Artist Residencies

Alliance of Artist Communities
Bellagio
Copland House
Djerassi
Liguria (Bogliasco Foundation)
MacDowell
Ragdale
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Yaddo

Competitions

ASCAP Young Composer Awards
Barlow Prize
BMI Student Composer Awards
Grawemeyer Award
Lee Ettelson Prize
Pulitzer Prize
Coups de vents: Concours International de Composition
Concours International de Composition Henri Dutilleux

Notation & Orchestration

Finale
Sibelius

DAVID's TOP TEN LIST

MOLA's Music Preparation Guidelines
Instrument Ranges (Dometsch - conservative)
Wikipedia Instr. Range Chart w/links to detail
Berlioz: Treatise extracts
Freund: Instrument Studies (IU only)
Hugill: The Orchestra: A Users Manual
Rimsky-Korsakov: Principles of Orchestration

Copyists

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Text

AltaVista Translation
Google Language Tools

American Poems.com
Bartleby.com
eServer Poetry Collection
Library of Congress Poetry
Poem Hunter.com
Poetry.org
Poetry Foundation.org
Poetry magazine
Poets.org
Poets' Corner
Poets House
Wikipedia "Poetry" Emily Dickinson
Shakespeare online
Walt Whitman Archive

Dictionaries

The Free Dictionary
Merriam-Webster

Encyclopedia of African Music
Essentials of Music - Glossary
General Glossary of World Music
Glossary of Folk Instruments
Glossary of Indian Classical Music
Glossary of Jazz
Glossary of Pianos
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Music
Indian Music Glossary
Music Cognition Handbook: A Glossary of Concepts
Music Dictionary Online (Dometsch)
Musical Instruments Abbreviation List
Naxos Musical Terminology Glossary
Opera Glossary
Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
World Musical Instrument Encyclopedia

Scores

Acadia Early Music Archive
Choral Public Domain Library
ESM Sibley Library (P.D.)
Fac-similé.org
IU Variations Prototype
Werner Icking Music Archive
WIMA: Other free sheet music archives

Festivals

Aspen
Bowdoin
Brevard
Bang on a Can Summer Festival
Cabrillo
Eastern Music Festival
European American Musical Alliance
ISU Contemporary Music Festival
June in Buffalo
Marlboro
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
Ojai
Spoleto
Tanglewood
Wintergreen

Reading Sessions

Albany Symphony Young Composer Competition
American Composers Orchestra
Essentially Choral (Vocalessence)
Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute
Riverside Symphony

Ensembles

Absolute Ensemble
Alarm Will Sound
Alternance
American Composers Orchestra
American Modern Ensemble
Asko Ensemble
Bang on a Can
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Boston Musica Viva
California Ear Unit
Chicago Symphony Music Now
Collage New Music
Continuum
counter)induction
Corigliano Quartet
Cube
Cygnus
Da Capo Chamber Players
Dinosaur Annex
Duo 46
E.A.R. unit
Earplay
Eighth Blackbird
Empyrean Ensemble
Ensemble 21
Ensemble Aventure
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Ensemble Modern
Ensemble Sospeso
Fulcrum Point New Music Project
Great Noise Ensemble
GVSU New Music Ensemble
ICE - International Contemporary Ensemble
Ijsbreker
Indiana University New Music Ensemble
Jack Quartet
Kronos Quartet
Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
League/ISCM New York
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
Locrian Chamber Players
London Sinfonietta
Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group
Manhattan Brass
Monday Evening Concerts
Musiqa
Network for New Music
New York New Music Ensemble
New York Philharmonic Contact
Newear
Orchestra 2001
Ossia
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Present Music
Relache
San Francisco Contemporary Chamber Players
Schoenberg Ensemble
Seattle Chamber Players
Sequitar
S.E.M. Ensemble
Signal
So Percussion
Society for New Music
Third Angle New Music Ensemble
University of Texas-Austin New Music Ensemble
Voices of Change
Washington Square Contemporary Music

Orchestras

Albany Symphony Orchestra
American Composers Orchestra
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Brooklyn Philharmonic
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Flint Symphony Orchestra
Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra
Green Bay Symphony Orchestra
Honolulu Symphony
Houston Symphony
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
London Sinfonietta
Long Island Philharmonic
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Louisville Orchestra
Memphis Symphony
Minnesota Orchestra
National Repertory Orchestra
National Symphony Orchestra
New England Philharmonic
New World Symphony
New York Philharmonic
New York Youth Symphony
Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oregon Symphony
Pacific Symphony
Philadephia Orchestra
Quad City Symphony Orchestra
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
South Bend Symphony Orchestra
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Organizations

American Arts Alliance
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
American Composers Forum
American Music Center
American Symphony Orchestra League
Art of the States (WGBH - Radio)
ArtsWire - Online Communications for the Arts
ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers
bang on a can
Barlow Endowment for Music Composition
Billboard Online
BMI - Broadcast Music Incorporated
Chamber Music America
CISAC - Confederation Internationale des societes d'Auteurs et Compositeurs
College Music Society
Conductors Guild
Electronic Music Foundation
Fromm Music Foundation
Gaudeamus
IMSLP - International Music Score Library Project
IRCAM - Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Koussevitzky Music Foundation
Meet The Composer
Music Educators National Conference (MENC)
National Endowment for the Arts
Opera America
Oral History, American Music (OHAM)
SESAC
Society Of Composers, Inc.

Copyright & Licensing

ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers
BMI - Broadcast Music Incorporated
Copyright Society of the USA
Harry Fox Agency
Library of Congress Copyright Office
Music Library Association
MPA's Copyright Resource Center

Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners' Society (AMCOS)
Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)
Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (UK) (ALCS)
Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. (CMRRA)
Irish Music Rights Organization (IMRO)
Nordisk Copyright Bureau (NCB)
Performing Right Society (UK) (PRS)
Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) (Spain)
Societe d'Auteurs Belge (SABAM) (Belgium)
Societe des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (France) (SACD)
TONO - The Norwegian Performing Right Society

Publishers

Boosey & Hawkes
Carl Fischer
Dorn
Edition Peters
Faber
MMB
National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA)
Peermusic
Presser
Pro Nova Music
Ricordi
Schirmer
Schott
Subito
Universal Edition
Wilhelm Hansen

News Media

Gramophone
LA Weekly
Metaboles.com
Mikropolyphonie
NewMusicBox
New York Times (Music)
Sequenza 21
Village Voice

Other Links

Dolmetsch
Thomas Moore's New Music Links
Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University list)

International Information Centers

American Music Center
Australian Music Center
British Music Information Center
BUMA (Netherlands)
Canadian Music Center
Contemporary Music Centre Ireland
Croatian Music Information Center
Czech Music Information Centre
Finnish Music Information Center
GEMA - Gesellschaft fur Musikalische Auffuhrungs- und Mechanische Vervielfaltigungsrechte
German Music Information Center
Komponister i Danmark (KODA)
Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Center
Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society Ltd. (UK)
Music Information Centre Norway
Musica International Database of Choral Repertoire
MuziekGroep Nederland (Donemus)
Swedish Music Information Center

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