This page sets out links to Internet sources of music, by type of music. Its contents are additional to those on the following pages:
Radio-TV sources page ___ Great music and sources ___ Short-wave radio.
The astute reader is likely to detect a distinct bias in my choice of music! I do not like music in which 'singers' scream (which rules out most opera and loud rock) or slur (which rules out rap and much folk music), or ramble on with New Age mysticism ** (i.e., superstitious spiritual music). Oddly enough, I love much classical so-called religious music, i.e., all of Bach (as superstitious as its words also might be!). ** So, you won't find the recent music of Alanis Morissette here, except derision of it and parody (See Automatic lyric generators.)!
"A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it." -- Sir Thomas Beecham Bart.
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. . . Categories of links:
. . . . . . Acoustics and music ___ Algorithmic music ___ American Civil War ___ Africa ___ Always On My Mind
. . . . . . Andes ___ Argentina ___ Ashokan Farewell ___ Audio ___ J.S. Bach ___ Banjo ___ Raul Barboza
. . . . . . Beatles ___ E. Power Biggs ___ Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain ___ Blue Moon of Kentucky ___ Brazil
. . . . . . Carmina Burana ___ Celtic ___ Charlotte Church ___ Choir ___ City Of New Orleans
. . . . . . Classical music (Page ClassM10)
. . . . . . . . . Carmina Burana ___ Classical-music radio shows ___ Composer sites, classical ___ J.S. Bach
. . . . . . . . . Gregorian chants ___ Resources, classical ___ Symphony of Psalms
. . . . . . Closer to madness ___ Holly Cole ___ Jesse Cook ___ Crazy (Patsy Cline) ___ Crying
. . . . . . Czechoslovakia (OrganM10)
. . . . . . Django ___ Eagles (Hotel California) ___ Robert Eldridge
. . . . . . Favorite sources of streaming audio
. . . . . . Fernando ___ Flashdance ___ Foggy Mountain Breakdown ___ Virgil Fox ___ Fractal music
. . . . . . General resources ___ Gone with the Wind ___ Grand Canyon Suite ___ Gregorian chants
. . . . . . Greatest (Great10)
. . . . . . . . . Blue Moon of Kentucky ___ Crazy (Patsy Cline) ___ Django
. . . . . . . . . Favorite sources of streaming audio ___ Foggy Mountain Breakdown
. . . . . . . . . Gone with the Wind ___ Grand Canyon Suite ___ Hoochie Coochie Man ___ "Hound Dog" & "Don't be Cruel"
. . . . . . . . . I Got Rhythm ___ I Walk the Line ___ I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry ___ In the Mood ___ Wildwood Flower
. . . . . . . . . (Goodnight) Irene ___ Koko (Charlie Parker) ___ Mood Indigo ___ Night and Day ___ Oklahoma!
. . . . . . . . . Oye Como Va (Santana) ___ Peggy Sue ___ Porgy & Bess ___ Psycho ___ Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
. . . . . . . . . Rhapsody in Blue ___ 'Round Midnight ___ Route 66 ___ St. Louis Blues ___ Singin' in the Rain
. . . . . . . . . Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay ___ Star Dust ___ Symphony of Psalms ___ Take Five ___ Take the 'A' Train
. . . . . . . . . Talking Book (Stevie Wonder) ___ West End Blues
. . . . . . Guitar ___ Guitar, lute, flute, Celtic Harp ___ Billie Holiday ___ Hoochie Coochie Man
. . . . . . "Hound Dog" & "Don't be Cruel" ___ House of the Rising Sun ___ HTML code
. . . . . . Hymns
. . . . . . . . . General sources of hymns ___ If Ye Love Me ___ Jerusalem
. . . . . . I Got Rhythm ___ In the Bleak Mid-winter ___ I Walk the Line ___ I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
. . . . . . In the Mood ___ (Goodnight) Irene
. . . . . . Jazz (Jazz10)
. . . . . . . . . General sources, jazz ___ Billie Holiday ___ Diana Krall ___ Django Reinhardt
. . . . . . . . . Koko (Charlie Parker) ___ 'Round Midnight ___ St. Louis Blues ___ Take Five ___ Take the 'A' Train
. . . . . . . . . West End Blues
. . . . . . Language translation
. . . . . . Latin America (LatMus10)
. . . . . . . . . Andes ___ Argentina ___ Raul Barboza ___ Brazil ___ Guarani
. . . . . . . . . Paraguay ___ Various sources, Latin America
. . . . . . Latin rock (LatMus10)
. . . . . . . . . Oye Como Va (Santana) ___ Santana
