MUSIC

 

The Classical Music Archives. 
http://www.classicalarchives.com/index.html
Listen to classical music right on the Web in different midi levels. Includes Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Scarlatti, and Schubert.

Garden State Pops Youth Orchestra.  
http://www.gspyo.com/
Learn how to read music and listen to musical instruments. Includes a daily calendar of musical history and many useful links to other music sites.

Mouseum.
http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum
Find the lyrics to your favorite kids' songs, listen to the song play or checkout related links.

Piano on the Net.  
http://www.pianonanny.com/
A complete set of piano lessons on the Web. Put a keyboard next to your keyboard and you’re ready to go! With many links to other music sites.

San Francisco Symphony for Kids.   
http://www.sfskids.org
This site provides information about instruments, a music basics tutorial and a listing of family programs and activities at the San Francisco Symphony.

Sing-Along Songs.
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/music.htm
Can't remember the words to a favorite song? Don't remember the tune? Search this site and find both lyrics and music files for many classic songs.

John Philip Sousa Page. 
http://www.dws.org/sousa/
The “March King” himself, John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). A real gem! Requires downloading of audio files but well worth it.

8 Notes
Free classical, popular, world, jazz and traditional sheet music. There are also music lessons for 11 different instruments.

All Music Guide
From bluegrass to rock, reggae and rap, this is a comprehensive guide to all kinds of musical genres. Easy-to-use pages offer information on individual artists or groups and 'music maps' follow the routes of music.

Bach Cantatas
Exploration of the 209 existing Bach cantatas and the recordings that have been made of them since the 1940s. There are biographies of performers in the recordings, along with background information explaining the Lutheran church year the music was written for.

Baroque Music
What is baroque music? Which instruments are used? Who composed it?  Read about the composers - from Bach to Vivaldi - or find out about the instruments used to create it. There are some sound files with examples.

Classical Music Learning Zone
There's an excellent introduction to classical music styles, instruments and history here. Browse through an A-Z of composers or access a database of musical terms. Register free to listen online. Great for key stage 4 revision and homework.

Classical Music Timeline
A classical music timeline from medieval times to the 20th century. Key composers of the time and their main works are listed, and there are brief synopses of each era.

Edinburgh University Collection of Historical Musical Instruments
One of the most interesting parts of this fascinating site is the 'Electronic Picture Gallery' featuring brief details and photographs of the museum's collection of historical musical instruments.

Encyclopaedia of Percussion
World and orchestral percussion instruments are included in this vast encylopaedia. It lists the instruments alphabetically and contains descriptions, photographs and some links to a bibliography.

Essentials of Music
Overviews of the six main periods in music history - Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th century - including details of musical style, context and history. For key stage 3 and above.

Flute World
http://www.fluteworld.com

Gemeinhardt Flutes
http://www.gemeinhardt.com
Gemeinhardt has emerged as the music industry's largest exclusive manufacturer of flutes and piccolos. Today, Gemeinhardt Co., Inc. manufactures flutes and piccolos for all levels of musicians, ranging from student to professional.

GMN Classical Plus
This A-Z index of classical composers offers a short biography of each, and audio excerpts of some of their key works. A great way to improve knowledge of different composers and their compositions.

Gramophone
With reviews, music news and concert listings, Gramophone magazine is a good place for students to explore current classical music scene. The focus is on latest recordings of the classics, and the magazine recommends its top choices. The ‘On This Day’ feature is a quirky touch.

Music Related Graphic Images
Pupils at key stages 3 and 4 who are looking for images to use in a presentation, Web page or report will find this free resource contains lots of the basics. Includes notation symbols, keyboards and pianos.

Musicland
Sign up for free and access resources for GCSE and A level music students. The email newsletter contains a whole host of resources.

Mutopiaproject
The music on Mutopia is ‘completely free to download, print out, perform and distribute’. Users can search by instrument, composer or musical style.

Piano Lessons
Piano lessons for the beginner, intermediate and advanced students. The lessons for advanced students focus on jazz techniques.

Revision Notes - GCSE
GCSE revision notes on a wide variety of subjects. Bypass the e-commerce element for a short but sweet collection of revision resources.

