E-RESOURCES FOR THE STUDIO GUITAR INSTRUCTOR
GUITARISTS
http://www.jeffreymcfadden.com/ Home page of guitarist Jeffrey McFadden http://www.duospiritoso.c om/ Guitar Duet - Jeffrey McFadden - Andrew Zohn
GUITAR FESTIVALS
http://www.saubleguitarfest.com/ Sauble Beach Festival of the Guitar - Summer guitar camp in Agust
GUITAR COMPETITIONS
http://www.nmaf.ca/ Norfolk Musical Arts Festival. http://www.brantfordkiwanismusicfestival.com/ Brantford Kiwanis Music Festival. http://kiwanismusictoronto.org/ Kiwanis music festival in Toronto http://www.rotarymusicfest.org/ Burligton Rotary music festival http://www.acnmp.ca/ Contemporary showcase - an all Canadian music festival - event is master class format
http://www.peelmusicfestival.ca/Main.aspx Peel music competition http://www.cmcnational.com/en/ Canadian Music Competition - Regional, provincial and national competition
ORGANIZATIONS
http://www.brantfordmusicclub.ca/ Brantford Music Club. An organization that hosts a series of four concerts each year - three featuring high quality, professional Canadian Artists and one highlighting young, local musicians performing at a high level.
http://www.brantford.ca/bcn/index.htm Brantford Cultural Network. An organization intended to promote, encourage, and coordinate arts and culture in Brantford and area
GENERAL NEWS
http://www.bourque.org/ Bourque news http://www.cbc.ca/ C.B.C. Radio
BASICS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia - Online encyclopiedia
GENERAL MUSIC HISTORY
http://www.geocities.com/papandrew/
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/eras/eras.html A good, general music history site that focuses on the general musical traits of the traditional musical eras.
http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/default.asp See the Education Links on the right menu for a good music glossary, composer biographies, instrument information and general music items.
http://www.karadar.it/Default.htm Composer biography page with audio clips.
http://www.classicalarchives.com/ Composer biographies and an extensive library of MIDI files. Although not the original format, a valuable resource for score or musical form study.
www.musiccentre.ca/ Canadian Music and Composer archive.
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/classmus.html Very good composer biography site.
http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html Renaissance instrument page with images and sound samples.
http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/index.html The Symphony: An Interactive Guide. History & musical forms site with sound examples. Very good.
HISTORY OF THE GUITAR
http://www.classicalguitarmidi.com/history/
http://www.classicalguitarmidi.com/history/guitar_history.html A good historical resource with time periods, performers, and composers
http://www.classicalguitarmidi.com/index.html good links and many MIDI files
http://www.earlyromanticguitar.com/ a very thorough site dedicated to romantic guitar topics
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Classical-guitar-pedhttp://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Classical-guitar-pedagogy good for many related links
GUITAR PEDAGOGY
http://www.davidrussellguitar.com/tip.html excellent tips from David Russell
http://www.delcamp.net/
http://www.egta.co.uk/content/home European guitar teachers association - lots of scholarly articles on various issues related to guitar teaching
PDF’S AND LINKS - FREE SHEET MUSIC
http://www.earlyromanticguitar.com/erg/sheetmusic.htm good pdf links from the Early Romantic Web page
http://www.fernandosor.fr.st/ When finished will contain the complete works of Sor
http://dirk.meineke.free.fr/index.html tab and standard notation, lots of standard and Latin rep.
http://www.muslib.se/ebibliotek/boije/ Bojies library - over 1000 pdf’s from the classical time period
http://www.geocities.com/jubing/free_music.html lots of pdf links
http://boldyrev.net/index00.htm lots of pdf links
http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/samling/ma/digmus/index.html The Danish National Digital Sheet Music Archive PDF scores
EAR TRAINING
http://www.good-ear.com/servlet/EarTrainer Good basic tests
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_training wiki ear training with song chart
http://www.musictheory.net/trainers/html/id90_en.htmlhttp://www.musictheory.net/index.html An excellent music theory instruction/review site with written and audio trainers.
http://67.117.214.227/megill/skilltests/skillTests.html
Theory and ear training. Interactive Applet Skill Tests that work on improving written or aural skills on theoretical or historical concepts. Some parts of this website require Java software. Free download link may be found in the Utilities links.
http://www.zacworld.com/ Many additional music links including down loadable metronomes.
http://www.rcmexaminations.org/teachinfo/mmpdffiles/MM_2007_MAR
SIGHT READING
http://sightreadthis.com/index.php pay site
METRONOME
http://www.metronomeonline.com/ free online metronome
TUNERS
http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/onlinetuner.html must click mouse to repeat each string
http://www.8notes.com/guitar_tuner/default.asp?sstring=g a better tuner than above, notes continue to play while you tune
BLANK SHEET MUSIC
http://www.themusicbox.co.uk/msguitartab.pdf good fretboard charts and blank chord boxes
http://www.blanksheetmusic.net/ Print blank sheet music for free, supports guitar and bass tabs too, ready-to-print sheets in a few seconds, no software to download & install, no watermarks on prints.
MUSIC LIBRARIES
http://racer.scholarsportal.info/zportal/zengine?VDXaction=Logi inter-lending library, must have a valid student card
http://main.library.utoronto.ca/ University of Toronto main library http://libcat.mcmaster.ca/index.jsp?Ntt1=naxos&Ntk1=Anywhere naxos music audio recording collection - must have a valid student card
GUITAR ASSOCIATIONS
http://www.guitarfoundation.org/drupal/ important resource, the guitar foundation of America
http://www.worldguitarist.com/ List of active classical guitarists from around the world
http://musicated.com/CGCL/ a list classical guitar composers and bio - many good links as well
GUITAR VIDEOS
http://www.youtube.com/ watch popular guitarist perform
MUSIC THEORY - EAR TRAINING
http://www.musictheory.net
http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm An academic site that focuses on many music theory, music history and academic topics. A site better suited for senior students.
http://www.emusictheory.com/ Recently re-designed theory site with many activities including scale building.
http://www.teoria.com A theory site with good trainers. Specifically interval construction and rhythmic dictation. Some parts of this website require Java software. Free download link may be found in the Utilities links.
http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/ A good general music site with theory, history and instrument sections that would be suitable for review purposes.http://www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca
http://www.changes98.com/ A music page with a Chord Speller http://www.earplane.com/http://www.ossmann.com/bigears/http://www.blanksheetmusic.net
MUSIC SCHOOLS
http://www.brocku.ca/music/ Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario
http://www.uoguelph.ca/sofam/ University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario
http://bolt.lakeheadu.ca/~musicwww/ Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario
http://sota.humanities.mcmaster.ca/ McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario
http://www.music.uottawa.ca/ University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.queensu.ca/music/ index.shtml Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario
http://www.music.utoronto.ca/site5.aspx University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario
http://www.uwo.ca/music/ University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario
http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=29 Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario
http://cronus.uwindsor.ca/music University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario
http://www.yorku.ca/finearts/music/ York University in Toronto, Ontario
http://creativeandperformingarts.humber.ca/music/music.html Humber College in Toronto, Ontario
http://www.music.ubc.ca/ University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/music/ University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba
http://www.mcgill.ca/music/ McGill University in Montreal, Quebec
http://www.rcmusic.ca/ContentPage.aspx?name=home Royal Conservatory of Music. A Nationally recognized music conservatory offering musical instruction.
http://www.rcmexaminations.org/ Royal Conservatory of Music Examination Centre. The Conservatory site dedicated to providing information and services regarding their examinations in theory, history or performance.
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