a fun website that offers information about specific happenings in music each and every day.

Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938—first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet. Many things have changed since 1938, but not our dedication to providing reliable information, in a way that engages and entertains. The site includes timelines of various eras of history, along with listing of events from many facets of life by year.

Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's the site for basic information about classical music. Created in cooperation with W.W. Norton & Company, it's built around Essential Classics, the series specially designed to introduce you to the best music of every period. All through the site you'll find almost 200 excerpts from Essential Classics. You'll also find: (a) Eras: Overviews of the six main periods in music history -- Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century, (b) Composers: Brief biographies of nearly 70 composers, which will...

Composer biographies on PBS's Great Performances web site.

A comprehensive web site dedicated to the history of the wind band.

Instead of searching individual museum websites for art, history, or cultural artifacts, students and teachers can turn to the Museum of Online Museums (MoOM) for works found everywhere from the Smithsonian to the Musee d'Orsay. The site archives exhibit

The Radio Hour is a series of portfolio based music history curricula for grades 5-12. These curricula study Classical, Jazz, Rock, Black Music in America(BMIA), and Classroom Guitar while integrating technology, music analysis, improvisation, movement, c

Music educators need a variety of resources when it comes to evaluating the performance of their students. They also need resources that will help them teach their students things like choral music, how to use an acoustic guitar, genres of music, the hist

The principal purpose in writing these essays is to make available to the reader a much broader understanding of the practice of music in earlier societies than that which is provided in traditional music history texts. Dr. David Whitwell's publications

Exploring the Digital Vaults is easy. You can browse through the hundreds of photographs, documents, and film clips and discover the connection between some of the National Archives' most treasured records.

Historical music for educational use that our research indicates is copyright free. Also, links to Historical music for educational use that is freely available on the Web.

Look up and listen to Billboard's #1 song on a specific date in history.

he SoundJunction website’s all about music. You can take music apart and find out how it works, create music yourself, find out how other people make music and how they perform it, you can find out about musical instruments, and look at the backgrounds to

Wikipedia timelines for music. Organized into eras and shows what was happening in music throughout history.

Website for Ralph Vaughan Williams, infamous British classical composer. Includes biographical information and other resources.

Graphical presentation of the timeline of Rock and Roll history.

Information and history about Honky Tonk, Hymns, and the Blues provided by Public Radio International.

Website for the History Channel, a cable television network devoted to history. Many resources and information from throughout history.

The Historical Event Markup and Linking project provides a means of coordinating and navigating disparate historical materials on the internet.

Ever wonder what foods the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why? Welcome to the Food Timeline. Food history

A graphical timeline showing events in fashion throughout history.

American history presented as a heirarchical timeline. Also other notes and resources related to American history.

Decades.com is a private venture, dedicated to the following goals: make history easily accessible; enrich history by filling the vaccuum in which it is typically found; and make history more person.

From the 1920's to 2000's we list all of the craziest fads that have come and gone. Go back a few decades and read about the silly to serious fads that helped change our society and create a pop-culture. Want to know which fads your parents experienced? W

Welcome to the Center for Black Music Research (CBMR), a research unit of Columbia College Chicago devoted to research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale.

American music history presented as a graphical timeline. Also other notes and resources related to American music.

The Loeb Music Library, using the systems and services for image digitization developed by the Harvard University Library's (HUL) Library Digital Initiative, is creating an expansible resource of scanned images of rare and unique musical scores that will

Welcome to The Classical Music Navigator, a new concept in classical music education! Whereas many other introductions to the classical music world are in the business of inculcation--they talk at you, about the composers and the music--we have created a

The Maryland Historical Society is proud to host the definitive collection of jazz-pioneer Eubie Blake. Blake, born in Baltimore in the 1880s, went on to become one of the most popular ragtime composers of his era and one of the more influential music

This website has a brief, yet comprehensive introduction to the history of jazz music.