HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.
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 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.
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.
Digital Scores - Loeb Music Library - Harvard College Library
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
Welcome to the Center for Black Music Research (CBMR), a research unit of Columbia College Chicago devoted to research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale.
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
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.
The Food Timeline: food history reference & research service
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
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
Exploring the Digital Vaults is easy. You can browse through the hundreds of photographs, documents, and film clips and discover the connection between some of the National Archives' most treasured records.
The principal purpose in writing these essays is to make available to the reader a much broader understanding of the practice of music in earlier societies than that which is provided in traditional music history texts. Dr. David Whitwell's publications
Felix Mendelssohn at the Library of Congress (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, The Library of Congress)
Felix Mendelssohn was a musical jack-of-all trades and he was renowned in his lifetime as an exquisite pianist, conductor, and of course, composer. To mark the bicentennial of his birth in 1809, the Library of Congress's Music Division has created this 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 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
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
Instead of searching individual museum websites for art, history, or cultural artifacts, students and teachers can turn to the Museum of Online Museums (MoOM) for works found everywhere from the Smithsonian to the Musee d'Orsay. The site archives exhibit