Teoria
Brush up on music theory here. The music theory reference section is particularly useful, as are the interactive music theory exercises.

The Electric Guitar
An attractive and fascinating website, this is an exhibition about the history, design and development of the guitar. From acoustic to electric, it contains plenty of pictorial and audio examples of guitars and guitarists.

The Mozart Project
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - this informative site offers excellent material about the great composer. Biographical material, a selection of essays, and extensive bibliography are available.

Warner Bros
http://www2.warnerbros.com

Music History IPL

Piano Lessons Online ThinkQuest

Jazz Kids PBS.org

Explore Musical Instruments Worldwide

http://www.freedb.org

http://www.gracenote.com/

http://www.diamondcut.com

http://www.crutchfieldadvisor.com

http://www.audioreplay.net/index.html

http://www.xpsound.com

http://www.codingtechnologies.com/products/mp3pro.htm

http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/index.html

http://www.mp3pro.com/

http://www.steinberg.net
Recording Software

http://www.globalmusicresource.com/basics/basics3.html#codec
http://www.globalmusicresource.com/index.html
Resource for comsposing music with computers

http://www.afterdawn.com/

http://www.mpeg.org

http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/standards/mpeg-4/mpeg-4.htm

Digital Music Software

  1. AM-CDplayer32 - (Download)
    CDplayer with local library management, wave audio record/play, displays your CD covers -- Shareware [9X / NT / 2000]
  2. Apple iTunes - (Download)
    Apple iTunes 4.6, the world's best digital music player, just keeps getting better. It includes the all-new Music Store, featuring 400,000 tracks all for 99¢. Burn unlimited audio CDs, encode music from CDs, and sync with your iPod. Now iTunes is available for Windows, too. -- Free [2000 / XP]
  3. AudioCD MP3 Studio Suite - (Download)
    MP3 to Music CD recording in one easy step -- Commercial [9X / NT4 / 2000 / ME]
  4. Audio Librarian 2002 - (Download)
    Catalog your music collection, create labels and reports. -- Shareware [9X / ME / NT / 2000 / XP]
  5. Audiophiler - (Download)
    Audiophiler will organize your collection of CDs, LPs, Cassettes, DVDs, Mini discs, and any other media format. Loading your music collection into Audiophiler is quick and simple. Put a CD in your CD-ROM drive and Audiophiler will download all the album information from the Internet CDDB service and load this into your database with one click of the mouse. No need to spend hours typing. -- Shareware [9X / ME / NT / 2000 / XP]
  6. AVCataloger - (Download)
    Catalog your favorite music, video, book, and software collections. -- Shareware [9X / NT / ME / 2000 / XP]
  7. Awave ACDR - (Download)
    Awave ACDR lets you write tracks from standard audio CD's to a variety of different file formats. -- Shareware [9X / NT / 2000 / ME / XP]
  8. BeatJam XX-TREME - (Download)
    Audio CD player, MP3 encoder, Music file manager, Audio CD Writer -- Commercial [9X / NT / 2000]
  9. BeoPlayer 3.1 - (Download)
    BeoPlayer from Bang & Olufsen automatically scans your harddisc and sorts your internet music by genre, artist, song title and album title - and lets you create your own playlist of favorites from the different groups of tracks. -- Free [98SE / ME / 2000 / XP]
  10. Blaze Media Pro - (Download)
    Powerhouse all-in-one player, converter playlists, audio editing/recording, and more -- Shareware [9X / NT / ME / 2000]
  11. Broken Cross Disk Manager - (Download)
    Broken Cross Disk Manager is a Shareware program for managing and archiving disks. It can automatically generate a description for some file types. For instance from the ID3 Tag of MP3 files. The artist and title names of Audio CDs can be queried over the Internet from Gracenote (CDDB) or be read from the CD Text information of the CD. -- Shareware [9X / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003]
  12. Cakewalk MediaWorks - (Download)
