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Artscalendar will tell you what's happening in the New Zealand Arts scene. Check out the highlights in upcoming Wellington's musical events.

MusicAustralia
A new online service to help you find, access and navigate a rich store of information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services from a single access point. Drawing on the extensive bibliographic resources contained in the National Bibliographic Database (NBD), and a new database on Australian music and music organisations, MusicAustralia delivers information on about 130,000 music items. Browse topical themes such as sport or war songs.

www.recmusic.org/lieder
This is an archive of texts to lieder and other art songs. There are composer and poet indexes plus a word search function if the title of the song has escaped you. plus links to translation guides.

www.allclassical.com
General biographical material as well as access to works listings.

Cadence
A database of choral sets and orchestral parts held by New Zealand choirs, orchestras and libraries.

Classical Composers' Archive
Wide range of composer information, including "today's musical history". Ever heard of Firkusny? Definitely includes the obscure and hard to find!

National anthems
Although arguably not 'classical music', this contains the "native" text, (and usually with an English translation) together with a MIDI file (brass band emphasis), for most countries. The library also has

National anthems of the world, 11th ed. / edited by Michael Jamieson Bristow. "National anthems of 198 countries are included from Armenia to Zimbabwe, ...each presented with the words in the original language(s), which have been set, where possible, to the music and, where a national anthem is in a language that is not written in Roman script, the words are given in a transliterated phonetic version, so that it may be sung by people of other tongues. A literal translation of the original words is also provided."

www.broadcast-live.com/music/classical/index.html
Enjoy classical music in Real audio format through Internet broadcasts.

British Library Music collections
A premier music library's collections and resources. Take a look at their catalogues or online exhibitions. They also have a useful section for students, or try their Mozart's thematic catalogue from February 1784 until December 1791 (the last 7 years of his life).

www.sounz.org.nz
Centre for New Zealand music : developing and fostering New Zealand music, its creation, performance, publication, recording and broadcast by working with and on behalf of NZ composers.

www.tunespotting.com.
Tunespotting is a melody search engine. While there is the usual database to search, beyond that, you can search by playing your computer keyboard or by entering notes on a stave.

Classical orchestra links
Orchestral news and links to the key world orchestras, including our own Wellington Sinfonia and NZSO.

Peter Walls, by Vicki Jayne, in New Zealand Management; Oct2009, Vol. 56 Issue 9.
Read about Peter Walls, CEO of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and music director of Opus in New Zealand Management.

The Amateur as Critic, by Terry Teachout, in Commentary; Nov2007, Vol. 124 Issue 4, p70-72.
The article begins "Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage. Not only have many newspapers done away with their book-review sections, but several major papers, including the Chicago Sun-Times and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, no longer employ full-time classical-music critics...." The plight of the music critic is examined through the example of Neville Cardus.

Collaboration and the composer : case studies from the end of the 20th century, by Sam Hayden and Luke Windsor, in Tempo; Apr2007, Vol. 61 Issue 240, p28-39.
This article investigates the collaborative aspects of composers in Great Britain. The popular view of composition is of an isolated melancholic obsessive, struggling alone at the piano in the garret. The authors show how such an individualistic model of the composer is both true and untrue. The modern composer may fulfil several roles (e.g. teacher / lecturer) as well as having to contend with other performers, conductors, managers, agents, publishers, academics and critics.

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