Classical Midi Archives
http://ClassicalArchives.com
A place to listen to classical music from over 2,001 composers. Listen to 5 selections a day, free. Pay the fee and listen to 100 selections a month. Search in several ways.

Creating Music
http://www.creatingmusic.com
An exceptional site by Morton Subotnick!! Use the computer to compose and listen to the music. It works! A must!!

A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html
Pictures, descriptions and sound. Neat site from the University of Iowa and the Musica Antiqua members.

International Music Resources from Artslynx
http://www.artslynx.org/music
A Colorado site that lists:

• Journals and Magazines
• Master Sites, a great list to gain access to much that is online
• Misc – an assortment of fun and/or hard to classify materials
• Music Education and Research
• Musical Theatre (Also check out his theatre section)
• Opera
• Popular Music
• Organizations - national or international
• Symphonic & Instrumental Music Resources
• Vocal Music Resources – ear training as well as the topic of vocal music
• World Music

John Phillip Sousa: American Composer, Conductor & Patriot
http://www.dws.org/sousa/ 
Sponsored by the Dallas Wind Symphony.  Has biographical information about Sousa and his band.  Recordings and photos.  You’ll need Real Music to hear it all.  Great!

Updated 2006.

Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/armstrong/index.htm  
A biography from the National Portrait Gallery.

The Mandolin Page
http://www.banjolin.co.uk/mandolin/
Newly updated.  Has lots of information.

The Mozart Project
http://www.mozartproject.org/  
Has good information for:

• Biography
• Compositions
• Selected Essays
• Bibliography
• Links

Updated May 2004 with a note saying more chapters will be added as they are written.

JAZZ
http://pbskids.org/jazz/index.html
An interactive site from PBS.  Has information about Jazz, interviews with jazz musicians, bios about the greats, a timeline.  Good stuff.

Music Notes
http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/  
A great site from Thinkquest kids.  You can hear the sound with MIDI or Real Audio G2.  Has information, sound and interactive games for:

• Theory
• History
• Styles
• Professions
• Instruments
• Games

National Music Museum
http://www.usd.edu/smm/
At the University of South Dakota, the Museum's collections include more than 10,500 American, European, and non-Western instruments from all cultures and historical periods.  They include many of the earliest, best-preserved, and historically most important instruments known to survive.    You can take a virtual tour to see images and photographs.

Ode to Music
http://library.thinkquest.org/27927/   
Thinkquest kids at work.  They’ve written quite detailed information about several different musical eras:

• The distant past
• The Medieval Period (450-1450)
• The Renaissance Period (1450-1600)
• The Baroque Period (1600-1750)
• The Classical Period (1750-1820)
• The Romantic Period (1820-1900)
• 20th Century Music (1900-1950)

Piano on the Net
http://www.pianonanny.com
A free Public Educational Service from Clinton Clark and the Art Department. Each lesson takes about 35 minutes to complete. Beginning with Lesson 5, the course uses Apple Quick Time and Java Script.   You’ll also need a small portable keyboard.

Sony BMG Music Entertainment
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/composer/complist.html#M
A great site with biographies, musical examples (with the sound), list of the works, and a link to a discussion of the era for over seventy classical composers.

The Symphony: an interactive guide
http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/
A very good site from Thinkquest kids.  Includes:

• Quick Tour
• Composers (good information)
• Countries
• Timeline
• Symphonies
• Forms
• Orchestra
• Interactive
• Links

Trumpeters Fanfare
http://library.thinkquest.org/10693/
From three senior Thinkquest kids.  Has lots of very good, very detailed information about the trumpet and playing the trumpet.