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| Click Here To | Site Description | Find a Music Teacher
| This site contains detailed listings for over 14,000 music teachers- -perhaps in your area. Use the MusicStaff.com music teacher search to locate a teacher near you. Then compare education, background, specialties, and even read personal statements to ensure that the teacher you choose is truly the "right" one for you. | Find a Music Teacher (this is a different site)
| This site contains listings of teachers of almost every instrument, by state, country, by name, and by instrument. These listings are provided by the teachers themselves. | | Listen to Symphonic Instruments | Choose a family of instruments, then read a description of each one. Click on the image of an instrument to hear how it sounds! | | Learn to Read Music | Here is a set of pages presenting the most important topics in reading music in a very easy-to-understand way. | | Learn Musical Intervals | The Musical Intervals Tutor is a study aid to help you learn the sounds of the basic music intervals from minor second to perfect octave. | | Learn a Little Bit About Some Popular Genres of Music | The Data Dragon genre sampler takes you on a tour of some of the more popular musical genres by first giving a general overview and then by listing well-known musicians and a sound sample. Genres include Jazz, Rock, Classical, Reggae, Celtic, Country, and Blues. | | Learn About the Physics of Sound and Musical Instruments | Part of an overall site devoted to practical aspects and explanations of physics, this site is an excellent way to explore the physics of sound, as applied to and by musical instruments. Learn as much or as little as you wish! | | Learn About the Blues | Clicking here will take you to The Blues Classroom, which is part of The Blues educational outreach campaign, created by Experience Music Project. Explore The Blues Classroom for information on the blues as a musical form and on using the educational materials in your school. Lessons are available in PDF format, and the online versions offer links to news articles and sound files. You can also purchase these materials by following the appropriate links. | | Learn About Lots of Weird Instruments | Clicking here will take you to OddMusic.com. Oddmusic provides a space where instrument makers, artists, and musicians can showcase their inventions and creations. It also provides links to other interesting sound and music sites that offer a wealth of information and sound oriented content. | | Learn About All Types of Plucked Instruments | Clicking here will take you to the Atlas of Plucked Instruments. This atlas is an encyclopedia of all the world's plucked instruments like lutes, guitars, banjos, and mandolins. It is based on a large private collection of plucked stringed musical instruments (plus additional material from books and websites). The atlas gives you information about almost all the different plucked instruments that are still in use. | | Learn About Music Theory | Clicking here will take you to a page on Gilbert DeBenedetti's G Major Music Theory site where you can download workbooks to help you learn the elements of music theory. Each workbook is a PDF file. | Learn About Music Theory
| Clicking here will take you to Ricci Adams MusicTheory.net. Here you will find online lessons on many aspects of music theory; "trainers" for learning keys, notes, and intervals; and utilities (for example, a chord calculator, and a staff-paper generator). This is more complex than the previous site, and you will need a recent version of Macromedia Flash Player to use it effectively.
| | Develop your musical skills | Clicking here will take you to the Welcome Page of iBreatheMusic.com. iBreatheMusic.com is a place for established and aspiring musicians who want honest, quality instruction and a casual point of contact where they can interact and develop their skills with like minded people. There are lots of articles on general topics, like creativity, practicing, and improvisation, as well as techniques. | | Take Free Online Lessons (Banjo, Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, Saxophone, Violin/Fiddle) | Clicking here will take you to MusicMoose.org. You may have to register, but it's free, as are the lessons. Beginner and intermediate lessons are available, and at least one advanced banjo lesson. | | Learn About Alternate Tunings for Guitars and Other Stringed Instruments | Clicking here will take you to William Sethares's Alternate Tuning Guide page, where you can just look at or download several different alternate tuning guides. | | Learn How to Finger Almost Any Woodwind Instrument | Clicking here will take you to the Woodwind Fingering Guide, where you will find fingering charts for basic, alternate quarter-tone, trill, tremolo, flatement, and multiphonic fingerings for flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones, bassons, recorders, tin whistles, charanga flutes, Irish Uilleann pipes, shakuhachi flutes, and sarrusophones! |
Sites with Songs and Music
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Music Viva
| Music Viva calls itself the "The internet center for free sheet music downloads and more". Sheet music for lots of different instruments is available, and they are indexed by degree of difficulty. For a small membership fee, you can gain the ability to download the music (sound files) or high-resolution prints.
| | Cyber Hymnal | This site has over 5,900 Christian hymns & Gospel songs from many denominations. You’ll find lyrics, scores, MIDI files, pictures, and history, among other things. To use the site effectively, you’ll need speakers, a sound card, and a browser that supports JavaScript and XHTML, and can play MIDI files. | | Oremus Hymnal | This online hymnal contains texts and MIDI files of tunes used in much of the English-speaking world, with particular emphasis on the Anglican tradition. Currently, fifty-two Anglican hymnals from the past 140 years have been indexed. These 52 hymnals contain nearly seven thousand distinct texts and over eighteen thousand text/tune combinations. | | The Mudcat Cafe and Digital Tradition Database (If this link in inactive, try the mirror site below) | The Digital Tradition Database contains about 9000 folk songs. In the Forum, you can ask questions, and view message threads about all kinds of folk-music esoterica. | | Mirror Site of the Digital Tradition, with Music and Sound Files | The Digital Tradition site above contains only words to the songs. The site-meister of this site has added sound files, guitar and dulcimer tablature, and scores for many of the songs. | | Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America | This site contains lyrics, midi files, and information about the tunes and history of many Irish, British, and American folkshongs and ballads, with links to other interesting sites. Hosted by Lesley Nelson-Burns. | | Robokopp | This site contains lyrics and midi files of many American, British, Irish, German, Austrian, and French folk songs and ballads. There are also collections of hymns, sea songs, labor songs, war songs, and drinking songs (all are indexed). This site is "temporarily not maintained," but contains a lot of valuable material. | | Sheet Music From Canada's Past | This site is a source of sheet music published in Canada before 1921, selected from Library and Archives Canada's historical collection. | | 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. |
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