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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Mozart.com: http://www.mozart.com/pages/1/index.htm

Historic American Sheet Music: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
This project draws on the "significant collection of 19th and early 20th century American sheet music" of Duke's Rare Book, Special Collections and Rare Books Library to provide digital images of 3042 pieces published in the United States between 1850 and 1920. The database is searchable, and browsable by subject, illustration type, and date.

AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs: http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/songs.aspx
Here's the site where the 100 greatest songs from movies (in their opinion) are listed, as well as the 400 nominated songs from which these were selected. You can also click on other AFI 100 lists -- the greatest heroes and villains, thrills, laughs, etc.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was a leading Austrian composer of the late eighteen century. He was only five years old when he wrote his first minuet.
Classical Music Archives: Mozart: http://www.classicalarchives.net/mozart.html
Hearing Mozart's music is integral to any study of his life. At the Classical Music Archives you can listen to hundreds of his compositions in MP3, MIDI and WAX (a special kind of Windows Media Audio.) Guests can listen to up to five pieces of music per day. This limit is removed for paying subscribers, who can also can download the music files to their own computers. To hear Mozart's first minuets, scroll down the page to Nannerl's Notenbuch. To untangle the complexities of audio file formats, read their "How to Listen to Music on the Internet"
Mozart Project: http://www.mozartproject.org/
The Mozart Project presents the milestones of Mozart's life in a time line showing concurrent world events. Europe was seething with political and cultural activity throughout the eighteenth century, greatly affecting Mozart's development. You'll also find an annotated catalog of Mozart's life work, cross referenced chronologically as well as by category. This is not simply a listing of compositions, but a detailed insight into each work and it's creation.
Mozart's Magical Musical Life: http://www.stringsinthemountains.org/m2m/1once.htm
"Once upon a time, when men wore powdered wigs and rode in gilded carriages, a baby boy was born in the beautiful town of Salzburg. The little boy's name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophillus Amadeus Mozart. Can you imagine writing that on the top of your paper in school?" Thus begins the whimsical, musical biography of Wolferl (for short).

Song Quotes: Rock Wisdom: http://www.rockwisdom.com/mainpage.htm
"An online reference book of over 12,000 song quotes," arranged by broad topics and searchable by keyword and artist.

Lauura's MIDI Heaven: http://www.laurasmidiheaven.com/
Freeplay Music: http://www.freeplaymusic.com/
Free Music Directory: http://www.freemusicdir.com/
How to Get Free Music: http://www.freemusic.com/

Choral Public Domain Library: http://www.cpdl.org/
This free sheet music library has over 6,000 scores downloadable as pdf files.

MusicStaff.com: http://www.musicstaff.com/
"MusicStaff.com enables parents, students and musicians to find music teachers, music schools and music lessons anywhere in the United States by zip code. Our international search locates teachers by country." Over 10,000 teachers are listed.

Inventing Entertainment
Teacher Resources: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/ed/
The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html
The Marriage of Sight and Sound: Early Edison Experiments with Film and Sound: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmrrg.html
Edison Sound Recordings: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edsndhm.html

A Passion for Jazz: http://www.apassion4jazz.net/
Includes jazz history, a timeline, festivals, a photo gallery, a teacher locator, a glossary, and more.

Songs for Teaching - Using Music to Promote Learning: http://www.songsforteaching.com/

Take Note!-A Center for Teaching and Learning About the New York Philharmonic: http://www.symphonyworks.net/takenote/
you will find the following lessons:
Pathways to the Orchestra - Part 1
Pathways to the Orchestra - Part 2
Pulcinella and the Haydn Trumpet Concerto
Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony
Vivaldi's Double Cello Concerto
Orchestration in Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov
At http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml you will be connected to the Musician's Lounge, Composers' Gallery, Instrument Laboratory and Composer's Workshop.

BBC African Instruments: http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutmusic/features/africa/
A variety of music has its foundation in a blend of African and European sounds. This interactive site lets you explore various parts of Africa and provides information, examples, photos, or videos of musical instruments. Requires Real Player.

