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Oxford Music Online- Oxford Music Online - the gateway into music research and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference. Includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music.
Formerly known as Grove Music
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries.
- Music @ Credo referenceplus
- A collection of reference books covering Music.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries.
- Music @ Te Puna Web Directory
- Links to New Zealand organisations and information.
- 4.20
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- 51st International Festival of Contemporary Music Oltre la linea Venice
- 2 to 18 October, 2008
- 5AM
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- A Low Hum
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- AMG All Music Guide
- provides information on artists including musician/music group history, musical style, discography and reviews. Search by artist, album, song, music style or label. From All Media Guide (AMG), the premier provider of entertainment content databases
- Amplifier
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- APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs Of All Time
- In 2001 to celebrate 75 years of its existence, APRA (the Australasian Performing Right Association), invited its members and an academy to vote on what they believe are to be New Zealand's top songs of all time. They were asked to select songs from a list of 900 entries.
- Archive of Māori and Pacific Music
- About the Maori and Pacific music archive collection at the University of Auckland.
- Audio Foundation
- A networking and resource database hub for the representation, facilitation, support and promotion of innovative and experimental artistic development in NZ Audio Culture
- b.Net NZ Music Awards
- last held 16 November 2007
- back2basics
- NZ Hiphop
- Bass Frontiers
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- The big city
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- The Blerta Years
- A four-part New Zealand music profile first broadcast on National Radio 101FM
- Blues and views New Zealand
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- Broadway: The American Musical
- Companion to television series from PBS
- C4 TV
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- Celtic music NZ
- Aims to provide New Zealanders interested in Celtic music (particularly Irish and Scottish) a starting point, a place to find an instrument, a teacher or an event to go to. It also aims to develop networks within the Celtic music community in New Zealand.
- Cheeseontoast
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- Christchurch Music Services Directory. Christchurch
- Contacts for Artists, Venues, Studios, Labels, Managers, Video Producers, Promoters, Schools, Media and more.
- Discography of New Zealand popular music, 1960-1990: rock, jazz, folk, blues, bluegrass
- This discography covers 1230 audio recordings by New Zealand rock, jazz, folk, blues and bluegrass musicians published between 1958 and 1987. It includes LPs, EPs and cassettes, but not singles or CDs.
- Enzology
- Enzology is National Radio's documentary covering the history of New Zealand's most iconic band - Split Enz. Five years in the making, this ten-part series covers the history of the band from their beginnings in Auckland as an acoustic ensemble in 1972, to their final concerts as an internationally acclaimed pop band in 1984.
- European Free Improvisation
- A comprehensive information resource for all aspects of the type of music known as European free improvisation.
- Flying Nun Records
- Presented by former 'Radio With Pictures' host Karyn Hay; drawn from over 100 hours of new and archival interviews, by researcher/ producer Liisa McMillan, Flying Nun Records was first made for and broadcast by National Radio in December 2002.
- Frontier Touring
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- Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
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- GramoFile
- a database of classical music reviews which have appeared in the Gramophone. May require registration.
- Groove Guide
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- He Ara Pūoro (A Pathway of Song)
- A collaboration between Richard Nunns and Radio New Zealand, whereby Richard plays and begins to describe the many traditional Maori instruments in his collection.
- Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)
- IBDB provides a comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway, including all "title page" information about each production. IBDB also offers historical information about theatres and various statistics and fun facts related to Broadway. From the The League of American Theatres and Producers
- J.A.G.G. just a gig guide? Christchurch
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- Jazz Gig Guide Auckland
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- Loops & Samples
- the history of dance music in NZ
- Māori Music.com
- "From haka to hip-hop - mai te haka ki te kori"
- Music @ Yahoo!Xtra
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- Musical Theatre Federation of NZ
- Umbrella group for groups associated with Musical Theatre, formerly known as the Operatic Federation of New Zealand
- MusicAustralia
- Discover historical and contemporary Australian music. View and print Australian sheet music and find full scores. Listen to sound recordings or purchase digital downloads .Find information about music, people and organisations. Explore related materials such as pictures, books, archived websites. Source items to borrow, copy or buy. Brought to you by the National Library of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive and cultural organisations from around the nation.
- Musipedia
- Inspired by, but not affiliated with Wikipedia, a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes.
- National Library of Australia digitised Sheet Music
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- New Zealand Accordion Association Inc.
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- New Zealand Music Awards
- The Tuis. Awarded 8 October, 2008
- New Zealand Music Month
- May 2008
- New Zealand Music Services Directory
- Online version of print directory
- New Zealand Musical History
- From Failsafe Records primarily focused on but not limited to, Christchurch bands.
- New Zealand Society of Recorder Players
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- New Zealand Uilleann Pipers Association
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- Nightfall
- New Zealand website dedicated to bringing you the best in all metal
- NZ Pipe Bands Central North Island Centre
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- NZ Rave
- New Zealands Original Dance Music Website
- nzblues.com
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- NZMusic Gig Guide
- From nzmusic.com
- Parachute Music
- Promotes Christian Music in NZ and runs a large music event to develop Christian artists and showcase them to a wide audience.
- Pipers' Association
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- Play It Strange
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- Public Domain Information Project
- A site for the identification of music and songs in the public domain. (Music and lyrics published in 1922 or earlier are in the Public Domain in the United States. )
- Punk As
- New Zealand Punk, Ska and Hardcore Music
- Re:action
- Auckland Entertainment and Nightlife Guide
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees
- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honors the legendary performers, producers, songwriters, disc jockeys and others who have made rock and roll the force in our culture that it is. From the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
- Sound Junction
- Listen, explore, discover and create music. Multimedia website created by a group of organizations in Britain (including the Royal Academy of Music). Through interactive games, musical excerpts, interviews, and other such devices, the SoundJunction site is a great way for anyone to learn about music.
- Trouser Press
- Trouser Press, online here since August 2002, began with the contents of all five Trouser Press Record Guides, those highly opinionated review books of '70s, '80s and '90s alternative music. The site now includes loads of new and updated entries - more than 3,000 in all.
- What's that called
- Enables searching for the music from UK and United States television advertisements.
- What's That Tune?
- The definitive guide to music used in UK and Irish television advertisements.
- Whatsonstage.com
- UK performing arts
- World Music Central
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