Depending on what computer you have, try The Internet Starter Kit for the Macintosh, 4th Edition (Adam Engst, Hayden Books) or The Internet Starter Kit for Windows, 2nd Edition (Adam Engst, Hayden Books) or The Internet Starter Kit for Windows 95 (Adam Engst, Corwin S. Low, Hayden Books). Then collect email addresses, send email, join and participate in news lists, and visit web sites.
Email addresses are like phone numbers. They have to be perfect to work. How do you get one? Call or write your friends and ask. Notice that an email address, for example Monique: buzzarte@dorsai.org begins with a few letters chosen by Monique, often including parts of the person's name, then there is an @ sign which means "at", then there is a provider of Internet services (in this case it is dorsai), and then either edu (for a school), org (for a non-profit organization), com (a commercial company), gov (government) etc. A web site (aka: page or home page) address starts with "http://" as in http://www.dorsai.org/~buzzarte/index.html#data When Netscape opens, there is a place to type in a web address. Do that and hit return and in a few seconds the web site will appear on your monitor. That's all there is to it. Just do it...
Everytime you go to a place on the Internet that you like or think you might want to return to, save the URL (the address where you are at the time) in your bookmarks file. Web sites are always adding more features. Bells & whistles are in the works at every site listed.
Also, things change quickly. So if some of the addresses I have listed are now incorrect, try going to one of the larger sites and seeing if they are linked to the person, place or thing that you seek. Then start sending email until you find someone who knows the answer. Most people on the net are very helpful.
https://newyorkwomencomposers.org/catalogs/">https://newyorkwomencomposers.org
This site also includes some biographical information, sources for obtaining the scores listed, and information on joining the organization and having your scores listed here. For those with email-only provider accounts, to join, email doverb@tiac.net (Eva Wiener).
This is a terrific resource and includes many areas of interest, including Syllabus at:
http://MUSIC.ACU.EDU/WWW/IAWM/bibliographies.html
Here you can find:
The FESTIVALS page in WWW archive is found at:
http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/festivals.html
In order to have your festival listed here, send mail to sglickma@haverford.edu (Sylvia Glickman) (More about her later.) To reach the editor of the IAWM Journal send mail to Eve R. Meyer at evermeyer@sprynet.com The IAWM site page includes links to the ICMA, MCF, MPA, SEAMUS, SCI, SMT and some international contemporary music centers, etc., as well as copyright and licensing resources. The American Music Center web site is also linked to the IAWM site. (That means that when you are in the IAWM site, there will be an AMC button or the name of AMC will be given in a blue color and you can click on the button or click on the blue name itself and it will take you to the AMC site.) Other composer resources are linked in the IAWM pages at:
http://MUSIC.ACU.EDU/WWW/IAWM/resources.html
Online IAWM E-list Directory (how to find your friends/colleagues):
http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/directory.html
For more on this, see section 31 of this paper.
The American Music Center is happy to announce a new service for our membership. For the first time, individual members will be able to have their own personal suite of World Wide Web Pages at the American Music Center site on the Internet. The Center's pages are already receiving thousands of hits each day. This gives both composer and performer members an ideal opportunity to make themselves and their music known to the performers, presenters, and publishers from all over the world who visit us electronically.For a one-time fee of $300 (and your continuing membership), we will program, link, and provide the storage space for a personal suite of pages on the World Wide Web. The information we will publish for you can include descriptions of your works (including lists of your CDs and scores and where to obtain them), your education and background, personal artistic statements, upcoming performances and reviews. If you already have scores in the Center's collection, a listing of these will be available from your page with information about how members can check them out.
We'll provide guidelines for formatting your page, with the idea of keeping the information content high and consistent with our other pages. We highly recommend that you examine the Individual Artists Pages already established for help in creating your pages. These pages will form a database of information about our performers and composers for the whole world to access, at a site which has already had great success. Individual Artist Pages will not be personal home pages, but rather a professional opportunity to promote your music through the thousands of contacts which the American Music Center attracts daily to its WWW site.
If you've already set up a personal home page and you're a member, we will link you to our Individual Artists Pages without charge. The $300 setup fee is for initial programming and configuration of your suite of pages. Changes to your WWW pages, including updates and requests for customized pages, will be billed at a little more than $50 an hour (with a $15 minimum, when last discussed). Where else can you get such a deal?
