Samuel Barber is perhaps best known for his "Adagio for Strings", and he demonstrated many talents in writing for string ensembles, choral groups, and piano. Barber was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1910 and he studied at the Curtis Institute. Dur

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

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

SmartBoard music lesson plans.

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

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

AllMusic is a comprehensive and in-depth resource for finding out more about the albums, bands, musicians and songs you love. On AllMusic you'll find: (a) Reviews of upcoming and classic albums, (b) In-Depth Information about your favorite albums, musicians and songs, (c) Ratings and Picks of the recommended albums and songs within an artist's discography or tracks on an album, (d) Editors' Picks of the albums our staff are listening to, and (e) Sound Samples to hear 30-second clips of music.

The San Francisco Symphony's "Keeping Score" program, which aims to foster greater appreciation of classical music, can be viewed on many PBS outlets. Among the features of the companion web site are multimedia presentations on Beethoven’s Eroica, Stra

Website for MENC. Includes information on national standards, discusion boards, information onf the association, publications, and many other resources.

Website that includes links and resources to concert band literature. Also includes some analyses as well as a list of repertiore useful in meeting national standards.