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

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

The Timeline Index : People, Periods, Places and Events in a chronological context.

Every art form had to deal with the arrival of the atomic age in one manner or another. Some artists were reserved and intellectual in their approach, others less so. The world of popular music, for one, got an especially crazy kick out of the Bomb. Count

On this website you will 30 free interdisciplinary lesson plans that utilize multimedia, music, and technology to aid in the instruction of Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science at the middle school level.

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.

The Smithsonian Jazz initiative has created a very fine website that brings together oral histories from jazz greats such as Artie Shaw, information about the Smithsonian’s own Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, and a very fun “This Day in Jazz History” fe

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

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