MusicBrainz - The Open Music Encyclopedia 25 of the Best Music Sites and Blogs for Discovering New Artists and Musicians and Streaming Free Music Your guide to discovering new beats that put you ahead of the game making personal playlists. In today’s music industry, there’s a lot to keep up with, and as much as we love them, Pandora, Spotify and your personal iTunes on shuffle just can’t do it all. That said, we pulled together a list of 25 of our favorite music sites, our go-to sources for finding new tunes, streaming our favorite mixes and above all, staying ahead on our playlists. A New Band A Day The name says it all. All Scandinavian If you know anything about the music world, you’ll know that there’s a lot of creativity coming out of Scandinavia right now. Aquarium Drunkard Based in Los Angeles, Aquarium Drunkard is an eclectic mix that “bridges the gap between contemporary indie with vintage garage, psych, folk, country, New Orleans funk, r&b, soul and everything that falls in between.” La Blogothèque The Chuckness DML.fm If you need workout mixes and danceable tracks, look no further. The Fader Fighting Musical Ignorance HypeTrak
List of online music databases Below is a table of online music databases that are largely free of charge. Note that many of the sites provide a specialized service or focus on a particular music genre. Some of these operate as an online music store or purchase referral service in some capacity. Among the sites that have information on the largest number of entities are those sites that focus on discographies of composing and performing artists. See also[edit] References[edit] Ear Training WebSite The All New DaLinkz Web Directory - Your Rap And HipHop Start Page YouBloom Music Timeline | A chronology of music from prehistory to the present day List of classical music composers by era List of classical music composers by era From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This is a list of classical music composers by era. Contents [hide] Medieval era[edit] See the List of Medieval composers and Medieval music. Renaissance era[edit] See the List of Renaissance composers and Renaissance music. Baroque era[edit] See the List of Baroque composers and Baroque music. Classical era[edit] Romantic era[edit] See the List of Romantic-era composers and Romantic music. 20th century[edit] See the List of 20th-century classical composers by birth date and 20th-century classical music. 21st century[edit] Main articles: List of 21st-century classical composers by birth date and 21st-century classical music See also[edit] Retrieved from " Categories: Navigation menu Personal tools Namespaces Variants Views Actions Navigation Interaction Tools Print/export Languages This page was last modified on 16 April 2014 at 22:26.
The Music History: Medieval,India,Spanish,German,Rock,pop Songwriting and genealogy The best tool for understanding where music comes from is evolutionary biology. Songs don’t spontaneously spring into being any more than animals or plants do. They evolve, descending from reshuffled pieces of existing songs, the way our genes are shuffled together from our parents’ genes. The same way that all life has a single common ancestor, all human music has a shared origin in the calls of our primate forebears. You can trace the ancestry of music like you can trace the ancestry of a person Each new song is built using the same modular components as the other songs of its time and place, the way that all humans share the same genetic toolkit. The ancestry of music is more complicated than the ancestry of humans. Some musical relationships do conveniently lend themselves to family tree-like representation. See all of my sample maps here. A few really successful memes make up most of the music we hear Computers make recombining and resequencing the memes effortless