Misc Links

Websites loosely related to music, Jewish issues and Amsterdam.

• London based Jewish Music Institute and London School of Jewish Studies⧉.
• Hannover based Center for Jewish Music; Heidelberg based School for Jewish Studies; Judaica department of the Cologne Library.
• Milan based Center for the Study of Jewish Music Yuval Italia.
• Amsterdam based Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana⧉; the Jewish Historical Museum⧉; the Ets Haim⧉ library.
• The Tel Aviv based Beth Hatefutsoth music center.
• The German Klezmer website.
• Michael Ossmann created an online ear trainer applet that allows you to work on interval recognition.
• Sheet music of the Jewish songs by Ravel, and a lot of other classical song literature. Wonderful site by Indiana University.
• Annotated list of online vocal music⧉ resources by Univ. of Virginia.
• Extensive online music theory book.
• Good tutorial on the notation and execution of complex rhythms.
• Site that explains the key concepts of tonality.
• Reference guide to composition theory⧉.
• Search engine for midi⧉ files.
• Free music paper that can be printed.
• An introductory⧉ article on sound perception by the human ear, and a more advanced⧉ one.
• Homepage of the MusiXTeX⧉ system for professional music typesetting.
• The ABC Music standard. The MusicXML standard. The Midi⧉ standard.
• English-Hebrew dictionary⧉.
• Searchable database of Dutch Jews⧉ who perished in the Shoah.
• Amsterdam by Bite⧉. Sites you don't want to miss, when you visit Amsterdam.
• Information for Jewish tourists⧉ visiting Holland.
• Jordan Lee Wagner created a transliterated siddur⧉.
• Hebcal, a free, perpetual jewish calendar program by Danny Sadinoff. Includes references to sources that explain the Jewish calendar.
• Site on Jewish languages⧉. Site on Lingua Franca⧉, a pidgin trade language of the Mediterranean, whith Jewish roots.
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