PBS
Classics for Kids: Composers Timeline
Travel back in time with this composer timeline. This site allows you to choose a composer based on the time period. Learn about the composer and listen to examples of the composer's works of music.
Yale University
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments: Wind Instruments
Learn about woodwind instruments in this image gallery with descriptions of each instrument in this page from the musical instruments collection of Yale University.
PBS
Classics for Kids: Composers Timeline
This is a timeline of composers; take an interactive journey through our timeline of classical music composers and see what was happening during the composers' lives and how it influenced their music.
Yale University
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments: String Instruments
Learn about string instruments in this image gallery with descriptions of some of the most common string instruments.
Classical Net
Classical Net: Timeline of Famous Composers 1600 to Present
PDF document showing composers in various musical eras from the Baroque period to modern times.
Classical Net
Classical Net: Timeline of Famous Composers: 1100 1700
A PDF timeline of composers in the Gothic, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia Library: Rock Music
The University of Virginia provides a short discussion of the psychedelic music of the 60s. Also contains cover art from twelve albums from this period. Click on the cover to see a bigger picture.
New York Times
New York Times: Listening to Jazz C Ds With Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins, legendary tenor saxophonist, invites us to listen to selections from four of his favorite jazz performances. Hear snipets of these jazz classics from the 1930s and 1940s: "Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fats...
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Classical Net: Basic Repertoire List: Georg Philipp Telemann
Listing of recorded music. Good reference for recordings as well as understanding how prolific Telemann was!
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Classical Net: Arcangelo Corelli
This site from Classical Net is a very short bio but with a listing of Corelli's more popular works. A good reference to find the acual music.
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Reel Classics: Elizabeths Gene Kelly Page
This Reel Classics site dedicated to Gene Kelly, his film work, and music. Includes links to more information, biographical information about Kelly and dance partners, and music samples.
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Reel Classics: Elizabeths Gene Kelly Page
This Reel Classics site dedicated to Gene Kelly, his film work, and music. Includes links to more information, biographical information about Kelly and dance partners, and music samples.
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Reel Classics: Elizabeths Gene Kelly Page
This Reel Classics site dedicated to Gene Kelly, his film work, and music. Includes links to more information, biographical information about Kelly and dance partners, and music samples.
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Reel Classics: Elizabeths Gene Kelly Page
This Reel Classics site dedicated to Gene Kelly, his film work, and music. Includes links to more information, biographical information about Kelly and dance partners, and music samples.
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Still Life With Musical Instruments and a Small Classical Statue
An image of "Still-Life with Musical Instruments and a Small Classical Statue", created by Evaristo Baschenis, c. 1645 (Oil on canvas).
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Olga's Gallery: Modest Musorgsky
Olga's Gallery features a portrait of Modest Musorgsky.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ludwig Van Beethoven
A German composer and pianist. He is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in classical music.
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Classical Net : Johann Georg Pisendel
A survey of the life and works of Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755), the German Baroque violinist-composer.
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Benjamin Britten
Classical Net offers links, resources, and lists of works on Benjamin Britten (1913-1976 CE), one of Britain's greatest composers.
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Scott Joplin
A fairly extensive biography of the ragtime music legend with links and bibliography.
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Leonard Bernstein: A Tribute to Lenny
Essay offers a tribute to Leonard Bernstein and his work as an American composer and conductor. Inlcludes links to sites of relevant books, links to the musicals "West Side Story" and "On the Town", and more.
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Leonard Bernstein: A Tribute to Lenny
Essay offers a tribute to Leonard Bernstein and his work as an American composer and conductor. Inlcludes links to sites of relevant books, links to the musicals "West Side Story" and "On the Town", and more.
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Leonard Bernstein: A Tribute to Lenny
Essay offers a tribute to Leonard Bernstein and his work as an American composer and conductor. Inlcludes links to sites of relevant books, links to the musicals "West Side Story" and "On the Town", and more.
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Leonard Bernstein: A Tribute to Lenny
Essay offers a tribute to Leonard Bernstein and his work as an American composer and conductor. Inlcludes links to sites of relevant books, links to the musicals "West Side Story" and "On the Town", and more.
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