Music
TAGS: Audio, Chill, Music
Intro
Music creates order out of chaos;
for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent,
melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed,
and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.-Sir Yehudi Menuhin
I don't know much about music and although I've had a few years of piano, I'm not very good at making music. However I do know that I like to listen to music sometimes.
This page used to have a listing of my favorite songs, but as of 2008-06-2 I moved them to a spreadsheet: GH Music [http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pYBfwK2ycWbLI9iALJlJdVA]. It's a fun little activity and it might be useful if I ever have to reconstruct my music collection or if I wanted perspective on what to get or listen to.
I have been tempted to delete this page many times because I don't have the time to do the topic justice, even if I try to present just my point of view. However I think it would be beneficial for my musical education and self examination if I persist in trying to do this page.
Links
Links that lead to off-site pages about Music. See also Audio#Links.
- Music TV
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Online Music. There are many out there. There are ways to get free music too. Listen to almost any song by searching video sites like youtube.com. I'll just list particular ones.
- Comparison of online music stores [W].
- Amazon.com. They have DRM-free music download (MP3) for 89¢ (USD).
- eMusic [emusic.com].
- iTunes [apple.com/itunes/]. By Apple.
- Napster [napster.com].
- Pandora [pandora.com]. 'radio from the Music Genome Product'. It groups music by "genome" or by like music. Largely free/gratis.
- Rhapsody [rhapsody.com]. By RealNetworks.
- Yahoo! Music [music.yahoo.com]. The radio is free/gratis and lets you rate songs, albums, and artists so you they can start feeding you music that you like. The radio can stream via IM, a web page, or an app. Yahoo also sells songs.
- Zune [zune.net]. By Microsoft.
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Miscellany
- Electronic Musical Instruments (1870-1990).
- A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
- Ask.Metafilter.com/mefi/6444#132028. A nice post by Chris Mearon what a key in music is.
- Badger Badger Badger [http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/]. That site is easier to remember than where the Flash video originally came from: http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers/.
- Billboard [billboard.com]
- CD Baby [cdbaby.com]. 'a little CD store with the best new independent music'
- Dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm. 'music theory & history online'
- Good-Ear.com. 'For a musician ear training is one of the most important tasks. Good Ear helps you to develop good ears. It works within your browser.'
- Great American Songbook [W]. These folks from 1930/1969 are all great!
- ilearnmusic.com.
- Music123.com. Musical instruments and supplies.
- The Muse's Muse [MusesMuse.com]. A resource and online community for songwriters.
- MusicMoz.org. 'a comprehensive directory of all things music, edited by volunteers. We list, and accept submissions of, music-related reviews, articles, factual information, biographies, and websites.'
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Name-This-Tune.com
- 'Musipedia! Inspired by, but not affiliated with Wikipedia, we are building a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. Every entry can be edited by anybody. An entry can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last but not least the Parsons Code, a rough description of the melodic contour, to make the encyclopedia searchable by melody. '
- The ability to search by Parson's Code for melodic contours is fascinating.
- One Million Free & Legal Music Tracks!. This guy is trying to make a wiki compiling links to free music.
- Ossmann.com/BigEars/. 'Welcome to Big Ears, the Original Online Ear Trainer!'
- Ricci Adam's Music Theory [musictheory.net].
- SongWritersHallOfFame.org. 'Founded in 1969, the Songwriters Hall of Fame is dedicated to recognizing and honoring the accomplishments and lives of those men and women who create the popular songs that serve as the soundtrack of our lives. The ultimate goal of SHOF is to establish a physical home for its vast collection of memorabilia and research material, making available to the public a comprehensive collection and archives exploring the history of popular music and encourage the next generation of songwriters.'
- Terrible Movies [terriblemovies.com]. Of course some of these are so bad that they're good. EG: The 1992 martial arts classic Undefeatable (aka Cui hua kuang mo [imdb.com/title/tt0111552/]).
- The Sound of Mathematics. 'This site has GM MIDI files of algorithmic music determined by mathematics and the musical preferences of a human.'
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