. . . . . . Leads I'm pursuing ___ Ottmar Liebert ___ Links to greatest works ___ The Lion Sleeps Tonight
. . . . . . Lyrics text ___ Mario takes a walk ___ George Michael
. . . . . . Media players (Player10)
. . . . . . . . . Music technology ___ Netscape audio tip
. . . . . . Mood Indigo ___ Moonglow & Theme from Picnic ___ mp3 ___ mp3 history, future, technology
. . . . . . Music technology ___ Narada ___ Willie Nelson ___ Netscape audio tip ___ Night and Day
. . . . . . Oklahoma! ___ Only The Lonely ___ On the Road Again ___ Roy Orbison
. . . . . . Organ (OrganM10)
. . . . . . . . . E. Power Biggs ___ Virgil Fox ___ General organ sources ___ Organ playlists
. . . . . . . . . Organ programs ___ Pictures of organs
. . . . . . Oye Como Va (Santana) ___ Peggy Sue
. . . . . . Playlists
. . . . . . . . . Classical-music radio shows ___ General index ___ German ___ Organ playlists ___ Various
. . . . . . Porgy & Bess ___ Psycho ___ Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix) ___ Django Reinhardt ___ Remote Tuners
. . . . . . Rhapsody in Blue 'Round Midnight ___ Route 66 ___ St. Louis Blues ___ Santana ___ Shenendoah
. . . . . . Singin' in the Rain Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay ___ sports as a religion of America ___ Star Dust
. . . . . . Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday) ___ Sweet Georgia Brown ___ Symphony of Psalms ___ Take Five
. . . . . . Take the 'A' Train ___ Talking Book (Stevie Wonder) ___ Underground Radio
. . . . . . Hector Villa Lobos ___ Wildwood Flower ___ West End Blues ___ World music
Acoustics and music: http://www.coxt.freeserve.co.uk/acoustics_music.html Acoustics has been a very important influence on music. Many composers have had in mind, consciously or subconsciously, the acoustics of the space in which their music will be played.
AfricMusic: http://www.africmusic.com/ Three channels of non-stop African music of all styles, and selections from albums. Excellent.
Algorithmic music , including fractal music
Fractal Music Project: http://www-ks.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/people/schulz/fmusic/ Fractal music is a result of a recursive process where an algorithm is applied multiple times to process its previous output. In wider perspective all musical forms, both in micro and macro level can be modelled with this process. . . .
Music Class Links: http://cs.smith.edu/~jfrankli/musicpage.html Algorithmic Composition.
Music Composition with Algorithms Links: http://www.msu.edu/user/sullivan/CmusAlgoLinks.html Composition With Algorithms: Links Chaos, Fractals, Neural Nets, Cellular Automata.
Always On My Mind -- Elvis Presley: http://www.trellis.net/users/gstarcher/always.htm Direct play. Real Audio.
See also Ashokan Farewell and Civil War music.
Another Random Walk 8 by Sarge the Poet: http://home.talkcity.com/ReportersAlley/sarge_the_poet/ARW-8.html Music of the Civil War.
The Music of the American Civil War (1861-1865): http://www.pdmusic.org/civilwar.html MIDI audio files and lyrics text.
Ashokan Farewell: http://www.ashokan.org/ashokanfarewell.html Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar. Heard in the Soundtrack of PBS series The CIVIL WAR by Ken Burns.
Many of fiddler/composer Jay Ungar's compositions are familiar favorites. While many of his tunes are heard as theme music on radio, TV, and in films, his Ashokan Farewell used as the main theme in the Ken Burns PBS-TV series, The Civil War, is his most widely known composition. Guitarist Molly Mason is also very accomplished on piano and bass, and as a singer and songwriter. Jay and Molly perform and record together. Their most recent CD is the haunting The Lover's Waltz.
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Home Page: http://www.jayandmolly.com/index.html
To hear all or itemized pieces of A Live Performance Recorded at Gettysburg College In 1994 -- including Ashokan Farewell, and other Civil War music -- proceed, either by clicking on JAY & MOLLY'S RADIO SHOW LIVE ON THE INTERNET! , or via the following:
Dancing on the Air - The Jay & Molly Collection: http://www.dancingontheair.com/civilwar.asp.
