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Websites for Music

General | Free sheet music |  Orchestras | Opera companies | Downloads

General music websites

• AHDS Performing arts : supports research, learning and teaching with digital resources related to music, dance, theatre, radio, film, television, and performance
• Arts Council of England
• Association of British Orchestras
• BBC orchestra guide
• British Council: Music
• The Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM)  
• International Alliance for Women in Music - women composers and women-in-music topics
• International Computer Music Association - an international affiliation of individuals and institutions involved in the technical, creative and performance aspects of computer music.
• National Sound Archive catalogue (Cadensa)
• Operabase
• Orchestras Live : the national development agency for orchestras in England
• Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
• The Space: the arts - free, live and on demand
• Synaesthesia Research : from the University of Sussex
• UK Synaesthesia Association

Free sheet music

• ChoralWiki : home of the Choral Public Domain Library - one of one of the world's largest free sheet music sites
• The Petrucci Music Library : the aim is to create a virtual library containing all public domain music scores and/or sheet music, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world.

Downloads

• Classic Cat : indexes the free-to-download classical mp3s on the internet

Orchestras

• London Symphony Orchestra : at the Barbican
• Philharmonia Orchestra : at the South Bank Centre
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra : in Clerkenwell Green, London
• Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra : Hope Street, Liverpool
• Royal Scottish National Orchestra : Claremont Street, Glasgow

Opera companies

• English National Opera : at the London Coliseum
• Glyndebourne : at Lewes, East Sussex
• Opera North : based in Leeds
• Scottish Opera : Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow
• Welsh National Opera : Bute Place, Cardiff