Lula Belle and Scotty Wiseman were a husband and wife country duo that rose to fame in the mid-1930s. They appeared on the National Barn Dance broadcast in Chicago and their most famous song was "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" This remarkable collection from the Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina brings together some of their home movie reels from 1938...

Tune up your guitar, grab your tambourine, or warm up your vocal chords to join Make Music, a worldwide music celebration taking place on June 21. Make Music is a free, public festival that invites anyone to join in making music, regardless of age, skill, or genre. Begun in France in 1982, the festival takes place in "streets, parks, plazas, and porches," in 120 countries around the world every...

From professional mandolinist Brian Oberlin, comes this website dedicated to the stringed instrument heard in numerous classical, traditional, and folk songs. Oberlin teaches a series of mandolin workshops and lessons in his home state of Oregon, but mandolin teachers and students anywhere in the world can download a number of printable resources from this online lesson hub. Here, visitors will...

World music enthusiasts will delight in this podcast installment on Maori music, featured in the 11-27-2020 Scout Report. Since then, the podcast has released additional episodes on Maori fishing and horticulture, among other subjects. The History of Aotearoa New Zealand Podcast shares stories of the islands, with a focus on "pre-European Tangata Whenua, the people of the land, also known as...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, many French Canadian families moved across the border from Canada into Vermont to become a part of the industrial workforce in cities such as Rutland and Burlington. They brought with them the traditional culture and language of French Canada, and perhaps most notably, their rather compelling musical folkways. Many of these songs included piano accompaniment, along...

The American Mathematics Society (AMS) has created this diverse resource list dedicated to the intersecting fields of mathematics and music. This list includes a number of video-recorded lectures, podcast episodes, articles, and journals available for subscription. Many of these items will be of use to mathematics and music classrooms alike, while others may hold special appeal to researchers and...

If you started to play the guitar anytime after the late 1940s, you probably encountered the guitar instruction books of the late Mel Bay. Bay started his life in the tiny town of Bunker, Missouri and over the next eight decades he created a vast music instruction empire that included hundreds of publications. This particular website happens to lead to Mel Bay's Creative Keyboard, which is a...

The continued growth of online radio stations that offer streaming audio was interrupted by a number of lawsuits filed by a number of corporations in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Fortunately, some legal options are now available, including Mercora, which is an Internet software system that includes a universal Internet radio tuner linked to many different channels and users. After downloading...

Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is home to many fine collections, including over 1,100 instruments. Items range from shell trumpets to panpipes to grand pianos. On this page, visitors will find an overview of the MFA's extensive musical instrument collection, as well as nearly 25 options for virtual Collection Tours. For instance, selecting the Southeast Asian Instruments tour reveals many...

Part musicologist, part just plain curious, Milman Parry embarked on a quest to document and record the musical traditions of South Slavic song in the 1930s. Along the way, he came up with a provocative thesis: The epic tradition of storytelling and narrative present in the Iliad and Odyssey were not originally literary in nature, but rather part of the tradition of an archaic Greek oral...