Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
The Library of Congress recently launched a new Performing Arts Encyclopedia on its Web site (loc.gov). It’s a grand resource for those interested in exploring the realms of music, motion pictures, broadcasting, recorded sound, manuscripts, rare books and other collections.
The site also includes an entire section devoted to jazz. Jazz fans can browse the site [...]
Musiclens lets you search for music using vague criteria like how loud it is or its tempo and mood. Pretty spiffy flash interface as well.
Musiclens is different from Song Tapper and maybe not as good for finding the title of a song. But it shines if you use it to discover new music. I especially [...]
LyricWiki is a free site where anyone can go to get lyrics for any song from any artist! They have a substantial database already for you to search and contribute. They even have a FireFox search plugin. read more.
Some of my favorites:
Wikipedia Musical Genre: User built info for all genres.
Ishkur Electronic Music: Guide to electronic music & sample database.
Discogs.com: Record labels, artists and releases.
MusicBrainz.org: Music metadata tag creator.
Weirdomusic.com: Strange, wacky, odd, and just plain bizarre music.
Mutopia: Free sheet music archives.
Indie- Friendly Radio: Stations accepting indie artists.
Musipedia: Search notation & melodies.
GuitarGeek: Guitar rig database
mvdbase.com: [...]
I'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
Why Americans Don't Like Jazz http://dyske.com/paper/778 1 day ago
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