ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience.

A comprehensive list of links, by category, to various websites around the web.

Google recognizes the central role that teachers play in breaking down the barriers between people and information, and we support educators who work each day to empower their students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. This website is one of th

The year 2000 marks the three-hundredth anniversary of the invention of the piano. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History -- in collaboration with other institutions and organizations -- presents a large-scale project called PIA

ARTscape is a powerful new intellectual tool that uses PEM’s objects as a launching point for a user’s self-guided journey through art and culture. Data in ARTscape includes photos and descriptions of objects in PEM’s collection, definitions, book e

Frank Loesser was able to use his remarkable songwriting talents to create such classic Tin Pin Alley songs as “Once in Love with Amy”, “Standing on the Corner”, and of course, “Luck Be a Lady Tonight”. His career spanned four decades, and he

OAAE was founded in 1974 and has established and maintains a network for communication, cooperation, and advocacy. OAAE has 22 organization members representing parents, educators, administrators, citizens, artists, and arts advocates. Individual members

Website of Down Beat Magazine, a magazine dedicated to jazz performance artists. Includes some biographies and other resources.

The Library of Congress website devoted to Gerry Mulligan, legendary jazz saxophonist. Includes biographical information and other resources.

Website for Lionel Hampton, legendary jazz percussionist. Includes recordings, videos, and biography.

The Louisiana State Museum Digital Library Jazz collection is composed of photographs, audio recordings and musical instruments from the collections of the Louisiana State Museum.

NEA Jazz in the Schools takes a step-by-step journey through the history of jazz, integrating that story with the sweep of American social, economic, and political developments. This multi-media curriculum is designed to be as useful to high school histor

PBS site devoted to their series on Dave Brubeck, legendary jazz pianist.

Website devoted to the Stan Kenton Orchestra, an influential jazz band. Includes biographical information, external links, and other resources.

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

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 site links to other selected websites that have a music educational merit and resources.

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

Links and resources about copyrights for music.

INFOhio's state-funded resources are available and useful to all Ohio's K-12 students and teachers.

This collective blog is just one project of the Music Educators Network.Musiced.net provides blogs and webspace and serves as a hub for collaborative projects.

Music Education Resources for Teachers and Students

The online home to Music K-8 Magazine and Music K-8 Marketplace.

Musipedia is a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. Entries can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last but not least the Parsons Code, a rough description of the melodic contour. Musipedia uses the "Melodyhound" melody search engine. You can find and identify a tune even if the melody is all you know. You can play it on a piano keyboard, whistle it to the computer, simply tap the rhythm on the computer keyboard or use the Parsons code.

Welcome to Radio-Locator, the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.

This site is intended to help you make music with children by providing ideas and information about specific problems common to all specialists in your discipline. Within these pages you will find teaching tips and "tricks of the trade" for music educato

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

Teachers, learn how CMP can help you clarify, intensify and make the best possible use of your time and resources.

The IPL is many things including: the first public library of and for the Internet community, an experiment, trying to discover and promote the most effective roles and contributions of librarians to the Internet and vice versa, and a group of highly tale

The Links On This Page Are To Sites That Contain Information On More Than One Historical Period,Or They Pertain To A Single Instrument's History and/or Literature.