Here is a list of links that can be useful for study, research, musical activities.

The links are grouped for categories, as far as possible, and represent a part of what is possible to find on the web.

All the sites have a free access.

In order:

Scores

Mp3 and radio online

Contemporary and Electronic Music

Open access online journals, mainly about Musical Analysis, bibliographical researches

Some sites about Linux and Open Source world

Suggestions for Music and Mathematics, Pitch-class Set Theory, Music Theory

Interesting Blogs and sites of various types

Scores:

• http://imslp.org/index.php?title=Main_Page main site for classical music scores: it has in practice all the public domain repertoire.
• http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page it is analogous to the precedent site, but devoted only to Choral Music.
• http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/new.html site devoted entirely to Lieder, specifically for what about texts and translations in various languages.
• http://note.dmc.keio.ac.jp/music-library/nanki/ very interesting Japanese site, from which it is possible to examine ancient music scores, and ancient treatises.
• http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/start.php?l= a must, is the Bärenreiter site, with the critical edition of complete works by Mozart.

Mp3 and radio online, video:

• http://www.jazz-on-line.com/index.htm site from which to listen to or to download mp3 of public domain jazz repertoire.
• http://www.schoenberg.at/ Arnold Schoenberg Center of Los Angeles, now in Vienna; in Multimedia section you can listen in streaming to all works by Viennese composer.
• http://avantgardeproject.conus.info/mirror/archive.htm site that has digital versions of old vinyl recordings about 20th century composers. Even if some composers are less known, it allow to have a complete idea of musical landscape of last century. Very good performers and compositions.
• http://www.liberliber.it/ besides public domain books, in the Audioteca section it has mp3 of historical classical music recordings, with very good performers. Audio quality is not always the best.
• http://www.mozart-archiv.de/ German radio that presents various servers from which to download/listen to Mozart opera omnia in mp3 or wma format.
• http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/listen/music_library?filter=composer page of the site of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, that has concert seasons, publishing than the recordings of concerts on the site.
• http://www.magazzini-sonori.it/ site of Emilia Romagna region, with the possibility of listening to music of various type.
• http://www.haydn107.com/index.php?id=2&lng=2 site from which is possible to listen to Haydn's Symphonies performed by different conductors.
• http://freemusicarchive.org/ site with music of various genre.
• http://www.medici.tv/ site rich of classic music videos. Free access after free subscription and subscription after paying a quote for a full visualization of all videos. It broadcasts live concerts, too.

Contemporary and Electronic Music:

• http://www.frogpeak.org/ site of American composers.
• http://www.stockhausen.org/ Stockhausen's Home Page.
• http://www.oliviermessiaen.org/messiaen2index.htm site devoted to Messiaen.
• http://www2.siba.fi/PWGL/index.html site of PWGL, very good software, similar to Open Music, for Computer Aided Composition.
• http://www.lucianoberio.org/ center of studies Luciano Berio.
• http://www.csounds.com/ main site for the celebrated software Csound.
• http://www.luiginono.it/it/ Luigi Nono foundation.
• http://www.iannis-xenakis.org/index.html site about Iannis Xenakis; it has also the free pdf version of his book, in French, Musique formelles.
• http://www.baboni-schilingi.com/index.php site by Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi.
• http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/home site about Open Music, competitor and analogous to PWGL.
• http://www.robertodoati.com/ Home Page by Roberto Doati.
• http://klingbeil.com/spear/ very good software for sound analysis and synthesis.
• http://www.temporeale.it/ center Tempo Reale in Florence.
• http://yoursoundscape.ning.com/ soundscapes edited by Luigi Agostini.
• http://www.scambi.mdx.ac.uk/ site devoted to Pousseur's composition Scambi.

Open access online journals, mainly about Musical Analysis, bibliographical researches:

• http://www.gatm.it/analitica/index.htm Analitica, Musical Analysis journal.
• http://demeter.revue.univ-lille3.fr/ interesting French Musical Analysis journal.
• http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/demusica/ De Musica, new series.
• http://www.doaj.org/ search engine devoted to online open access journals (Digital Open Access Journals); excellent start point.
• http://web.tiscali.it/ensemble900/Diastema/Rivista/Vecchia%20serie/download.html Diastema, with some old journal essays you can download.
• http://www.eunomios.org/ Eunomios.
• http://www.ex-tempore.org/ Ex-tempore.
• http://www.gatm.it/index.htm G.A.T.M. site, now it has online old numbers of its bulletin, with very good essays.
• http://www.ledonline.it/index.html suggestions for bibliographical researches.
• http://www.musicasacra.com/ Sacred Music journal, it has also the pdf of various Gregorian texts (liber usualis, various gradualia and so on).
• http://www.mtosmt.org/index.php very good Musical Analysis and Musical Theory journal.
• http://www.neural.it/ electronic art and new media journal.
• http://www.ocula.it/index.php semiotic journal.
• http://philomusica.unipv.it/ Pavia University journal.
• http://www.musimediane.com/ Musical Analysis journal, in French.
• http://www.signosemio.com/ semiotic site, in French.
• http://www.sbn.it/opacsbn/opac/iccu/informazioni.jsp SBN site (Italian National Library System), for bibliographical researches.
• http://www.europeana.eu/portal/ site for researches on all Europe.
• http://www.archive.org/index.php site for researches in USA and Canada. In the text section is possible to find public domain texts about musical matters (counterpoint, orchestration, harmony, form treatises and so on).
• http://www.internetculturale.it Internet Culturale, for searching digital documents of Italian Libraries.
• http://www.lib.umich.edu/music-library/open-access-music-journals site similar to the precedent one and to DOAJ.
• http://www.scelsi.it/it/pubblicazioni/i-suoni-le-onde/ web page of the Fondazione Scelsi site, devoted to their journal. It is possible to download the numbers since from n. 10.

