General Reference

ABC Education Resources: www.abc.net.au/learn/bysubject/subjectmusic0.html

Australian Dictionary of Biography: www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm - the online edition contains over 10,000 biographies, published by the Australian National University

Music and Vision: www.mvdaily.com - daily online magazine for classical music

National Library of Australia: www.nla.gov.au

Oxford University Press: www.oup.com/online/omo/ - subscription site with access to the latest versions of New Grove, Oxford Companion and Oxford History of Western Music

International Index to Music Periodicals: iimp.chadwyck.com

Musipedia (Melodyhound): www.musipedia.org/about.html - a searchable collection of musical themes

Theme Finder: www.themefinder.org - another searchable collection of musical themes

All Music Guide: www.allmusic.com

Composers - Classical

Australian Music Centre: www.australianmusiccentre.com.au - your first point of reference for anything to do with Australian composition, with information on more than 500 composers

Albeniz: http://www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/YALE/albeniz1.html

Bach: www.jsbach.org

Bartok: www.zti.hu/bartok/exhibition/en_TOC.htm - Bartok Virtual Exhibition

Beethoven: www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de

Debussy: www.debussy.fr/encd/centre/centre.php - Centre de Documentation Claude Debussy

Handel: gfhandel.org

Mozart: www.mozartproject.org

Mozart Digital Edition: dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/start.php?l=2 - Neue Mozart-Ausgabe

Schubert: www.schubert-ausgabe.de - Neue Schubert-Ausgabe

Composers - Popular

Jazz Standards: www.jazzstandards.com/index.html - Information on more than 300 jazz standards, including composer biographies

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: www.rockhall.com

Songwriters Hall of Fame: www.songwritershalloffame.org

Broadcast Music, Inc: www.bmi.com/search - BMI represents over 350,000 songwriters, composers, and publishers with more than 6.5 million works

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers: www.ascap.com - ASCAP is a membership association of more than 310,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music

Music History and Style

Academy of Ancient Music: www.aam.co.uk/featur.htm

Classical Music Archives: www.classicalarchives.com/timeline.html - timelines, worklists and historical context or major composers

Flamenco: www.andalucia.com/flamenco/home.htm

Metropolitan Museum of Art: www.metmuseum.org/toah/intro/atr/09sm.htm - timelines, maps, essays and pictures from their collection

Theory and Aural training

Aural Training Online: www.e-lr.com.au/resources.php - subscription required

Ear Tests and Drills: www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory43.htm - links to free aural training websites

Music Theory and History Online: www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm - comprehensive collection of free resources

Ricci Adams' Music Theory: www.musictheory.net - useful trainers for theory and aural

Theory Can Be Fun: users.netconnect.com.au/~wfw/theory.html

Practice and performance

Metronome: www.8notes.com/metronome/ - Free online metronome, with a variety of beat styles

Performance Practice Dictionary: books.google.com/books?id=_w32_CqDNWkC - a study of how music was performed over the centuries by Roland John Jackson

Practiceopedia: www.practiceopedia.com - tips for practice

Succeed with Music: www.succeedwithmusic.com - tips for practice and performance

Piano

Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference: www.appca.com.au - held biennially

Australian Piano Buyers' Guide: www.pianobuyersguide.com.au

Keyboard Companion Online: www.keyboardcompanion.com - a quarterly magazine published by the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy

Listen To Your Hands: www.listentoyourhands.com.au - a method to develop a piano student's ability to identify patterns in the keyboard, and to associate those patterns with sound

Piano 300 Exhibition at the Smithsonian: piano300.si.edu/ - a fascinating site based on the Smithsonian Museum's celebration of the 300th anniversary of the piano in 2001

Scale cards: www.scalecards.com - a new approach to the learning and revision of technical work

Temperament: www.jimloy.com/physics/scale.htm

String

Cello Database: www.cellist.nl

Internet Cello Society: www.cello.org

Net Violin: www.netviolin.com

Violin makers Amati and Stradivari: www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/strd/hd_strd.htm

Woodwind & Brass

Australian Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine: www.clarinet-saxophone.asn.au

Clarinet Pages: www.woodwind.org/clarinet/index.html

Covey Oboes: www.oboes.com - contains helpful information about development of the oboe

Flute Society of NSW: www.flutesocietynsw.org.au

Oboe development: http://www.idrs.org/publications/DR/DR6.1/evolution.html

Recorder: www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/recd/hd_recd.htm - history and development of the recorder

Vocal

Art Song Central: artsongcentral.com - free public domain art songs

Art Songs Online: www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/song.html

Opera Guide: www.opera-guide.ch/opern_komponisten.php?uilang=de&first-letter=A

Texts of Lieder and Art Songs: www.recmusic.org/lieder/

Texts of Operatic Arias: www.aria-database.com

Orchestral

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra: www.rpo.org/s_4/s_28/Educators%27_Resources/ - listening lessons and other resources

Examination boards

ABRSM: www.abrsm.org - Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

AGMS: www.guildmusic.edu.au - Australian Guild of Music and Speech

AMEB: www.ameb.edu.au - Australian Music Examinations Board

AMEB (NSW): www.ameb.nsw.edu.au

ANZCA: www.anzca.com.au - Australian and New Zealand Cultural Arts Limited

NSW Board of Studies: www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au - information and resources about school curricula, including the HSC

St. Cecilia: www.stceciliaonline.com/about.php - St. Cecilia School of Music and Examinations

Trinity College London: www.trinitycollege.co.uk - Trinity Guildhall

VCE: intuneforlife.com.au - Victorian Certificate of Education information and resources

Eisteddfods and competitions

2MBS-FM Youth Development Programs: www.2mbs.com/Content_Common/pg-Education.seo - opportunities for young performers aged 12 to 30 to participate in live radio broadcasts

Australian National Eisteddfod: www.nationaleisteddfod.org.au - May-October

Australian National Piano Award: www.pianoaward.com.au/index.html - a national, biennial competition for pianists 21-35 years of age

Galston District Eisteddfod: www.galstondistricteisteddfod.com.au - October

Ku-Ring-Gai Concerto Competition: www.kpo.org.au/concerto_comp/information.html - April-June - an opportunity to perform a concerto movement with the KPO

McDonald's Performing Arts Challenge: www.sydneyeisteddfod.com.au - June-September

Muswellbrook & Upper Hunter Eisteddfod: www.muswellbrook.nsw.gov.au/Eisteddfod/eisteddfod_main.html - April-October

Northern Beaches Eisteddfod: www.northernbeacheseisteddfod.com.au - May-June

Parramatta Eisteddfod: www.eisteddfodparramatta.org.au - May-June

Ryde Eisteddfod: users.bigpond.net.au/dawn - June-August

Yamaha Australian Youth Piano Competition: www.yamahamusic.com.au/yaypc - a national, biennial competition for pianists 10-18 years of age

Associations

Music Teachers' Association of NSW: www.musicnsw.com.au

Music Teachers' Association of Queensland: www.mtaq.org.au

Musicological Society of Australia: www.msa.org.au

Orff-Schulwerk: www.ancos.org.au

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