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

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.

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

AllMusic is a comprehensive and in-depth resource for finding out more about the albums, bands, musicians and songs you love. On AllMusic you'll find: (a) Reviews of upcoming and classic albums, (b) In-Depth Information about your favorite albums, musicians and songs, (c) Ratings and Picks of the recommended albums and songs within an artist's discography or tracks on an album, (d) Editors' Picks of the albums our staff are listening to, and (e) Sound Samples to hear 30-second clips of 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

Various Shockwave, internet browser games, trivia, etc... some related to music.

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.

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.

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

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

SmartBoard music lesson plans.

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

Smithsonian Global Sound is an international network of music audio archives and an educational resource that delivers the world’s diverse cultural expressions in an informative way via digital media. The Tools for Teaching include interactive games, le

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

Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938—first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet. Many things have changed since 1938, but not our dedication to providing reliable information, in a way that engages and entertains. The site includes timelines of various eras of history, along with listing of events from many facets of life by year.

Timelinr is a simple web 2.0 application used for creating timelines online. You just need to enter the start year and end year of the timeline (range) and add events to the timeline and then click 'Create Timeline'. Timelinr will generate the Timeline based on the input you gave and it will return the HTML for your Timeline, which you can copy and use it anywhere!

News and Events, Prices and Popular Culture in history from 1920 to modern day