Music: http://mhsmediacenter.homestead.com/Music.html

Mrs. Jones Music Room: http://www.websterschools.org/classrooms/mrs_jones

CREATING MUSIC: http://www.creatingmusic.com/

PLAY MUSIC: http://www.playmusic.org/

MOGULS TO MOZART: http://www.stringsinthemountains.org/m2m/intro.htm

HOP POP TOWN: http://www.kids-space.org/HPT/

PLAY A PIANO: http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/play_a_piano.html

THE PIANO PLAYER (READING MUSIC): http://www.funbrain.com/notes/index.html

HAPPY NOTE (DOWNLOAD MUSIC THEORY GAMES): http://www.happynote.com/music/learn.html

DSO KIDS: http://www.dsokids.com/2001/rooms/DSO_Intro.html

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC TEACHER RESOURCES:
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/cunningh/project

LEARN ABOUT INSTRUMENTS: http://datadragon.com/education/instruments/

LEARN TO READ MUSIC: http://datadragon.com/education/reading/

GENRE SAMPLER: http://datadragon.com/education/genres/

K-12 RESOURCES FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS: http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html

LEARNING MUSICAL ELEMENTS THRU LISTENING:
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/yyang/HTML/prj.html

MUSIC EDUCATION ONLINE: http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/

EGMTL CENTER: http://www2.potsdam.edu/CRANE/campbemr/lessons/

MUSIC LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES: http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edmusic.htm

MUSIC MIND (KODALY): http://musicmind.homestead.com/

MUSIC LINKS: http://www.mtrs.co.uk/links2.htm

ARRANGEMENTS AND CLASS PROJECTS: http://www.mtrs.co.uk/arrange.htm

MUSIC FLASHCARDS: http://www.theviolincase.com/bass/Flashcards/index.htm

VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF MUSIC INVENTION: http://www.op97.org/%7Eerexford/base/index.html

DSO Kids-Dallas Symphony Orchestra: http://www.dsokids.com/2001/rooms/teachers.asp

Encyclopedia Smithsonian-Musical History: http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/music.htm

History in Song: http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/history.html

AskERIC-Music Lesson Plans: http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Arts/Music

The Music Room: http://www.empire.k12.ca.us/capistrano/Mike/capmusic/music_room/themusic.htm

PBS Jazz Kids: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/kids/

New York Philharmonic: http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml

Musicals101.com - the Cyber Encyclopedia of Musicals: http://www.musicals101.com/
Includes history, photo galleries, chronologies, a Who's Who, and lots more. Especially helpful for would-be stagers of musicals is a list of who has the rights for each.

Royalty Free Music
http://www.musicbakery.com/TabHome01a.htm - The Music Bakery http://www.brainybetty.com/sounds.htm - Brainy Betty (graphics, music, PowerPoint templates, animations, etc.)
http://www.sounddogs.com/catsearch.asp?Type=3D2 - Sound Dogs
http://www.musicloops.com/Cart/ - Royalty Free Music Loops
http://www.pbtmlive.com/ - Royalty Free Pro Background Theme Music
http://www.chrisworthproductions.com/ - Chris Worth Productions
http://www.shambles.net/ - Shambles (The Education Asia Project)
www.freeplaymusic.com - Pam Buysman
www.soundsabound.com
Other formats:
http://www.artbeats.com/ - Royalty Free Stock Film Footage
http://www.buyoutfootage.com/ - Buyout Footage (Public domain and royalty free footage)
http://www.digitalvisiononline.com/home/index.asp - Digital Vision (images, motion, music)

Warming Up the Voice: http://www.wfubmc.edu/voice/warming_up.html

The Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame has lesson plans on using music to teach history:
http://www.rockhall.com/programs/plans.asp

Carnegie Hall Adventures in Listening - Dvorak's 9th Symphony:
http://www.thirteen.org/listeningadventures/carnegiebridge.html

New York Philharmonic Kidzone: http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml?

National Endowment of the Humanities (MarcoPolo)
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=379
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=318
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=252
http://edsitement.neh.gov/spotlight.asp?id=15

Videos from the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center
Every day the Kennedy Center in Washington DC broadcasts a free
concert. http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/archive_month.cfm?mont
h=2&year=2003 From here you may click on to their entire archive.

The Samurai - Complete with sword fight
http://www.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/samurai/

Midsummer Night's Dream
http://www.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/shenandoah/

NPR's 100 American Musical Works and Present at the Creation: http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/archives.html

Rock & Roll and the War in Vietnam: http://www.jwsrockgarden.com/jw02vvaw.htm

BACKGROUND OF POPULAR WAR MUSIC OF THE 1960'S: http://www.geocities.com/afvn3/historybac.html

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/ contains more than 15,000 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright during 1820-1860 & more than 47,000 pieces registered during 1870-1885. It includes popular
songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred & secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books & instructional materials, & music for band & orchestra. The collection is
searchable by author, subject, & song title.

