Junya's Homepages of Music
This is a jumping station for home pages to download sheet music, learn about sounds and music instruments.
* Download sites for sheet music *
| Homepages | Samples | Description |
| Mutopia |
MIDI |
Free download site
for sheet music (Classics); Mirror sites (1, 2, 4) |
| Sheet music Archive |
Free
download site for sheet
music (Classics); Downloads are restricted to 2 per day |
|
| Werner Icking Music Archive |
MIDI |
Free download site for sheet music (Classics) |
| Varidations |
(MIDI) |
Free download site for sheet music at Indiana Univ. (Classics) |
| 8notes.com |
MIDI |
Download site for sheet music
(All kinds of music); 20$/yr
for PDF files |
| The Chopin files |
MIDI |
Free
download site for sheet
music for Chopin, [MS Explorer] |
| Piano 1001
(Japanese) |
MIDI, WMA | Very good free download site for sheet
music for young piano players; |
| Sheet Music World
for Guitar (Japanese) |
Free
download site for shee music for Guitar |
|
| Free Compositions and
Arrangements by Dave Taylor |
MIDI(Zip) |
Free download site for shee music for Brasses |
| Koala's music library
(Japanese) |
Free
download site for shee music for Brasses |
|
| The Lester S. Levy
Collection of Sheet Music |
Free
download site for shee music for American pop music between1780 and 1960 |
|
| Music
E club (Japanese) |
Best site for all links for
excellent music sites including English and Japanese sites |
|
| UM School of Music Library | The huge music references are available but it is inconvenient for on-line use. |
* Brief Introduction *
| Principles of Sounds | Homepages | Photos | Sounds | Description |
| Music Acoustics | Yes | Yes | Basic topics of sound waves such as "Strings, standing waves and harmonics", "How Do Woodwind Instruments Work?", | |
| Alternate
Temperaments: Theory and Philosophy |
Yes |
Basics of tuning and temperament |
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| Essential of Music |
Yes |
Yes |
Glossary for music terms for
kids. |
|
| History
of Music |
History
of Music |
No |
No |
This site mainly focused on ara
from Medieval to Romantism. |
* ENCYCLOPEDIA *
| Homepages | Photos | Sounds | Description |
| MHN Instrument encyclomedia | Yes | encyclopedia with search engine | |
| Lark In The Morning Musical Instruments | (Y) | ||
| musical instruments @ net instruments | Yes | selling...but it can be utilized as an encyclopedia too. | |
| Musical Instruments of the World | Yes | Yes | There are no usual instruments (--;) |
| Instrumental Resources | Links to the links of particular instruments | ||
| BUBL LINK: Musical instruments | Links | ||
| Learn about instruments | Yes | Introduction for beginners in Music Education at Datadragon | |
| Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments | Yes | Collection of music instrument in our UM | |
| AMERICA'S SHRINE TO MUSIC MUSEUM | Links for direction for all music musium |
Also see Music Library @ University of Michigan
* Individual Instruments * Under construction
| Instruments | Language | Photos | Sounds | Homepage | Description |
| Accordion | |||||
| Bagpipes | English | Yes | Yes | Bagpipes of the World | |
| English | Yes | Yes | Bagpipes of the World | ||
| English | Yes | Yes | Ancestral instruments | Old type (pastoral) bagpipe | |
| Japanese | Yes | Highland Bagpipes | Description of highland bagpipes by Japanese | ||
| Banjo | English | Yes |
Yes | Banjo-L |
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| Bassoon | |||||
| Cello | |||||
| Cymbal | |||||
| Clarinet | |||||
| Flute | |||||
| Guitar | English | Yes | The museum of music instrument | ||
| French Horn | Yes | MHN Instrument encyclomedia | |||
| Harmonica | |||||
| Harp | |||||
| Harpsichord | |||||
| Lute | Yes | MHN Instrument encyclomedia | |||
| Mandolin | |||||
| Oboe | |||||
| Piano | |||||
| Sax(ophone) | |||||
| Trombone | Yes | MHN Instrument encyclomedia | |||
| Trumpet | |||||
| Tuba | |||||
| Violin | Japanese | Yes | Let's begin violin | All kind of information of violin | |
| Viola | English | Yes | www.viola.com | all information of viola | |
| Xylophone |
edited by Naohiro
Inohara