Some sites for who is interested in Linux and Open Source world:

• http://fedoraproject.org/ main Fedora site, Linux distribution I use since the times of Red Hat 6.3; it has a good integration with CCRMA (see further).
• https://ccrma.stanford.edu/ Home Page of CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustic); with instructions and software for Fedora and CentOS.
• http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/planetccrma.html page relative to Planet CCRMA, the project about musical software.
• http://freshrpms.net/ other repository, not too updated, but useful for example for old software bersion not ever maintained.
• http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/index other repository with search engine.
• http://linuxappfinder.com/ search engine for Linux software.
• http://mirror.yandex.ru/ further repository.
• http://rpms.famillecollet.com/ repository.
• http://rpms.kwizart.net/ repository.
• http://www.rpmfind.net/ search engine for .rpm files.
• http://rpm.pbone.net/ very good search engine for .rpm files.
• http://www.sai.msu.su/sal/ scientific software for Linux.
• http://www.linuxdidattica.org/ free software for didactics.
• http://linux-sound.org/ site of the famous Dave Phillips, indispensable starting point to begin to explore Linux musical software world.
• http://sourceforge.net/ site very rich of Open Source software projects for various platforms, included Windows and Mac OSX. It has hundreds of thousands software for the more different uses, it allows to satisfy the need of common users and more. Strongly recommended.
• http://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox Home Page , very good software for virtualization and emulation.
• http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/ CERN repository.
• http://rpmfusion.org/RPM%20Fusion other repository, rather good.
• http://pkgs.org/ search engine for Linux software.
• http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/ very good software for audio stretching (and other). Versions for different platforms. Recommended.

N.B.: this is only a minimal part of what the web offers about Open Source. Further information about musical software you can find in my paper published on Musica Domani (you can read or download it in the page Publications). Only as suggestion here is a list of some of more used software: Csound; Ardour; Audacity; Bristol; Creox; GnomeWaveCleaner; Solfege; Jack; JackRack; JMax; K3b; Linux Multimedia Studio; VLC; Mammut; Muse; MuseScore; Miro; PureData; Qsampler; Qsynth; Rakarrak; Rezound; Rosegarden; Snd; SoundConverter; Tapiir; ZynAddSubFX ...

These software are relative to various sectors: musical notation, DSP, Live Electronics, Audio/MIDI Sequencing, audio Editing and so on.

Suggestions for Music and Mathematics, Pitch-class Set Theory, Music Theory:

• http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts-letters/music/pc-set_project/pc-set_new/ a brief introduction to Pitch-class Set Theory.
• http://composertools.com/ useful tools for Pitch-class Set Thehory analysis. The site can be downloaded and also runs offline.
• http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/ David Cope's Home Page, important figure in musical artificial intelligence field.
• http://dmitri.tymoczko.com/ in this site the author propose a software about Harmony Analysis through animations that visualize geometric logic into harmonic progressions.
• http://www.epos.uni-osnabrueck.de/music/index_e.php publisher with some texts online.
• http://www.rubato.org/ Computer Aided Composition software, strongly formalized towards mathematics point of view, suitable more for mathematicians than for musicians, however very interesting.
• http://www.jaytomlin.com/music/settheory/default.htm Pitch-class Sets calculation. It runs offline, too.
• http://music.columbia.edu/~akira/JDubiel/ site with software of various utility for PItch-class Set Analysis and Composition.
• http://repmus.ircam.fr/mamux/home Home Page of the permanent seminar about Mathematics and Music by Ircam. Fundamental point of reference.
• http://www.epos.uni-osnabrueck.de/music/templates/buch.php?id=48 important online book by Guerino Mazzola and Thomas Noll.
• http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/repmus/moreno/ Moreno Andreatta's Home Page, very important scholar about Mathematics and Music. Recommended the reading of materials on this site and on linked sites.
• http://www.musicanalysis.org/ software on line relative to simple analysis about musical characteristics.
• http://www.avatar.com.au/courses/PPofM/index.html notes about Acoustic and Psychoacoustics.
• http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portale:Matematica Mathematics portal on Wikipedia. I demand to mathematicians the evaluation of the real utility of this site.
• http://www.ripmat.it/ notes about Mathematics. Applies what said before.
• http://ecmc.rochester.edu/rdm/morris.bio.html Robert Morris's Home Page, composer and fundamental scholar in Pitch-class Composition. Recommended the reading of his texts, beginning from those on his site.
• http://forte.music.unt.edu/ Allen Forte's archive in Texas University.

Interesting Blogs and sites of various types:

• www.spiritojazz.it interesting and good combination of cooking and music. In their events you have performers of very high level.
• http://www.ubu.com/ site with artistic resources of various genre. Very rich in contents.
• http://armoniepitagoriche.blogspot.com/ blog by Andrea F. Calabrese, with useful resources for Musical Analysis, relations between Music and Mathematics, Geometry and Philosophy, Gold Section.
• http://www.catcerto.com/ I hope you will forgive me fr this link, but I think that the concert video deserves a view. Exact link to the video is this.
• http://www.barbaradebiasi.com/ site of an ex student of mine, now in Guildhall School of London.