She has created many links to sites of interest to women composers, artists, scholars, etc. She also suggests the Ladyslipper Catalogue at http://www.jcmax.com/vendors/ladyslipper/
Her web page has links to many music organizations, sound/video files of some of her compositions, and includes a web site about digital notation and online transmission of notation information on the WWW, among other things too good to miss. Her site is at:
She says it is easy to post soundfiles on the web, "-- just save your files as AIFF or WAV files, put them on your server and other folks can download them." If everybody did that, we'd all be able to hear this music!
http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~daksmith/index.html It includes a short biography, startup bibliographies, a works list, and links to other composers. You can also become a member of the Clara Schumann Society! Look for the membership page for details. If you don't have access to a World Wide Web browser, and would like a table of contents by which to order email copies of some of the files, please send your email request, or any comments or suggestions you might have to daksmith@indiana.edu where you will reach David Kenneth Smith.
http://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/csw.html The CSW-Home Page contains information about the committee and its ongoing projects, including a Bibliography of Resources in Music and Women's Studies, SMT's Guidelines for Non-Sexist Language, and an Archive of Syllabi from Women and Music Courses. If you have any questions regarding the CSW-Home Page, or need technical assistance in accessing it, contact David Loberg Code (email: code@wmich.edu) at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.
The "Journal of Music Theory" announced recently that it has revised and relocated its Web page to:
http://www.ascap.com/ascap.html It includes a searchable database of member works. and BMI is online:
If you ever want to find out if some words you want to set to music are under copyright, this is one place to go. However, for more copyright data, try The Copyright Office homepage at:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright
Here you'll find the complete text to all Copyright circulars and a gateway to search their automated file (COHM) which contains all registrations made since 1978. They'll be adding a FAQ in the near future. If you and/or your publisher registered, your work will be in this file. There can be a lag time; sometimes it takes up to a year to process material, but it's not normally that long. You may email specific copyright questions to copyinfo@loc.gov. You can call the Library of Congress Music Division at (202) 707-5507 or the Recorded Sound Section at (202) 707-7833. The copyright office information comes to us from Stephen Soderberg, Music Division, Library of Congress ssod@loc.gov.
MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 I reached them through Patricia Bentson isast@sfsu.edu. Grace Sullivan is the Managing editor of Leonardo Music Journal and the Sound area of the web site.
To submit info for posting, go to http://www.metrobeat.com/nyc/mb/house/postbox.html, choose MAILBOX, fill out the form and hit SUBMIT EVENT or if all else fails, try HELP and they will help you. If you just want to see what they have posted for the coming week, you will probably want to choose Classical & New Music from their list of possibilities. This suggestion comes from Gregory Reeve gremusic@interport.net whose home page is http://www.users.interport.net/~gremusic/
Gregory says his site is "THE WEB PAGE dedicated to covering and continuously updating nearly everything in 20th and 21st Century Art Music: Notation files, Sound files, Concert Schedules, New Music information and resources, Composer and Performer profiles, and links to all other New Music sites. We invite the adding of links to this site by all members of the new music community--from composers to publicists. No style of music will be rejected as long as it has been written for the sake of art and not solely for commerce."
The site features the complete catalog (arranged both by title and by composer), complete with a great deal of detailed information and hundreds of CD covers in JPEG format; biographies, discographies and tour information for harmonia mundi artists; listings of their most recent releases and award winners; and special features (under What's Hot). Harmonia Mundi USA info@hmusa.com is the US branch of Harmonia Mundi France.
http://www.princeton.edu/~stmoore
A large collection of links to composers' home pages can be found at:
http://www.princeton.edu/~stmoore/musiclinks.html
When you have a home page, send the address to him and he will add it to his list of links. The more places you are listed and linked, the easier it is for more people to learn about you and your work/music. He is also happy to lend CDs on inter-library loan. Contact your local library's ILL office (get the call number for the disc first and if it's not yet cataloged in the online cat, it can still circulate). To view their monthly new acquisition lists, point your WWW browser to
http://www.princeton.edu/~mlislib/mlisacqlist.html
This Internet could be useful. What do you think?
