HELP FOR THE MUSIC LOVER

a lot of musicians asked me for such information.. so here it is :

PRACTICAL LINKS FOR

INDEPENDENT MUSICIANS,

AND FOR PROGRESSIVE MUSIC LOVERS

(provided by "Psyche van het Folk",

radio program on Radio Centraal based in Antwerpen, Belgium).

visitors since february 26th 2001 :

THIS PAGE IS ONLY A BEGINNING.

PLEASE SEND YOUR LINK PAGES TO HELP US ALL.

* General information :

- Educational links

- General help links

* Music genres interests :

- General search

- World Music search

- Folk search

- Singer Songwirters search

- Pagan music search

- Middle Ages search

- Gothic and dark search

- electronic and electro-accoustic search

- New Music search

- Jazz search

* Festival links

* Music Instruments :

- Musicians and their instruments

- guitar links

- piano links

- ethnic instruments links

- old instruments

- percussion instruments

* Collector's interests :

- General information

- Encyclopedia of progressive music -general

-for each country

- Revieuws pages & newsletters links.

- Collector's Mail orders

- (no internet but real) Shops links :

- Second hand shops

* Magazines :

- 60's

- progressive and psychedelic

- new music

- electronic

- folk

- Gothic

- more links

* Progressive radio stations :

- with bonus : folk radio links

* some extra helpful adresses for within Belgium

* some distributors for progressive music

GENERAL INFORMATION :

Educational links :

A good general page with therms,.. and a good educational start for music you can find at : http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/ with for instance "General music library" : http://www.music.indiana.edu/muslib.html and "internet music resources" : http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/outline.html

Sub-genres of progressive music at http://www.gepr.net/gepr_styles.html

& http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~inesta/Prog/progclass.html

Music Education links you can find at : http://albie.wcupa.edu/schmus.mue/515/menu6.htm

20st Century music introduction educational pages at http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/20th_Cen_Mus1.html

History of electronic music : http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/

(History of electronic music in Russia used to be at http://xmedia.aha.ru/archive/index.htm (part of http://xmedia.aha.ru/theremin/index.htm)

"Geschiedenis ethnische muziek" seminarie (dutch) at http://www.logosfoundation.org/etnische_muziek/aborigines.html

Educational pages "Elements of Music" : http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/Elements_of_Music1a.html

World music educational introduction : http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/logan_M151_MOW.html

Intro to the Arabo Andalusian instruments at http://srproj.lib.calpoly.edu/projects/engl/Zapata_Liziel_L/list.htm

World Music. Introduction in Indian Music : http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/Music_of_India1.html

Introduction to South Indian Music : http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~mohank/Articles/Exisiting/intro.html

Article about South Indian folk : http://research.umbc.edu/efhm/5/greene/

Introduction to North Indian Music : http://chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/

Indian music glossery (terms) : http://batish.com/archives/arcgloss.html

& http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/Music_of_India5.html

Traditional Maori Music at http://www.logosfoundation.org/etnische_muziek/maori_eng.html

Arabian Music educational introduction (huge) at http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/Arab_Music1.html

Early European Music educational introduction (huge but compact) at http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/Early_European_Music1.html

Educational pages for Middle Ages :

http://www.unf.edu/classes/medieval/medievalmusic.htm

Ethnomusicology introduction web site about African Music at http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/African_Music1.html

Educational introduction about Barock music at http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/Baroque_Music1.html

Educational introduction about Indonesian music pages at http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/Indonesian_Music1.html

Music of Latin Amerika educational introduction at http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/Music_of_Latin_America1.html

Classical and Romantic Music educational introduction at http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/Romantic_Music1.html

Research and study for music at http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/res.html

For (country and genre listed) encyclopedia for progressive music :

see at collectors' interests

General help :

Music links page : http://www.cdmusicstore.com/musiclnks.htm

Music books list :http://www.bestmusicbooks.com/books/index.shtml

Sheet music list : http://www.bestsheetmusic.com/sheet/index.shtml

Free Sheet Music so at http://www.freesheetmusic.net

Untill now I do only have http://www.musicaviva.com/index.html and http://www.freesheetmusicguide.com/ for a start)

A general music help organisation with links to a list with magazines

with help for musicians at : http://www.bigmeteor.com/books/mag_resource.htm up

Independent Artist's Services Contact : upend@idiom.com

Unsigned bands listing used to be at http://www.rockband.com/bands/phreeworld.asp

House Of Jordan Entertainment - used to be at http://www.houseofjordan.com

"Helping Independent Artists With Promotion."

