Music
Music Courses
40,000 years of music explained in 8 minutes | Michael Spitzer (Big Think) 8min 39 sec
- LinkedIn Learning contains thousands of courses (made up of quick videos), covering a wide range of professional, creative and technical topics.
Music topics include:
- Music Theory for Songwriters
- Learning Music Notation
- Music Production: Techniques and Concepts
- Vocal Lessons
- Learn an instrument
- MusopenMusopen (www.musopen.org) is a non-profit organisation focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. Musopen provides recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions.
Music Making
- Australasian Performing Right Association Limited (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners SocietyAPRA AMCOS is Australia's music rights management organisation. It assists music creators to get paid for their work and provides a straightforward way to legally play and copy music. Royalties keep the music coming and ensure the industry’s future.
- Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)ARIA is a national industry association representing major and independent record producers, manufacturers and distributors. It acts as an advocate for the Australian music industry, administers the labeling code of practice, provides a ‘blanket’ non-exclusive licensing function for copyright users and compiles industry information and research.
- Music Australia (Creative Australia)Music Australia is a dedicated new body within Creative Australia, which exists to support and invest in the Australian contemporary music industry. They empower artists, foster industry growth and enhance cultural impact through strategic investment programs and advocacy. Music Australia has been deliberately designed to reach into the commercial sectors, where traditional grants funding models have been limited.
- Australian Music Industry Network (AMIN)AMIN is a network that represents the coalition of eight state and territory peak music industry bodies. It was formed in 1998 and continues today with a renewed focus on supporting grass roots industry and delivering strategic programs and industry development.
- Soundbreaking: Painting With Sound - Ep 3 of 8This episode chronicles a watershed event in the history of music: the moment when the recording studio itself effectively became an instrument and gave rise to sounds that could never be reproduced live. Beginning with the advent of magnetic tape and multi-tracking technology, and charting its evolution from the four or eight tracks used by The Beatles and The Beach Boys, to the sixteen- and twenty-four track productions created by Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac, to the digital innovations that today fuel the work of artists such as Beck, Bon Iver, and Radiohead.
Recording secrets for the small studio by ISBN: 1-000-77068-0Publication Date: 2023In this new edition, discover how to achieve commercial-grade recordings, even in the smallest studios, by applying power-user techniques from the world's most successful producers. Recording Secrets for the Small Studio is based on the backroom strategies of more than 250 famous names.
- The impact of AI-driven music production software on the economics of the music industryThe present study aims to determine the impact of AI technology on music composition production and the economic aspect of the music industry, specifically profitability.
- Clickview: Music and ProductionExplore over 100 videos about various aspects of music production, from recording and editing to copyright.
Music Databases and Repositories
In addition to the links below, check out UniSA's OER Guide for links to a wide range of openly licensed images, audio and videos.
- Audio Archive (Internet Archive)Recordings ranging from music concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music.
- Free Music ArchiveFree Music Archive (FMA) offers free access to open licensed, original music by independent artists around the world. Tens of millions of online visitors roam the FMA catalogue each month to find and download original songs for personal use or featured tracks in media projects.
- International Music Score Library Project (Petrucci Music Library)The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) believes that music should be something that is easily accessible for everyone. The IMSLP gathers all public domain music scores and music scores of all contemporary composers (or their estates) who wish to release them to the public free of charge.
- The Mutopia ProjectSheet music of classical music in the public domain
For general tips on searching the Library catalogue for sheet music and scores, check out the Find information tab in this guide.
Here are a few other databases and collections you may like to check out:
- Australian Jazz RealBookA collection of Australian jazz tunes from Australian composers. Most can be listened to online and sheet music
- Australian Music CentreThe leading provider of information, publications and scores relating to Australian music
- National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA)Australia's audiovisual archive, including sheet music and music cue sheets.
- Sheet music at the National LibrarySome digitised sheet music is available through the National Library of Australia's online search.
- State Library of South Australia - Music collectionAims to collect all recordings by SA artists in all genres and all formats. Over 7000 items including sheet music, music dictionaries and encyclopedias and much more
- Bloomsbury Popular MusicProvides unrivalled scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, covering the mid-20th century to the present day.
- CHARM - AHRC Research Centre of the History & Analysis of Recorded Music (UK)Online discography and library of recordings, information about history of recording and more...
- Early Music Online - Royal Holloway Repository (UK)A digitised collection of more than 300 volumes of 16th century music from the British Library
- Library of Congress Notated Music Collection (USA)One of the largest collections of notated music in the world
- National Jukebox (USA)Historical sound recordings available free from the Library of Congress
- Oxford Music OnlineAn enhanced electronic version of the print Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians providing the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on all aspects of music.
- SOUNZ - Centre for New Zealand MusicA diverse collection of quality NZ music resources (scores, audio, video etc)
Copyright at UniSA
UniSA has a music licence which permits the University to use music in certain ways without seeking separate licences or permissions each time. It covers rights that are controlled by the Australian Music Collecting Societies, APRA/AMCOS, ARIA and PPCA.
Want to know more?
See the Music, Events, and Film Screenings page in our Copyright Guidelines.
World Music
Understanding Songlines
Float amongst the endless expanse of The Pleiades, behold the majestic scar trees, marvel at the Western Kimberly and the Wandjina as Rhoda Roberts AO, Head of Indigenous Programming at Sydney Opera House and this year’s Director of Lighting the Sails, guides you through ‘Songlines’.
- Decolonising the music classroom: Five ways forwardIn contemporary music classrooms in Australia, there are decisions made every day that perpetuate settler futurity. This paper explores five ways forward that can support the decolonising of the music classroom in order to support all students, regardless of their cultural contexts.
Decolonizing Systems Through Music
In this insightful talk, Cassie McDuffie brings the powerful idea that music is a tool for systemic change. To explain this idea, she takes us on a journey that not only involves her family and personal experience, but also the development of the music industry throughout time. All within the context of racial injustice, she reinforces the power of music even through the advancement of technology and modern industries.
- Aspects of the Music/Text Relationship in RapFew scholars of rap music have analyzed rap as they would other forms of Western texted music, by examining the relationship of the music to the text. This article will suggest that this type of analysis of rap is possible, but will argue that since the music in rap is composed before the text is written, we must change our analytical focus to examine not how the music supports the text, but how the text supports the music.
Chandana Bala Kalyan, who is classically trained in Carnatic music, shares 4 elements of the South Indian classical genre and ties them to modern Western music, beginning with her vocal interpretation of Dave Brubeck's Take Five.
An open access book, updated and published by Sumarsam, Middletown CT, 2023
This episode covers the formation of the Chinese understanding of tones and temperament in early history, providing the foundation to the topic and the basic facts on the subject.
Introduction to Gagaku (Stanford University) - For listeners who are educated in Western classical music, one of the most striking features of gagaku music is its emphasis on timbre - the character or quality of sound distinct from it's pitch. Unlike Western classical orchestral works, which primarily use functional harmony and instrumental sound fusion, gagaku music employs fixed harmony and non-fusion.