Useful links
Accessibility
BrailleMUSE, Braille music translation server from MusicXML (site available in a range of languages)
Feel The Music Project (encourages music deaf children to make music)
Music and the Deaf
Prima Vista Braille Music Services (Producer of Braille scores)
Visually-impaired musicians' lives (Institute of Education project)
Associations
Making Music (The UK’s leading association encouraging music making)
Musicians Without Borders (use music to support individuals and communities devastated by war and armed conflict).
General resources
Cadenza Glossary (mulitlingual glossary of musical terms)
Dolmetsch Online (includes resources such as free software)
Dolmetsch Online (a multilingual music dictionary into English)
English Folk Dance and Song Society
Glossary of Musical Terms
Media Access Australia
Music Acromyms
Music and advertising
- how to find that song title for ads in the UK
- music worldwide
Subtitling (open source)
Musical lyrics, libretti and resources on song translation
Classical, opera and musicals
Simply Scripts (musicals)
Libretto index
Online sources of opera libretti at
http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/librettim.html
Royal Opera House
- Access page: http://www.roh.org.uk/visit/access
The Lied, art song and choral texts archive
The LiederNet Archive
Popular songs
Letras Cantables, blog in Spanish on song translation (José María Perazzo)
Lyrics search engine at
http://lyrics.astraweb.com/
Lyrics Translate
Musixmatch
Song Lyrics
SongMeanings
Music identification software
Audiggle
Blazemp
Gracenote
Music and Branding (recognition of songs in ads...)
TuneUpMedia
Wildbits.com (freeware)
Shazam (application for mobiles that
recognises music and media)
Music and Literature
Bronze by Gold (site devoted to music inspired by James Joyce)
http://musicandliterature.org (dedicated to under- represented artists. Includes a book review section)
Translated music videos: http://websitetranslation.co.uk/explore/music
(This site hosts videos of famous British/American songs translated into Spanish/Italian/French)
Soundscapes and biophonies
Wild Music (a site about the sounds of life and how to build soundscapes)
Wild Sanctuary (Sounds of the wild)
Academic links
Centre for Research in Translation and Transcultural Studies