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Keeping it Peel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/
A microsite of BBC Radio 1, this resource provides information about the journalist and radio presenter, John Peel (1939-2004). It includes a biography and sections on the Peel Sessions, which can be browsed by decade and artist, and the Festive 50's, which can be browsed by decade. There is also an Artists A-Z, which provides information about some of the artists that Peel championed, and a section about Peel at Glastonbury. The 'fansites' area includes links to John Peel related sites. Also included is a tributes page, as well as a number of picture galleries. The website was last updated September 2007 and has been left on the site for reference purposes.
Added: 2010-02-06More details
Monodie dell'antica provincia aquileiese (Mapaq)
http://mapaq.units.it/
This website publishes a database of pictures and transcriptions of ancient manuscripts (originating in the first centuries AD) conserved in northeastern Italy and coming from the archives of Aquileia, an important Roman colony and later Christian patriarchate. The ancient musical format of the "monodia" (chanted lament) resisted later influences in the area and became typical of the Christian tradition of the area. The manuscripts that have been made available are all Late Antiquity / Early Medieval volumes with Christian texts and music used for liturgical celebrations. The website is in Italian, and at the time of review it was largely incomplete and being updated. However, the pictures of some full manuscripts are already available and researchers interested in these manuscripts may find them useful, along with bibliographic references and some texts. In particular, some miniatures, liturgical texts and musical notations may be useful to researchers in the fields of history of music; art and religious studies.
Added: 2010-01-31More details
Backdoor broadcasting company
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net
Backdoor Broadcasting Company is an online broadcast provider to the internet worldwide and locally to its homebase of Oxford, United Kingdom. Upon invitation to an event, the Company records the proceedings and makes them available. It offers two services: the Academic Service, which broadcasts academic conferences, symposia, public lectures and workshops in order to provide widespread access to academic research. The Sound Experiment records novel experimental music, sound art and sonic events and similarly offers them for public consumption. The Academic Service archive presents many recorded lectures that will be of interest to researchers in religion, history, philosophy and comparative literature, among other diverse fields. Several align with current debates around religious issues in international affairs and cultural studies connected to marginalized groups and perspectives.
Added: 2010-01-31More details
MIC : [Music Information Centre Norway]
http://www.mic.no/english
This is the website of the Music Information Centre - Norway. The website is available in both English and Norwegian. The Music Information Centre - Norway was established in 1979. The organisation has a number of aims and activities that include promoting Norwegian music and musicians both throughout Norway and internationally, acting as a central agency for the collaboration of the performance and composition of Norwegian music, maintaining a library of around 7,000 manuscripts of Norwegian music, acting as a music publisher, producing news about Norwegian music and acting as consultants for external agencies on Norwegian music. The website of the Music Information Centre - Norway is divided into a number of sections that deal with different genres: world/folk/ethnic; jazz; classical/contemporary; rock/pop/electronica. The website also provides an archive of news that has been previously posted to the site, a directory of people and other organisations that are connected with Norwegian music, a catalogue of music, and download section that provides Music Information Centre - Norway recordings: these are available to purchase. Although most of the site is available in English, a small number of sections are only available in Norwegian. The Music Information Centre - Norway is part of the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC).
Added: 2009-12-29More details
Musicfinland.com : Arctic paradise
http://www.musicfinland.com/arctic/index.html
Part of the Musicfinland.com website, Musicfinland.com: Arctic paradise presents information about contemporary Finnish music as well as Finnish folk music.The website includes a news section, although this is currently under construction, a links section with annotated links to external sources that include Finnish musical artists' homepages and the homepages of musical ensembles, and a selection of links to Finnish contemporary and folk music festivals. The website also provides a number of audio samples taken from a variety of Finnish contemporary and folk music recordings, for which software is required: a link to a source of further recordings has also been provided. The website is available in English.
Added: 2009-12-29More details
SAM : SAMusic.co.za
http://www.samusic.co.za/
SAM: SAMusic.co.za is a website that is devoted to South African music. Available in English with a number of sections also in Afrikaans, the website presents information and news about South African music, from classical music performances to folk music groups and South African popular music. News articles are provided among other pieces of information. The website has a number of sections, all connected with South African music, including a section for junior musicians, a page dedicated to the music business that includes competition reports and details of competition winners and a section on musical festivals that are taking place throughout South Africa. There are also sections dedicated to more general aspects of arts, writing film and television and South African lifestyle. The website also includes a classifieds section, an event guide and a number of forums, for which free registration is required to take part.
Added: 2009-12-29More details
Musicfinland.com : classical
http://www.musicfinland.com/classical/index.html
Musicfinland.com: classical is a website devoted to Finnish classical music, hosting websites for Finnish orchestras, performing artists and general information about Finnish orchestral music, among other activities. For each orchestra and artist in the relevant sections, a brief annotation to the link is supplied. The website also provides links to other website connected with Finnish classical music. Besides this, the website also hosts the magazine Finnish Music Quarterly (FMQ), a magazine that is dedicated to all aspects of Finnish musical culture since 1985. FMQ provides much of the information in the artists and orchestras section. Most of the website is available in English, with a number of sections also available in Finnish.
Added: 2009-12-29More details
Ethnomusicology research program
http://www2.ucy.ac.cy/research/ethno/
This is the website of the Ethnomusicology Research Program, the first music research programme to be instituted by the University of Cyprus, where the programme is still based. It was established in 1997, its aim to "systematically collect, record, and study the musical-poetic traditions, created by the different main social groups of Cyprus society". This collation has resulted in the archiving and preservation of a variety of audiovisual and other materials, including nearly 100 tapes with songs and poems, reel-to-reel tapes, a number of video recordings, transcriptions and scores and a number of CD recordings. The contents of the archive will be made available via a searchable database on the website: entries will be detailed and aim to assist ethnomusicology scholars in their studies. The database is a work in progress. The website also includes a selection of links to further sources of information that are related to ethnomusicology and music research in general.
Added: 2009-12-29More details
Classical Organs Cornwall
http://classicalorganscornwall.co.uk/
This is the website of Classical Organs Cornwall, a company of organ builders based in St Austell, Cornwall. Classical Organs provides a number of models of organ, details of which, including prices and how long it will take on average to build an instrument, are available on the website. Also provided are full specifications for all the models that are available including number of manuals, stops and dimensions. The website also includes audio samples of works that have been performed on their organs, for which software is required.
Added: 2009-12-29More details
Ethio jazz
http://www.ethiojazz.com/
Ethio jazz was founded by jazz musician, arranger and composer Mulatu Astatke. Born in Ethiopia, Astatke studied music in both the United States of American and in the United Kingdom. During his musical career he he performed on vibraphone, conga and other items of percussion in a number of notable locations, including the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC, the Lincoln Centre in New York, Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany, and Barbican Centre in London. Ethio jazz is described by Astatke as creating jazz music that is a mixture of American and African musical influences. The website provides a brief introduction to Astatke himself; the main bulk of the information provided by the website is available in the "News" section that includes interviews with Astatke and a five-part introduction to his jazz music and musical influences. Also included on the website is a download section that allows visitors to download the Ethio jazz album, as well as listen to preview tracks from the album, for which software is required.
Added: 2009-12-27More details
Neal's historical classical recordings corner
http://nealshistoricalcorner.blogspot.com/
Neal's historical classical recordings corner is a blog that has been in existence since 2008. The blog is authored by a Texan musicians known only as 'Neal'. Neal's main musical interests, aside from being a pianist, are collecting and listening to musical recordings: it is this activity that forms the basis for the majority of Neal's blog posts. For example, previous posts have included discussions about a remastered version of a 1952 recording of some suites by the Russian composer Alexander Borodin. Neal provides a track listing, and discusses the quality of the recording, from both a musical and a technical point of view. In other posts, Neal discusses musical ensembles, individual performing artists and conductors. A number of links to external sources of interest have also been provided. In addition, visitors to the blog are welcome to comment on posts, resulting in further discussions of the issues raised.
Added: 2009-12-27More details
1807 commemorated
http://www.york.ac.uk/1807commemorated/
This website, from the 1807 Commemorated Project, at the University of York, and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, provides a 'resource website for museum practitioners, consultants, outreach officers and all those with an interest in, or connection to, the heritage sector in Britain'. The website aims to 'ensure that future policies and practices within museums, libraries and archives are shaped and informed by the experiences of museum staff, consultants, communities and audiences who engaged with the marking of the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade'. The website contains information and suggestions for developing exhibitions, working with the communities in which the museums are situated, and the roles of curators. The website is easily navigated and simply designed and aims to make the process of collection-building, presentation and preservation a more academic and rigorous process.
Added: 2009-12-03More details
Joseph Haydn-Institut
http://www.haydn-institut.de/
Available in German only, this is the website of the Joseph Haydn-Institut, which was founded in Cologne, Germany in 1955. The main purpose of the institute was to compile and publish the complete works of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). It also commissions a comprehensive bibliography on Haydn, which is published by G. Henle Verlag in Munich. The institute's library contains a source card index, and original scores and manuscripts. The website provides information about the institute's publications under 'Haydn-Studien'. Details about the bibliography is also provided. This is an invaluable source of information for anyone involved in the study of Haydn.
