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Music
Magazines at WPL
Music Websites
- Allmusic.
Website for music recordings in all genres, plus composer/artist discographies,
bio ’s and timelines:
- Canadian Sheet Music from Canada's Past: First
World War Era.
Nearly 400 pieces of music have been chosen from the historical collection
of the National Library of Canada and will be available for downloading.
This collection includes patriotic and parlour songs, piano pieces,
sacred music
and novelty numbers from the period. Many of the cover illustrations
are of particular interest.
- CanadianBands.com. Web site with lots of
information on Canadian Bands!
- CanEHdian .Great
source for Canadian Music!
- Classical Composers. This database allows you to search biographies, timelines and reviews.
- The Encyclopedia of Music
in Canada
This electronic version of the Second Edition of The Encyclopedia of
Music in Canada (1992) is designed to enable musicians, music scholars,
students,
and music lovers globally to have immediate access to information
about music in Canada. EMC's electronic edition, presented in both
official
languages, will continue to be updated on an ongoing basis over
the next several
years.
- Northern
Journey Folk Music.
A comprehensive repository of links relating to Canadian folk music.
- Ontario Council of Folk Festivals A good site for festival listings, songwriting competitions, and events promoting traditional, contemporary and multicultural folk music.
- Second Hand Songs Who first sang that song or composed
it and how many artists covered it? Find out at Second Hand Songs: The
database
already contains 62708 songs (15193 originals, 45937 cover
songs and 1578 songs with samples) and 22998 artists (performers and
songwriters).
- SOCAN.
Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada
- SOCAN - royalties, composer, writer, SOCAN is the Canadian
copyright collective.
In My Community
Lyrics Search
- Cantaria.
A library of "bardic" folk songs, mostly from Ireland, Scotland
and England (e.g. Auld Lang Syne ). Includes sound files for most of
the 160 included titles.
- DigiTrad Lyrics Search.
Searchable index of over 6500 folk songs. Provides actual song lyrics.
- Lyrics.astraweb. Rock,
pop, hip-hop and rap.
- Lyrics.com - See the Search by Artist A to Z listing
at the bottom of the page.
- Top40db. Lyrics
Pop song lyric search site.
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