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Music Research Guide

Find Additional Resources Online 


Every single person — and thus every single information need — is unique.  While the Library's catalog, subscription databases + recommended open-access resources, and this Guide are excellent places to start your search / research, it's difficult to generalize or anticipate the full range of questions from, interests within, and necessary resources for the CalArts community (or even the School of Music) as a whole.  Nevertheless, listed below are some notable music-related resources across the web, as well as a selection of research collections found within libraries, archives, and museums which may be of interest.

Hungry for more?  Send your burning questions to the Performing Arts Librarian, Sam Crawford (scrawford@calarts.edu)!

Websites + Blogs

Composition

Composition Today

Living Composers Project

Collection of Contemporary Composers' Websites [New York University]

Heavy Metal

"Exploring Extreme Music and Marginalized Communities" Bibliography [Ursula C. Schwerin Library, New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York (CUNY)]

Jazz + Blues

American Blues Scene

Linked Jazz 

Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque

The Bach Bibliography

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music

Global Chant Database

Music Education + Individual Practice

Guide to Remote Music Education

Resources for Teaching Music and Audio Production Online

SmartMusic

Teaching Music in the Age of COVID-19 [The College Music Society]

Music Reference

MusRef: A Guide to More than 11,000 Print and Internet Music Reference Resources

Music Technology + Apps

KORG iKaossilator for iPhone [KORG]

KORG Kaossilator for Android [KORG]

Minimoog Model D Synthesizer [Moog]

Online Ableton Classes [Elliot Cole, composer]

Using Zoom in "Music Mode" by RAMA Vocal Center [The Royal Academy of Music]

Music Theory

Artusi: Interactive Music Theory

Music Theory Examples By Women

Music Theory Pedagogy Online [Appalachian State University]

Musicals

Broadway World

Ovrtur

Voice / Opera

Appcompanist

The Aria Database

Metropolitan Opera Archives

Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages

Opening Night! Opera and Oratorio Premieres

#Opera Before Instagram: 19th and 20th century photographs of opera singers

Virtually Vocal

Other Sites of Interest

333sound

Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise

Bibliolore: The RILM blog

Sequenza 21: The Contemporary Classical Music Community

Virtual Library of Musicology