Useful Links

• new music organizations
• new music blogs/periodicals
• performer friends
• other performers
• online resources

• new music organizations

  • American Composers Forum
  • American Music Center
  • American Society of Composers Arrangers and Publishers (ASCAP)
  • bang on a can
  • Broadcast Music, Incorporated, (BMI)
  • College Music Society
  • Meet the Composer
  • SESAC
  • Society of Composers, Incorporated (SCI)
  • Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS)

• new music blogs/periodicals

  • NewMusicBox
  • PostClassic
  • Search Journal of New Music and Culture
  • Sequenza21
  • SoundNotion

• performer friends

  • h2 quartet
  • MSU Wind Symphony
  • Musique 21
  • Sparta Winds
  • FireWire Ensemble

• other new music performers

  • Alarm Will Sound
  • American Modern Ensemble
  • da capo chamber players
  • Earplay
  • eighth blackbird
  • Ensemble Intercontemporain
  • Ensemble Modern
  • Kronos Quartet
  • New York New Music Ensemble
  • NOW Ensemble
  • San Francisco Contemporary Music Players

• online resources

  • notation, engraving, and publishing
    • The Big Site of Music Notation and Engraving
    • David Dzubay’s Top Ten List of Music Preparation & Notation Rules
    • MOLA Guidelines (Major Orchestra Librarians Association)
    • Music Publisher’s Association Standard Practices
  • orchestration
    • The Orchestra: A User’s Manual
  • scores and recordings
    • The Avant Garde Project
    • IMSLP (Internet Music Score Library Project)
    • The Mutopia Project
    • Werner Icking Music Library
  • commissioning
    • “How to Commission a Composer” (Music Teachers National Association)
    • Meet the Composer
  • public domain and copyright law
    • “New Rules for Using Public Domain Materials” (basics of copyright law; useful for arrangements and texts for vocal/choral music)
  • articles and eBooks
    • Miller Puckette’s “Theory and Technique of Electronic Music”
  • miscellaneous resources
    • Creative Commons
    • David Dzubay’s List for Composers
    • Hobnox Audio Tool
    • Kompoz Online Music Collaboration
    • Metric Modulation Calculator
    • Violin Harmonic

This list is maintained by David MacDonald. Suggestions for new links and new sections are welcome. Send your emails here.