Music Resources

Links verified 2/8/12

(the icon indicates sound is available at that site, the icon indicates that the site is interactive )

1. A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments -
2. Backstage - (from The American Symphony Orchestra League) - Learn about the different instruments and play a musical game with the four different types of instruments.
3. Blank Grand Staff Paper - for music teachers
4. Blank Music Worksheet - Provided by Lesson Tutor
5. Brass Instruments - A history of brass instruments
6. Build your own instruments - (from WannaLearn) - Directions on how to build numerous instruments
7. Children's Music Web - Resources for Kids, Parents, and Teachers, and they also have a list of performers who may be available.
8. Children's Music Portal - Teacher Resources Classical songs, Early Childhood collections.
9. Classics for Kids - Many activities for students
10. Classics - At Kunst der Fuge you may listen to 5 files/day for free. resource of Classical music in Midi/Zip
11. Contrapunctus Variations - move your cursor and create you own music
12. Counting Music - enter the notes and it counts the music with you
13. Creating Music - many activities to choose from
14. Dallas Symphony Orchestra - excellent resource
15. Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine - This site is devoted to vintage music from the early decades of the 20th Century. All recordings have been transcribed into streaming Real Audio from the original 78 rpm discs.
16. Do-a-rein-deer - Make your own music by using the mouse to squeeze the reindeer nose!
17. Drums and Percussion - drum lessons database online
18. Drum Machine - make your own rhythm or drum patterns with popular Unifix cubes.
19. DrumPad - a downloadable program using Excel; Play the drums on your computer
20. Encounter - From Silence to Symphony - Fantastic interactive site that shares information about the creation of a symphony from the instruments, to the conductor to the symphony! Listen to what each instrument sounds like. (This site is designed for broadband users.In order to experience parts of this site you will need both Quicktime and Shockwave plugins)
21. Enjoyment of Music - "selection of more than 250 musical excerpts as you take the quizzes, review transitions between eras, or learn more about 80 composers"
22. Essentials Of Music - Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's a site for basic information about classical music.
23. Finale NotePad® 2006 - free music notation software - other software to download, some are free and some are fee-based.
24. Finding your Singing Voice - lesson plan online
25. Fortissimo - a ThinkQuest site with a music dictionary, composer pictures and biographies, instrument pictures, and instrument sounds
26. Fraction Pie Rhythms - connects your knowledge of fractions to musical notes and rhythms
27. Glossary of Musical Terms
28. Good Ear - free ear training on the net
29. Grand Staff Note Speller worksheets
30. Guitar Teaching Resources - Download these free music sheets to help guitar instruction.
31. Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920 - from the American Memory section of the Library of Congress
32. Kididdle's Musical Mouseum - a place where you can find the lyrics to your favorite kids' songs, send out a request for a long lost song, or maybe help somebody else find the one they're looking for. If you know the title of the song you're looking for, the Alpha Index is the place to go.
33. Indiana University School of Music Worldwide Internet Music Resources
34. Instruments - large list of links from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music
35. Instructional Materials in Music - web sites to enhance your lessons
36. Jazz Age - Welcome to the Jazz Age Page. Listen to sound clips from the past together with people and historical events in the Jazz Age!
37. Keyboard to print
38. Learn about instruments - click on each instrument and hear what it sounds like
39. Lyrics - A lyric and music search engine for music people created by music people.
40. Make Your Own Instruments - ten presented
41. Marian Anderson: A Life in Song - This exhibition celebrates the artistic development and musical career of Marian Anderson. Renowned throughout the world for her extraordinary contralto voice, she is also remembered for her dignity and grace under pressure.
42. Meter - make rhythmic meters by combining two and three syllables words
43. Metronimo has educational musical games such as identifying composers, instruments and musical notes.
44. Minuetmixer - create your own minuet.
45. Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel - A musical dice game for composing a minuet. This is cool! Give it a try.
46. Music4Education - list of classroom resources
47. Music Chamber - This site was created so that people could gain an understanding and appreciation for chamber music. (a ThinkQuest site)
48. Music Education Online: Music Education Resource Links Page
49. Music Education: Worksheets for Children - bass clef and trebel clef, progressive worksheets, #1 is easiest in each group
50. Music Hotlist posted by the Franklin Institute
51. Music Education Center - multi links; music appreciation to folk instrument instructions to choral and more
52. Music Education - lesson plans, from the Berklee School in Boston
53. Music Education at DataDragon - "explore some parts of music with the DataDragon online tutorials and guides"