Added: 2009-11-27More details
Traditional music library
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/
This is the website of the Traditional music library, a searchable online resource presenting lyrics, sheet music, tablature and audio samples of traditional and folk music. The entries that are presented by the website have been split into a number of sections relating to the type of traditional or folk music they represent, so there are sections for childrens' music and nursery rhymes, traditional music related to America, music that can be considered Christian in nature, a section of song finders and traditional dance music. In addition, there are sections containing material related to music education such as manuals and articles and a section described as reference works that includes standard works that are studied during the course of typical music instruction. Within each section, presented as a series of lists in the main menu part of the website, there is information about that formats each of the entries is available in. The songs included in the website are presented in a variety of ways: for some, only lyrics are available; for others, sheet music is available, and wherever possible, audio versions of the songs are also available. Software is required.
Added: 2009-11-25More details
Choir and organ magazine
http://www.rhinegold.co.uk/magazines/choir_and_organ/
This is the website for Choir and organ magazine, a journal that is aimed at all those interested in choral and organ music, from professional musicians and instrument builders to amateurs and those who simply enjoy listening to organ and choral music. The magazine is available in print every two months; this website, however, offers supplementary information, sample articles and news. The news section provides brief news items related to organ and choral music, such as news of instrument restoration and performances. The "Features and reviews" section provides further stories, as well as downloadable organ specifications in PDF format for which software is required. Sample articles are also available in PDF format. The website also provides free access to the job listings that are published in the printed journal.
Added: 2009-11-20More details
Guitarmaker
http://www.guitarmaker.org/
This is the website of Guitarmaker, the journal of the Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans (ASIA). ASIA was founded in 1988, after a group of stringed instrument makers joined together with the idea of creating a not-for-profit organisation that would look after the needs of stringed instrument makers as well as providing them with a community. Through this website it is possible to join ASIA, as well as accessing details of back issues of Guitarmaker itself. The website also includes a forum where members of ASIA can discuss all issues relating to the making and repair of stringed instruments. Although the title of the journal would suggest that the main area of concern for both ASIA and Guitarmaker is the guitar, ASIA covers all types of stringed instruments, a fact that is reflected by the journal.
Added: 2009-11-20More details
Early English Church Music
http://www.eecm.net/
Early English Church Music is a series of printed music that is published by Stainer and Bell on behalf of the British Academy. The series has two main aims: to make available music that was performed in churches from Anglo-Saxon times to 1660, and to ensure that that printed music is both easy to use and of scholarly credibility. As well as well-known composers of the era such as Thomas Tallis and John Taverner, the series also presents works by lesser-known composers of the period as well as several works by anonymous composers. The sheet music can be ordered via the site, which is sent by e-mail on receipt of payment. Previews of each of the works are also available on the site in PDF format. Software is required.
Added: 2009-11-20More details
Lute Society of America
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/index.html
This is the website of the Lute Society of America (LSA), an organisation that was founded in 1966 to cater for the needs of all those interested in the lute and its music, from lute scholars and professional lutenists to amateur musicians and those who enjoy listening to lute music. The website provides details on how to join the organisation, as well as information about lutes and lute music: follow the links in the "About LSA" section. Also listed by the site are details of the annual Lute Society of America seminars along with a images from previous seminars. The site also provides details of LSA's publications along with abstracts and information about how to get hold of the publications. Besides this, the website provides a number of free downloads on lute-related matters such as blank tablature templates, instructional material and fingering charts. These downloads are available in PDF format for which software is required. The site also presents an annotated list of LSA's various projects and links to further sources of information.
Added: 2009-11-19More details
Music and science online
http://www.science.rcm.ac.uk/Science/Home
Produced in collaboration with the Royal College of Music (RCM) and the Institute of Musical Research at the University of London, the Music and Science Online website is an online resource that aims to provide information for those who are researching topics that cross the boundaries between music and science. Visitors to the site are invited to register and contact the website administrators if they feel that any additional information could be added to the resource. Registration is free. The website provides details of forthcoming conference that relate to the study of music and science, with links to the conference websites and along with contact details, an alphabetised list of links to relevant societies and other external sources of information, a list of relevant journals and a list of research groups and departments that may be of interest.
Added: 2009-11-19More details
iDIDJ Australia : Australian digeridoo cultural hub
http://www.ididj.com.au/
This is the website of iDIDJ: Australian didgeridoo cultural hub, a website that presents information about an instrument that is closely linked with the musical and cultural heritage of Australia: the didgeridoo. Besides this, the didgeridoo is also an extremely important componenet of the cultural heritage of Australian Aboriginal groups from northern Australia, a component that has been described as an "intangible cultural heritage". Scroll down the first page of the website to enter the rest of the site. The website provides information on what is an authentic didgeridoo and what is not, an online exhibition of didgeridoos that is browseable by region of Australia and provides details of maker (if known), key and dimensions. In addition, the website also provides a "Didgeridoo detective" service - in the "Authenticity" section - that allows people to enter details of sellers of questionable instruments for further investigation. The "Education" section includes discussions of techniques, news about didgeridoo playing and a link to the iDIDJ download hub, where there are videos of didgeridoo performances. Software is required. The website also includes a calendar of didgeridoo-related events.
