Links (mostly free sites.)


General

ACMP: The Chamber Music Network.

Cantorion: audio and video clips, sheet music and concert listing

Classical Net: composers and their works.

dolmetch online: music dictionary, sheet music, biographies and other information about composers, music theory and history.

Klassika: in German; knowledge base, important dates, composers with catalogs of works, conductors.

Wikipedia: vast amount of information on composers, works' catalogs music history and theory.

University of Quebec: composers; catalogs of works.

Composers and their Works

See also individual composers' pages.

Karadar.

Classical Net: composers and their works.

University of Quebec.

Wikipedia: also, type in the search box the composer's name or "list of compositions by Firstname Lastname".

Downloads

Adobe® Acrobat® Reader: necessary to open PDF files (sheet music images).

Finale Reader™: opens, plays back and prints any Finale family or MusicXML file.

 

 

 

 

 

Humor

Instrument Jokes

Luthiers

Gregory S. Sapp Violins: repairs, rentals and dealership; Chicago area.

Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias

Dolmetch music dictionary.

Encarta: ; dictionary, thesaurus and translation.

Google Language Tools: translates (with audio pronunciation) text and search results.

Latin Prayers: with English translation. Pronunciation of Latin.

Wikipedia: modern musical symbols  musical terminology.

Performances / Performers

See also the individual Ensembles' pages.

Naxos Music Library: various recordings.

Public Domain classic: old recordings.

YouTube.

Sheet Music

IMSLP: browse by composer, period, nationality or genre.

Kreusch Sheet Music

SheetMusicFox.

Strings

Pirastro website: information about Pirastro products.

Transposition

Transposing instruments: detailed list.