Bad Music
This is fun! I always disliked Yoko Ono (and yes, she did harm to the Beatles) here is one more reason to despise her. (UJM)
"Description: This 'work of art' was recorded live on stage in Toronto. We defy anyone to sit through this entire track and not break into primal laughter."
Plus many more "artists like Joe Pesci, Leonard Nimoy, etc.
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http://bad-music.empty-handed.com/
The CU president's picks:
radio locator (formerly the MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet)
"Welcome to Radio-Locator, the most comprehensive
radio station search engine on the internet. We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world."
Other links
A Brief History of the Blues
Read about one of the most important (and popular) styles of music history: the Blues.
Jens Uwe Witter: Das Klavierlexicon - The Piano Encyclopedia (German)
Huschke, Wolfram, the incredible cellist from Hamburg, Germany.
Welcome to the classical music department of the WWW Virtual Library!
The Life of Maria Callas
Maria Callas is one of the most famous sopranos ever. Learn about her life and her career at this site from Italy.
Biography of Luciano Pavarotti
Another opera legend, Pavarotti.
the German Richard Wagner (1813-83) was a composer known for his classical music and for his operas. This site offers biographical information, as well as resources on his famous works.
Monteverdi's Orfeo is considered to be the first opera.
History of the Metropolitan Opera
Learn about one of the world's most celebrated opera
companies.
Opera of a different style.
At this amazing site, you can search for arias by opera, composer, and voice part. Once you find it, many arias come with lyrics and translations.
Musical Instrument Encyclopedia
The lessons about music begin immediately on this Website, as you begin by choosing among four ways to expand your search for instruments: alphabetical, geographical, hierarchical, and type of material.
Hierarchical organized according to the Sachs-Hornbostel classical scheme, we are told is the best route for advanced users and is a good way to learn about hierarchies in organology. Hierarchical expands to percussion: idiophones, percussion: membranophones, strings, winds, and electronic.
Historians will be happier starting in geographical, where they are first provided with a clickable map of the world with areas identified by different colors. Click on an area to get a list of countries in that area;
click on a country for the icons of each instrument originating in that country. Each search method soon leads to instrument icons. The icons are linked to descriptions and histories of the individual instruments. The site is beautifully illustrated and orchestrated by the University of Michigan.
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