Added: 2009-11-17More details
Canberra Symphony Orchestra
http://www.cso.org.au/
This is the website of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, a professional symphony orchestra that was founded in 1950. Originally known as the Canberra Orchestral Society, the orchestra has grown into a large organisation with well-regarded musicians forming the body of the ensemble. The website of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra presents a history of the organisation that includes information about all of the conductors that have been associated with the orchestra since its beginnings, news of forthcoming concerts and events and a downloadable season brochure in PDF format, for which software is required. The website also includes details of the youth music programmes that the Canberra Symphony Orchestra runs. Included in this section is information about Symphony for Kids, an annual event designed to make orchestral music more accessible for children.
Added: 2009-11-14More details
Earlyflute
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/earlyflute/
This is the homepage of the Earlyflute mailing list, a e-mail based mailing list for all those interested in early flutes, defined by the mailing list as pre-Boehm instruments. Postings are invited from those interested in Renaissance, Baroque or Classical instruments and flute music, in a range of topics that include the history of the instruments, performing or making the instruments. It is expected that potential members of the Earlyflute mailing list will have an interest in early flutes and early flute music; the list owners specify that they would like to know a little about each potential member and their musical interests. Previos postings to the searchable mailing list have included links to photographs of early flutes, components of early flutes, how to deal with problems that occur in early flutes, types of wood used to make reproduction early flutes, performances on early flutes and discussions of pitch. There are a number of members only areas of the website, for which registration is required.
Added: 2009-11-14More details
AHRC workshop series : processes of devising composed theatre
http://www.spa.exeter.ac.uk/drama/staffsite/roesner/projects/workshop/welcome.sh
This website forms part of David Roesner’s Exeter University page. David Roesner is a senior lecturer in drama with a research interest in experimental music-theatre and the musicality of theatrical performance. The website records the research programme workshops 'Processes of Devising Composed Theatre', and gives insight into the proceedings and outcomes of two workshop meetings of practitioners and scholars, who create and analyse Composed Theatre - Theatre, which is created on the basis of musical principles and concepts. The main leaders of the project are David Roesner (University of Exeter) and Matthias Rebstock (Hildesheim University in Germany). The workshops took place in April and May 2009. The website contains the following sections: the research context, the workshop series, research questions, aims and objectives, organisation, participants, dissemination and exploitation and timetable.
Added: 2009-11-06More details
Virtual library of musicology
http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/vifamusik_e/index.php?pcontent=startseite
This website, available in English and German, is the Virtual library of musicology, a project funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) that begn life in 2005. The aim of the project was to create a single point of entry to access mostly German websites, databases and digitised material that is related to musicology. A number of sources are available, including Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums Online (Bibliography of Music Literature Online), the musicology section of the Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (Digital Journal Library, an electronic journals service that has a scientific emphasis) and resources that are available via the Internet. The searchable database that the Virtual library of musicology provides also gives access to resources related to scholarly musicological communication, conference reports and details of dissertations that have been produced at German universities.
Added: 2009-10-26More details
Louisiana State Museum jazz collection
http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/index_JAZ.php?CISOROOT=%2FJAZ
This is the website of the Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection, a collection of jazz-related items that has been partially digitised and made available via this website. The collection contains photographs, recordings and instruments. The primary focus for the collection is music in New Orleans, in particular the collection's photographs of jazz musician Louis Armstrong. The digitized collection is being added to frequently, so the amount of material that is available digitally is growing. It is possible to browse the collection by creator, subject and title. each record within the digitised collection provides details of the origin of the piece, information about the item, and if any part of the item is available digitally, the digitised item itself.
Added: 2009-10-26More details
Swedish bagpipes
http://olle.gallmo.se/sackpipa/music.php?lang=en
This website, available in English, Russian and Swedish, is concerned with Swedish bagpipes, an instrument that is little-known in Sweden but has nonetheless appeared in church imagery in Sweden from the 14th century. Although there is no wealth of knowledge concerning bagpipes in Sweden from this time through the centuries, the last known piper was still active in the 1940s. The website presents a history of the bagpipe in Sweden, an explanation of the Swedish bagpipe revival that took place from the 1940s, information on how the instruments are constructed and extensions that can be used on the instruments, information about reeds, reed-making and how to care for the instruments. In addition, the website includes details of the sorts of music played on Swedish bagpipes that includes videos of bagpipes being played, for which software is required along with MP3 files of music and a number of scores in GIF format; a section on tunes suitable for beginners is also available. The website also includes links to further sources of information.