. . . The piece used as the theme music for The Civil War is called Ashokan Farewell. (Pronounced a-shó-kun or a-shó-kan). Ashokan Farewell was named for the Ashokan Field Campus of the State University of New York (in the Catskill Mountains). This camp, generally just called "Ashokan", is where Molly Mason and I run a series of week-long music and dance camps for adults known as Fiddle & Dance Workshop.
Ashokan is the name of a town, most of which is now under the Ashokan Reservoir . . . across the road from our home. . . .
I composed Ashokan Farewell in 1982 shortly after the summer programs had come to an end. I was experiencing a great feeling of loss and longing for the lifestyle and the community of people that had developed at Ashokan that summer. . . .
Hugh's MP3 Pick - Folk Music: http://www.balladtree.com/articles/mp3_052801.htm Jay Ungar & Molly Mason "Ashokan Farewell". Once you hear this tune, you'll never forget it. It will last as long as there are fiddlers to play it. It's the only track listed on this mp3.com page: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/217/jay_ungar__molly_mason.html.
Music: http://members.surfsouth.com/~donsing/music.htm "Homemade" Music by Don A. Singletary. Modest home recording studio: 4-track stereo recorder, Digitec Vocalizer, keyboard. Files transfer from 4 track to 'wav' files, then converted to Mp3 format. Guitar: Seagull Acoustic 6-string.
Island_Waves(John's Place).mp3 __ Clockwork Love __ Ashokan Farewell __ Chocolate Milkshake __ Four Strong Winds.
Gettysburg Battlefield Photographs: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/3317/gettysburgphotos.html . . . The following is a soldier's letter that was read on Ken Burns' PBS Series about the Civil War. This haunting passage was accompanied by the music you can hear on this page:
A week before the battle of Bull Run-- Sullivan Ballou, a Major in the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers, wrote home to his wife in Smithfield.
July
14,1861
Camp Clark, Washington DC
Dear Sarah:
The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days perhaps tomorrow. And lest I should not be able to write you again I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye when I am no more.
I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how American Civilization now leans upon the triumph of the government and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolution. And I am willing - perfectly willing - to lay down all my joys in this life, to help maintain this government, and to pay that debt.
Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me with mighty cables that nothing but omnipotence can break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly with all those chains to the battlefield. The memory of all the blissful moments I have enjoyed with you come crowding over me, and I feel most deeply grateful to God and you, that I have enjoyed them for so long. And how hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes and future years, when, God willing, we might still have lived and loved together, and see our boys grown up to honorable manhood around us.
If I do not return, my dear Sarah, never forget how much I loved you, nor that when my last breath escapes me on the battle field, it will whisper your name...
Forgive my many faults, and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless, how foolish I have sometimes been!...
But, 0 Sarah, if the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they love, I shall always be with you, in the brightest day and in the darkest night... always, always. And when the soft breeze fans your cheek, it shall be my breath, or the cool air your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.
Sarah do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for me, for we shall meet again...
The Brunching Shuttlecocks The Alanis Morissette Lyric Generator: http://www.brunching.com/toys/toy-alanislyrics.html
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Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie Album Review @ Music-Critic.com the source for music reviews: http://www.music-critic.com/pop/alanis_junkie.htm Why do I hate this album so much? Well basically because it is a pile of crap. [Which album? Any one.]
Perpetual Motion - Béla Fleck: http://sonyclassical.com/music/89610/
About.com http--www.discographynet.com-beatles-beatles.html: http://classicrock.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.discographynet.com%2Fbeatles%2Fbeatles.html Complete U.S. Discography. Voted Best Beatles Discography Site 3 years in a row! . . . a chronological record of Beatles U.S. albums, singles and compact discs. All LPs, CDs, EPs, CD singles and 45s specified in this discography are American releases only, . . .
Beatles: http://classicrock.about.com/cs/beatles/
MP3 - Sound Files: http://classicrock.about.com/cs/soundfiles/ Everything from MP3 to MIDI to WAV, for individual artists as well as general Classic Rock.
See also Guitar, lute, flute, Celtic.
