McNeese Information
College of Liberal Arts
Course/exam schedules and catalog
Blackboard
McNeese Bands Information
Music Theory and Aural Skills Aids
McNeese Musicology and Music Theory Website
Kostka/Payne theory textbook (on-line assistance)
Emusictheory (with very good interactive testing)
Davesmay Music Theory Resources
Music Notes
Ricci Adams’s Musictheory.net
Good Ear (web/browser-based practice)
GNU Solfege 3.8 (downloadable practice program)
Trichord and Tetrachord Ear Training Software (requires WinZip to open - link is below)
Other Sites Helpful to Students
McNeese Music Library Help
Bibliography and Citation Guide for Music Courses
The RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (the most comprehensive search engine for scholarly writings on music; accessable only on-campus)
The Virigina Tech Music Dictionary (term definitions, etc.)
Advanced Writing Tips (an interesting op/ed piece by a journal editor)
The National Geographic World Music Page
The Archives of African-American Music and Culture
The Instrument Encyclopedia
Great Conversations in Classical Music (videos of composers talking about music hosted by the Library of Congress)
PBS's "The Blues" by Martin Scorsese
PBS's "Jazz" by Ken Burns
The Metropolitan Opera
Vic Firth (various educational resources)
Pastiche Website (McNeese faculty chamber ensemble)
Rick Condit's Website (McNeese professor of jazz studies and sax)
Michael Buckles's Website (McNeese professor of strings)
Keith Gate's Website (the late McNeese professor of composition)
Composer-specific Sites
Beethoven Haus Bonn (lots of Beethoven scores, letters, and pictures)
The Aaron Copland Collection (numerous scans of Copland autographs housed at the Library of Congress)
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (The complete urtext scores of Mozart on-line)
Arnold Schönberg Center (including scores, recordings, and many other useful Schoenberg resources)
Other Useful Resources
Upcoming Conference in Music (list of forthcoming music conferences around the world)
The Lied and Art Song Texts Page (nearly 20,000 free song lyrics)
The Cyber Hymnal (lyrics, scores, and MIDI files for 6,400 hymns and gospel songs)
Renaissance Masses 1440-1520 (MIDI files and source studies of over 600 polyphonic masses)
The Julliard Manuscript Collection (numerous scans of composer autographs)
Project Gutenberg (over 20,000 free and downloadable public domain books and literary works)
AMS Links (Links to about every other music-related site you could ever possibly want)
SETC (Southeastern Theatre Conference)
ACTF (Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival)
AMS (American Musicological Society)
AMTA (American Music Therapy Association)
ASTA (American String Teachers Association)
HBS (Historic Brass Society)
ITG (International Trumpet Guild)
MTNA (Music Teachers National Association)
NFA (National Flute Association)
MTNA (Music Teachers National Association)
SMT (Society for Music Theory)