Added: 2009-10-26More details
Afropop worldwide
http://www.afropop.org/
Afropop Worldwide was launched in 1988, and since then has evolved into a website, radio station, database and archive with a team of specialist researchers. Its aim to connect the world with African popular music, described by the website as Afropop. In addition, it aims to raise awareness of the music and musicians of Africa. The website for Afropop Worldwide makes available the Afropop Worldwide radio stations, of which there are a number all over the United States, as well as programme listings and a number of podcasts, for which software is required. Information about artists is available, and there is also information about country, region and the musical styles that can be found throughout Africa. The "Archives" section includes articles on African pop music themes, as well as exploring some aspects of African culture. There is information about forthcoming African music events, as well as related links to external sources.
Added: 2009-10-26More details
Some music from morris dancing
http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/morris/music/music.html
This website, compiled by Steve Allen, a member of staff at the University of California Observatories, brings together information about Morris dance music and the traditions behind Morris dancing. The emphasis for the site is Morris dancing in England, but also looks at Morris dancing in the United States. In particular, it provides renderings of Morris dance tunes in something that is known as abc format, a means of writing down music without using traditional musical notation. The way this format of notation works is explained by the site. The website presents section on how Morris music has been portrayed on the Internet and includes a library of Morris tunes. This library of tunes - all in abc format - takes the form of an alphabetised list arranged according to the area of the United Kingdom where the particular tune can be heard.
Added: 2009-10-26More details
Asian music
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/journals/jam.html
This is the website for Asian music, the journal of the Society for Asian Music. This peer-reviewed journal is once every two years and publishes articles on all aspects of Asian music. This website provides access to tables of contents for the journal back to its first issue in 1969; electronic copies of the journal are available via an external source. Details of how to get hold of electronic copies, as well as subscribe to the journal are available via the website. Topics that have been covered by the journal in the past have included elements of world music, traditional music performed by groups of people of a specific location, musical ensembles, compositions that feature traditional dance tunes, Chinese music, Egyptian music, Arab oral traditions, politics in musical culture and jazz influences in Asian music. The journal also includes book reviews, details of which are included in the tables of contents.
Added: 2009-10-26More details
Lachert Foundation
http://www.lachertfoundation.eu/
This is the website of the Lachert Foundation, an organisation that was founded in Brussels in 2007 to promote the work of musician Piotr de Peslin Lachert. Born in 1938, Lachert is a composer, pianist, chamber musician, performer, director, producer, actor, writer, poet, music journalist and professor who has engaged in a musical career all over the world. The website provides details of Lachert himself, including a biography and timeline of his musical career that includes a list of compositions as well as a catalogue of compositions that is arranged by genre. There are also details of Lachert's recordings, along with a number of audio samples, for which software is required. A selection of Lachert's writings in their original languages is also available, and there are details of the students that have studied under him. In addition, the website includes a selection of links to external resources, including the main publishers for Lachert's compositions.
Added: 2009-10-26More details
Papal patronage and the music of St Peter's, 1380-1513
http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft4199n91h;query=;brand=ucpress
"Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513" is an e-book by Christopher A. Reynolds. First published in 1996, this e-book is freely available on the University of California Press's eScholarship Editions platform. The book is divided into three parts, each covering one aspect of music at St. Peter's cathedral: part one looks at the musicians; part two discusses masses, including the various elements of the mass; and part three looks at the relationship between the polyphonic music produced at St. Peter's and cultural influences at the time. The chapters of the book deal with aspects of the music such as the musicians, the organs and the papacies that were completed during the period of time that is covered by the e-book. In addition, the book also explores the musicians of the time, the influences of polyphony and discussions about archival material relating to the music of St. Peter's.
Added: 2009-10-26More details
International Native American and World Flute Association
http://worldflutes.org/
This is the website of the International Native American and World Flute Association (INAWFA), an organisation that aims to educate and support the music, appreciation, preservation and understanding of the Native American flute along with other international flute traditions. INAWFA's website presents information about the activities of the organisation, that include regular conventions that take place in the United States, a quarterly raffle where entrants can win a flute and details of the audio-visual archives of INAWFA, which are held by the Music Library in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music at Kent State University, Ohio. The website also includes details on how to join INAWFA, there is information about 'Voice of wind', INAWFA's official publication; a sample article from the journal is provided. The website also presents details of INAWFA's educational outreach programmes, including Native American flute events and flute communities,
Added: 2009-10-18More details
Dancecult : journal of electronic dance music culture
http://dj.dancecult.net/index.php/journal/index
Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture is a full-text interdisciplinary ejournal. At October 2009 there is one issue (Fall 2009) freely available online. Peer-reviewed articles are offered in HTML or PDF formats, and are published under a Creative Commons licence. Example article titles in the first issue include: 'Neotrance and the Psychedelic Festival'; 'DJ Culture in the Commercial Sydney Dance Music Scene'; and 'The Treatment of Cultural and Musical Norms by Intelligent Dance Music', among others. The first issue also contains a 'From the Floor' section containing shorter opinion articles, and a useful Reviews section. The website contains details of the editorial team, and the submissions process. This ejournal is a valuable new addition to the range of musicology publications in contemporary electronic dance music.
