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

Beginning with more than 140 artifacts from the Stearns Collection at the University of Michigan, this resource features musical instruments from around the world. The purpose of this site is to allow you to explore the diversity and creativity of musical

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.

Contains a short list of band compositions suitable for comprehensive musicianship and provides lesson and unit plans for each composition.

Africa's influence on music around the world is well documented in the sounds of pop, jazz, rock, rap and blues. This site gives visitors the opportunity to hear and see many of the instruments that are played across this huge continent.

The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music(SACAM) acquires and preserves significant archival records and historical artifacts in multiple media formats that document America's local and national music history and its diverse cultures.

The Historic Brass Society is an international music organization of amateur and professional brass musicians and scholars concerned with the entire range of early brass music, from Antiquity to the present.

The War Between the States was the pivotal event in our Nation's history.

HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.

This site has over 5,900 Christian hymns & Gospel songs. You’ll find lyrics, scores, files, pictures, history, & more.

Home of the most diverse video library of stars, newsmakers and icons on the web. Website of the Biography Channel cable station.

There is an explosion of information about folk music on the net and this site will try to cover the depth and breadth of it.