The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus

The instrument encyclopedia. Primarily brief descriptions and pictures of instruments from all over the world. Geographical access or access to information via instrument.

AEC - Association of European Academies of Music

www.aecinfo.org

www.bologna-and-music.org

www.doremifasocrates.org

Wind Instruments

Recorder
The Recorder Home Page.
Very extensive Australian flutesite. Links to history, composers, competitions, technique a.o.

Flute
Larry Krantz Flute Pages. Commercial and quite unstructured site including technique, theory, health, repertoire lists, advertisements a.o.

Floejtenisten.dk. Private site for student of flute at The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, which can be used as exchangeforum between flutists.

Clarinet
The Clarinet Pages. Information on technique, discographique information on works, composition database, equipment, stolen clarinets etc. Classical and jazz.

Saxophone
International Saxophone Homepage
Mainly information on present performers. Also reviews on cd's, articles, commercial links. Primarily jazz.

Sax on the web.
The history of the saxophone, information on technique, the instrument and its maintenance plus quite a few commercial links. Primarily rhythmical ressources.

Nordic Saxophone Magazine
Focus on classical saxophone.

Bassoon
The Bassoon-Family Fingering Companion
Fingering-index for bassoon based on the Heckel-system (german) and the Buffet-system (french).

Tuba
The Dutch Tuba Site including: technique, performers, music. Information on the instrument and related instruments.

Bow Instruments

Viola
Information for The Viola Society on performers, competitions, publishers a.o. Also articles, references to literature and links to organizations.

Double Bass
Double Bass Links Page Consists of links to classical and rhythmic ressources; history, competitions, performers, instruments and magazines.

Upton Bass.com

Stringed Instruments

Guitar
Guitarnotes.
The site has emphazis on rhythmic guitar but it also includes links for people interested in classical guitar. Links to performers, theory, instruction, accessories, instruments, magazines a.o.

Guitar. About com
A lot of good links to rhythmic guitar in particular. Links to instruments, lyrics, music, tabs, performers and instruction. Description of all links.

World Guitarist. Classical guitar-site from USA including information on present performers, festivals and competition, note-publishers and organizations.

Guitar Info. An new Danish website for everyone with an interest in guitar. Including reviews of concerts new cd's, books and education material. Furthermore and extensive archive of cords and scales.

Percussion

Drums
Harmony central. Drums and percussion. Links to theory, the Olga-base, magazines, instruments (reviews and commercial sites).

Percussion
Classical Percussion Home Page. Theory and technique plus information on a few composers and works.

Key Instruments

Accordion
http://www.accordionlinks.com/
Extensive guide til accordion-links within all genres.

Piano
http://www.pianopedia.com/
A search engine connected to a large database of classical piano works.

Vocal

ChoralNet
Extensive international choir potal in English, German, Spanish or French. Including activity calendar, links to choirs all over the world, to resources on classical music and mailing lists and news groups.

Musica International Database of the choral Music.
This international project is an extensive database with more than 71.000 references. Addressing both conductors, music schools, music researchers a.o. but also for the 'common' choir enthusiast. Search categories include composer, arranger, title, genre, difficulty, language, century etc.

Lyrics

Danske sange. Possibility to search for approx. 350 well known Danish songs.

The Lyrics Library gives references to vocal databases within rhythmic and popular music - blues and folk, gospel, musical and soundtracks.

The Aria Database including more than opera arias. Also contains translations of operas and aries plus midi files of arias and ensembles.

The Lied and Song Text Page. Access on composer, writer, title, first line, language, song cycle or free text search. Contains approx. 15.000 lieder, romances etc.

Music

Many different kinds of music paper from University of Virginia for download: vocal, instrument, orchestra, bigbanc etc.s

Theory of Music

Music Teoria. Theory and aural training online. In English and Spanish.

Earobics is a Danish aural training program addressing musicians at all levels. Free download.

Music Theory
Contains tips on voicing, harmonic progression and melodic composition. You can test your knowledge on tone analysis, score writing and figured bass. Including dictionary.

The Jazz improvisation Primer.
Extensive site on jazz improvisation, including theory of musik, ensemble, history of jazz a.o.

Music Education

K-12 Resources for Music Educators.
Quite a few links for choir leaders, music teachers and orchestra leaders.

Music - in general

Xrefer.
Access to free search in a number of English encycolpedias including: Oxford dictionary of music (1994), Penguin dictionary of music (1998), Grove concise dictionary of music (1994) and New Grove dictionary of jazz (1988).
Choose "music" in the scroll menu before searching.

Classical Music

Duke University. Very extensive site on classical music. Information on the best known composers (approx. 340): homepages and other information, MIC and organizations in a lot of countries. Access to electronic magazines. Links to classical genres: vocal music, opera, chamber music, instrumental music and to instruments, aural training and theory of music.

Rhythmic Music

All Music Guide.
Access to artists, albums and genres within rhythmic and popular music. Search on albums (400.000 with ratings), songs, genres and labels.

Orchestras, ensembles and organizations

http://www.klassisk.dk/a.htm
A collection on links to musicians, orchestras, choirs, music education, music stores etc. in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

Also a large number og ensembles and orchestras from all over the world on Musikchairs

Musiknet. Information on Danich music life: Musicians, organizations, publishers, labels, rehearsal studios, sound and lighting etc. Besides access to 16 Danish music magazines.

Music conservatoires

Carl Nielsen Academy of Music, Odense
The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen
Rhythmic Music Conservatory
Academy of Music, Aalborg
Academy of Music, Esbjerg

The rest of the world
Se the list at Sibelius Akademiet

Other music education

blivnogetvedmusikken.dk. Portal for music education in Denmark - including education guide, quiz, links, calendar and much more

The Danish Academy of Musical Theatre, Fredericia, Denmark

Musical Therapy at University of Aalborg

Danish Ministry of Culture

Courses/Competitions/Festivals

Musicalchairs. Information on courses, competitions (and master classes) and vacancies in Europe and USA. Also addresses for a large number of orchestras and ensembles. In Spanish, French, German, Italian, English, Swedish and Danish.

World Federation of International Music Competitions. Option to search cronologically, geographically and on an instrument. In English and French

Publishers

The Classical Sheet Music Page. Primarily access to a large number of note publishers from all over the world. Also access to large databases with music equipment.

Music Magazines

Indiana University. Access to quite a few magazines within different genres: Articles, reviews and table of contents.

University of London. Magazines addressing performes and researchers and deals with theory of music and science of music.

RoJaRo. This database covers the content of music magazines from all over the world in the genres: rock, jazz, roots, blues, country, gospel, soul, rap, metal, reggae, punk and world music. Option to search for articles, reviews, festivals etc.

Dansk Musik Tidsskrift (DMT)
Access to search for and read articles from DMT (1925 till present day)

The State Librarys' Music Links
List of 15 Danish music magazines on the internet