Added: 2009-10-06More details
Pitt Rivers Museum catalogue of musical instruments
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/pittrivers.htm
Held for preservation purposes by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) as part of the AHDS Performing Arts collections, this Web page describes the database of musical instruments, which forms part of the collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford; the database itself is not available from this website. The Pitt Rivers Museum was founded in 1884 when Lt.-General Pitt Rivers, an influential figure in the development of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology, gave his collection to the University. His two conditions were that a museum was built to house it and that someone should be appointed to lecture in anthropology. The museum displays archaeological and ethnographic objects from all parts of the world. The General's founding gift contained more than 18,000 objects but there are now over half a million. Many were donated by early anthropologists and explorers. The extensive photographic and sound archives contain early records of great importance. Today the Museum is an active teaching department of the University of Oxford. It also continues to collect through donations, bequests, special purchases and through its students, in the course of their fieldwork. The musical instruments are scattered throughout the collections, hence the need for a single catalogue for musical instruments.
Added: 2009-10-02More details
Journal of literary theory
http://www.jltonline.de
The website 'Journal of Literary Theory' (or 'JLTonline') is an online version of a print journal published under the same title since 2007 (ISSN 1862-5290). The publication is intended to serve 'as an international platform for different debates in all fields of literary theory'. 'JLTonline' consists of four sections: articles; reviews; conference proceedings; calls for papers. Only selected articles appear in full-text, but all of them are available in abstract. Publication languages are English and German; however, all abstracts are available in English. Some of the past issues focus on 'New Developments in Literary Theory and Related Disciplines', Vol 1, No 1 (2007), or 'Interpretation', Vol 2, No 1 (2008). The topics of forthcoming issues include: 'Theory of Humour', Vol 3, No 2 (2009); 'Literary Studies and Linguistics', Vol 4, No 1 (2010); 'Popular Culture', Vol 4, No 2 (2010). Reviews of studies in literary criticism and theory, including musicology, art theory, and film studies, are available in full-text, in a PDF or HTML format. Similarly, conference proceedings are published in full. Considering its thematic preoccupations and the scope of debates it presents, JLTonline constitutes a valuable resource for students and researchers of literary studies and other media-related disciplines.
Added: 2009-10-01More details
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
http://www.hcmf.co.uk/
This is the website of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF), an annual event celebrating new music that has been attracting audiences for over 30 years. The website presents a history of the festival, as well as the activities that have occurred during the previous festivals, including recordings made for broadcast on national radio, spawned a number of projects, has invited commissions of new works, has provided employment opportunities for musicians and composers and has been responsible for the premiers of new works throughout its history. Besides information about the forthcoming festival - which takes place in November of each year - the website also includes features related to contemporary music, such as an interview with the HCMF composer in residence, information on how to get involved with HCMF events and HCMF news. In addition, the website also presents selected video and audio clips from previous festivals, for which software is required. HCMF is based at the University of Huddersfield.
Added: 2009-09-30More details
CeReNeM : Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield
http://mhm.hud.ac.uk/cerenem/
This is the website of CeReNeM, the Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield. CeReNeM, closely connected with the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, conducts projects and research in a number of areas including experimental music, improvisation, notation, performance practice, acoustics, new music theatre and the culture of new music. Besides presenting the activities and events of CeReNeM, which include workshops, concerts and conferences, the website will also provide access to the journal of CeReNeM when it is launched in December 2009. Current progress for the journal, along with other news from CeReNeM is included in the departmental blog, Each member of staff within CeReNeM also has a blog that includes details of teaching and professional interests and activities. Current projects are also listed by the site.
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Ballad operas online
http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/balladoperas/
Produced by the University of Oxford, this website presents a database of ballad operas, which has been defined by the creators of the website as any stage production that took place in Britain between 1728-1760 that uses a comic or sentimental theme and also used well-known musical numbers. The Ballad Operas project is being conducted by a number of musicologists at the University of Oxford. The database that has been produced during the project contains details of ballad operas that were advertised during the 18th century, a number of which were never published. The database is searchable and can be searched by author, title, subject, musical number and people appearing in the performance to name a selection of fields. The website also provides a number of audio samples, for which software is required, and a number of articles about features of the ballad opera such as personalities who performed in the opera and aspects of theatre and drama.
