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Tucson High Magnet School
Classical Midi Archives
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
www.creatingmusic.com
An exceptional site by Morton Subotnick! Use the computer to compose then listen to your music. A must!
A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
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
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 the theatre section)
- Opera
- Popular Music
- Organizations - national and 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
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!
Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy
www.npg.si.edu/exh/armstrong/index.htm
A biography from the National Portrait Gallery.
The Mandolin Page
www.banjolin.co.uk/mandolin/
Contains lots of information about the mandolin.
The Mozart Project
www.mozartproject.org/
Has good information for:
- Biography
- Compositions
- Selected Essays
- Bibliography
- Links
JAZZ
pbskids.org/jazz/index.html
An interactive site from PBS. Has information about Jazz, interviews with jazz musicians, bios about the greats, a timeline.
Music Notes
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
www.usd.edu/smm/
At the University of South Dakota, the Museum's collections include more than 10,500 North 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
library.thinkquest.org/27927/
Thinkquest kids at work. They’ve written 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
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
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
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
library.thinkquest.org/10693/
From three senior Thinkquest kids. Has lots of very good, very detailed information about the trumpet and playing the trumpet.
 
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