Subject Guide for Music

Electric Library

Find newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, television transcripts, and encyclopedic material here.

Biography Resource Center

This fantastic biography resource now includes the respected Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians for accurate biographical information on popular and classical musicians.

Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Spells out the pronunciation of musical terms, works, arias, instruments, composers, etc.

Songs in Public Domain

http://www.pdinfo.com/

Lists of songs in the public domain

This Day in Music

http://www.billboard.com/billboard/thisday/thisday.jsp

This site provides a list of events that took place on specific dates.

Tulsa Opera

http://www.tulsaopera.com/

Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame

http://www.okjazz.org/

Located in the historic Greenwood area of Tulsa, this site honors the great jazz, blues and gospel music and musicians of this region.

Tulsa Performing Arts Center

http://www.tulsapac.com/

In addition to five theaters, this center of Tulsa's cultural events also houses some of Tulsa's finest artwork.

Tulsa Philharmonic

http://www.tulsaphilharmonic.org/

The Tulsa Philharmonic was formed in 1948 and offers more than 65 concerts and 235 ensemble performances each year in a variety of programs, including Masterworks and the Lollipops series, classical music designed especially for children.

All About Jazz

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/newbie.htm

Defines jazz and tells its history and gives advice on building a jazz library.

All Music Guide

http://www.allmusic.com

This is a wonderful resource for introductory essays to music genres as well as artist biographies and album reviews.

MusicTheory.net

http://www.musictheory.net/index.html

An interactive website with music theory tutorials for students and teachers. Lesson topics include: staff, clef, and ledger lines; note duration; measure and time signatures; rest duration; dots and ties; simple and compound meter; odd meter; steps and accidentals and more.

Who Represents

http://www.WhoRepresents.com

Find out who is the agent for whom and vice versa at this site.

Tulsa Musicians

http://www.tulsalibrary.org/research/tulsa/musicians.php

Find local musicians with some biographies here.

Song Index

http://www.tulsalibrary.org/research/ORC_Topic.asp?ID=37

This is a TCCL listing of song titles which the Research Center has in its many songbooks.

Copyright Tips

http://www.tulsalibrary.org/research/ORC_Topic.asp?ID=400

Find out what, when and how you can use music, or how to copyright your own creations!

Performing Arts Encyclopedia

http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/encyclopedia/

A guide to the performing arts collections and exhibitions at the Library of Congress.

Tulsa Area Music Archives

http://www.preservemusic.org/projects.htm

P.O. Box 582 Bixby, OK 74008

http://www.preservemusic.org/contactus.htm

A limited amount of biographical information on Tulsa musicians.