Music Resources: K-12 Resources

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Anthems

Composers

American Composer Timeline
Classical Music Composers (Classical Archives) - Includes biographies of famous composers and sample sound files.
Classical Composer Timeline - Classical music timeline from 14^th century to 20^th century. Find composers of different time periods and listen to sample music. Click here for a printable timeline.
Composer Master Index (Classical Net)
Opera Composers (OperaGlass)

Genres and Types of Music

Ethnic Music

African Dancing Drumming (UC Berkeley)
National, International and World Music
Omaha Indian Music - Features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. An exhibition from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Instruments

America's Shrine to Music Museum - A virtual gallery of instruments.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra - Learn the families of orchestra instruments. Hear its sound. Better yet learn to make an instrument yourself.
Encyclopedia of Percussion - Each instrument is accompanied by a brief description and a picture.
Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
How to Build Musical Instruments
How to Build Simple Musical Instruments
How To Make A Bodhran (The Celtic Traditional Drum)
Instrument Encyclopedia - Explore the diversity and creativity of musical traditions as you visit this sample collection of some of the world's most interesting musical instruments.
Introduction to Instruments of the Orchestra (Playmusic.org)
Learn and hear about different instruments

Music Study

Blank music papers in PDF format
Ear Training
Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of the Music
Essentials of Music - Provides an overview of the six main periods in music history, and brief biographies of nearly 70 composers, and music glossary.
Introduction to Reading Music
Music Notes - A Thinkquest online interactive musical experience.
Music Theory
Web Resources for the Study and Research in Music - A user-friendly resource organized by period, theme and genre, developed by National University of Ireland.

General Resources

Early Music Links by Early Music Network - An extensive collection of sites referring to general classical music, composers and instruments.
The History of Rock 'n' Roll
Movie Soundtracks
New York Public Library Music Division Selected Music Resources on the Internet
Salsa Stories - Salsa sounds from Puerto Rico, Cuba and New York City.
The Symphony - An Interactive Guide - Provides a comprehensive resource for people wanting to expand their knowledge of the symphony.
Texts of Lieder and Art Song - An extensive archive of texts to thousands of Lieder (more specifically, Kunstlieder) and other `classical' art songs in more than twenty-five languages.
The Virtual Museum of Musical Inventions
World Wide Web Virtual Library : Classical Music - A complete virtual library from Georgetown Preparatory School that provides alphabetized listings of music resources.

Interactive

Selected Bios

J.S.Bach Archive and Bibliography
Leonard Bernstein
Duke Ellington
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
The Mozart Project
John Philip Sousa - The Stars and Stripes Forever was composed by John Philip Sousa on Christmas Day, 1896. Learn more about him, and listen to music samples online.

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