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Follow the drinking gourd
http://www.followthedrinkinggourd.org/
"Follow the drinking gourd" is an electronic text by Joel Bresler, a technology and publishing executive with an interest in music. The text is available in HTML format. " Follow the drinking gourd" is an American folk song that was first published in 1928, a song that was allegedly used to encode escape instructions to people attempting to flee slavery: it is known as a map song. Since then, the folk song has been recorded around 200 times, many songbooks and a number of books for children, to name a few places that it has appeared. It has come to be regarded as an important piece of Civil Rights history, along with a revival of folk traditions in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. This electronic text charts the origins and development of the folk song, including discussions of its cultural history. The meanings of the lyrics are examined, as is its place in history and how it can be interpreted. Note that some sections of the text are still under development (in 2008), so a small number of sections - the bibliography, author's acknowledgements and citations - are not presently available.
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From Jayaprana to the abduction of Sita : Tari Bali meets bharatanatyam (interpreting and (re)constructing Indonesian dance and music)
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/jayaprana.htm
Held for preservation purposes by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) as part of the AHDS Performing Arts collections, this Web page explains about a documentary film on DVD, which presents an example of intercultural performance, shown through the collaboraton of a group of Balinese dancers and musicians and a bharatanatyam performer, with Carnatic musicians, as part of a larger project run by the AHRC Research Centre for Cross-cultural Music and Dance Performance on Indonesian dance and music heritage. The film presents the work done in London, as part of a joint residency, by Balinese and Indian performers. It shows the performers interacting with music and dance students and the work they did throughout the autumn of 2004, in the studio, leading up to a final performance in Michaelis Theatre, Roehampton University. It is possible to download the resource by clicking on 'Explore collection'.
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Country Music Association of Australia
http://www.country.com.au/
This is the website of the Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA). The CMAA was founded in 1992 with an aim of representing the needs of all aspects of country music throughout Australia as well as promoting country music in Australia. It has established a number of activities, including the CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia and CMAA Australian College of Country Music, among others. CMAA also undertakes research as well as providing help with professional development for country musicians. Details of all of these programmes are available on the website, and includes information on how to enrol on courses offered by the CMAA Australian College of Country Music. The website also provides a concert search facility, information about country music festivals and competitions, along with annual reports of the CMAA from 1998 in PDF format, for which software is required. Also included are links to Australian radio stations that have a country music emphasis, as well as links to online and international radio stations, that again, have a country music emphasis. Besides this, the website provides links to general websites about country music and links to country music charts and playlists.
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American Viola Society
http://www.americanviolasociety.org/
This is the website of the American Viola Society (AVS), an organisation that started life as the Viola Research Society, a subsidiary of what was to become the International Viola Society in 1971. The AVS in ites present form was founded in 1978. The website of the AVS presents information about the organisation, including a "Resources" section that includes a viola news section, information on what to do to recover a stolen viola, a directory of viola teachers in the United States, as well as a the Viola Bank, a project run by the AVS to put students in touch with suitable instruments. The website also includes a community section with details of national and junior AVS activities. Besides this, the website also provides free access to the Journal of the American Viola Society (JAVS), a yearly publication that is available to download in PDF format.
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Argento Chamber Ensemble
http://www.argentomusic.org/
This is the website of the American group Argento Music Ensemble, a group of musicians that is responsible for performances from the Argento Music Project. The Argento Music Ensemble specialises in performing new music. The ensemble came into existence in 2000, and has since made a number of recordings and has toured the United States, as well as Europe including the United Kingdom. The website of the Argento Music Ensemble presents information about the group as well as details of the Argento New Music Project. As well as details of repertoire, recordings and previous and forthcoming concerts of the Argento Music Ensemble, the website also includes details of the Argento New Music Project Internship Program. The Internship Program provides opportunities for people to work within an arts organisation, alongside musicians, sound engineers, music directors, publicity and marketing, educational programmes including outreach work and general arts administration.
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Alchemy in the spotlight : qualitative transformations in chamber music performance
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/alchemy/
This is the website for an AHRC-funded project, which is investigating the "cognitive and affective processes involved in performing live in public". Through the live performance of a piano trio (established for the project) the qualitative transformations the performers experience will be identified. These transformations "are related to such phenomena as increasing expressive freedom, increasing affective involvement, unplanned creative interpretative choices, and certain alterations in time-consciousness". The project aims to compare these live performance cognitive and affective processes with those in rehearsals and practice as well as addressing performance studies from a group, rather than individual perspective. The website includes a fuller description of the project, its research context and the trio as well as recordings of performances and details of dissemination.