54. Music Education Online - main links directory page
55. Music in Connexions: - A K-12 Teacher's Guide - wide variety of offerings, including multi-disciplinary lessons, lesson plans that can be presented by teachers who are not music specialists
56. Music Lesson Plans - Pre K to High School
57. Music K-8 Magazine - online magazine
58. Music Notes - an interactive online musical experience - (a ThinkQuest site)
59. Music Maker - Click on the Start button or select a song. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select Maybe Later to go directly to the activity. You can change instruments and add notes to the score by selecting keys on the piano keyboard.
60. Music Review Worksheet
61. Music Sheet Templates - Print these and create your own music! Bass Clef ; Bass Clef Staff ; Drum Sheet Music ; Generic Music Staff ; Large bass clef staff for young musicians ; Large generic staff for young musicians ; Large treble clef staff for young musicians
62. Music Teacher Resources - one of the many resources available from the Educational CyberPlayground - look at their index on the left of the page
63. Music: The Unspoken Word - a ThinkQuest site
64. MusicTheory - great site for learning theory; resources for instruction, trainers, and music utilities.
65. Music Theory - tutorials, exercises, questions, references, and many other wonderful selections to choose from
66. Music Theory and Educational Resources - a multi link site with many resources
67. Music Teachers Chatboard - share your ideas and learn new ones
68. Musical Fraction Bars - your fractions will transform into a musical composition you can see and hear
69. Music Worksheets - Download these free worksheets for your music students; major and minor chords - great site for learning theory; resources for instruction, trainers, and music utilities.
70. New York Philharmonic Kidzone features several interesting areas; Instrument Storage Room , Composition Workshop, Composers Gallery, and the Instrument Lab
71. Orchestra Song - Learn about instruments, activity sheet and words to song included on site.
72. The Orchestra - Instruments of the Orchestra - Click on an area to view and listen to the instruments.
73. Orff Music Instruments to Make - instruments which can be easily made and used to enhance the Orff music classroom - Some are suitable for student projects, and some are more advanced.
74. Opera Plots - one hundred opera plots, listed by title
75. Pattern Block Rock - In this activity, you can compose and play your own rhythmic songs using geometric shapes.
76. Performing Arts Digital Library - experience the diversity of American performing arts through the Library of Congress's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps, and other materials
77. PlayMusic
78. Printable Songs for Teachers - scroll past the Teachnology information to find the list
79. Reading Music - introduction to the most important topics in reading music in an easy to understand way
80. Renaissance Instruments - Elizabethan instruments
81. Renaissance Music - a collection of links from the About network
82. The Rhythm Trainer - Free program for learning and practicing rhythm.
83. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - list of lesson plans created by educators during past Summer Teacher Institutes
84. Romantic Music - Romanticism is a more radical kind of expression, it seeks out the new, the curious, and the adventurous.
85. San Francisco Symphony KidSite - Go to Instruments of the Orchestra to hear what any of the instruments sound like. Then stop by their Music Lab to see what you can learn.
86. Sibelius Academy Music - The Sibelius Academy, a conservatory in Helsinki, provides a list of music sites that would rival a Vienna guidebook. It not only links you to jazz, blues, rock, and pop pages but covers famous composers, gospel, instruments, research, theory, and opera as well.
87. Sing-Along Songs - presented by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
88. NIEHS Quizzes
    1. Name that Children's Tune
    2. Name that Patriotic Tune
    3. Name that Oldies' Tune
89. Songs for Teaching - stick with the links to Lyrics, that's free but everything else is for sale
90. Music to Play and Sing Worksheets - songs with .pdf worksheets
91. Sphinx Kids - music, videos, and games [requires Shockwave]
92. Stearns Collection - one of the largest accumulations of such artifacts housed in a North American university.
93. The Stearns Collection of Keyboards - [this link opens on a new page] a virtual tour through the Collection to see a sampling of keyboards
94. Strings - learn about the stringed instruments.
95. The Symphony - a Thinkquest site - an interactive guide
96. Stylistic Timeline Of Music History - from the music of ancient times to 21st Century music
97. Take a Seat in the Orchestra - find out about the instruments used in an orchestra
98. Teaching with Songs - from Isabel's ESL site
99. Texas School Music Project - "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 educators of all levels."
100. Virtual Keyboard - several drum beats available to accompany the selected instrument; piano, organ, saxophone, flute, pan pipes, strings, guitar, steel drums, or double bass
101. Western Music History - Romantic Era music
102. Whack-A-Note - Can you identify the correct note on the staff? Play this game and try your luck!
103. Worldwide Internet Music Resources from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University