Music

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Contents 1 Select Titles 2 Music CD's by Genre 3 Popular Music Topics 4 Magazines and Journals at the Library 5 Community Resources 6 Web Resources

Select Titles

Music CD's by Genre

Classical Country Folk

Holiday Jazz Miscellaneous

Opera Popular Rap

R&B Religious Soundtrack

World Local Music

Popular Music Topics

Ballet Computer Sound Production Digital Music Guitar Music Appreciation Music Encyclopedias

Music History Musicals Musician Biographies Percussion Instruments Philosophy of Music Piano

Songbooks and Scores Songwriting and Publishing String Instruments Wind Instruments Vocal

Magazines and Journals at the Library

• The library owns literally thousands of magazines and newspapers in print, microfiche, microfilm, and electronic formats. These magazines are located in the Reading Room, our Youth Services Department, the Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department, and our Retrieval Desk at the Main library, as well as at each of our branches.

• Search our catalog for specific titles.

• Search our databases for full-text articles and citations from thousands more magazines and newspapers. Check MeL (the Michigan Electronic Library) to find out if a magazine's full-text articles are included in a database.

• Below are lists of the current newspapers and magazines we have in the Reading Room at the Main Library.

Back Stage East Billboard  (website) Blues Revue  (website) CMJ New Music Monthly  (website)

Down Beat  (website) Gramophone  (website) JazzTimes  (website) Opera News  (website) Playbill  (website)

Premier Guitar (website) Rolling Stone  (website) Sound & Vision  (website) Spin  (website) Stereophile  (website)

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Community Resources

The Bach Chorale of Grand Rapids Blue Lake Public Radio Chamber Choir of Grand Rapids Embellish Handbell Ensemble Girls Choral Academy Grand Rapids Ballet Company Grand Rapids Federation of Musicians Grand Rapids Sweet Adelines Grand Rapids Symphonic Band Grand Rapids Symphony Grand Rapids Symphony Youth Choruses Grand Rapids Women's Chorus

Grand River Folk Arts Society GRCC Music and Performing Arts Program Great Lakes Barber Shop Chorus GVSU Music and Performing Arts Program Michigan Radio Stations The North American Choral Company Opera Grand Rapids St. Cecilia Music Society Schubert Male Chorus of Grand Rapids West Michigan Jazz Society WYCE 88.1FM

Web Resources

• A to Z Lyrics Universe - Comprehensive source of lyrics to popular songs and artists.
• ChoralWiki - One of the world's largest free sheet music sites.
• Classical Net - This site offers DVD and Book reviews and over 5300 links to other classical music web sites.
• The Hiphop Archive - Facilitates and encourages the pursuit of knowledge, art, and culture through Hiphop
• Last.fm - A UK-based internet radio and music community website.
• Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection - Collected by Johns Hopkins University, this collection contains over 29,000 pieces of music, primarily American.
• Metacritic - A website that collates reviews of music albums, as well as other media.
• Mojam - This site helps you find concert dates locally and worldwide. Search by artist, date, venue, and city.
• Myspace Music - A social networking site that hosts pages of virtually every band.
• Operabase - This site features information on over 500 opera houses and festivals.
• Opus 1 Classical - This site provides information on classical music concerts, festivals and opera world wide.
• Pandora - An automated music recommendation and Internet radio service created by the Music Genome Project.
• Paste Magazine - A music and entertainment magazine.
• Pitchfork - A Chicago-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews.
• Playlist - A 'social music community' website where you can create a playlist from an extensive database to share with other users.
• PureVolume - A website where bands and musical artists can promote and advertise themselves.