Miscellaneous Musical Performance Information

Here's a collection of pointers to various places in the Web that discuss issues relating to music and the performing thereof:

• Lieksa Brass Manager where you can learn about the International Euphonium Competition.

• La Scena Musicale Online is an online magazine devoted to classical music: news, reviews, and links to all kinds of related items make this internationally acclaimed Montreal site worth a visit :-)

• !Fortissimo! is "a program to access information on various musical topics with pictures and sounds", which among other things contains photographs and sound clips of most band and orchestral instruments, as well as a dictionary of musical terms

• The World of Wind Ensembles and Symphonic Bands

• CAMMAC, the Canadian Amateur Musicians / Musiciens Amateurs du Canada

• The Montreal Symphony Orchestra

• The BigBands Database is 'an ongoing project dedicated to Bands; to Jazz and to Swing History, and to the music now known to the the world as "American Popular Song"'

• Solomon's Music Theory & Composition Resources includes a list of definitions of musical terms, among many other good things

• The online journal of the Society for Music Theory

• Musicstudents.com, where you can download free sheet music with matching play along sound files

• Eric's Treasure Trove of Music is an encyclopedia of musical terms

• Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers

• The Tinnitus FAQ

• An article concerning the risk of hearing loss due to playing classical music

• More Medical Issues for Performers

• Still more about the occupational hazards of making music

• A guide to coping with performance anxiety

• Music Ed Webquarters describes itself as " the new and improved home for Music Education on the World Wide Web"

• Alfred's Band, Orchestra and Percussion web site

• The Canadian Music Centre is the place to find scores, parts and recordings of wonderful music by close to 500 Canadian composers

• Gary Bricault's music page includes details on some of his compositions and arrangements for band and orchestra, among other things

• The Heritage of Military Bands of the World

• The Sibelius Academy Music Resources Page

• Indiana University's Internet Music Resources page

• Giardinelli's home page, and their collection of Musical Instrument links

• MusicSearch describes itself as "the Internet's music-only search site"

• The Concert Band Music page

• The home page of the Wind Controller mailing list

• The Akai Electronic Woodwind Instrument

• Continuing on the theme of electronic music:
  • MIDI tools and resources
  • where to get MIDI files

• The Classical Composers Database

• The PrivateLessons service matches students and teachers, and also provides concert schedules and articles by professional musicians.

• The Galliard Ensemble is a wind quintent featuring flautist Kathryn Thomas

• Some instrument and accessory manufacturers (by no means an exhaustive list! these are just the ones we know about that have their own web pages):

  • Besson

  • Boosey & Hawkes

  • Buffet Crampon

  • J & D Hite

  • Julius Keilwerth

  • G. Leblanc

  • Precision Mouthpiece

  • Rico

  • Sabian

  • Schreiber

  • Selmer

  • Yamaha

• An equally incomplete list of sheet music suppliers:

  • Alfred Publishing

  • The ASCAP home page, and their titles database

  • Boosey & Hawkes (again? yes, they manufacture instruments and print sheet music :-)

  • Hal Leonard

  • G. Schirmer, Inc.

• The only Montreal-area instrument and accessory retailers we know of that have their own web pages:

  • Steve's Music Store

  • Twigg Musique Inc.

• Although they're not anywhere near Montreal (in fact, they're located in Hong Kong!), nevertheless you'll probably find Alamo Music Ltd. to be worth a visit. This "One-Stop Music Shop" has a nice collection of music-related links, as well as a wide variety of instruments and accessories available for sale via mail order.