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RainMusic Review is a bi-weekly newsletter featuring reviews of the best independent music and pianist resources on the Internet. This is an archive of past editions.
Reviews this issue include Vicki Rollin Graphic Design, Wolfmusic Publications, BipBipBip and Tapestry Music
Our featured article this issue is "Are You Listening? A Music Appreciation Article"
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RainMusic Review - Issue #6 - 12/15/98
RainMusic Review is a bi-weekly newsletter featuring reviews of the best independent
music and pianist resources on the Internet. These sites are reviewed weekly at RainMusic.com, and then archived
via this newsletter.
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Reviews this issue include Vicki Rollin Graphic Design, Wolfmusic Publications, BipBipBip and Tapestry Music.
Our featured article this issue is Are You Listening? A Music Appreciation Article.
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CONTENT OVERVIEW
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- RainMusic Site News & Info
- Pianist Resource Reviews
- Indie Resource Reviews
- Featured Articles
- Special Announcements
- Submitting Your Site, News, or Announcement to RainMusic.com
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RAINMUSIC NEWS & INFO
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RAINMUSIC WINS COOL SITE AWARD from NEWHOO!
Folks, the word about us is getting around! It's always a surprize to win unsolicited awards. We are very excited
about being one of the first Independent Music Sites recommended by NewHoo! Why is this such a big deal? NewHoo
was just acquired by Netscape last month and will become Netscape's official web directory. While NewHoo is still
far smaller than Yahoo, LookSmart and Snap, none of these other directories come close to matching NewHoo's surfing
power. With Netscape making full use of NewHoo to keep up with the competition, we're bound to receive some benefit
from their promotion.
Thanks for making us the best! We're now proudly displaying the NewHoo banner along with our other awards.
Here are a few articles about the acquistion for those interested:
Netscape Open Directory Project
http://directory.mozilla.org/
NewHoo: Yahoo Built By The Masses
The Search Engine Report, July 1, 1998
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/9807-newhoo.html
Netscape Acquires NewHoo
Wired, Nov. 18, 1998
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/16346.html
KATHODE RAY RAVES RAINMUSIC!
David Cooper from Kathode Ray Music raved our music promotion guide "How to Promote Your Music Successfully
on the Internet." Read the review
on our testimonials page!
RAINMUSIC.COM SITE DETAILS
RainMusic: Indie Resource News & Reviews: http://www.rainmusic.com
Independent Music Resource Center: http://www.rainmusic.com/promotion/resources.htm
Pianist Resource Center: http://www.rainmusic.com/pianomusic/piano.htm
Free Sheet Music Resources: http://www.rainmusic.com/pianomusic/free.htm
Feedback: email management@rainmusic.com
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PIANIST RESOURCE REVIEWS
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Tapestry Music
Tapestry is a Canadian music dealer specializing in piano music from Alfred, Bastien, Faber, Royal Conservatory
and other publishers. The site features a searchable database of sheet music (Brass, Jazz, Piano & Educational)
and they offer everything from piano method books to classical and popular music. With the current Canadian/US
dollar exchange rate, their prices are quite reasonable, plus Tapestry offers a 15% discount to teachers on all
orders. Order by mail or via a Toll Free number.
Wolfmusic Publications
Wolfmusic may be of interest to pianists looking for hard to find sheet music, specifically the piano sonatas
of composer Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) who is featured at the site. Muzio was one of the first to create keyboard
works expressly for the capabilities of the pianoforte. Of the more than 100 piano sonatas composed by Clementi,
fewer than half are currently available in modern notation. Wolfmusic offers a volume of his music, the first in
a series devoted to their publication.
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INDIE RESOURCE REVIEWS
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BipBipBip
From a design perspective, BipBipBip is probably one of the most colorful sites we've seen selling independent
music. But you're not here for a design lesson, so the question is, what does BipBipBip have to offer the independent
musician? Essentially, Bip is an online music store dedicated to selling independent music... however, this isn't
just for the homegrown folks, in fact, Bip sells music from the major labels all the way down to independent folks
like you and I. What makes this particularly appealing from an indie perspective is that if you sell your music
here, your music is sitting on the "shelves" right along side artists such as PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Ben
Folds Five and Cake. That means that unlike many Indie music stores, Bip has a number of popular artists to bring
in the traffic, thereby increasing your chance of exposure. While getting your music on BipBipBip isn't exactly
cheap, they offer a number of incentives for the indie artist that make this option worth looking into. At the
very least, take a trip over to BipBipBip and see what they have to offer.
Vicki Rollin Design
If you're looking for truly professional artwork for your next album cover, you must check out the work
of graphic artist Vicki Rollin. Vicki is certainly not a fly-by-night designer, in fact, she's done work for a
number of professional organizations, some you will surely recognize as you browse her portfolio. Vicki will work
directly with your CD manufacturer and her design work includes a number of other options, including video sleeves,
j-cards and posters. Price list available upon request.
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FREE SHEET MUSIC
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MORE FREE SHEET MUSIC SITE RECOMMENDATIONS ON THEIR WAY!
After a bit of a dry spell, we've found a number of new free sheet music sites we'll begin sharing with you starting
next issue. We're very excited about a couple of these due to the size of their catalog! You can find our current
recommended list of free sheet music resources at http://www.rainmusic.com/pianomusic/free.htm
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FEATURED ARTICLES
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Are You Listening? A Music
Appreciation Article
Teaching children the art of listening is fun and a key to music education
in the early years. Article by Deborah Kay Jeter.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Attention Pianists!
We want to hear about your favorite piano related web sites! If you know of a site we should review here, don't
be shy. Let us know about it! Let us know what you're interested in. Are
you wanting to find more sheet music? More piano related graphics? What grabs your fancy? Help us serve you better!
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SUBMITTING YOUR SITE, NEWS or ANNOUNCEMENT
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If you have a musician resource you'd like us to review, just send us a note at management@rainmusic.com. Note, we're
specifically looking for items relating to musician resources, music promotion tools, articles, and opportunities.
We're not interested in band pages. Thanks!
That's it for this week. Thanks for joining us. Please send any comments or questions to management@rainmusic.com.
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