Tinysong.com offers a ser­vice that’s rather impres­sive. You go to their home­page, search for a song, and then you can lis­ten to it online and share it with a friend (via a spe­cial­ly cre­at­ed url). Just how it all works (copy­right includ­ed), and just how deep the col­lec­tion actu­al­ly goes, I am not total­ly sure. But, the var­i­ous tests that I threw at it sug­gest that there’s a fair amount of depth there.

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YouTube is high­light­ing today a video that fea­tures a young girl play­ing Mozart around the world. Hence, the video’s title “Where in Heav­en is Mozart?” Now, the idea is nice. But why is Pachel­bel’s Canon the sound­track for the clip? Is Eine kleine Nacht­musik no longer rec­og­niz­able enough? Kind of sug­gests that we’ve offi­cial­ly achieved Pachel­bel Overkill (if it did­n’t hap­pen long, long ago). Per­haps this explains why you can now find com­ic rants against P’s Canon on YouTube as well.

Find free Clas­si­cal Music pod­casts here.

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Pio­neer­ing gui­tarist Bo Did­dley passed away yes­ter­day at 79. You can find a nice video trib­ute here. Among them, you’ll find this good old chest­nut:

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The always handy Life­hack­er has pulled togeth­er resources that will teach you to play gui­tar, drums and piano. Some of these lessons are taught via video, oth­ers with pod­casts. And if you’re look­ing to teach your­self music the­o­ry, then head over to Musictheory.net. They’ve got you cov­ered.

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FirstSounds.org has gath­ered some of the ear­li­est sound record­ings. This clip, dat­ing back to 1860, fea­tures some­one singing the French folk­song “Au Clair de la Lune” on April 9, 1860, and it “is the ear­li­est audi­bly rec­og­niz­able record of the human voice yet recov­ered.”