Understanding MIDI, digital audio, and how to compose using both. Although this site is from 1996, much of the information remains relevant.

From a major publisher of classical music, this website provides a brief biography and picture of literally hundreds of composers of classical music. The discographies at the bottom of each biography allow you to find CDs and often...

Comprehensive interactive learning module explores the Vietnam War and includes maps, a timeline of important events, primary source documents, photographs, personal accounts, music, and teacher resources.

A brief site on the advent of technology changing how music is written (and by whom) forever. One bad point is that for most of the links to work, you have to figure out for yourself where they go and type it in.

Learn about place value and the base-10 number system. This video focuses on using what you know about place value to determine what value each of the three digits represents.

Interact with different bands to mix and produce different types of music. Examples provided include rap, classical, and boogie-woogie.

Provides an excellent tutorial on how a digital synthesizer works, including information on editing, wavetables, MIDI, and much more. Sparse on design, but heavy on content. From 1996.

See images and find out about the original sheet music from the early 1900's. Famous songs such as "Dapper Dan", "Down the River", and more. You can search for music by title or author.

Try this beginner's tutorial for recording sound on the computer. It covers the historical background of audio files, file formats, basic audio recording, synthesized music and copyright.

Classical music label Naxos provides brief definitions of musical terms.

This site has a comprehensive list of films that have used classical music for their score. There are plenty of audio links too.

While the internet plays home to a fantastic range of content, not all of this content is accessed legally. It can be challenging to encourage children and young people to change the source of their content, particularly if they are not...

A mass culture developed in America in the 1920s due to several factors. Read about the influence of radio, movies, and spectator sports in the adoption of common speech. Find out about the creativity of the time in literature and music.

A description of many different forms of popular culture in the first half of the 19th century ranging from sensationalized newspapers to dime novels to pseudoscience. Read about Stephen Foster's music, theatrical productions, and even...

Find out about the contributions African slaves and African American slaves made to not only their culture, but American culture in general. See what words have African roots, how African culture influenced food and music, and how there...

The Great Migration for African Americans began during World War I as blacks left the segregated south to find jobs in the north. Read about how segregation followed them into their northern neighborhoods. See also how the Harlem...

General overview of African American pop-culture in the mid 20th-century highlighting music, art, theater, and sports.

Learn about something called Lickestra and how its creators have found a fun way to create a new experience with their senses of taste and hearing. Includes video. [3:02]

Learn about music called the Blues, and then write, play, and sing an original blues song.

This PDF resource provides information about Irish Traditional Music including definitions and characteristics.

This site is dedicated to TI:ME, an organization whose mission is to assist music educators in using technology in their classrooms. Features include resources for music education for voice and instrument.

A biography of composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. Also provides a description of both his stage and church music.

Access a selection of materials related to traditional Irish music from the digitized holdings: sound recordings, printed materials, and visuals,

This resource provides a biography of musician Guillaume Dufay, as well as a short piece on both church and secular music. Also supplied are links to recommended recordings.