Elycia's Real Audio Celtic Serenade: http://www.elycia-webdesign.com/celtic/celtic.html
Download Sheet Music and Audio Files: http://www.whschambersingers.org/download.html . . . Chamber Singers . . . most recent requests from Choir members. These are .mp3 music files. Feel free to listen online or download them. Includes the following pieces, of excellent quality: If Ye Love Me, O Fortuna (Carmina Burana), Shenendoah. It also has a useful Netscape audio tip.
featured classical mp3 - holst - in the bleak midwinter - chicago choral artists: http://classicalmusic.about.com/library/mp3/blmp3dec600.htm In the Bleak Mid-winter. Setting by Gustav Holst (1874-1934), text by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894). CD Tidings of Comfort and Joy. Credits Bart Bradfield, Artistic Director. mp3 of excellent quality.
Lyrics
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan.
Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone.
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow.
In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.
Angels and archangels may have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;
But only his mother In her maiden bliss,
Worshipped the Beloved With a kiss.
What can I give him, Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb.
If I were a Wise Man I would do my part.
Yet what I can I give him, Give my heart.
Dave's faves--MUSIC: http://members.odyssey1.net/faust/music.html Download "Cry (If you want to)~Live" mp3!
Holly Cole's Web Place: http://www.hollycole.com/
Holly Cole is also known as the Holly Cole Trio with a well renown in many countries: http://www.geocities.com/gerardlacombe/cole.html Promotional site » officiel de « Holly Cole ».
Holly Cole Products on the ARTISTdirect Network: http://store.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,1068058,00.html RealAudio Player.
See also Gracenote and SOLO DEBUT.
JESSE COOK ALBUMS: http://www.jessecook.com/pages/albums.html mp3, WAV, AIF. Two of my favorites: Closer to madness, Mario takes a walk.
JESSECOOK.COM Jesse Cook's official website: http://www.jessecook.com/ RumbaFlamenco World Beat.
I am searching for more audio sources. I will update this soon.
Crying--Roy Orbison: http://www.trellis.net/users/gstarcher/royorb.htm Direct play. Real Audio.
Download Eagles - Hotel California @ eMP3Finder.com - For All Your Music Needs: http://www.emp3finder.com/download/190611/ Hotel California by Eagles, live concert, on mp3. Many other pieces and artists. Superb quality.
LetsSingIt.com - Your lyrics engine on the internet!: http://www.letssingit.com/cgi/frames.cgi?http://www.letssingit.com/lyrics/e/eagles/1.html
Artist/Band: Eagles ___ Song title: Hotel California ___ Album: Hotel California
On a dark desert
highway
Cool wind in my hair
The warm smell of colitas **
Rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself
This could be heaven or this could be hell
Then she lit up a candle
And she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor
I thought I heard them say
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place, such a lovely face
There's plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year, you can find it here
Her mind is Tiffany's twisted
She's got her Mercedes Bands
She's got a lotta pretty, pretty boys
That she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard
Sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember
Some dance to forget
So I called up the captain
Please bring me my wine
He said "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969"
And still those voices they're calling from far away
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place, such a lovely face
They're livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis
Mirrors on the ceilling, the pink champaign on ice
And she said "We are all just prisoners here of our own
device"
In the masters chambers they're gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knifes but they just can't kill
the beast
Last thing I remember, I was runnin' for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
"Good night" said the night man "We are programmed
to receive
You can check out anyytime you like, but you can never
leave"
** (Little) marijuanna cigarettes.
Previous Classic Rock MP3 of the Week: http://classicrock.about.com/library/misc/blprevmp3_092500.htm Hotel California: Eagles. This live version of the Eagles classic was recorded in 1994 for a semi-plugged concert on MTV's "Unplugged" series and later released on the Hell Freezes Over album. Even though the original 1976 version of the Joe Walsh/Don Felder composition was voted "best guitar solo in history" in a 1997 reader poll by Guitar Magazine, the extended acoustic solo present here is arguably more impressive and elevated the song to even greater heights. To download Hotel California, . . .
MP3 Search Webz: http://mp3search.webz.cz/search.php?lg=en&artists=28 Search on "Robert Eldridge" for Virgin Hemlocks and others. High-quality mp3.
Real Audio Music: http://www.trellis.net/users/gstarcher/realplay.htm Fernando, by ABBA. Direct play. Real Audio.
