Research and Reference Tools

Chicago Dance & Music Alliance
Chicago's directory of community dance and music organizations, including a guide of Chicago area performances.

Classical Net
Classical Net is a comprehensive site for the classical music aficionado. It includes a classical CD buying guide, recommended classical CDs, composer data, reviews & articles, as well as other classical music links.

World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Classical Music
This is the Classical Music Library, courtesy of the computer resources of Georgetown Preparatory School. Contains biographical, reference and review information.

Classical Search
The gateway to the World of Classical Music on the Internet.

Music & Audio Connection
Offers good links to music education organizations and programs and includes a lengthy list of musical associations.

Meet The Composer
This site includes a good list of links to composer biographies and web sites.

The Film and TV Music Site
This site has comprehensive information concerning music in film and television.

Community Band and Orchestra List
List of nearly 400 community bands and orchestras.

Association of British Orchestras
A list with links to members of the Association of British Orchestras.

Library of Congress Music Division
Browse the special music collections of the Library of Congress. You can search through the entire music inventory of the library.

Arts Wire
"Online Communications for the Arts" Arts Wire is a communications network for the arts community that has, at its core, the strong voices of artists and community-based cultural groups.

Concerning Intruments

Violink
This site includes nearly 3,500 resources for stringed instruments and is hosted from Cremona, Italy, the heart of the violinmaking tradition.

Maestronet
Within their Instrument Showroom and Conservatory, Maestronet offers the classical music community two complimentary services.

The Way Famous String Instruments Went
History of Stradivari instruments.

Online Publications

New Music Box
Monthly web magazine from the American Music Center with thought-provoking articles.

Musical America
Online version of the essential, information-packed music industry annual.

Classics Today
Web magazine that offers daily CD reviews and news updates from the classical music world.

Stagebill
Guide to what other orchestras around the country are programming.

Classical Music Retail Sites

amazon.com
Doesn't treat classical music like a second class citizen. Includes articles, reviews, orchestra schedules, and even live performances

musicmaker.com
They have a classical section that lets you mix and match short tracks as you like, then buy the disc online.

New World Records
This label is dedicated to recording music of American composers that would otherwise not be represented.

For the Young at Heart

www.playmusic.org
American Symphony Orchestra League's website for childeren advocating music.

Kidzone
The New York Philharmonic's colorful children's website.

Creating Music
Morton Subotnick's web site is like a musical sandbox where visitors can experiment with musical phrases and melodies.

Other Interesting Music Sites

Drum Corps International (DCI)
DCI is a non-profit youth organization servicing the world's junior drum and bugle corps and related activities. It's way cool!

American Symphony Orchestra League
The American Symphony Orchestra League, founded in 1942 and chartered by Congress in 1962, provides leadership and service to American orchestras while communicating to the American public the value and importance of orchestras and the music they perform.

newmusicnow.org
American Symphony Orchestra League's new-music web site. Dedicated to American orchestral music of the last three decades.

20/21
Deutsche Grammophon site devoted to "music of our time" including a timeline of recent information on DG's contemporary classical recordings.

National Endowment for the Arts
Website for the federally sponsored National Endowment for the Arts.

The Foundation Center
Excellent resource for grants and other funding issues.

Instrumental Joke List
Collection of music instrument jokes.