The Library of Congress has created this delightful site that brings together hundreds of items that tell of the musical culture of the American Civil War. First-time visitors will want to start by perusing the Civil War Sheet Music section. Here they will find 2,500 pieces culled from the Library's collection, including songs about various generals, battles, and a longing for the tranquility of home life. Further along, the site also includes the Civil War Era Band Music section. This area features over 700 musical compositions, along with over a dozen audio files of these fine ditties...

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

News and Events, Prices and Popular Culture in history from 1920 to modern day

Information about musics of the world from National Geographic.

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

This site is a directory of many other music and music education resources, providing links and content about performing artists, genres, musical instruments, orchestras, composers, composer forums, composition tools, music videos, and music publishing co

An incredible resource for teaching young students! Students can choose to play games that are extremely fun including composer baseball, composer time machine, music matching, and a painting game. Players actually create a baseball team of composers in t

This is a site where one “can learn about the history of jazz and its artists through recordings, readings, photographs, video, and fun activities.” This resource includes modules on a variety of jazz topics and artists including: New Orleans Jazz, The Bi

Smithsonian Global Sound is an international network of music audio archives and an educational resource that delivers the world’s diverse cultural expressions in an informative way via digital media. The Tools for Teaching include interactive games, le

RockPeaks.com is the web's largest database of live rock and roll video. With nearly 5000 clips already listed, RockPeaks.com draws on the knowledge of music fans everywhere to paint a comprehensive picture of the film, TV and video history of rock, from

A collection of hundreds of live concert recordings from the legendary concert promoter Bill Graham. They're free to listen to, and very inexpensive to buy and download

The composer, conductor, writer, and teacher Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of 20th-century America's most important musical figures. The Leonard Bernstein Collection is one of the largest and most varied of the many special collections held by the

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

The core of this presentation consists of “stock” arrangements for bands or small orchestras of popular songs written by African Americans. In addition, a smaller selection of historic sound recordings illustrating these songs and others are available

Roots of Rhythm - Teacher's Guide and 10 Lessons for 5th and 6th Grade is an innovative educational resource that combines music with history, social studies, geography and language arts to create an exciting, multi-dimensional, "cross-curricular" model.

Various Shockwave, internet browser games, trivia, etc... some related to music.

This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with WebQuests will be able

This site recognizes and honors the lives of those persons who create the songs heard and enjoyed on recordings, in concerts, in movies and on radio, television and the Internet, in our country and around the world.

Learn about musical instruments from around the world.

Folk and Traditional Music and Popular Songs, with Lyrics, Midi, Tune Information and History behind the folksongs and ballads. Irish, British and American Folk Music

Website about Wisconsine state folk music musicians and dancers.

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.

To help us think, talk and teach about the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy, we invite you to explore 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mo

Internet delivered course on Anglo-American Folkmusic. Includes recordings and other files.

Founded in 1798 by an Act of Congress, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band is America’s oldest professional musical organization. Today, “The President’s Own” is celebrated for its role at the White House and its dynamic public p

This website aims at providing a service for music educators and researchers interested in information about music education in various nations. Users can click on a world region above to see the links. Some links require a font in a language other than E

Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collabora

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