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           <A HREF="http://www.grovemusic.com">Grove Dictionary of Music Online</A><FONT COLOR="RED">  -- VRC -- </FONT><BR>
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                Grove’s integrated music resource on the web includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of
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      <A HREF="http://www.allmusic.com/">All-Music Guide</a>
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      The All-Music Guide offers a comprehensive searchable database of musicians, bands, 
      albums, musical genres, and recording labels.  Biographies, histories, 
      and discographies are included for all categories. 
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      <A HREF="http://www.ascap.com">ASCAP</A>
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      The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, a performing
      rights licensing organization founded in 1914, offers a searchable database
      of performed music in its repertory.  Site also includes licensing and 
      copyright information, as well as links to music resources, awards, and current news.
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      <A HREF="http://bmi.com">BMI</A>
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      A non-profit organization representing songwriters,
      composers, and publishers. Includes a searchable database of songs, writers,
      and publishers licensed by BMI, and provides current news and 
      legislation regarding the business of music.
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      <A HREF="http://www.pmlib.org/cgi-win/clscnew.exe">PML Classical Music Index</A>
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      Patchogue-Medford Library's index to classical sheet music and scores. Searchable by instrument, composer or keyword. Any music in the database, including complete parts for chamber music, may be borrowed directly or through interlibrary loan by any Suffolk
      County library cardholder or through Long Island Library Resources Council.
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      <a href="http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html">DW3 Classical Music Resources</a> 
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      A Duke University music librarian has provided over 1800 links to web pages on clasical music
      composers and subjects.
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      <a href="http://lii.org/search/file/music">Music Topics: Librarian's Index to the Internet</a>
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      <A HREF="http://musicsearch.com">MusicSearch: The Internet's Music-Only Search Site</A>
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      A precise, specialized search engine for music-related resources on the Internet.
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      <A HREF="http://www.pmlib.org/songindx/pmlsong.htm">PML Popular Song Index Index</A>
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      This is an index to selected books of popular songs in the collection of the Patchogue-Medford Library. There are
      over 100,000 entries from over 1,100 books which have been indexed. Also included in the index are monthly issues of "Sheet Music Magazine" from May 1987 on, as well as individual
      titles from our sheet music file. In general, the index does not include collections of songs such as piano-vocal
      scores of musicals and films which can be easily located by other means
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      <a href="http://www.sonicnet.com">SonicNet</a>
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      Billing itself as "The Online Music Network," SonicNet features news, 
      interviews, reviews, and online music events.  Concentrates on popular music.
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