Resources on Music and Choreography

Resources To Find Music

INNOVA RECORDINGS Innova Recordings home page: 600+ albums of contemporary music.

• INNOVA RECORDINGS – PRESELECTED COLLECTION TAGGED FOR DANCE A preselected Collection tagged as Music for Dance, either originally intended for movement, or likely candidates.

• INNOVA RECORDINGS – NON-WESTERN ALBUMS  A segment of the catalog featuring non Western albums, including some traditional dance music.

• INNOVA RECORDINGS – SOUNDCLOUD PLAYLIST A Soundcloud playlist featuring one track from every album

• INNOVA RECORDINGS – SPOTIFY PLAYLIST FEATURING MUSIC FOR DANCE A Spotify Playlist featuring a curated set of possible music for dance.

• INNOVA RECORDINGS – YOUTUBE PLAYLIST A YouTube playlist of innova artists’ videos from the general catalog, some of which feature dance.

AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM American Composers Forum site; you are welcome to post Opportunities for composers to respond to and send you their work for consideration.

• AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM “CREATE” The American Composers Forum “Create” (formerly JFund) is one possible source of funding for commissions.

NAXOS MUSIC LIBRARY (Note:  If you are a professor or adjunct at a university, you may already have access to the Naxos Music Library)

• NAXOS MUSIC LIBRARY HOME
• NAXOS MUSIC LIBRARY – WORLD
• NAXOS LICENSING Lists and pre-cleared works of music

NEW MUSIC USA

• COUNTERSTREAM RADIO (Note: Look to the upper left hand corner for the link to Counterstream Radio)
• NEW MUSIC BOX
• NEW MUSIC USA PROJECT GRANTS

CENTER FOR BLACK MUSIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR IBERIAN MUSIC  INTERNATIONAL MUSIC NETWORKS 

• THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INFORMATION CENTRES (IAMIC)
  • IAMIC main website
  • IAMIC members’ websites
• THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC (ISCM)
  • ISCM main website
  • ISCM list of current members

In additional some international music information centres have easy-to-use web resources, including:

• CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE (CMC)
  • CMC main website 
  • CMC composer showcase
• ISCM KOREA
  • ISCM Korea main website
  • Many of the links to individual composers include embedded audio/video.
  • Composers of ISCM Korea
• MUSIC INFORMATION AND PUBLISHING CENTRE, LITHUANIA (MICL)
  • MICL main website
  • Anthology of Lithuanian Art Music in the 21st Century
  • Frank J. Oteri Presents the Anthology of LIthuanian Art Music in the 21st Century
• AGUAFORTE (BRAZIL)
  • Agua Forte main website
• CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CENTRE OF IRELAND
  • CMC Ireland main website
  • CMC Ireland features 
• WorldCat
• SoundFORMovement

RADIO, BLOGS, AND MORE

• UNCLASSIFIED – SPOTIFY LISTENING LISTS
• APPLE MUSIC RADIO 
• SPOTIFY RADIO
• VIOLIN CHANNEL
• THE REST IS NOISE – ALEX ROSS
• I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
• CANTALOUPE RECORDING LABEL
• SONO LUMNIUS RECORDING LABEL
• ARKIVMUSIC’S NEWSLETTERS (CLASSICAL AND JAZZ)
• COMPOSER DIVERSITY DATABASE
• HB DIRECT RETAILER