Notation & Orchestration

Dorico
Musescore
Sibelius

DAVID's TOP TEN LIST

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

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
MPA's Copyright Resource Center

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

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
Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Prize
Pulitzer Prize

Dictionaries

The Free Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
Encyclopedia of African Music
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

Text

American Poems.com
Bartleby.com
Google Language Tools
Hyphenator
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