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Music: Composer & Instrument sites
Composers
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MusRef Composer websitesincludes contemporary composers
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IAWM: International Alliance for Women In MusicWomen composers and performers; free streaming music.
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Boulanger Initiative DatabaseInfo on women and gender-marginalized composers. Includes: notes on the composer, public domain images and photographs, and/or links to their works (scores & audio/video recordings)
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Music by Black ComposersUnder Resources, see the Living Composers directory; has bios, recordings, links to scores (depending on the composer)
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Classical Net - Composersinformation on composers' biographies, recommended works and recordings, and reviews and articles.
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BBC Audio ClipsInterviews of selected composers, often with music clips, from the BBC
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Bach Bibliography from the Bach Archive in LeipzigClearinghouse for scholarship on Bach. Each work has a complete citation, a link to the larger work (in the case of journal articles), & citations for reviews of the work, if any exist.
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Beethoven GatewayIncludes digital manuscripts, "autograph" scores (first editions), maps, a thesaurus, and more.
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Berlioz, HectorHector Berlioz's musical scores, literary works, info about his travels, letters....
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Bernstein, LeonardLeonard Bernstein official site
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Ives, CharlesCritical commentaries on selected Ives' works, not published elsewhere
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Mozart Institute: NMA OnlineNeue Mozart-Ausgabe / New Mozart Edition's purpose is to make Mozart's compositions easily, freely, digitally accessible.
Instruments
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National Music Museumincludes more than 15,000 American, European, & non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures & historical periods
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Virtual Instrument MuseumYouTube channel: pictures & sounds of 57 instruments from around the world
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Musica Antigua Instrument GuideGuide to Medieval and Renaissance instruments: info, images, sound, and bibliography.
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