Band promotion at http://www.hotbands.com/addwebpage.php

Indipendant musicians support at http://www.taxi.com

Distribution of indipendant progressive releases at www.midheaven.com

Music promotion links at http://www.musreview.com/cgi-bin/match.cgi?category=70&browse=x

Music industry search engine at http://www.musreview.com/

Music publisher list at http://www.musreview.com/cgi-bin/match.cgi?category=05&browse=x

Websites for artists at http://www.iuma.com/ArtistsOnly/

List of musicians at Bootlegs.com

Female music at http://www.bestfemalemusicians.com/index.html

(Female violinists at http://www.fiddlechicks.com/ with list at http://www.fiddlechicks.com/players.htm)

Audio Editor to Create, record, edit, draw, add effects & play MP3/audio files :

http://www.fleximusic.com/waveditor/overview.htm

MUSIC GENRES :

Useful links for World music :

World music links : http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/world.html

and http://www.unik.no/~robert/mizik/mizik.html and

http://www.medieval.org/music/world.html

Ethnomusical links : http://www.research.umbc.edu/eol/

Ethnomusical sources at http://www.worldmusicportal.com/Ethnomusicology/Ethnomusicology.htm

Institute for trad. Studies at http://www.institutefortraditionalstudies.org/

Arabic music source : http://www.worldmusic.about.com/musicperform/worldmusic/cs/arabicmusic/index.htm

About Farabi music (Turkish,Greek,..) at http://www.doumbek.com/farabi.html

Middle Eastern music lyrics at http://www.shira.net/lyrics.htm

Flamenco resources : http://www.flamenco.org/

Exotic music links : http://www.wildsscene.com/music/index.html

(See also educational links for the Indian music)

Exotic Hawai music : http://www.wildsscene.com/music/hawaii.html &

next page : 1 & 2 & 3 & 4

Chinese exotic : http://www.wildsscene.com/music/chinese.html

Oriental belly dance music : http://www.wildsscene.com/music/orient.html

Belly Dancing site : http://www.shira.net/

Exotic, World : Music of Bali,Java,Sunda,Madura (Indonesia) (in France web site : http://www.chez.com/gamelan/) with discs at : next page with links to the labels : here &

books about it : here Links to Gamelan related sites : http://www.gamelan.org/AGI/links.html & http://raven.dartmouth.edu/~gamelan/directory.html (from http://www.gamelan.org/)

Centre for world music in Bali : http://www.centerforworldmusic.org/

Trad.Maori Music at http://www.logosfoundation.org/etnische_muziek/maori_eng.html up

Usefull links to Folk music :

Folk music resources links : http://www.jg.org/folk/folkhome.html and http://folkindex.mse.jhu.edu/

Folk library links index : http://www.folklib.net/

Trad.folksong database : http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/dirty.html

Celtic Music resources : http://www.lutins.org/celtic.html

Folk links for North America at http://www.folk.org/Links/links.htm

(with Folk society and organisation links here)

European Starting point for folk : http://www.folkworld.de/

Folkroots online guide : http://www.folkworld.de/frog/index.html

English Folk and Dance Society : http://www.efdss.org/

Links to Balkan trad.music : http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3651/#cont

Portland folkmusic promotion : http://www.portlandfolklore.org/

Canadian folk at http://www.borealisrecords.com/ and traditional Canadian folk at http://www.clic.net/~thirtybe/

Breton folk music source : http://pobox.upenn.edu/~teachnet/Bretonjaf/bretonjaftoc.html

Scandinavian folk music source at http://www.digelius.com/scanmail.htm

Irish folk sites links at http://www.irish-music.net/LinkIrishMusic.htm

Folk music tunes (including Child ballads) page at http://www.contemplator.com/

Irish folk songs at http://www.cs.hut.fi/~zaphod/irish/

Celtic Music source at http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html

Mail order link list for celtic music at http://www.ceolas.org/mail-order/

Celtic music for fingerstyle guitar at http://www.win.net/~mainstring/celtic.html

Irish music groups at http://www.irish-music.net/LinkGroups.htm

Belgian folk bands at http://club.euronet.be/claude.calteux/html/ppbelg.htm

Belgian folk sites : http://www.volksmuziek.be/links.html en http://club.euronet.be/claude.calteux/html/ppbelg.htm

