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Magazines at WPL
- BBC Music Magazine (classical)
- Canadian Musician Information on Canadian musicians and news from the music business in Canada.
- Coda (Canada’s Jazz magazine)
- Downbeat (Jazz)
- Gramophone (Classical)
- Rolling Stone (Popular)
- Sing Out (Folk)
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
- Windsor Symphony Orchestra
- Bluesfest International - Windsor's very own International Blues Festival
- The Shores of Erie International Wine Festival - Keep your eye out for a great line-up of acts!
- CJAM - University of Windsor campus radio station
- Whole Note Music Therapy - Provides music therapy services in Windsor and Essex County.
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.