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Huge List Of Music Databases

March 22, 2006 By Graham English

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: Music video database.
  • Common Content: Copy & re-use audio.
  • PD Info: Public domain music.
  • Wikiportal Music: Music encyclopedia.
  • I Write The Music: Music resources for composers.
  • Chordie: Guitar chords, guitar tabs and lyrics.
  • Olga Guitar Archive: Tablature & chords.
  • The Blues Database: Albums, songs, bands, dicographies.
  • Standard MIDI Files on the Net: Links to composers offering MIDI files.
  • Unheard Beethoven: Collection of rare works re-created as MIDI files.
  • Tinfoil: Early recorded sounds & wax cylinders.
  • The Breaks: Database of Hip-Hop samples.
  • Project Gutenberg Music: Public domain sheet music, mainly classical.
  • Snopes Urban Legends: Tales about the music itself, the people who make it, the physical media on which it is recorded, and the packages that hold it.
  • Everything2 Music: Collaborative knowledge base of music & musicians.
  • h2g2 music: Guide to life, the universe and everything musical.
  • Second Hand Songs: Who performed the original version of a particular song, or who covered that song.
  • Connexions: Free scholarly materials, modules & courses.
  • Cylinder Preservation & Digitization Project: Over 5000 recordings for download.
  • Virtual Instrument Museum: Multimedia collection of musical instruments.
  • Microtonal & Just Intonation Theory: Encyclopedia of microtonal music theory.

Complete list: Dave’s Imaginary Sound Space

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