MP3 ARCHIVE: http://www.gamedownloadsonline.com/i.shtml Irene Cara - Flashdance __ Irene Cara - Flashdance... What A Feeling
ANU Library - Worldwide Music Resources: http://anulib.anu.edu.au/clusters/ita/subjects/musicnet.html
Compaq Technical Journal: http://csa.compaq.com/CTJ_Article_16.html Indexing Multimedia for the Internet. Some Developments at the Compaq Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL). We have developed a system that allows us to index and deliver audio and video over the Internet. The system has been in continuous operation since March 1998 within Compaq. The design of our system differs from previous systems because 1) the indexing can be based on an annotation stream generated by robust transcript alignment, as well as closed captions, and 2) it is a distributed system that is designed for scalable, high performance, universal access through the World Wide Web. Extensive tests of the system show that it achieves a performance level required for Internet-wide delivery. This paper discusses our approach to the problem, the design requirements, the system architecture, and performance figures. It concludes by showing how the next generation of annotations from speech recognition and computer vision can be incorporated into the system. . . .
Music Pages: http://members.tripod.com/~Jamie_Drake/
Silent Way Directory Music and Webcast Links: http://www.silentway.com/links/musiclinks.html#39 The Silent Way Directory: Music- Webcasts, MP3s, CDs, Reading. Based in San Francisco. Massive & varied list of links. Excellent.
A Tool for Content Based Navigation of Music: http://www.bib.ecs.soton.ac.uk/data/1333/html/html/ Steven Blackburn and David DeRoure Multimedia Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton.
This paper presents a system which employs the accepted notion of melodic pitch contours to support content-based navigation around a body of multimedia documents including MIDI and digital audio files. The system adopts an open hypermedia model which enables the user to find available links from an arbitrary fragment of a piece of music, based on the content or location of that fragment. The design of the tools, indexed contour database and the fast contour-matching algorithms are discussed.
See also Jesse Cook, Eagles (Hotel California), Robert Eldridge, and Ottmar Liebert.
Classical Guitar Artists & Performers - 1000 Great Guitar: http://www.guitarsite.com/bands4.htm
Classical Guitar Radio Station Internet radio station has superb content and quality.
I will add more.
Apasionada - Alison Vardys Solo Harp CD: http://www.alisonvardy.com/apasionada.htm This CD is a vibrant array of multi-cultural harp music arranged to delight and soothe the senses. Apasionada features three harps - my new Sandpiper Nova Celtic harp, my Paraguayan harp, and my new Bresch Celtic harp. The tunes include a mixture of Celtic, Latin, Contemporary, light Classical and World Ethnic music plus 7 of my own original compositions. mp3 (or equivalent?).
Grand Cayman Artists Music, CD releases, listen Mp3, buy on line: http://www.georgedavidson.com/musicoa.html
Real Audio Music: http://www.trellis.net/users/gstarcher/realplay.htm Direct play. Real Audio.
. . . General sources of hymns
Christian music, Christian radio station, praise karaoke, Give Thanks Unto the Lord: http://www.geocities.com/praisehymns/give_thanks_unto_the_lord_inst.htm Thousands of mp3.
Church and Family Links Page - IBC, Kiev: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/4518/jbclinks.html#music
Listen to the Choir and Organ of Romsey Abbey in Real Audio: http://www.romseyabbeychoir.org.uk/audio.htm
. . . Jerusalem
Anglophilia -- a Compilation of Links to Things English, Scottish, Irish, and Welsh: http://www.tiac.net/users/namarie/
Atheist Music - Emerson Lake and Palmer: http://www.telemark.net/as/artist.dbm?artistid=54
Here are the lyrics to ELP/Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas". What do you think? According to their web page/digest ELP may have other atheistic songs.
"I Believe in Father Christmas" -- Emerson, Lake and Palmer (Greg Lake/Peter Sinfield) They said there'll be snow at Christmas They said there'll be peace on earth But instead it just kept on raining A veil of tears for the virgin birth. I remember one Christmas morning A winter's light and the distant choir And the peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell Eyes full a tinsel and fire. They sold me a dream of Christmas They sold me a silent night They told me a fairy story Till I believed in the Israelite. And I believed in Father Christmas I looked to the sky with excited eyes Than I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn And I saw him through his disguise. I wish you a hopeful Christmas I wish you a brave new year All anguish, pain, and sadness Leave your heart and let your road be clear. They said there'd be snow at Christmas They said there'd be peace on earth. Hallelujah, Noel, Be it heaven or hell, The Christmas we get we deserve. I think it's definately an atheistic song, always have.