Belgian folkfestival http://www.folkdranouter.be/vzw%20start.htm

Belgian folk label and groups at http://welcome.to/appel

concertkalender folk in Belgium : http://www.radio1.be/cgi-bin/getcalender.pl?genre1=Folk

and (at link "concertkalender") here

Article with sound files about Croatian folk music : http://research.umbc.edu/efhm/3/pettan/index.html

Article about some music from Sardinia with sound files : http://research.umbc.edu/efhm/3/ignazio/index.html

Meditirranean music at http://research.umbc.edu/efhm/3/index.html with : Article

(Medittirranean) "Ethnical music in usa" at http://research.umbc.edu/efhm/3/signell/index.html with old recordings from the beginning

of century (Jewish | Greek | South Slav | Turkish | Italian) here and Meditirranean Jewish

and Moslim music (with soundfiles) here and Folk Music from Crete (with sound files) here

Big article about Kavals and Dzamares, end-blown Flutes of Greece and Macedonia here

Greek music site at http://gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/~datafox/greek/greek.html

Balkan music resources on the web links at http://www.sfo.com/~savina/links.htm

Article with soundfiles about Hungarian and Rumanian gypsy songs at http://www.research.umbc.edu/efhm/4/camino/index.html

Article Ballad singing in Italy : http://research.umbc.edu/efhm/magrini/magrini.html

Folklore in Argentinia page (in Spanish) : http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Stage/4363/

Russian (trad) music source at http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/music/music.html

About Australian & Pacific music (with sound files ) at http://www.research.umbc.edu/efhm/4/kennedy/

Folk in New Zealand at http://www.kiwifolk.org.nz/

Psychedelic Folk, Progressive Folk at http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/index.html

Live folk music organisation : http://www.folkmusic.org/about.html

Folk festivals links : http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/special/events1.html

Irish festivals at http://www.irish-music.net/LinkFestivals.htm

Folk festivals in North America links : http://www.folk.org/Links/festivals.htm

Folk managers and promoters list at http://www.folk.org/Links/agents,_managers_&_promoters.htm

Folk labels list at http://www.elbala.free-online.co.uk/spirefolk/links.htm#labels

and at http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/special/label.html

Folk radio : look at the page with radio stations

Usefull links for Singer Song Writers :

Singer songwriter directory : http://singer-songwriter.com/

Songwriting services : http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/songs.html

Singer Songwriting tips and contest at http://www.songwriting.net/ (in 5 languages)

Singer songwriter newsletter at http://members.tripod.com/~rubyb/index.html

Find your lyrics at http://lyrics.lipetsk.ru/bands.php3?l

Unsigned artists : http://www.stompinground.com/unsigned/acoustic.html

Useful links for Pagan Musicians

I provided already at my pages about Wicca and Pagan (folk) music, under the sublink on

the same page "general pages for music artists"

A few more useful links : http://pil.pagancentric.org/ and

http://hollyking.home.mindspring.com/

Another organisation supporting Pagan musicians :

Usefull links for Medieval music :

Middle Ages links : http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

www.unf.edu/classes/medieval/medievalmusic.htm

Some medieval music links : http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/music/music.html

Woman's early music : http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/index.html

Medieval folk : http://club.euronet.be/claude.calteux/html/ppmed.htm

An early music groups list at http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/earlymus.html

Only a few links for Gothic, Dark music :

The Gothic research link "Dark sides on the net" : http://www.darklinks.com/index.html

Belgische Gothic kalender : http://www.kagankalender.com/(in dutch)

(PS. Russian Gothic at http://www.gothic.ru/)

Useful links to the musicians dedicated in electronic, electro-accoustic and

experimental music :

Useful links to the dedicated musicians in electronic and electro-acoustic music used to be at http://xmedia.aha.ru/theremin/index.htm (very impressive what they found together). new link ? Experimental music software at http://www.robotsoftware.co.uk/

Electro-accoustic music college in Darthmouth College : http://music.dartmouth.edu/

Centre for new music and audio technologies "Promoting the Creative Interaction between Music and Technology" : http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu:/ .

