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. Barber also created a choral version of the Adagio, the Agnus Dei, here performed by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge.

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.
	Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians -- This eBook set covers all musical genres, with new entries written by a distinguished group of area specialists as well as the original articles by Nicolas Slonimsky. This work continues the tradition of offering the most comprehensive and authoritative information on musicians, along with interesting and insightful evaluations of their contributions to the musical world.

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This page was updated April, 2010.