The following online resources relate to the feature articles in this season’s issues of Music Alive! Use the topic links for easy navigation between sections.

Cool Careers
Making Musicals
Music & Technology
Music Notes
Sound Science
The Power of a Song
Wonderful Woodwinds
World Beat

COOL CAREERS

 

Artist Manager - http://www.artistmanagementresource.com/

What is artist management?

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MAKING MUSICALS

 

In the Heights - http://www.musicals101.com/

Comprehensive info about musicals

In the Heights - http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/9557.html

The history of musical theater

Revivals - http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=5987

A century of Gypsy Rose Lee

Revivals - http://www.musicalheaven.com/

Everything about musicals, old and new

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MUSIC & TECHNOLOGY

 

Get on Track! - http://www.expertvillage.com/video-series/1446_recording-home.htm

How-to videos for home recording

Get on Track! - http://homerecording.com/

Home recording knowledge center

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MUSIC NOTES

 

Good Deeds - http://www.musicforrelief.org

Check out Linkin Park's latest good deeds

It's a Fact! - http://www.amaranthpublishing.com/hurrian.htm

The oldest-known song transcribed and performed

It's a Fact! - http://www.greenwych.ca/evidence.htm

Ancient Syrian music notation explored

It's a Fact! Harmonica - http://www.harmonica.com/

Harmonica types and how to play them

Unusual Instruments: Sousaphone - http://www.wirz.de/music/tubafrm.htm

Tubas and sousaphones as featured instruments

Unusual Instruments: Theremin - http://www.thereminworld.com/

Comprehensive info about the theremin

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SOUND SCIENCE

 

Hear, Here! - http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=21685

Biology of hearing and the ear

Songs of Birds and Whales - http://www.whalesong.org/

Detailed info on whales and their songs

Songs of Birds and Whales - http://www.learnbirdsongs.com/

Listen to bird songs.

The Anatomy of Singing - http://www.singingvoice.net/anatomy.html

More detailed info on the vocal cords

The Anatomy of Singing - http://www.smm.org/sound/vrml/vocal/vocalcu.htm

See vocal cords in action

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THE POWER OF A SONG

 

"Ohio" - http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/series/293/

Protest songs throughout modern times

"Ohio" - http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/ohio.htm

An analysis of the lyrics of "Ohio"

"Ohio" - http://www.sfheart.com/protest/index1.html

Protest songs of the '60s and '70s

"Strange Fruit" - http://www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?cid=394

More on the song and film

"Strange Fruit" - http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/film.html

Explore the movie about the important song

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WONDERFUL WOODWINDS

 

Clarinet - http://baroque-music.com/wc/info/clarinet.shtml

About the clarinet

Flute & Piccolo - http://www.j-tull.com/musicians/iananderson/index.html

Read about the very interesting Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull

Flute & Piccolo - http://expet.gps.caltech.edu/~asimow/midi/flutemidi.html

Midi files for playing along with flute and piccolo

Flute & Piccolo - http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/flute/

Flute acoustics

Oboe & Bassoon - http://www.bassoonbrothers.com/about/history

Eclectic bassoon quartet

Oboe & Bassoon - http://www.usd.edu/smm/Oboes.html

Historic oboes

Oboe & Bassoon - http://www.oboes.com/oboehistory.html

History of the oboe

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WORLD BEAT

 

The Music of Iran - http://www.dejkam.com/music/iran_traditional/

All about Iranian music

The Music of Iran - http://www.medieval.org/music/world/iran.html

Classical music of Iran

The Music of Iran - http://bia2.com/music/

Pop music of Iran

The Music of Iran - http://bia2.com/music/

Pop music of Iran

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