charlie Daniels Band)
- deadradio.com
- Deadshow.com
- Elton John Discography, The Illustrated
- Gaelic Storm
- Gary Wright - The Dream Weaver
- GD David Gans Truth and Fun Inc.
- George Michael
- Glen Campbell Goodtime Show, The
- Grateful Dead Related - For Netheads
- Grateful Dead ® Trivia Game - The Psychedelic Bus of Dead Knowledge(tm)
- Grateful Dead, The Official Home Page of
- Grateful Dead, The
- Instant Karma! Front Page
- Jean Michel Jarre (jeanmicheljarre.com)
- The Mozart Project Life & Times of one of the greats!
- Edgar Winter
- Johny Winter
- Jean-Luc Ponty Official Home Page
- Jerry Garcia 1942-1995
- Jerry Garcia
- John Philip Sousa Home Page, The
- Al Stevens Has free MP3s, free midi accompaniment software and more. (He's written C articles for Dr. Dobb's Journal, too.)
- JOHNCOLTRANE.COM
- Marcy Playground - Welcome
- Pink Floyd
- PINK FLOYD & CO
- The Pink Floyd Archives
- Quincy Jones Music Publishing
- Ray Charles Online!
- Ray Davies Official Web Site
- Rolling Stones Web Site, The
- Spyro Gyra Site (The Official)
- Stanley Clarke One of my favorite contemporary composers!
- Steve Winwood Home Page (The Official)
- supertramp
- The Wailers Official Site
- Will Smith presents Big Willie Style
- AbsoluteMadonna.com - Feels Like Home
- Ozzfest 2002
- Madonnarama · The No.1 Fan Site For Madonna News
- LittleStar - The Madonna Site
- [wherelifebegins]
- Excursion Jazz One of the members is the author of Jazz Hanon
Just music
- Boogie Woogie MP3s and MIDI files collected by Roddy
- Roots & Rhythm Buy rare & popular roots music online. (I don't have very many links to CD vendors, but this one has quite a collection!)
- DigitalPianoReviews.com If you want to add one, e-mail Don: webmaster_at_digitalpianoreviews.com
- MIDI Bar A lot of boogie & blues MIDI FILES
- Norvard Recordings Several sound samples of classical music, including Bach's WTC, Goldberg variations, etc.
- Baseball in Song & Music Midi files for download
- Ragtime Internet Radio Station Check this out! - To promote the Rocky Mountain Ragtime Festival. Plays some early jazz and ragtime related music, too.
- Elite Synchopations Radio Classic Ragtime - 24 hours a day
- Melody Hound Find out what tune is on your mind. What a cool idea.
- Rocky Mountain Ragtime Festival
- Ragtime Favourites @mp3.com
- AllMusic.com A very compeat history and reference of popular music (going back quite a ways!)
- Scott Cushnie's Home Page I was looking for boogie links, and found that Scott used to be in Aerosmith! (Toys in the attic.:-)
- Primeline Ragtime Midi - page 1 638 sequences!
- herbert Harari's MIDI music page Mostly his own recordings of Blues, Jazz, Boogie, Stride, Barrelhouse, Swing and Country!
- CD Universe - Buy Music CDs Online
- EMI
- Fillmore! - Welcome to the
- Harmony Central® Main Menu
- JAZZ Online (tm)
- kissthisguy.com -+- The Archive of Misheard Lyrics
- The MIDI Dump Yellow Page
- MOTOWN Home Page
- MP Music Previews
- NOMA - National Online Music Alliance
- Oldies Music, Ron Smith presents
- Red Hot Jazz Archive, The
- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum
- rockhall.com
- Southern Music Network
- SUBCULTURE - Video Clips
- Theramin
- VH1.com 100 Greatest...
- Wingspan
- Yahoo! Music
- musictalents - online music label
- The Classical MIDI Connection The Baroque Period
- Music Links - Lots of ragtime!
- Styles of Jazz - a map
- John Roache's Ragtime MIDI Library
- Jazz in America
- KSBR Jazz! FM 88.5 @Saddleback College (Mission Viejo) Features live webcast. The Ragtime Show Sunday 8:00 - 10:00 pm.
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