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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.

ArtsBeats Footage You Can Use: http://www.artbeats.com/

Arts Education Idats: Inventive Designs for Education and the Arts: http://www.aeideas.com/

Buyout Footage.com: http://www.buyoutfootage.com/
Public domain and royalty free stock footage

Capistrano School: Welcome to the Music Room: http://www.empire.k12.ca.us/capistrano/Mike/capmusic/music_room/themusic.htm

ChoralWiki, home of the Choral Public Domain Library: http://www.cpdl.org/

Chris Worth Productions: http://www.chrisworthproductions.com/

Creating Music: http://creatingmusic.com/new/playing/index.html

Diana Deutsch's Audio Illusions: Presented by Philomel Records: http://www.philomel.com/musical_illusions/

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

DSO Kids: http://www.dsokids.com/default.aspx?

Fibonacci Numbers and The Golden Section in Art, Architecture and Music: http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibInArt.html

Freeplay Music: http://www.freeplaymusic.com/

Free Music Directory: http://www.freemusicdir.com/

Genre Sampler: http://datadragon.com/education/genres/

Happy Note: http://www.happynote.com/en/music-notes.html

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.

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

Introduction to Reading Music: http://datadragon.com/education/reading/

Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html

Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns: 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) 

Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory: http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/jazz-and-world-war-ii-rally-resistance-catalyst-victory

JW's Rock Garden: http://www.jwsrockgarden.com/jw02vvaw.htm
Vietnam Era Anti War Music

KIDiddles: http://www.kididdles.com/
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.

Lauura's MIDI Heaven: http://www.laurasmidiheaven.com/

Learn About Instruments: http://datadragon.com/education/instruments/

Learning Musical Elements Through Listening -- Resources for Guided Listening: http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/yyang/HTML/prj.html

Listening to Animals: http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1383202

The Music Bakery: http://www.musicbakery.com/TabHome01a.htm

Music Education Online: http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/
Contains more than 62,500 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.

Music Lesson Plans And Resources: http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edmusic.htm

Music Links: http://www.mtrs.co.uk/links2.htm

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.

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

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

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

The Piano Player: http://www.funbrain.com/notes/index.html

Play Music: http://www.playmusic.org/

Play a Piano/Synthesizer/Oscilloscope: http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/play_a_piano.html

Royalty Free Pro Background Theme Music: http://www.pbtmlive.com/

Rock Wisdom: http://www.rockwisdom.com/mainpage.htm
"An online reference book of over 13,000 song quotes," arranged by broad topics and searchable by keyword and artist.

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.

Science of Sound: http://www.galaxy.net/~k12/sound/index.shtml

Songs for Teaching - The Definitive Source for Educational Music: http://www.songsforteaching.com/index.html

Sounddogs.com: http://www.sounddogs.com/sound-effects.asp

Space Station Music: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/04sep_music.htm

Spirituals: http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/spirituals

The Ultimate Music Reference: http://library.thinkquest.org/C001468F/

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.

Wooing Mates with Acoustic Tricks: http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=868161

This site began in March 1998 and was created by Janet Luch.  This page was last updated on January 8, 2012 .
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