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Trevor Wishart
http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk/
This website records the work of English composer and sonic artist, Trevor Wishart. Widely acknowledged as a composer of digital audio media, both fixed and interactive, he has not only composed many significant pieces, but he has also written extensively on the topic of what he terms "sonic art", and contributed to the design and implementation of many software tools used in the creation of digital music. Wishart holds an honorary position at the University of York; in 2006 he was appointed as composer-in-residence at the University of Durham, and he also works as a freelance composer. The website provides information about his sonic art pieces, including 'Red Bird' (1973-1977), a piece of music that was "based on morphing between sounds of voices, machines, animals, birds, using analogue studio techniques, and directed improvisation"; 'Fabulous Paris', "sound meditation on modern megacities, using specially developed time-varying harmonic-field filters", and 'Imago', "which, by a process of continual sonic metamorphosis on a single 'clink' (taken from Jonty Harrison's 'et ainsi de suite') arrives at allusions to the sea, birdsong, gamelan music and the human voice". The latter two works have been deposited with AHDS Performing Arts, for preservation purposes. The 'New music theory and practice' section of the website provides information about the books that Wishart has written on the subject of sonic art.
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Project on creative practices beyond borders : arts interaction, sonic diaspora, performativity exchange
http://projects.beyondtext.ac.uk/creativepracticesbeyondborders/index.php
This Web page describes an AHRC-funded project comprising a series of international workshops, which aim to bring together theatre and media companies, scholars, practitioners and activists to rethink borders, whether geographical, cultural or disciplinary. Focussing on theatre, film and sound the project regards cosmopolitanism and communication as dynamic, border-crossing activities which challenge stable, textual notions of research, and the workshops reflect this, incorporating performance and activism. The website includes further details of the projects activities, and links to a blog page, which offers some retrospective discussion of the events.
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Sounds of early cinema in Britain
http://projects.beyondtext.ac.uk/soundsearlycinema/
This website describes an AHRC-funded research project consolidating knowledge of the role of sound and music in early silent cinema in Britain. The project aims to host two workshops and two conferences (including parallel film screenings with musical accompaniment) bringing together scholars interested in the sonic and musical practices associated with different methods of film exhibition in cinema's early history - which ranged from fairgrounds to purpose built theatres. The project attempts to assess whether British practice was significantly different from that elsewhere, and the extent to which it varied regionally and between urban and rural locations. The website includes details of the conferences and workshops, including some abstracts of presentations.
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American Federation of Musicians
http://www.afm.org/
The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), an organisation with hundreds of thousands of members who looks after the needs of the professional musician, was founded in 1896 as the result of trade union activity. Today, the AFM, which requires payment of a membership fee, deals with all aspects of being a working professional musician in the United States, from negotiating fees and working conditions to dealing with the provision of healthcare benefits and pensions and ensuring that professional musicians are properly regarded in wider cultural circles. The website of the AFM provides details of the organisation, including details of how to join as a member and the benefits of membership. The website includes a "Resources" section that provides links to external websites of interest, news, information for international musicians and a booking agent search. Also included in the "Resources" section is a section on technology, that includes information about music copyright and links to music software sites. AFM also includes provision for young musicians in its remit, and the website provides details of scholarship opportunities.
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Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects
http://www.acnmp.ca/
This is the website of the Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects (ACNMP), an organisation that aims to "foster and promote the study and performance of contemporary Canadian music". The ACNMP supports both members and non-members of the organisation, with providing information about new music a major focus of the organisation. The website for ACNMP details the aims of the organisation, and includes sections on the areas of the ACNMP's activities which include workshops for music students and teachers that include instrument-specific sessions, a contemporary music festival, composition classes and outreach work that includes national tours, lectures disseminating of general information and instrumental demonstrations. The website also includes a downloadable version of the ACNMP syllabus (available in both English and French) that covers all orchestral instruments. The syllabus is available in PDF format for which software is required.
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Computer baroque
http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/computer_baroque/baroque
Launched in March 2009 at Tate Modern in London, 'Computer Baroque' is an online archival collection of exemplary and innovative short films, all made using computer animation between 1982 and 1995. 15 short films from this period are freely available to view on the website, and are presented using Flash video. Films are accompanied by substantial curatorial notes by curator Richard Wright. The collection aims to represent a period... "in which computer animation was the focus for audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology". A short essay on the exhibition, 'Computer Baroque: Computer animation 1982–1995 by Richard Wright', can be found in the right-hand sidebar or by clicking Writings / Essays on the sidebar of the Animate Projects website. This website is an interesting and stimulating insight into the early years of the creative use of computer animation.
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