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ART
MUSEUMS:
Bits
& Pieces Put Together To Present A Semblance Of A Whole
http://www.walkerart.org/jsindex.html
Explore Minnesota's Walker Art Center.
Metropolitan
Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp
Choose "Collections" for information about
and representative works from the Met's American Paintings and Sculpture,
Ancient Near Eastern Art, Arms & Armor, Asian Art, Costumes, European
Paintings, and other special collections.
Minneapolis
Institute of Arts
http://www.artsmia.org/index.cfm
Features some of the more than 85,000
art objects in the Institute's permanent collection and highlights works
from current and upcoming special exhibits.
MoMA:
The Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/collection/
Click on thumbnail photos of some of the
more than 100,000 drawings, paintings, sculptures, art prints, photographs,
and other works that are part of the New York Museum of Modern Art's collection,
to see an enlargement of the works and brief information about the artist
and their technique.
Paris
Pages - Musee du Louvre
http://www.paris.org/Musees/Louvre/
Click on the thumbnail photos for full
screen displays of some of the paintings, antiquities, sculpture, prints,
drawings, and objects d'art in this world famous museum.
Smithsonian
American Art Museum
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/index.html
Offers online tours of a dozen collections
on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Art.
World Wide
Arts Resources
http://wwar.com/
Has links to museums around the world;
to biographical sketches of well-known artists, to art history sources,
and to other art resources.
GO TO: Art
Museums ~ Film, Video & Television ~ Music
FILM, VIDEO,
AND TELEVISION:
AMG
All-Movie Guide
http://www.allmovie.com/index.html
Browse by genre, release date, film style,
and country for information about more than 131,000 films and videos, and
for biographical sketches of 12,000 actors and actresses.
CineMedia
http://www.cinemedia.org/welcomes/you.html
You'll find everything you want to know
about television, films, video, radio, and the theater among the 25,000+
links at this site.
Internet
Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com/
Summarizes the plot, gives the critics'
reviews, and lists the cast and crew for thousands of movies, including
those that were made for TV.
Screen
Source: The Movie & TV Information Guide
http://www.amug.org/~scrnsrc/
Can search by the first letter of a celebrity's
last name to find their mailing address. This site also has birth dates
of 500 notables, death dates for many celebrities who died in or after
1990, lists of Oscar and Emmy winners, and movie and TV-related links.
Ultimate
TV
http://www.ultimateTV.com/
This is the ultimate site for finding
episode guides, newsgroups, faq's, mailing lists, and webpages about 1,325
current and classic TV shows. It also has daily listings of programs on
broadcast and cable channels, directories of U.S. and foreign TV stations,
and the latest Nielsen ratings.
Yahoo!
Entertainment: Actors and Actresses
http://dir.yahoo.com/entertainment/actors_and_actresses/index.html
Links to fan pages about entertainers.
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Museums ~ Film, Video & Television ~ Music
MUSIC:
American
Memory Collection Finder Search
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html
Search the American Memory Collection
Finder for images of over 50,000 pieces of sheet music in the public domain.
Select one or all of the following databases for sheet music or song sheets.
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African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 |
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Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 |
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Music for the Nation, American Sheet Music,
1870-1885 |
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America Singing: Nineteenth Century Song Sheets
- lyrics, but not the music, to over 4,000 songs |
AMG
All-Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/index.html
Provides background information about
bluegrass, blues, country, easy listening, folk, gospel, jazz, new age,
rap, reggae, rock & roll, vocal, and international music, then highlights
the top musical artists in each category, their albums, and new releases.
Billboard
Charts
http://www.billboard.com/charts/
What was at the top of the charts a year
ago? Five years ago? Ten years ago? Also lists this week's top 50 singles
and top 200 albums, plus top 10 video sales and rentals.
Classical
Net
http://www.classical.net/music/
Has links to more than 5,500 files and
an additional 3,800 websites about classical artists and composers, instruments,
and classical music. Classical Net now includes over 1,650 reviews of compact
discs.
Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
http://www.rockhall.com/home/default.asp
Cleveland Rocks! Check out "Today in Rock
History" and its featured exhibits~
International
Lyrics Server
http://www.lyrics.ch/index.htm
Lyrics to more than 60,000 popular songs
and to SongFile, a source for purchasing over 2 million songs on CD, audiocassette,
or as sheetmusic.
KFAI's
Community Web Links - Music and Cultural Links
http://www.kfai.org/musiclnk.htm
Links to discographies, cultural events,
and information about music from around the world - from Cajun to traditional
Scandinavian tunes.
Lester
S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/
Search or browse this database of 29,000
pieces of sheet music, published between 1780 and 1960, that is housed
in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University. Sheetmusic
published prior to 1923 is in the public domain and replicas may be printed.
Lyrics
Library
http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/blondie/313/
Need the words to a folk song, a country
music hit, or a song you sort-of remember from your childhood? Just click
on the links to go to web sites with the lyrics you want.
Lyrics
World
http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/summer.html
Fifty years of lyrics from the "Top 40".
Search by artist or by song title.
Mudcat
Cafe
http://www.mudcat.org/
Search the "Digi Trad Lyrics" database
with lyrics to over 8,000 traditional folk songs.
Roughstock's
History of Country Music
http://www.roughstock.com/history/
Go from a brief timeline tracing the history
of country music from 1930 onward to pages about country music greats and
their songs.
Rock-and-Roll
Page
http://www.tsimon.com/rockroll.htm
Links to biographical sketches of rock
performers, songwriters, record producers, and DJ's of the 50's and 60's.
Ticketmaster
Online
http://www.ticketmaster.com/
Search by state or event for listings
of music, sports, theatrical productions and family shows, prices of tickets,
and dates of events.
Ultimate
Band List
http://ubl.artistdirect.com/fp2.asp
Links to an A to Z listing of pop music
bands, clubs and concerts, pop music radio stations, record labels and
record stores.
Welcome
to CDDB!
http://www.cddb.com/
Search by artist, album title, or song
title from among more than 390,000 compact disc albums.
Welcome
to Let's Sing It - Your Lyrics Engine on the Internet
http://www.letssingit.com/
Lyrics to over 7,600 songs by artists
from around the world!
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