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PBS

Classics for Kids: Composers Timeline

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Classical Net

Classical Net: Renaissance Repertoire: Renaissance Composers

For Students 9th - 10th
Those well-versed in music will find this site helpful, as it offers biographical information on a number of Renaissance composers, along with pictures and information on compositions.
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San Diego State University

Classical Rummy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This card game serves as a learning aid to music students. They will learn to classify classical composers by the era in which they worked: Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern.
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Other

Women of Note: Celebrating 250 Years of Music by Women

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographies of more than forty women composers whose works, if not their fame, rival men composers of the same time period. Biographies are generally accompanied by a list of some works by the composer, with brief descriptions. Of...
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Quia

Quia: Music Trivia

For Students 3rd - 5th
A great study tool for a music class! Students match classical muscians to the instrument they play in one of four games: matching, concentration, flashcards, word search.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Baroque Music

For Students 9th - 10th
A Wikipedia article on Baroque music distinguishes it from the Renaissance and Classical styles, discusses the different musical genres the Baroque composers wrote in, lists the important features of Baroque music, and provides a list of...
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Other

Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this website for short biographies of some of the African American singers and composers who have contributed to the world of Classical music.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Dynasty, Revolution, and the Classical Age

For Students 9th - 10th
Welcome to Britain, home to one of the biggest empires in history and a rich artistic heritage. We'll start in the 16th through the 18th centuries, years that saw the establishment of Britain and British art as we know it. As you travel...
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Library: Mozart and the Keyboard Culture of His Time

For Students 9th - 10th
View this collection of documents and objects to find out about music in Mozart's time and music in the present time 250 years after Mozart.
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Classical Net

Classical Net: Timeline of Famous Composers: 1100 1700

For Students 9th - 10th
A PDF timeline of composers in the Gothic, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
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Classical Net

Classical Net: Timeline of Famous Composers 1600 to Present

For Students 9th - 10th
PDF document showing composers in various musical eras from the Baroque period to modern times.
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Other

Guild Music: Edvard Grieg

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a brief biography of Edvard Grieg, an international Scandanavian composer of the 19th century. Information is also given on his most famous work, "the Cello Sonata in A minor opus 36."
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ludwig Van Beethoven

For Students 9th - 10th
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.