    The all-in-one digital media creator, for organizing, archiving and sharing music, photos, video and data, on CDs, DVDs and the Internet. -- Commercial [98SE / ME / 2000 / XP]
  13. Cakewalk Pyro 2004 - (Download)
    The complete, all-in-one MP3 and CD maker, for ripping, burning, restoring and mixing music on a Windows PC. -- Commercial [98SE / ME / 2000 / XP]
  14. CATraxx - (Download)
    CATraxx is a powerful database program designed to help you maintain an inventory of your music collection. You can quickly catalog your collection by downloading CD data from CDDB - the worlds largest music database. -- Shareware [98 / ME / NT / 2000]
  15. CD++ - (Download)
    Simple-to-use CD player and sampler; Catalogues CDs; segment definition & recording -- Shareware [9X]
  16. CD Composer v1.6 - (Download)
    CD Composer is the complete solution for creating CDs and MP3s. Designed from the start to streamline and simplify the process of digital music creation, CD Composer is ideally suited for today's music enthusiasts wanting to take advantage of the digital music revolution. -- Commercial [9X / NT4 / 2000]
  17. CDDB Import - (Download)
    Catalog you favorite music in an easy to use database. -- Commercial [9X / 2000 / ME / XP]
  18. CDJ - (Download)
    Sony 200/300/400 Disc jukebox controller, cataloger, MP3 player -- Free [ 9X / NT4 / 2000 / ME]
  19. CD Label Production3 - (Download)
    Easy from designing to printing out CD labels. -- Commercial [9X / NT / 2000 / ME]
  20. CDLib 2 - (Download)
    CD Player/Changer Database, Reporting, Outlook Bar look -- Shareware [9X / NT4 / 2000]
  21. CD MegaManager - (Download)
    CD MegaManager keeps track of your CD's in a local relational database. You can build play lists, listen to your CDs, create inserts and labels, search the database, print over 20 reports, and browse music web sites. -- Shareware [9X / NT / 2000 / ME]
  22. CD Partner - (Download)
    Digital audio player for new generation -- Free [9X / NT / 2000 / ME]
  23. CD Trustee - (Download)
    Automatically catalogs your music collection; plays CDs; prints jewel case inserts, reports. -- Shareware [9X / NT / 2000 / ME / XP]
  24. ChoiceCaster™ - (Download)
    ChoiceCaster™ all-in-one broadband media player that plays all existing media formats -- Free [9X / NT / 2000]
  25. Collectorz.com Music Collector - (Download)
    Catalog your CD collection quickly and easily, Download CD info from multiple sources on the net, Instantly sort and search the CD catalog on any field, and Print configurable lists of the entire catalog or a selection -- Shareware [9X / NT / 2000]
  26. CoolLabel 2 - (Download)
    Make labels for CD, JAZ, ZIP, Floppy, VHS, 4mm, 8mm & other media -- Shareware [9X / NT4 / 2000]
  27. DART CD-Recorder - (Download)
    Easiest Complete Rip, Sweeten, Burn & Label MP3 to Audio CDs -- Shareware [9X / NT / 2000]
  28. DigiOnAudio - (Download)
    DigiOnAudio is a 192kHz/24bit audio recorder and player capable of authoring original music DVDs in DVD-Audio and DVD-Video format, as well as conventional Audio CDs. -- Commercial [98SE / 2000 / ME / XP]
  29. DigiOnDisc - (Download)
    CD-R/RW Writer (Mixed CD, Video CD, CD Extra, HDD Backup) -- Commercial [9X / NT4 / 2000]
  30. DJ Calendar Business Software - (Download)
    Professional DJ Business Management software. Use this professional industry standard software to book your club and mobile DJ shows. Use your own logos, create own contracts, new CDDB cataloging features, 100% User Friendly. -- Demo [9X / NT4 / 2000]
  31. EasyMP3 - (Download)
    EasyMP3 is a MP3 encoder which integrates into the Windows desktop. -- Shareware [9X / NT / 2000]
  32. Evolution Interface - (Download)
    Windows interface replacement w/ integrated player/ripper -- Shareware [9X]
  33. Gracenote Metacredit™ - (Download)
    The fast, direct way to view and edit credits and liner notes for your favorite CDs. -- Free [98 / ME / 2000 / NT4]
  34. Helium2 - (Download)
    Catalog your growing MP3 collection, create tags & playlists, or use to manage even the largest MP3 collection -- Shareware [98 / NT4 / 2000 / ME / XP]
  35. JukeCD - (Download)
    Print title cards - single or double - for all style CD jukeboxes -- Demo [9X / NT / 2000]
  36. Label Mighty 5 - (Download)
    Makes Labels for CDs, DVDs, MDs, VHS, other media and virtually any type of label. -- Commercial [9X / ME / 2000 / XP]
  37. m:trip - (Download)
    The application includes Juke box, Photo Viewer and Remix functions. -- Free [2000 / XP]
  38. MAGIX MP3 Maker - (Download)
    Everything you need for quick and easy editing of MP3s is in this program - rip, burn and archive CDs, search and download the latest hits, record from external sources, and create playlists. -- Demo [9X / NT / 2000]
  39. Media Box MP3 Workstation - (Download)
    All in One player, ripper, encoder, decoder, playlister -- Shareware [9X / NT / ME / 2000]
  40. Mega Disc - (Download)
    Take control of your disc collection! This full-featured CD cataloger organizes your loose discs into a library of viewable storage units. It has unique features to track and locate your discs. Prints contents sheets. Quick and easy batch entry of many CDs. Drag-and-drop pictures and info from the web. It's the only free CD cataloger! -- Free [98 / 2000 / ME / XP]
  41. MM Player - (Download)
    MM Player 5 is the ultimate Windows media player. Download the free version and start organizing your media files and CDs today! -- Shareware [9X / 2000 / ME / NT]
  42. MP3 Audio Magic - (Download)
    High quality MP3 player with Kenwood's SUPREME technology, CD ripper, Music manager, CD burner -- Commercial [98 / 2000 / ME]
  43. Music Catalogue Master 3 - (Download)
    Catalogs everything about CDs, records and tapes. It has extensive search capabilities and prints over 100 reports. -- Shareware [9X / NT / 2000 / ME]
  44. Music Database 2000 - (Download)
    An easy-to-use, customizable music catalog database for DJ's and collectors. -- Demo [9X / NT4 / 2000 / ME]
  45. Music Label - (Download)
    Music Label™ 2003 always keeps your music collection close at hand. Whether you are a collector of pop music, classical music or a DJ with all kinds of music, you will always know where your music is located at all times. -- Shareware [9X / NT / 2000 / ME / XP]
  46. Music Library 1.0 - (Download)
    At last there is a fully-featured database application allows you to catalog and play literally any music files and media you have. Music Library is not just another playlister, unlike any other music database programs, Music Library allows you to catalog and deal with any music both on and off your computer. -- Shareware [9x / NT4 / ME / 2000 / XP]
  47. MusicVoyager - (Download)
    Compliant SDMI software -- Comes with SSP-PD77R [98 / ME / 2000 ]
  48. MusicWise Music Organizer - (Download)
    MusicWise, the personal music organizer software that allows you to keep track of your music inventory by maintaining a database of CDs, LPs, cassettes, MP3s or any other music media that you may own. MusicWise 2.10 features the unlimited power of Gracenote CDDB® -- Demo [9X / NT / 2000 / ME / XP]
  49. Music Wizard - (Download)
    Music Wizard is an easy-to-use and powerful organizer for your music collection (CDs, MP3s, LPs etc.). Music Wizard is available in two versions: Standard and Professional. -- Shareware [9X / NT / 2000 / ME]
  50. Musifind Pro - (Download)
    Catalog your music collection, create labels and reports, and find your music fast! -- Free [9X / NT / 2000 / ME]
  51. MyMusic Personal Music Librarian - (Download)
    MyMusic is a powerful database program designed to help you maintain an inventory of your music collection. While some programs choose to focus on the world of MP3, MyMusic envelops the music collector's entire resource library. -- Shareware [9X / NT / 2000 / ME / XP]
  52. Paragon CD-ROM Emulator - (Download)
    The virtual Multi CD-ROM machine with 20 and more high-speed virtual CD-ROM drives! -- Commercial [9X / NT / ME / 2000 / XP]
  53. Player - (Download)