Article about the evolution of electronic music at http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0048.html

Spanish pages about the evolution of electronic music (with lots of pictures) at http://www.rmsinstrumentacion.com/sideb/Historia/indice.htm

Reviews at http://www.amazings.com/reviews.html

Interesting articles about electronic music : http://www.amazings.com/featuresnews.html

(Electronic music magazine at http://www.amazings.com/)

Encyclopedia of electronic music at http://www.amazings.com/encyclo.html

A thesis about computer generated music composition : http://www.oz.net/~cyu/Thesis.html

Electronic music on the net links : http://www.stephan-schelle.de/emu/index.htm

Synthesiser and electronic music related entry at http://www.synthmuseum.com/

Experimental Music links (magazines,radio's,artist): http://www.aufabwegen.de/index.htm

Synth page at http://hem.passagen.se/sequence/

Usefull links for New Music :

New music promotion Logos (Belgium): http://www.logosfoundation.org/

New Music Musicians Coalition (with magazine) : http://www.aimcmc.com/

Some Usefull links for people into jazz :

See at bottom for useful Jazz links for Belgium and around.

FESTIVALS LINKS :

Folk festival links are listed at my "music genres interests / folk (search)" (see top list.

Some festival-links : http://www.progressive-newsletter.de/web_kon.htm (add your entries !)

and http://www.festivalfinder.com/

Groupies web site at http://www.groupiecentral.com/

MUSIC INSTRUMENTS :

Musicians and their music Instruments :

Musical instruments links : http://www.lutins.org/instrum.html

Music instruments list at http://www.musreview.com/cgi-bin/match.cgi?category=09&browse=x

"Folk Stuff" is "A web site dedicated to providing how to and where to information for folk musicians and those designing and building folk and experimental musical instruments;

including dulcimers, autoharps, kalimbas, theremins, didjeridus, pennywhistles and flutes."

: http://www.rogo.com/folkstuff/

International directory of Music instruments collections : http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/cimcim/id/index.html

GUITAR :

A search engine to many guitar sites

Guitarworld : http://www.guitarworld.com/0100/index.html

Guitarist list site : http://www.guitarsite.com/database/Bands-Artists/

Guitar links (sheets,..) in German http://www.gitarrenlinks.de/

Guitar instruction at http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~clives/page4.html

Educative introduction to guitar techniques : http://www.myguitarsolo.com

Guitar magazine : http://www.tcguitar.com/

Links for the American primitive guitar : http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/5322/

Guitar foundation of US : http://www.guitarfoundation.org/

Guitar festival (with information about guitarists) at http://www.bestguitarfest.com/

German guitar links : http://www.gitarrenlinks.de/

Self tuning guitars at http://www.selftuning.com

For musicians how to make bass pedals with effects : http://www.lynx.bc.ca/~jc/pedals.html

PIANO :

Pianomusic lovers site : http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/8840/index.html

ETHNIC AND OLD INSTRUMENTS :

World music instruments http://www.larkinam.com/

Arab-andalousian instruments : http://srproj.lib.calpoly.edu/projects/engl/Zapata_Liziel_L/list.htm

Ancient Egypt music instruments at http://showcase.netins.net/web/ankh/music.html

PERCUSSION :

Intro page for tabla : http://www.chandrakantha.com/tablasite/

Web site for drummers : http://www.drummingweb.com/

FOR LISTS AND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PROGRESSIVE MUSIC

(LISTED IN GENERAL LISTS AND FOR EACH COUNTRY) ,

FOR COLLECTORS LINKS

AND FOR LISTS FOR PROGRESSIVE MUSIC, GO TO PAGE 2.

FOR MAGAZINES GO TO PAGE 3.

FOR RADIO STATIONS GO TO PAGE 4. up

Some artists asked me where they could get a gig in Belgium, or who they had to contact. They can have a look at next pages for organisations in Belgium :

(organizers & locations) http://www.agenda-to.com/agenda/List_Org_01.asp?target=2

http://www.belgianmusic.net/

(with agenda : http://www.belgianmusic.net/agenda.htm)

(other agenda : http://www.netevents.be/Events.cfm?Categ=MUSIC&SiteCateg=MUSIC&lang=nl)

http://www.denartist.be/

http://houbi.com/belpop/links.htm

http://www.muziekcentrum.be/

http://www.artema.be/

For Jazz in Belgium and around Belgium (thank you Stefaan Van Gysegem): http://www.kantamedia.com/~oz/home.htm

http://www.damberd.be/

http://www.jazzvalley.com/

http://jazz.pagina.nl/