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Music WebsitesMusic

Name your musical genre and you will probably find it. Whether your looking for sheet music, lyrics, musician and song writer profiles, or information on the history of music, it is all just a key stroke away!

Music (General):

Country Music Television
Official site for the TV network. Includes broadcast schedule, video and audio jukebox, artist news and profiles, tour dates, contests, and a hall of fame.

Music Critic.com
This is the source for music reviews. Locate reviews on rock, pop, urban, electronic, jazz/classical and country music

Music Search.com
One of the most comprehensive music directories on the Internet. Over 20,000 music reviews are available. Includes sheet music and music news.

MTV: Music Television
Popular music news, reviews, videos, downloads, concert information and show times.

Rolling Stone
Locate information on artists, new, reviews, photos and videos.

Song Facts
This is where you can learn about the songs you listen to. Song Meanings, Lyrics and Trivia.

Ultimate Band List
Ultimate Band List, serving up Web links to music information since 1994, is back and better than ever. Browse hundreds of thousands of links, or add your own. Search for artists, locate concert information, locate music promoters, record labels, radio stations and search engines for music.

University Music Programs
L
inks to university music programs throughout the world.  

VH1: Artist Search
Browse for biographical information and songs from your favorite musical artists using this page.
Additional links to news, concerts, videos and show times.

Yahoo Entertainment - Music
Check out Music videos, radio, artists, and more on LAUNCH, Music on Yahoo! Locate music by artist, genre, region or type of instrument.

World Wide Web Internet Music Resources
This index of music websites is hosted by the Indiana University School of Music. Locate information on individual artists, musical genres, classical music, group ensembles, music reviews, composers and composition, research, study and the history of music, the commercial world of music and journals and magazines.

History of Music:

100 Most Important American Musical Works of the 20th Century
List developed by National Public Radio - All Things Considered. These special features cover music from a wide variety of genres -- classical, jazz, rock'n'roll, country, R&B, musical theatre and film scores.

All Music
Locate music by artist, style, song title or label. The Music Maps tool allows you to trace the roots of music. The Music Glossary is useful for locating terms of art. Genres include classical, rock, country, jazz, new age, world, folk, blue grass, rap, reggae, blues, vocal, gospel and easy listening.

Billboard.com
This day in music hi
story trivia. Also locate information on artists, musical charts and music reviews.

Classical Net
Useful site for locating classical music. The search engine allows you to run a keyword search for reviews and articles, books and scores or websites. The Composer index contains biographies, recommended works, recommended recordings, and other related reviews and articles for various artists.

Country Music Hall of Fame
The History of Country Music.

Grammy Award Search
GRAMMY Search database lets you find GRAMMY winners by name of the award recipient, by categories within a genre, by year, by title of work and/or by the artist performing the work. With the exception of the category field, which requires that you first select a genre, you may use as few or as many of the available search fields.

History of Country Music
This exhibit looks at some of the influential artists and songs of the late 1920's through the year 2000, era by era. Included are numerous rare images, sound clips, and digital movies.

List Of The Best
A comprehensive list of websites which rate the most famous musical hits for different genres.

Music History
A
guide to western composers and their music from the middle ages to the present.

Music Notes
This is an excellent resource for learning about music theory, styles and musical instruments. The Music History page maps the development of music from the Medieval Era through the 20th century.

Passion For Jazz
The Hist
ory of Jazz. Learn the originas of Jazz, history of the music and improvisation theories.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
An interactive, animated compendium of rock and popular music history. Discover unexpected connections between artists. Track the growth of a musical movement. Zoom in on the day the Beatles invaded America, or out to a bird's-eye view of the blues' sweeping influence. It's all here.

Tinfoil.com
Explore the history of early recorded sounds on phonographs and wax
cylinder records on this site.

Instruments: Learn about different musical instruments.

Instrument Encyclopedia
This site
shows instruments from a wide variety of different cultures, performance contexts and structural materials relate to one another. Learn about instruments in general; they are arranged by four major instrument types: Percussion, String, Wind, and Electronic. You can also browse by country of origin. Start your search by selecting a continent of interest on a clickable world map

Making Music
Making Music is an online Musical Instrument Encyclopedia, providing a description, an image and a sound clip per instrument. Listen to what different instruments sound like.

Sheet Music: If you are looking for sheet music, these sites are a great place to begin your search.

Free Sheet Music.net
To find free sheet music , select Category to locate by musical instrument (ex: Piano Sheet Music ) or musical genre.

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain.

Sheet Music Direct
The Internet's largest source of legitimate, copyrighted 100% digital sheet music since 1997, we now have over 10,000 songs for instant download! Available for secure purchase on-line and delivered in seconds direct to your PC or Mac printer.

Song Lyrics: Locate the words to your favorite songs using these websites.

A to Z Lyrics Universe
Browse for lyrics by artists by using the alphabetical search or enter artist/album/song to search lyrics for using a keyword search.

Lyrics.com
Music for your head! Search for song lyrics by various artists using the alphabetical listing.

Lyrics Search Engine
Run a keyword search using artist name or song title to locate lyrics.

Lyrics World
Type the name of a song or an artist to locate lyrics.

Mojo's Musical Mouseum
Locate lyrics to children's music and play the songs.

Song Lyrics Search Engine
Search engines specializing in the collection of song lyrics by artist, album, and song.