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CyberBass is a free service that provides online MIDI accompaniments to many standard choral works. In addition, separate MIDI files for each individual voice part are available as an aid to learning and practicing individual parts.

Program Notes is a free, volunteer-powered, collaborative database for program notes. Anyone is welcome to contribute or use the program notes found here for any purpose.

Norton Music's User Style Disks for Band-In-A-Box contain authentic styles that include the kinds of parts that real, working, professional musicians would actually play. They don't get in the way of the melody, and they don't sound corny. · Norton Music'

Impro-Visor ("Improvisation Advisor") is a software tool designed by musician and computer scientist Bob Keller to help jazz musicians work out, hear, and record solo ideas, including studying the work of others. It provides a notation capability for lead

This overview stems from "real life" experience and reflection over the past seven years in using electronic learning, with choral ensembles at the university level, and from working with choral directors and public school teachers/students around the cou

the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)! We at the IMSLP believe that music should be something that is easily accessible for everyone. For this purpose we have created a music library to provide music scores free of charge to anyone with in

Music performance is not so narrowly defined as to be simply a concert or a recital. It is an experience, encompassing teaching and learning, analysis and critique, and the combined experiences of those who interact in diverse ways with the processes and

This web site is the home of the Open Hymnal Project to create a free, public domain, downloadable database of Christian hymns, spiritual songs, and prelude/postlude music. I am doing my best to create a final product that is "Hymnal-quality", and could f

This site contains full score analyses, teacher and student guides, and webquests for band, choral, orchestral, and elementary/secondary general music classes.

Welcome to the Petrucci Music Library! Our goal is to create a virtual library containing all public domain music scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.The Petrucci Music Library also

SmartBoard music lesson plans.

Each opera has a short introductory article; video clips from a performance; interviews that may include a conductor, stage director, and performer of the show; a short, act-by-act synopsis of the opera; and additional links to related NPR stories.

A collaboration between the American Choral Directors Association and the Library of Congress. Contains public domain choral music that users can download, information on the composers, and material related to historical context and stylistic features.

Access to opera libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses, discographies, and so on. The site also contains an opera information directory, which features an opera composer index containing 4800 entries. Free "Opera For Everyone" CD's.

Patriotic Melodies tells the stories behind many of the songs that have now become part of the American national heritage. A combination of hymns, national songs, music of the theater, radio and television, military themes, and poetry, all of this music d

This online guitar chord primer takes novice and experienced guitar players through all sorts of chord variations and possibilities.

Sounds, images and text illuminate the sweep of Met History from the formation of the company in 1880, the first performances in 1883, through to the conclusion of the 2003-04 season.

This site is the online companion to my book, The Macintosh iLife '06, published by Peachpit Press and Avondale Media.

Updates, loops, and plug-ins for GarageBand.

The CD-Rom companion to O'Reilly's tutorial text for GarageBand.

Peachpit's tutorial text for iLife software suite.

This series of movies starts by taking you through the basics of using the GarageBand interface, and then shows you how to work with Apple Loops, Software Instruments, and Real Instruments.

O'Reilly's publisher website for their published GarageBand tutorial text.

Tutorials and advice for using GarageBand including links and listings of published tutorials.

Peachpit's publisher webpage for their GarageBand tutorial book.

Various video tutorials for using Garage Band.

Amazon's retail page for Apple's training series for GarageBand.

Advice, news, tutorials, and other resources for use with GarageBand.