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.
• My favourite Web Design tools.