Music Composition Resources
On this page you will find Internet resources covering many aspects of music composition. Please suggest any websites you recommend as suitable for a link on the Million Dollar Composition website!
- Internet sites/Directories
- Software
- Composers
- FAQs
- Competitions
- Lyrics and Notation
- Songwriting
- Organizations
- Theory
1. Internet sites/Directories
- M. Tevfik DORAK's Music Home Page Music Contents Glossary Homepage. MUSIC RELATED LINKS. Music Notes and Glossary. Music Education Online Music Theory Notes Music History. JS Bach Beethoven Beethoven (NPR) Mozart Mozart ...
- MCR This site, created by James Fry & Christopher Bartlette, lists sources essential for today's composers, including books, articles, internet sites, sound recordings and FAQs for beginning composers.
- Music Composition in the Yahoo! Directory Yahoo! reviewed these sites and found them related to Music Composition
- BUBL LINK: Music composition Catalogue of Internet Resources
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources Indiana University School of Music
- The Classical Music Pages This website provides you almost everything you need concerning classical music - its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies.
- Level10s Composition Sites - Level10s is a human edited website directory of qualified sites.
- CompositionToday offers a huge range resources exclusively for composers: Competitions, Jobs & Opportunities, Concert Listings, Interviews, Articles, Sound Bank, Show Case, Composer Database, Forum.
(My Compositiontoday member website) - Free Web Directory Including Composition Resources, Offer automatic, instant and free site submissions.
- Music For You All about music!.
- Composition Resources Add any part of this directory as important and relevant content to your site.
- Directory Force Free online human edit directory.
- Big Business Web All about business!
- Hear and Play Music Learn to Play the Piano By Ear with over 60 Free Online Lessons, Courses, and more!
2. Software
Free music notation software
- Brahms a fully-featured midi sequencer, music notation program and music laboratory for Linux.
- CMN (Common Music Notation) is a free western music notation package written in Common Lisp. Freeware, multi-platform.
- Finale Notepad the freeware version of Finale (see below).
- GNU LilyPond is a freeware and open-source music notation program for Windows and Linux. is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files. It prints music in the best traditions of classical engraving with minimum fuss.
Commercial music notation software
- Finale Music notation software including Finale Notepad, the freeware version of Finale.
- NoteWorthy Composer, a software music composition and notation processor for Windows.
3. Composers
- The Living Composers Project Find information on today's composers as provided by the composers themselves. The Living Composers Project is a non-profit database begun in 2000, which aims to provide composers, listeners, performers, and researchers with a source of information about the music of our time. All information included in the project has been verified by the composers in the hope of increasing both the reliability and usefulness of the information.
- Essentials of Music: Composers Brief biographies of nearly 70 classical composers, which will bring to life the artists and their works. In many cases hear examples of their works.
- Classical Composers Database One of the oldest Internet sites about classical music composers. Search 2780 composers.
4. FAQs
- FAQs.org Music composition Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ)
- MCR's Music Composition FAQ
5. Competitions
- Listing of Music Composition Competitions, Music Composition Contests, Songwriting Contests and Songwriting Competitions provided by the Million Dollar Music Composition website.
- Music Competitions Indiana University School of Music Worldwide Internet Music Resources collection of Music Competitions.
- American Composers Forum Listing of Opportunities.
6. Lyrics and Notation
- LYRICS & NOTATION Site Inclusion Directory
- Musicstudents.com Offers sheet music for wind and string instruments. Includes audio files for accompaniment. This is a place where musicians can find material to make practicing more fun. They provide sheet music with matching sound files - it's like having a band back you up! You can improve your ear and your timing by playing along with these accompaniments.
- Lyrics Expert features lyrics from over 1,500 artists.
- Lyrics.com Features a large searchable directory of song lyrics and ability to search lyrics by categories such as hottest hits, love songs, and the 80's.
7. Songwriting
- Songwriters Resource Network is a trusted news and education resource for songwriters, song lyricists and music composers. The mission of Songwriters Resource Network is to inform and empower songwriters by providing reliable information on all aspects of songwriting, lyric writing, composition and music publishing.
- The Songwriter Forums
- Songwriters Directory Database of songwriters and related resources including contests, legal information, magazines, news and associations.
- Irene Jackson's: Songwriting Tips Here you will find plenty of tips, tricks and info on the craft (and even some on the business) of writing songs.
8. Organizations
- American Composers Forum Organization assisting American composers with granting, commissioning, and performance programs
(My American Composers Forum member website) - National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA) Second oldest composers' organization in the United States.
- International Songwriters Association (ISA) Songs And Songwriting.
9. Theory
- BUBL LINK: Music theory Catalogue of Internet Resources
- Harmony Central Music Theory/Compositionn resources.
- Music Theory & Analysis by Larry Solomon, PhD, Musician, Scholar, Lecturer.
