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Music 521. Methods of Music Research

Internet Assignment

Due Friday October 28

For Each Answer, also provide the URL of where you obtained the information.

1. Find five music departments/schools in California that have home pages on the internet and give the URL for each. (Can you find one web site that you can link to all from?)

2. Where can you find a listing of upcoming orchestra auditions throughout the entire world?

3. When will the 2007 York Christmas Early Music Festival take place? Who is performing on the final concert, where will it take place, and what is the concert program?

4. What are the hours for the music area of the Library of Congress? Which building are these materials located? What must you do to be able to view these materials?

5. How many credits are needed to obtain a Certificate in World Music from the Florida State University and how many of these credits need to be ensembles? From what ensembles can you choose?

6. How many Research Guides in Music are currently available from Routledge Publishing? Which is the 2nd most expensive? How many pages is it?

7. In what online journal can you find listings of college teaching positions?

8. Name four pre-fourteenth-century women composers in chronological order. Include life dates. (Can you find one website for all four?)

9. When and where is the Fall 2007 meeting of the American Musicological Society? What are the prizes you could get while in attendance? Where can you go to get ‘the best burger in town”?

10. What is the program for the first orchestra concert in February 2007 of the Los Angeles Philharmonic? How about the Philharmonia Orchestra (London)? (Can you find one site to link to both of them from?)

11. You are visiting a friend who lives near Shea Stadium in Flushing. You are planning on doing research at the NYC Public Library Performing Arts Research Library while there. Which subway(s) do you need to take and what stop will you get off at to visit the library?

12. What three items must be mailed to the Register of copyrights in order to register your musical composition?

13. Where can you download for free scores to all of Mozart’s Symphonies?

14. Find an excerpt of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring on YouTube set to Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

15. Pick an area of interest in the fine arts. Find five web sites devoted to that area and provide the URL and a brief description of the site.