. . . you hear "Father Christmas" all over the place, every year at this time. Shopping Malls, restaraunts, . . .
The hilarious thing is that the song is quite disparaging of Christmas, if you listen carefully. I wonder how many people have noticed?
Some of their earlier music has elements of interest to atheists.
Now "Brain Salad Surgery" (1974) is widely regarded as their greatest work. Certainly by me :) The stuff here is all over the map. They do an awesome version of the Victorian English hymn
"Jerusalem":
And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the Holy Lamb of God on England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills? Bring me my bow of burning gold! Bring me my arrows of desire! Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my Chariot of Fire! I will not cease from mental fight; Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.
They're being somewhat sarcastic in doing this hymn - it is a reference to the commonly held English belief that Jesus Christ and/or his disciples were actually present in Britain. That's what the Holy Grail thing is about - the cup Jesus performed communion with at the Last Supper was supposed to be somewhere in Britain. Lyrics were by William Blake I think, one of their prominent poets at the time. . . .
Untitled Document: http://www.progfreaks.com/Hall/Reviews/BrainSalad.htm progfreaks.com hall of fame
If there ever was a vice that early progressive rock bands were commonly guilty of, it was pomposity. And ELP was the epitome of all things overblown and egocentric within the trend, so it certainly comes as no surprise that critics seemed to detest everything that came out of this English association of virtuous and defying musicians . . .
"Jerusalem" - Perhaps one of ELP's most defining characteristics was the band's penchant for adapting other works of music to its own eccentric views, and the British hymn "Jerusalem" is ample proof of that. Surrounding the majestic sound of Emerson's organs and Greg Lake's seraphim-like voice are Carl Palmer's cymbals crashing like an irresponsible schoolboy at a hymn recital, except for the fact that this boy certainly knew how to apply himself when needed, as the percussive background elevates the track to heavenlier heights. This could have very well made William Blake proud, had he lived to see his poem set on vinyl by this trio, and assuming that he didn't listen to what was coming next.. . .
BBC - BBC Proms - Proms Broadcasts: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/broadcasts/index.shtml
CNN.com - arts & style - Celebrating the imagination of poet and artist William Blake - Dec 26, 2000: http://europe.cnn.com/2000/STYLE/arts/12/26/william.blake.ap/
. . . His poetic hopes for "England's green and pleasant land," set to music in 1916 as the hymn "Jerusalem," have become a Sunday staple of the Church of England and a kind of unofficial English anthem.
Yet William Blake lived and died a determined Dissenter -- one of those who parted ways with the established church.
Guardian Unlimited Special reports The rector and the revolutionary: http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,535234,00.html The rector and the revolutionary. Blake would have relished the clergyman who banned Jerusalem. Mike Marqusee Aug 11, 2001 The Guardian.
With so many trying to claim a share in William Blake's legacy these days, it's refreshing to see someone roundly reject him. The Reverend Donald Allister, rector of Cheadle, may even have done Blake a favour. Certainly he'll make a lot of people think twice about the familiar hymn Jerusalem, belted out with patriotic fervour at Women's Institute assemblies and Tory party conferences.
At first glance, a ban on this staple of English nationalism would seem a crass example of "political correctness gone mad". But in this case the banning has been done by a Church of England traditionalist who condemns sex outside marriage and believes his job is "to encourage people in orthodox Christian thinking".
Allister believes that Blake has no role in a wedding ceremony and no place in a church. And he is right . . .
Blake rejected all organised religion, declaring "The outward ceremony is antichrist". He condemned religion as a warper of human sexuality. In his lexicon, the words "chastity" and "abstinence" were curses. . . .
Even more worrying for conservatives, Blake viewed marriage as a corrupt social institution: "She who burns with youth, and knows no fixed lot, is bound/ In spells of law to one she loathes". Like its dark underside, prostitution, marriage was a means "to freeze love and innocence into the gold and silver of the merchant".
So the Reverend is right to be worried about using Blake as part of the marriage sacrament. Ironically, he demonstrates greater sensitivity to what the words of Jerusalem actually mean than the generations of jingoists who have sung them with blithe and stately belligerence. What Blake is driving at is indeed, as Allister notes, that "England is in a mess and the church can't sort it out". It's a challenge to national complacency.
