The Getty Museum's "Explore Art" web site allows users to browse artists by name, or look over the collection by object type or subject. Other features include videos of artists at work and Getty's outdoor sculpture collection.
Exchanging Notes was an exchange of ideas between teachers and composers in 2002, designed to strengthen and investigate new strategies for the teaching of composition across the secondary music curriculum. The Exchanging Notes resource can be downloaded
Patriotic Melodies (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, The Library of Congress)
Patriotic Melodies tells the stories behind many of the songs that have now become part of the American national heritage. A combination of hymns, national songs, music of the theater, radio and television, military themes, and poetry, all of this music d
The Wind Repertory Project™ is an attempt to create a comprehensive database of wind literature, expanded by contributions of selected band directors/conductors, students, and wind band enthusiasts worldwide. Here you will find detailed information on l
Welcome to the home of Conn-Selmer, Inc. Musical Instruments
It is the mission of Conn-Selmer, Inc. to provide an educational center, ongoing reference source, and support network for the professional growth of music educators.
Access to opera libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses, discographies, and so on. The site also contains an opera information directory, which features an opera composer index containing 4800 entries. Free "Opera For Everyone" CD's.
The Habits of Musicianship is an introductory method book for the first year of instrumental class instruction. Appropriate for use in middle school beginning band classes and in college instrumental techniques classes.
HighC is a graphical music creation tool. It is a synthesizer, a sequencer and a mixer. Its goal is to make music composition as simple and direct as sketching.
A collaboration between the American Choral Directors Association and the Library of Congress. Contains public domain choral music that users can download, information on the composers, and material related to historical context and stylistic features.
Each opera has a short introductory article; video clips from a performance; interviews that may include a conductor, stage director, and performer of the show; a short, act-by-act synopsis of the opera; and additional links to related NPR stories.
Mixcraft 4 - Affordable multi-track audio and MIDI recording software.
Mixcraft 4 is an affordable multi-track audio and MIDI recording studio that enables you to compose original music, record your band, create a podcast, or remix a song. Use it as a multi-track recorder or as a music loop remix program
Over 22,000 pieces of sheet music (songs and instrumental works), contributed primarily by the Bagaduce Music Lending Library and the Bangor Public Library, and dating from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, have been scanned as se
The envl.net system provides a collection of free, web-based tools for generating a wide range of musical structures. Interfaces use simple web-based forms and selectors. Output is provided as standard, GM MIDI files. These files can easily be imported in
The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989 - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
The composer, conductor, writer, and teacher Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of 20th-century America's most important musical figures. The Leonard Bernstein Collection is one of the largest and most varied of the many special collections held by the
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.