An online community of classical musicians and continuously updated video library curated by America’s Orchestral Academy. Provides access to classical music instruction and conversations for students and performers alike.
Site dedicated to old-time blues, acoustic blues, deep blues, traditional blues, pre-war blues, folk blues, primitive blues or Country blues. Index of artists.
Opera-Arias.com is an aria database containing information about more than 175 Opera Composers, 530 Operas, 2,890 Opera Arias, 860 Opera Duets, 620 Opera Ensembles, 2800 Opera Singers and a total of over 7,690 Opera Scenes.
Free Music Archive (FMA), founded in 2009 by radio station WFMU, offers free access to open licensed, original music. Historically, radio has always offered the public free access to new music. So with the help of curators, netlabels and thousands of independent musicians around the world FMA became a continuation of that purpose.
Listen to the changes in the "Star Spangled Banner" as played by different bands in different eras. Look at the ways in which sheet music cover art documents historical themes. Read essays discussing the histories of musical styles. Watch videos pairing sound recording with period illustrations. All this and more awaits you as the Library of Congress celebrates The Songs of America.
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