But when Allister criticises Jerusalem for promoting a war-like nationalism, he's as wide of the mark as those who would claim Blake for religious orthodoxy. For Blake's generation, the language of "patriotism" was the language of democratic revolution. "To build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land" was, for Blake, to take part in a universal human uprising against kings, priests, and all those who made and profited from war. . . . he was resolutely internationalist.
Blake was a supporter of the French revolution . . . ;
Blake is an artist and thinker with a hard, uncompromising edge. As he himself insisted, "without contraries is no progression" - and strangely enough Allister offers precisely the kind of "contrary" Blake would have relished (certainly more than the soft soap treatment he gets from so many others). "The vision of Christ that thou dost see/ Is my vision's greatest enemy," he observed, "Thine loves the same world that mine hates/ Thy heaven doors are my hell gates."
Mike Marqusee is currently writing a book about the last years of William Blake
See also Verve Music Group.
Live365 - Listen: http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?genre=search&searchdesc=krall Rhythm-A-Ning! Bebop Singers and Swingers - Eddie Jefferson, James Moody, Diana Krall ... Speed: 56 K.
Professional Main Page: http://www.gryfon.com/booksandmusic.htm
ANDY LEE'S CLASSIC TOP TEN: http://www.via.at/fobdr/weekly/ctop10.htm Classical.
Higher Octave Music: http://www.higheroctave.com/ Click on the Jukebox tab near the top, then the scroll sub-menu for Ottmar Liebert's selections. It may require a download of SHOCKWAVE updates. It did in my case, and the last stage froze. I just did a <Ctrl - Alt - Delete>, and re-booted the browser (IE), and it worked OK. Some of my favorites : "Heart Still/Beating", "3 Women Walking", "2 The Night". The audio quality is excellent.
The following are of interest, but, because of show-off techo-sizzle, are confusing: . . .
SSRI, OL, and LNM!: http://www.lunanegra.com/www/main_select.htm This is a potentially wonderful site about a great artist; however, it has been rendered almost uslessly confusing by means of ostentatious Flash technology. See if you can find a sample of audio. I couldn't. In fact, see if you can find anything! It is a sublink of: . . .
Higher Octave Music: http://www.higheroctave.com/friends.asp, one of whose links is: . . .
Ottmar Liebert's website: http://www.lunanegra.com/ Ottmar Liebert -- Luna Negra.
The Lion Sleeps Tonight -- The Tokens: http://www.trellis.net/users/gstarcher/tokens.htm Direct play. Real Audio.
LetsSingIt.com - Your lyrics engine on the internet!: http://www.letssingit.com/cgi/frames.cgi?http://www.letssingit.com/lyrics/e/eagles/1.html LetsSingIt.com has a huge archive of lyrics alphabetically indexed by artist or group. More on this site, a searchable database, adds/requests forms and charts.
WWW.LOOK4SOUND.COM - MP3 Search: http://www.look4sound.com/mp3.php?id=9586&table=search George Michael - Desafinado is listed as the title; however, the download title of the file appears to be Cowboys and angels.
Real Audio Music: http://www.trellis.net/users/gstarcher/realplay.htm Direct play. Real Audio.
See also Crazy. There are several sites in Russia, but I have not listed them.
Amazon.com - Query Results: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/102-5001546-6748148?tag=manumba-20&keyword=Willie+Nelson&mode=blended Short pieces. mp3.
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Real Audio Music: http://www.trellis.net/users/gstarcher/realplay.htm
City Of New Orleans - Willie Nelson: http://www.trellis.net/users/gstarcher/arlo.htm Direct play. Real Audio.
Lycos Lycos Entertainment: http://entertainment.lycos.com/features/nelson.asp The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes. . . . Willie Nelson reflects on what has mattered to him in life and what hasn't. He also tells some great dirty jokes. The result is a book as wise and hilarious as its author. It's not meant to be taken seriously as an instruction manual for living -- but you could do a lot worse.
On the Road Again Real Audio Music: http://www.trellis.net/users/gstarcher/realplay.htm Direct play. Real Audio.
WillieNelson.com - Willie Nelson & Family World Headquarters: http://www.willienelson.com/ Text & photos. No music.
Willie Nelson mp3, 50 FREE legal mp3 downloads, sheet music and mp3s: http://www.hitsquick.com/music/Artist/Nelson,Willie Short pieces.
