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Here are some websites that may be useful to composers. This list is in no means a complete list of all internet resources, but is a compilation of a variety of sites.
Composer’s Personal Websites
Jobs and Competitions
Music Theory Websites
Catalog, Index and Promotion Information
Various Compositional and Publishing Tools and Techniques
Composers’ Personal Websites:
Bruce Jacob: Algorithmic Composition
http://www.ee.umd.edu/~blj/algorithmic_composition/
“This page is about variations, an algorithmic composition system developed by me (BLJ). It produces scores for acoustic instruments, as I am more interested in hearing it performed by live performers than realized upon synthesizers and samplers. I am also more interested in traditional instrumental music than the "beep snort growl" music heard in many computer music concerts and publications today.”
Fractal Music by Patricia Mason
http://users1.ee.net/pmason/music2.html
Michael Daugherty
http://www.michaeldaugherty.net/
“This website includes biographical and compositional information about the post-modern composer as well as various reviews of performances of his works.”
Riddleworks Mad Composer’s Page
http://www.riddleworks.com/home.html
This site contains a lot of information about sound recording and engineering as well as guitar resources.
Soloman’s Music Theory and Composition Resources
http://music.theory.home.att.net/
This site contains both biographical information as well as a compilation of helpful compositional tools.
Tapestry MIDI Studio
http://quantumportal.com/
“Over 50,000 lines of software code provides rich improvisational landscape.”
Jobs and Competitions:
GigFinder.com
http://www.gigfinder.com/main_frame.html
This site targets popular musicians, but has a section for composers and songwriters.
MACRO Composers Competition
http://www.macromusic.org/applications/composition.html
Composition competition for members of MACRO. You may join when you are notified of winning.
Prix international de composition musicale “Reine Marie José”
http://www.reinemariejose.ch/
“In accordance with the will of the founder of the International Music Composition Prize « Queen Marie Jose », the committee organizes a contest every two years to award a prize of 15'000.- Swiss Francs [~$11,000 USD]. Its aim is to inspire new works and in this way encourage musical creation of quality.”
Music Theory Websites:
Music Theory Online
http://www.societymusictheory.org/mto/
“Music Theory Online is the refereed, electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory, Inc.. Published several times each year, each issue includes features such as articles, book reviews, and reports from a distinguished panel of International Correspondents. In addition, MTO publishes announcements of upcoming conferences and calls for papers, a list of job opportunities, abstracts of recently completed and in-progress dissertations, and summaries of recently published books.”
Websites that Catalog, Index, or Promote New Composers and Music:
The American Music Center
http://www.amc.net/
“The American Music Center (AMC) is a national service and information center for new American music.”
The Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers
http://www.under.org/cpcc/
“The Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers is and internet-based service organization for composers, dedicated to providing a single, comprehensive resource containing opportunities (competitions, faculty openings, grants, etc.) as well as a platform from which members can disseminate information about their own works and activities.”
The Deep Listening Catalog
http://www.deeplistening.org/dlc/index.html
“Deep Listening Publications is a unique annotated artists' catalog committed to music and sound works that transcend cultural boundaries and stretch the mind….The Deep Listening Catalog is curated by Pauline Oliveros, an internationally acclaimed composer, performer, author and lecturer. Oliveros has worked at the forefront of new music composition since the fifties and today is considered one of the world's most distinguished experimental composers.”
Electronic Music Foundation
http://www.emf.org/
“Founded in September 1994, Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the creative potential of electronic music, in its myriad forms and technologies, in our world.”
Harvestworks Digital Media
http://www.harvestworks.org/
“Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1977 to cultivate artistic talent using electronic technologies. Harvestworks' programs provide artists with production studios, grant opportunities, education, communal lab practice and distribution.”
Journal of New Music Research – Electronic Appendex
http://www.swets.nl/jnmr/jnmr.html
“This Electronic Appendix (EA) contains sound examples that have been mentioned in articles of the Journal of New Music Research”
NewMusicBox
http://www.newmusicbox.org/
“This site is a news publication of The American Music Center designed to provide media coverage of new music.”
The SoundArt Foundation, Inc.
http://www.soundart.org/
“New York City's source for information on concerts of contemporary music.”
Various Compositional and Publishing Tools and Techniques:
American Gamelan Institute
http://www.gamelan.org
“Gamelan music of all kinds, in Indonesia and around the world, is supported and documented by the American Gamelan Institute, an organization devoted to publishing, recording, distributing, and making available information on all aspects of Indonesian performing arts and their international counterparts.”
EMI Music Publishing
http://www.emimusicpub.com/worldwide/index.html
This site offers listings of their signed songwriters as well as contact information for the organization.
Fractal Music Lab
http://www.fractalmusiclab.com/default.asp
“Fractal Music Lab… contains examples of fractal music, downloadable software you can use to compose original fractal music, and information and activities designed to help you better understand fractals and their possible roles in music composition.”
Fractint Homepage
http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/fractint.html
“Fractint is a freeware fractal generator created for IBMPC's and compatible computers. It is the most versatile and extensive fractal program available for any price.”
Joseph Schillinger System of Musical Notation
http://www.geodyne.com/schillinger/
This site outlines a geometrical system of organizing musical notation as developed by Joseph Schillinger.
Kohn on Music Licensing
http://www.kohnmusic.com/
“A free resource for anyone who has questions about Copyright Law and Licensing Music for use and distribution over the World Wide Web.”
Music Publishing and You
http://www.mpa.org/you.html
A great resource for all things related to publishing.
National Music Publishers Association
http://www.nmpa.org/
“Copyright is a legal device that protects the music itself -- not the paper on which it is printed nor the recording on which it is performed. It is copyright alone that makes music publishing feasible, for without it there is no protection against the unrestricted and uncompensated use of the property of a composer/lyricist and their publisher.”
r.l. reid’s notes on microtonal composition
http://www.panix.com/~ro/tuning/tuning.html
“These are various notes - mine and others - on microtonal composition. This continues to evolve. It's worth checking back from time to time.”
Taiko Resource
http://www.taiko.com/rollingthunder.html
“Taiko refers to both the modern art of taiko drumming (kumi-daiko), and to the taiko drums themselves. Taiko in the Japanese classical arts have a history spanning close to two thousand years, and modern taiko drumming (kumi-daiko) is quickly taking the world by storm. The Rolling Thunder Taiko Resource is dedicated to gathering and sharing information about taiko. Do you have taiko questions? This is the place to come for answers!”
United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
“We in the Copyright Office are proud to be part of a long tradition of promoting progress of the arts and protection for the works of authors. Our homepage has been created with the desire to serve the copyright community of creators and users, as well as the general public.”
Wizoo
http://www.wizoo.com/
“In the space of just four years, Wizoo earned a sterling reputation as a small but select brand offering some of the finest music books, sounds, samples and music software on the market.”
World Percussion Music and Resources
http://www.worldpercussion.com.au/
“World Percussion is a publisher of Percussion ensemble music and teaching material written by Australian Percussionist Kevin Tuck.”
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