"Writing in Boston in 1900 or shortly before, Rupert Hughes observed that one music publisher had seen compositions by women grow from "only one-tenth of his manuscripts a few years ago" to "more than two thirds". To consult this bibliography:
Click on "Music", again on "Music Department Faculty" and then on his name. He welcomes input from anyone who would like to help expand this list. car@charles.ucdavis.edu
http://www.intr.net/~bleissa/lists/artemis.html
The web page, http://www.vivacepress.com/wnqindex.htm is for WOMEN OF NOTE QUARTERLY
The web address of the San Francisco Conservatory is http://www.sfcm.edu/
Greenwich House Arts gharts@artswire.org in NYC is http://www.artswire.org/gharts/home.html.
Hildegard Publishing Company's web page is http://www.hildegard.com. Talk to Sylvia Glickman
(phone: 610-649-8649, FAX: 610-649-8677, email: sglickman@hildegard.com. Ms. Glickman is not only publishing our music (historical and current), she and Martha Furman Schleifer are co-editing for the Macmillan Publishing Company
There's a music bibliography on the Web called The American Music Resource, a gopher site since 1993 It is recently updated and appears at http://www.uncg.edu/~flmccart/amrhome.html AMR contains bibliographies, lists, Internet links and text-files covering all styles of American music, related issues, theory and technology. The collection is indexed into topics (style, genre: currently 52) and by subjects (mostly composers: currently 71--some of them women) for a grand total of well over 100 specific areas. Topics include Women in Music. The entire collection contains 850+ files and over 600 selected URLs. The "Selected Annotated Netography" provides further external links and offers research and Internet assistance. Use of the collection is efficient since it is text-only. (Keep this fact in mind when you create your own site. If you put photos or sound files on your site, depending on how you do it, things can slow down to the point where no one cares to wait for the beautiful material you are offering them.)
http://www.dorsai.org/~buzzarte/index.html#data
She is also an advocate for women musicians and is currently focusing on efforts to spotlight media attention on the Vienna Philharmonic's exclusion of women with her "Zap the VPO" web page http://www.dorsai.org/~buzzarte/zapvpo.html and email list (to subscribe, send a message to maiser@raildelivery.com with:
SUB zapvpo Your Name
All of these mailing lists have very definite ways of joining. It's free but it requires a perfect "performance".
For more rock information, try Rockrgrl rockrgrl@aol.com or on the web, go to http://www.indieweb.com/rockrgrl
For AES Women in Audio and New England Women in Audio, write carolbous@aol.com
For a history of electronic musical instruments, look at http://www.ief.u-psud.fr/~thierry/history/history.html Even the theremin has a page at http://www.nashville.net/~theremin/
For those of us who still play the piano, you can see the piano technician guild's piano page at http://www.prairienet.org/arts/ptg/homepage.html
Or if you ever have a question about women and the movies, try the Library of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy has a Web site at http://www.oscars.org/academy/index.html. This idea comes from Roger Evans.
http://www.iup.edu/~wnnf/music.html
Just enter her OTHER MUSIC LINKS, and then select the VOCALIST home page. There are lists of many of these associations with their respective addresses. There are simpler ways, but you need to know that we are all linked together in the most interesting ways!
Connie Sunday has a great page at http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/1162/ with a huge number of links to sites with the topics: ORCHESTRA GUIDE, MUSIC PAGES,and FEMINIST PAGES, among other things such as vegetarianism and bicycling.
with ONLY the following message (leave the Subject Line blank):
SUBSCRIBE AMSLIST yourfirstname yourlastname
Example:
subscribe amslist Josquin W. Desprez.
There is a great article (on paper) in "Computing In Musicology: An International Directory of Applications" Volume 10, 1995-96 published by the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, Stanford, CA called "Tools for Musical Scholarship on the World-Wide Web" by Robert Judd rjudd@sas.upenn.edu.
http://music.dartmouth.edu/~wowem
and Katt Hernandez has a site up for a pretty much stagnant organization called the Coalition of Women Improvisers and Composers whose aim is to try and get more young women involved in playing new music-composing, jazz, electronic music, free improvisation, rock, etc.. . .Go see:
http://www.personal.umich.edu/~katt/women.html
She says it would be wonderful to have other people involved again.
CIA World Fact Book, an encyclopedia of geographical, cultural, economic, and political information on the nations of the world. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/index.html
Of course, after you finish your geographical explorations (while possibly avoiding finishing your string quartet) go look at the URL for the Icelandic Music Page, about which I received word from the owner, Jon Hrolfur Sigurjonsson jonhs@ismennt.is. There is a (multinational) page for libraries and databases at this URL:
http://rvik.ismennt.is/~jonhs/Sofn/sofn.html
http://www.womenbooks.com WOMEN'S BOOKSHELF - a cybrary of writings by women - Information about books, reports, newsletters, bibliographies, reading lists relevant to your area of interest, out-of-print material reprinted on line, publications for sale can be set up for direct order from WOMEN'S BOOKSHELF. http://www.womenbooks.com/bbs/index.html. http://www.womenbooks.com/bbs6/index.html If you do not have access to the Internet, contact Dr. Anne-Marie Pollowy Toliver email annemarie@womenbooks.com
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/bi/birjt/cpruis/ or Musicians and Injuries at http://www.engr.unl.edu/ee/eeshop/music.html or Chronic Fatique Syndrome Information at http://www.cais.net/cfs-news/ Those who would like to be able to post messages directly to the cfs newsgroup alt.med.cfs should register for direct posting privileges by doing the following:
send the commands
SUB CFS-L YourFirstName YourLastName
SET CFS-L NOMAIL
Performers write to news groups and actually ask if anyone has written anything for string quartet, for example. You can have performances due to being on the net (assuming you respond to queries), that would never have come your way in a million years.
Another use for the Internet is to participate in discussions. For example, the ICMC'95 at Banff, "Women's Issues in Computer Music" asked for participation in the panel by sending mail from:
http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/ICMC/Panels/ or mail to: icmcpanel3@banffcentre.ab.ca The panelists were Susan Frykberg, Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Paul Lansky, Andra McCartney and the moderator was Mary Simoni. It was your opportunity to participate without going there physically.
Another one is that someone, Melissa Thiel thielmd@pacificu.edu for example, might want to make her senior thesis project about "the role of woman as composer". She wrote to the IAWM news list and asked to interview willing composers. This is a way to reach students and scholars in a medium where it is not important where you teach college or how many CDs you have out currently. You have an opportunity to say what your music is about, to talk to individuals and groups of people all over the world, to teach them about your music/aesthetic/scholarly interests, and to learn from them. Sometimes, you will even make friends. So, be interviewed. Be written about. You don't even have to dress up.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/music/research/musicallists.html
iawm-request@acuvax.acu.edu The electronic list was established in October of 1993 by the International League of Women Composers to more fully realize founder Nancy Van de Vate's vision to create a network of women composers. Through the list the IAWM shares information that can benefit by wide distribution--including announcements, opportunities listings, news items, general inquiries, reference inquiries, calls for scores and discussions of all other topics of interest to women composers and the women-in-music community. The listowners are Sally Reid, reid@acuvax.acu.edu and Paul MacDonald, macdonal@acuvax.acu.edu You may view IAWM electronic list archives on the web at:
http://MUSIC.ACU.EDU/WWW/IAWM/archives.html
subscribe gen-mus address.
subscribe sonneck@nevada.edu [Your First name] [Your Last name]
subscribe musthp-l firstname lastname
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GALA, the association of gay and lesbian choruses, can be reached at GALAChorus@aol.com its executive director is Ken Cole. Many of these choruses have their own web sites, and someone is maintaining one for GALA. A general web search should turn it up for you. You may also want to contact Brian at chorus@QueerNet.ORG.
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The email address for Groves is grove@grovestocktn.com, should you wish to talk to them about including you or your scholarship next time they issue Groves.
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Canadian Music Center cmc@interlog.com or see their site at http://www.culturenet.ca/cmc/
To find composers/musicologists/friends, etc., if you know the city and/or state in which the person lives, go to the Internet:
You can type in the person's name and any geographical information you may have. And quicko-chango, a snail mail address and phone number appear! Or, on the Internet go to http://www.bigfoot.com/ for a national list of email addresses. For composers, contact his/her publisher - addresses on this site, http://host.mpa.org/mpa/publist.html These suggestions come from Monica Hubbard.
If your information is not on this list, it just means I don't have it or didn't find it. I tried to reach people to ask for permission to publish everything here but if I failed to reach you (or if you didn't reply in time) or if the information is incorrect, I'm sorry. Send me mail and I will add, subtract, or correct it in my lists of such things. beth@beand.com
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