Only The Lonely -- Roy Orbison: http://www.trellis.net/users/gstarcher/royorb2.htm Direct play. Real Audio.
Orbison.com OH MERCY!!!: http://www.orbison.com Home page of Roy Orbison. On Dec 6, 1988 Roy died from a heart attack while visiting his family in Tennessee. . . . Great links and downloads.
. . . See also Classical-music radio shows.
. . . General index
BBC - Music: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/
BEST ONLINE RADIO STATIONS, TALK RADIO, and ONLINE MUSIC: http://www.startingpage.com/html/online_radio_stations.html Very extensive.
Live365 - Radio Revolution: http://www.live365.com/home/index.live The world's largest network of independently-produced audio content.
Live Radio Directories, Live TV, Web Radio, Web TV --: http://www.funsites.com/in-live-radio.html Wide variety.
LIVE RADIO STATIONS WITH REAL AUDIO - List 2 International&TV: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/a-z/cusipage/liveradio2.html Many international stations, including 20 Czech and 3 Slovenia. For music by various categories, see also the first page of that site, at: . . . . . . http://mypage.bluewin.ch/a-z/cusipage/liveradio1.html.
Online Empire: http://www.ujnews.com/html/onlineAug00.html Live From London . . . And Dublin. BBC RADIO is no longer limited to just the Home Service and the World Service – or to radio signals, either. Its radio presenters still proclaim "This is London" from Bush House, between the Aldwych and the Strand, its home since 1938.
But all six BBC Radio stations now webcast much of their daily programming over the Internet, either live or as a selection of archived programs, available on demand. This site explains and links to the four radio channels of the BBC -- Radio 3 being for classical music -- and TV stations.
Silent Way Directory Music and Webcast Links: http://www.silentway.com/links/musiclinks.html The Silent Way Directory: Music- Webcasts, MP3s, CDs, Reading. Based in San Francisco. Massive & varied list of links. Excellent.
SUNSET RADIO - Online Radio, TV, Newspapers & MP3 Index: http://www.sunsetradio.com/ Extensive and excellent source.
VirtualTuner Advanced Search: http://www.virtualtuner.com/advsearch.php
. . . German
Live365 - SUNSHINE RADIOPIRATENHITS VOOR U: http://www.live365.com/stations/221771 musiclover31 EPE, Netherlands. German, some accordian.
. . . Organ playlists
MPR's Pipedreams: http://pipedreams.mpr.org/index.html Minnesota Public Radio. . . . Organ music on the Radio? Absolutely! Listen as we celebrate (Dec 31, 2001 - No. 0201) the first twenty years, an anniversary retrospective, this week on Pipedreams. . . . Audio programs from previous shows . . . .
. . . Various
See also Underground Radio.
Live365 - akeradio: http://www.live365.com/stations/245307 rakerman Halifax, Nova Scotia.
mastermind links: http://www.mastermindproductions.net/links.htm Music stuff on the web: Labels, Duplication, Independent Promotion, Bands/Artists, Studios, Gear, Organizations / Publications.
Winamp Generated PlayList: http://members.xoom.it/pagineliste/aaa/lista4.html Lista Mp3 by Mauro Pollini. 237 tracks in playlist, average track length: 3:52. Estimated playlist length: 15 hours 17 minutes 11 seconds (101 tracks of unknown length). Playlist files: 2-4 Family - Take Me Home 4 the cause - stand by me Abba - Dancing Queen AC DC -Thunderstruck . . .
Winamp Generated PlayList: http://silverjen.tripod.com/winamp.html 115 tracks in playlist, average track length: 3:28. Estimated playlist length: 6 hours 39 minutes 22 seconds. (74 tracks of unknown length). Playlist files: 311 - Cali Soca-Berkeley 5.28.00 311 Rare - Be a Crime 311 - Sweet Child O' Mine Aerosmith - Angel Arus - . . .
Real Audio Music: http://www.trellis.net/users/gstarcher/realplay.htm Sweet Georgia Brown, by Chet Atkins. Direct play. Real Audio.
Narada: http://www.narada.com/ Label for instrumental, jazz, and world music. Artists include Jesse Cook, Oscar Lopez, Tingstad & Rumbel,
World Music Radio!: http://www.worldmusicradio.com/ World music 24 hours a day! Excellent.
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