LiTMus Logo
Professional Development
for Musician-Teachers
at the Royal College of Music
Home
Study Materials
Accreditation
Research
Discussion
LiTMus online
Royal College of Music Logo

Current Visitor: Guest

Login
Research
   
Tools
   
 
Resources

Useful Links
  1. Music Departments in the UK


  2. Teaching & Learning Links on the WWW

    1. Institute for Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (ILT)
    2. Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
    3. Staff & Educational Development Association (SEDA)
    4. National Co-ordination Team (NCT) for the Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning (FDTL) and the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP)
    5. Performing Arts Learning and Teaching Innovation Network (PALATINE)
    6. Teaching and Learning on the Web
    7. Value of Music in Education
    8. Music Therapy Publications

  3. Music Links on the WWW

    1. Worldwide Internet Music Resources
    2. DW3: Classical Music Resources 'The world's most comprehensive collection of classical music links'
    3. RISM: International Inventory of Music Sources
    4. The Golden Pages: music journals and e-journals
    5. Institute for Music Research
    6. International Society for Music Education
    7. Harmony Central : A great resource for information on jazz/popular & commercial music styles, with specialist pages and links on instruments, midi, recording etc etc. Well worth a visit!
    8. The MidiFarm : another good resource for all things midi and audio, with links to market leaders in software and hardware.
    9. International Directory of Musicians
    10. Metier - National Training Organisation for the Arts and Entertainment
    11. Musicians Union (MU)

  4. Music & Bookshop Sources

    1. AddAll
    2. Advanced Book Exchange (searches for secondhand books)
    3. Alexander Publishing, Los Angeles, CA (site includes a Fast Music Links section)
    4. Amazon Books (commercial service for books, based near Seattle, with more than 1,000,000 titles)
    5. Antiquarian Book Association of America
    6. "Anybook.com", from BookServe earche International (searches for books published in the USA, in or out of print)
    7. ALIBRIS
    8. Bibliofind
    9. Bookfinder (searches for out-of-print books)
    10. Bookstores in the United Kingdom, by city
    11. Bookstores throughout the world, by city
    12. Browns Music, Vitak-Elsnic Publications, New Ulm, MN, USA
    13. The Church Instrumentalist (instrumental sheet music and recordings, with over 2200 titles; seasonal discounts; orders shipped same day when received by 12:00 p.m. EST)
    14. Dillons Bookshop, Gower Street, London WC, music section (e-mail connection, at mus@gower.dillons.org.uk)
    15. Ernst-Kuhn-Verlag, Berlin
    16. Instrumental Music Books (Van Cott Information Services, Las Vegas: book sales by mail order, primarily clarinet-related)
    17. James Thin Bookshops, Edinburgh (including searchable catalogue)
    18. Literary Guillotine (via e-mail), a source for out-of-print scholarly books
    19. Livre-Rare-Book (located in Lyon, ship worldwide, with a large, browsable collection, mostly of books in French)
    20. Music Books Plus
    21. Music & Audio Connection (Norris-Whitney Communications, a company involved in magazine and book publishing and distribution, live event management, graphic design and on-line services)
    22. Netherlands Antiquarian Book Association (NAN), with links to important book concerns on the internet
    23. Pendragon Press, including a search engine accessing the complete catalogue
    24. Publishers' catalogues home page
    25. Rosemary Dooley: Books on Music (specialist supplier of secondhand books about music (not sheet music) by mail order; e-mail connection at musicbks@rdooley.demon.co.uk)
    26. Schirmer Books
    27. Sunhawk Corporation (music publisher and online music store, delivering playable, printable sheet music via the Internet using SOLERO TM technology)
    28. Walrus and Otter Publishing (big band arrangements and CDs)
    29. Waterstones Bookstore
    30. The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Publishers (maintained by Jonathan Bowen at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory)