MUS 1P • Department of Music • Spring 2018
Introduction to Musical Concepts
LIU Post • Long Island University
Links To Visit
- Google Music Timeline
- Google has taken the data from the people who have uploaded songs to Google Play Music to show how the popularity of different genres of music changes or has changed over time. The data is based on how many Google Play Music users have an artist or album in their music library and the release date of the album
- All Music Guide
- A good place to get information about artists and music styles
- BBC Guide to the Orchestra
- Would you expect to find a saxophone in an orchestra? Or, are composers using synthesizers with orchestras? Find out here
- Billboard.com -- Singles Charts and Album Charts
- Billboard Magazine Web site. Search the Chart Archives to see which artists on the charts 5, 10 or 15 years ago are still popular today.
- The Blues
- PBS Series Web site
- Oxford/Grove's Music Online
- Excellent online music resource. Some parts may be accessible only from campus computers
- About Hip Hop (Hip Hop turned 40 in 2014)
- and another look -- History of Hip Hop
- Hip Hop Culture
- Article at Wikipedia about the various elements of the culture
- Iskur's Guide to Electronic Music
- An excellent look at the styles and substyles/variations found in electronic music (Requires Flash)
- James Brown
- Find out more about the "Godfather of Soul"
- JAZZ. A Film By Ken Burns
- PBS series Web site. Make sure you visit the Jazz Lounge
- Music History 102
- at the Internet Public Library
- Music
- Article at Wikipedia
- Rock and Roll
- Article at Wikipedia covering the origin and history of the style and its substyles
- Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
- from an article published in 2003 - updated 2009
- Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
- from an article published in 2004 - updated 2010
- Rolling Stone Magazine 100 Greatest Singers
- from an article published in 2010