Composition, Music Theory, New Music, and Electronic Music Links
Great Resources- Counterstream Radio: Turn it on now!
- Harry Partch's Instruments: Play them on your computer!
- Ubu Web: lots of independent/avant-garde sound and video
- Kalvos and Damian New Music Bazaar: Archived Interviews and New Music Broadcasts
- Living Composers Project and another page of Links to Composers
Music Theory Help
- Theory Drill: Drill on many topics, including note names, intervals, and key signatures. Also including rhythmic dictation and performance drills.
- Theory Exercises: Theory exercises, allowing you to drill yourself, construct or do ear-training for a variety of topics. Note: don't make the optional settings too easy (the default settings often are).
- Links to a number of other drill and information sites: The other pages of this site (go here) are a series of theory lessons.
- Multimedia Approach to the Harmonic Series and Overtones and Just Tempering: Two sites that give more detailed information about the overtone series.
- Blank staff paper you can print
Electronic Music Studios
- Indiana University Center for Electronic and Computer Music Home Page
- University of North Texas Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
- The University of Texas at Austin Electronic Music Studios
- Eastman Computer Music Center
- IRCAM
Electronic Music Organizations
- Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS)
- International Computer Music Association
- Electronic Music Foundation
- MIDI.org
- Consortium to Distribute Computer Music (CDCM)
- Australian Computer Music Association (ACMA)
New Music and Electronic Music Publications
- NewMusicBox: The Web Magazine from the American Music Center
- AMG Classical Music Blog
- New Music Connoisseur
- Computer Music Journal
- Electronic Musician
Composer Organizations
- American Music Center
- Society of Composers, Inc.
- American Composers Forum
- The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM)
- International Association of Music Information Centres
- Composers Alliance of San Antonio (CASA)
- The College Music Society
Performing Rights Organizations/Copyright Information
- ASCAP
- BMI
- Public Domain Music
- Public Doman Music Score Library
- Mutopia Project public domain sheet music
- Cornell University: Copyright Term and the Public Domain
- When works pass into the public domain
Recordings
Music Publishers
- Non Sequitur Music
- Boosey Composers
- Spindrift Music
- Theodore Presser Company
- Peters
- Frog Peak Music
- Printed Music World Wide
Orchestration/Instrumentation Resources
- Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears (User name: isfee; password: donfreund)
- The Orchestra: A User's Manual
- Principles of Orchestration by Rimsky-Korsakov
- Major Orchestra Librarians' Association: How to make proper orchestra parts
- Guidelines for composing for guitar
Music Libraries