    Player is a freeware CD player for use with Windows. -- Free [9X / NT / 2000 / ME / XP]
  54. ProntoGen - (Download)
    For Sony 200-400 CD changer and Philips Pronto, Marantz RC line of programmable touch screen remote controllers. Creates a configuration file for your remote, which contains alphabetically sorted artist and title lists. In addition, categories (Jazz, Pop etc.) can also be defined. You can jump to any track by name after a title is selected. -- Free [9X / ME /  NT / 2000 / XP]
  55. Quintessential Player v4.50 (QCD) - (Download)
    MP3, Ogg, WAV, and CD support; Full Speed CD Ripping; FREE MP3 Encoding; Streaming audio support; Skins and Plug-ins support; Powerful Tag Editor; Crossfading support; Multiple visualizations; NEW Resizeable extensions; NEW Skin Layouts; NEW Improved User Interface and Music Browser. -- Free [9X / 2000 / ME / NT]
  56. Rakutin CD Label Maker 2001 - (Download)
    Print all style CD labels and covers, with a media(CD/MP3) cataloging function -- Commercial [9X / NT4 / 2000 / ME]
  57. Rakutin CD Label Maker GOLD - (Download)
    Print all style CD labels and covers, with a media(CD/MP3) cataloging function -- Commercial [9X / NT4 / 2000 / ME]
  58. RipEditBurn - (Download)
    Blaze Audio's award-winning RipEditBurn turns your PC into a digital audio powerhouse! It will rip CDs (including copy protected CDs by using our Analog Ripping Technology), edit wave and MP3 files, convert MP3 files to wave and wave files to MP3, and burn your own custom music CDs easily, quickly, and at a price that won't break your budget. -- Demo [98 / ME / 2000 / XP]
  59. RSJ CD Writer - (Download)
    Using RSJ CD Writer you can create new CDs or copy data and audio CDs. -- Demo [9X / ME / NT / 2000 / XP]
  60. Threefifteen JUKEBOX - (Download)
    The world's most original digital music jukebox. An integrated player, CD ripper and file manager with many unique features. -- Demo [9X / NT / Me / 2000 / XP]
  61. Toshiba gigabeat room - (Download)
    gigabeat room™ is software bundled with the gigabeat HDD audio player. This software retrieves metadata from Gracenote CDDB® for an audio CD, rips the audio and transfers the audio to the gigabeat player all by one click of the RipRec™ Sync button. -- Commercial [XP / 2000]
  62. Transrecord CD Info - (Download)
    The main purpose of this application is to retrieve information about a certain disc and copy it to the clipboard. The idea is that you can paste the information into your favorite labeling software or word processor, and so easy make labels and covers for your burnt backup-copies of your CD records. -- Free [9X / ME / NT / 2000 / XP]
  63. Ultimate MP3 and CD Manager(TM) - (Download)
    The power of digital music at your command! Whether you're new to digital music or already have a huge MP3 collection, the Ultimate MP3 and CD Manager makes it easy to create, organize and play digital music on your PC. -- Commercial [98 / 2000 / ME / XP]
  64. Virtual CD v4 - (Download)
    Run Audio-, Game- and Video CD/DVDs directly from hard disks, even without a CD drive -- Commercial [98 / NT / 2000 / ME / XP]
  65. WaveLab 4.0 - (Download)
    WaveLab 4.0 is the quickest professional audio editing and mastering software for Windows PCs. Combining easy-to-use stereo editors with a wealth of mastering features, WaveLab 4.0 offers powerful editing tools and an array of new, high-quality virtual effect processors. -- Commercial [9X / NT / 2000 / ME]
  66. What? Audio Player - (Download)
    CDs/MP3s Player, Music library, Rip/Encode MP3s, and more -- Shareware [9X / NT]
  67. Winamp - (Download)
    Winamp is an audio player that can handle audio CDs, MP3 audio files, and streaming audio broadcasts. -- Free [98 / NT / 2000 / ME / XP]
  68. WinCD - (Download)
    A multimedia-player with a pitch-control (also for CD-playback) -- Shareware [9X / ME / 2000 / XP / NT4]
  69. Zzzbla's CD Catalog - (Download)
    Zzzbla's CD Catalog creates a catalog of your audio and data CDs by scanning your CD files and folders or using Gracenote CDDB® service. -- Postcardware [98 / ME / 2000 / XP]