Mr. DeMoura's Music Links

Here are two Music Appreciation class files: Barber's Adagio for Strings, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor; and Bach's Badinerie from the Orchestral Suite No. 2.

The world wide web has many rich music resources.  Here is a selection:

	AllMusic Guide -- a complete, searchable, online database of recorded music; links to other facts about the artists
	Folkbook -- biographies, links, and information about folk music
	Gramophone -- the classical music magazine online
	I Hear America Singing -- Learn about the composers, poets, musicians, writers, events, and ideas that shaped American music.  Includes a wonderful overview of American music, biographies, videos, songs, a timeline, resources, and more.  A Songbook link contains the words of well-known songs.  Listen to performances by noted musicians.
	Jazz -- Jazz has been called the purest expression of American democracy; a music built on individualism and compromise, independence and cooperation. This is the PBS site based on the Ken Burns documentary.
	Lyrics World -- This index contains links to lyrics including all the songs found in "Top 40 Hits of 1930-1999", "#1 Songs of 1930-1999", "Top Singles by Decade" and "Artist Collections", plus many songs that aren't listed anywhere else.
	Music Resources on the Internet -- an extensive list of music sites from Indiana University including academic music resources
	Sibelius Academy Music Resources -- The Sibelius Academy, a conservatory in Helsinki, provides a list of music sites that would rival a Vienna guidebook. It not only links you to jazz, blues, rock, and pop pages but covers famous composers, gospel, instruments, research, theory, and opera as well.
	Smithsonian Jazz -- At this interactive Smithsonian destination you'll find dozens of jazz-related items, including documents, music, manuscripts, photographs, films, recordings and artifacts. Take the multimedia-rich Duke Ellington class online, then read up on the life and times of other jazz greats.

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This page was updated September, 2006.