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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Information and resources related to George and Ira Gershwin.

American music history presented as a graphical timeline. Also other notes and resources related to American music.

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.

American history presented as a heirarchical timeline. Also other notes and resources related to American history.

A graphical timeline showing events in fashion throughout history.

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

The Historical Event Markup and Linking project provides a means of coordinating and navigating disparate historical materials on the internet.

Website for the History Channel, a cable television network devoted to history. Many resources and information from throughout history.

Information and history about Honky Tonk, Hymns, and the Blues provided by Public Radio International.

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

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

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

Internet delivered course on Anglo-American Folkmusic. Includes recordings and other files.

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