With a well-established track record, the Great Performances series on PBS continues to offer a host of very compelling broadcasts ranging from dance recitals to musical theater. This well-thought-out website allows visitors to learn about the program schedule, offer their own feedback on the programs, and, most importantly, view a host of multimedia presentations related to the programs...
Under the direction of Monk Rowe, Hamilton College has built an amazing collection of interviews with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers, and critics. The college started collecting all of these interviews back in 1995, and since that time they have interviewed over 300 people. First-time visitors will note that each interview includes an audio file of the conversation, a photograph of the...
Jointly maintained by Brad Leissa and musicologist David Vickers, this site is designed to serve as “a valuable resource for both Handelian scholars and enthusiasts.” They have done a splendid job, and the site contains copious information on the latest recordings of his works, along with timely reviews of these recordings. The site also features a thorough discography of both Handel’s operas and...
The Hathi Trust Women Composers Collection consists of digitized sheet music for approximately 3,000 musical works by more than 700 women composers. Most date from the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, with a few pieces from the 18th century. Some of the published scores include annotations by the composer, while there are also several hundred in manuscript form. The originals are from the...
As one of the lyrics by the Brothers Gershwin goes: "They told Marconi/wireless was a phony." Of course, the wireless world of the radio and its galaxy of musical choices has changed from the transmission of mere Morse code in its early decades to today's overwhelming choices afforded by different satellite radio companies. This recent documentary by the American RadioWorks program explores the...
The Smithsonian Museums are home to a number of materials that illuminate the history of hip-hop and rap music. In anticipation of the Smithsonian's upcoming anthology of rap music, the museum has compiled this online exhibit of photographs, boom boxes, album covers, and other items that may be for interest to hip-hop fans. These items include a 1979 flier for a Bronx rap battle featuring...
If you're looking for compelling sheet music from decades gone by, this website from the University of Oregon Libraries is just the ticket. Initially created to showcase sheet music from the Oregon Music Collection, their digitization work continues apace, and there are already over 650 pieces of sheet music available here. Visitors to the site can browse the collection by title, composer, or...
For anyone interested in learning (or relearning) how to play the piano, this website provides a series of free video lessons. Joseph Hoffman, an experienced piano teacher with a master's degree in music, created this series of free video recorded lessons in order to meet the growing demand for piano lessons. On this website, piano learners of any age can watch over 100 lessons, divided into nine...
Tulane University's Hogan Jazz Archives describes itself as, "the leading research center for the study of New Orleans jazz and related musical genres, including New Orleans ragtime, gospel, blues, rhythm and blues, and Creole songs." Fortunately for music researchers and jazz fans who can't make the trip to New Orleans, the archive has digitized a number of its holdings. For example, in the oral...
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