Australian Music

• AIATSIS. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Australian Music Centre is a national organisation which serves to foster Australian composition by working with, and on behalf of, Australian composers and creative musicians to advance the dissemination of their work. It makes available information, music resources and publications
• Australian Music Web Site. A resource site, particularly bands, but also festivals,
  equipment retailers, studios, subject sites (jazz, metal, folk) & reference sources.
• MusicAustralia is an online service developed by the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive (a division of the Australian Film Commission) and other cultural institutions across the nation.. You can find, access and navigate a rich store of information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services, all from a single access point. You can find music scores, sound recordings, websites and a range of other music-related material held by a large number of Australia's cultural institutions or described by specialist music services. MusicAustralia covers both heritage and contemporary music, and includes all formats, styles and genres.
• NFRAM. The National Networked Facility for Research in Australian Music.

Copyright

• APRA: Australian Performing Rights Association and AMCOS:Australian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society 
• Australian Copyright Council

Ensembles

• Elision. Australia's National contemporary music ensemble
• Perihelion. Chamber Music ensemble from the University of Queensland.

Funding, Scholarships, Prizes, Training

• ArtsInfo
  Maintained by the Commonwealth Dept. of Communications & the Arts. Information on grants, training & industry development programs offered by Federal, State & local governments, corporations, foundations & non-government bodies.
• Arts Tas
  The Tasmanian Governments arts agency. Includes information on grants, loans, & jobs.
• Asialink Arts
  Offers artistic and cultural programs in Asia, including residencies, touring exhibitions and communication programs.
• Australia Council
  The Australian Government's principal arts funding and advisory service.
• Playing Australia. Dept.of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.
  Provides Commonwealth Govt. grants to companies, producers, venues, presenters and tour organisers to tour performing arts across State and Territory boundaries.
• Research College.   Postgraduate opportunities, Research & Development activities.

Government & Affiliated Sites

• Arts Tas
• Australia Council
• Australia's Cultural Network.  Dept.of Communications, Information Technology, and the Arts
  On-line gateway to Australia's cultural organisations, Web sites, resources, news and events.
• Australian Music Centre
• Music Council of Australia
• Screensound . National Screen & Sound Archive

Music Libraries

• IAML (Australian Branch) International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres.
• IAML (UK).   

Music Schools with extensive web links

• Indiana University. School of Music & William and Gayle Cook Music Library. 
  Worldwide Internet Resources  -  includes links to musicians & groups, composers, ensembles, research, & the commercial world.
• Sibelius Academy.   Links to many music sites, including jazz, pop, gospel, instruments, research, composers, theory and opera.

Music Theses

• Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music. International dissertations, complete and in progress. Alphabetical by author with links to abstracts.
• BAMER : Bibliography of Australian Music Education Research project maintained by Deakin University. Author access to research studies completed and in process, plus links to other sites
• DDM-Online : Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology.  1996+  Indiana University. 
  No abstracts 
•  Register of Postgraduate Music Dissertations, 1995+  Musicological Society of Australia. Theses completed or in progress in Australia and New Zealand arranged alphabetically by author within subject categories.          
  

Early Music

• Gregorian Chant Home Page.  Provides many links to research sites

Folk/Popular Music

• Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads. University of Oxford
• The Mudcat Cafe. A searchable folk song database.  This site will not be updated due to copyright concerns.
• LISWA (Library & Information Service W.A.) Music & Performing Arts Library.
  Song/Instrumental Index to songs, arias & instrumental pieces in anthologies & sheet music format. Does not cover sound recordings.

Jazz

• Jazzweb.  Northwestern University.

Keyboard

• The Piano Page. Piano technicians Guild. Includes technical & industry information, plus links to music resources.

Music Scores

• International Music Score Library Project: a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.
• Mutopia  This volunteer project has typeset editions of copyright free scores and is available for download.    Browse the collection by composer, instrument, or style. 
• Musicnotes.  A large variety of music books and digital sheet music which cover most instruments.

Orchestra

• Orchestra Net.   From the U.K. This site has links to orchestras worldwide.
  

Percussion

• The Drums and Percussion Page.  

Vocal

• The Aria Database.  Information on operatic arias, with translations and aria texts of most arias.
• Lied and Song Texts Page.   An archive of texts to lieder and other classical vocal pieces.
• Opera Glass.  Information on libretti, synopses, discographies, and more.

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