MUSICAL CLIP ART: http://www.bry-backmanor.org/musicbonus.html
Especially for music teachers, find musical clip art to decorate your bulletin board, papers, worksheets, notes, or web pages.

Celebrating Stephen Sondheim:
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/mt/sondheim/artsedge.html helps introduce students to one of the most influential figures in musical theatre history. In addition to lesson ideas & learning activities, it offers a biography of the composer-lyricist, a timeline of his career, & the background & synopses of four of his most well-known musicals. The site was developed in conjunction with the Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration, which will be held throughout the spring & summer.

Songs for Teaching: http://songsforteaching.homestead.com/index.html
On this website, you can find research about music in the classroom, as well as great ideas for songs by discipline. Suggestions for mood music and songs that call for physical activity can help you focus on the different learning styles of your students.
Grade Level: Adult/Professional
Content Area: Arts (Music), Education (Teaching & Learning

New York Philharmonic KidsZone: http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml?
At this site you can go backstage, visit a dressing room or try out an instrument.

San Francisco Symphony Kids' Site: http://www.sfskids.org/templates/home.asp?pageid=1
This site includes such features as Music Lab, which serenades kids with appropriate sound effects to teach them the basic components of music, from tempo to harmony. Within the lab is the Performalator, an online tool that enables kids to compose and play music.

The National Library of Canada has put its French/English "Encyclopedia of Music in Canada": http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/4/17/index.html on the Web. Names and subjects can
either be searched or browsed alphabetically. The beauty of Internet publishing is that the encyclopedia can be updated whenever new information is available - no wait for "the next printing." The site is designed "to enable musicians, music scholars, students, and music lovers globally to have immediate access to information about music in Canada ... the historic and current manifestations of popular, folk, religious, concert, and other forms of music, as well as Canadian music's educational, critical, administrative, and commercial aspects."

The Classical Archives Web site: http://www.classicalarchives.com/ offers a broad range of no-cost resources for musicians and music instructors. More than 14,000 music files and works form 1,000 composers are housed at the site, which also contains biographies of the most popular artists. Also featured: historical timelines; videos of young performers as they practice and discuss their work; and links to downloadable sheet music, essays and editorials. Classical Archives even has its own classical radio station and a learning center, offering advice from conductor and educator David Barg.

Song of the Century: http://www.songs-of-the-century.com/
The Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts have teamed up to launch an educational initiative designed to teach the nation's music and cultural heritage. The "Songs of the Century" curriculum features 365 classic American songs representing selections from every decade of the 20th century and every genre of music. The cross-curricular offering is designed to help teachers and families instill in students an appreciation of music, history and culture. The teaching guide can be downloaded at this site.

Music websites:
http://umu.massed.net/~carrier/webring.htm
http://www.aeideas.com/
http://voyager.physics.unlv.edu/webpages2/picgalr2.html
http://www.musiceducationmadness.com/

Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine: http://www.dismuke.org/
You can listen to the recordings of the early 20th Century. Hear the wonderful sounds of Caruso, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald and many more in this truly wonderful collection of online music.

KIDiddles: http://www.kididdles.com/ is a site packed with lyrics to almost 2,000 kids' songs. There are also music clips to listen to. And there's more than music here too! Games and stories--all kid and family friendly. Children can submit pictures, jokes and songs that may be published at their site. It should be noted that the site can't reproduce lyrics to copyrighted songs.

Musically Inclined: http://library.thinkquest.org/C001468F/
Although the Internet has changed the way in which we listen to music, this site won't let you forget that the Web is just one of those ways. Musically Inclined gets your students off on the right foot with its library of articles on music history and music theory and interviews with great composers around the world. If that's not enough, have your students listen to some tunes in the virtual concert hall or play interactive games like "Name that Tune." By visiting Musically Inclined, your students can learn to make music for themselves instead of simply downloading it.

Launch Point: Exploring U.S. History Through Music: http://www.latimes.com/news/learning/launch/historymusic.htm
With new national education goals prescribing a good dose of art into the classrooms, get ideas on how to integrate lessons in history and music with this three-part L.A.
Times feature. Teach your kids about the role that music played in American history and culture. This site puts America's rich music history into perspective by teaching students about the songs and musical movements that changed people's lives.

Jazz http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
This website was created to support the PBS series by Ken Burns. Audio clips of many jazz performers are available, as well as interesting historical and biographical information of the highlights of jazz in the United States.
Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School, College, Adult/Professional Content Area: Arts (Music), History & Social Studies (U.S. History)

This site began in March 1998 and was created by Janet Luch.
Email to studyplans@yahoo.com.