Much good information regarding all periods can be found by clicking on the side-bar.

 

World Lecture Hall - Music

If you take the time you may find something useful by following links from this site.

Click on GO TO (by grade) and drag to 9-12. Next click on Music under 9-12 Sections. Then click on Musical Periods under Websites and go from there.

Click on Music under Arts and Humanities with links to several good sites.

The All Classical Guide site allows users to access brief biographies of composers/performers with links to information on specific works. When browsing the AMG Classical database, users can also listen to MIDI files containing the theme to major compositions. The Classical MIDI File Project, which contains more than 20,000 musical themes, can be accessed by composer name and then choosing from the listed repertoire. Links are also provided to the All Music Guide Glossary, a detailed reference source for a wide variety of music-related terms.

Author: All Media Guide (amg@allmusic.com)

This site contains information and links to basic repertoire lists, a classical CD buying guide, reccomendations for classical CDs, composers works and data, reviews and articles, books and scores, other classical music links, and a search engine. It is a good place to start looking for a classical CD or composer. Click on Composer's Works and Data. The quality of information varies depending on authorship.

Author: L.D. Lampson and Classical Net

A site of brief biographical sketches of some of the more well-known classical composers.

Author: Michael Norrish (Michael.Norrish@cl.cam.ac.uk)

"A chronological listing of famous composers of Western Music. Each listing contains accurate birth and death dates and the country of origin. Several of the entries also are linked to biographical essays and other sites on the web." Organized by musical period and by composer name.

Author: Steven G. Estrella (doctorestrella@stevenestrella.com)

"DW3 (Duke World Wide Web) Classical Music Resources is a comprehensive collection of classical music resources on the Web with links to more than 1,600 non-commercial pages/sites in over a dozen languages. The site is comprised of 107 well organized, subject-specific pages and features a powerful, easy-to-use internal search engine; multiple access points for hundreds of entries, including "see" and "see also" references; and composer-specific pages and links organized by historical period for enhanced browsing."

Author: Yale Fineman, Duke University

Basic information about classical music. Biographies of seventy composers, overview of the six main periods in Western music, and a glossary of terms.

Author: Sony Music and W.W. Norton & Company (feedback@sonyclassical.com)

This site showcases Musica Antiqua's large replica instrument collection by supplying photos, descriptions, original quotes, additional sources, and sounds of the instruments used in performing early music.

Author: Musica Antiqua, Iowa State University (cobleyle@iastate.edu)

A Yahoo! Pick of the Week (10-26-98), the Instrument Encyclopedia "Begins with more than 140 artifacts from the Sterns Collection at the University of Michigan" and "features musical instruments from around the world." Searchable by name, geographic region, building materials used and the Sachs Hobostel classification scheme, the database provides users with instrument images, textual descriptions and an occasional sound file. Please Note: a frames-capable browser is required.

Author: Cultural Heritage Initiative for Commumity Outreach project (chicotll@umich.edu)

Contains a biography of Mozart (with chronology and family tree), a listing of his compositions (by date and category), selected essays about him and his music, plus reviews of books on Mozart. Also includes links to more Mozart resources online.

Author: Steve Boerner (sboerner@frontiernet.net)

Author: Ryan Damico, Lauren Mirsky, and Jesse Friedman

A large, searchable directory of music-related Internet sites, with descriptions provided by the sites.

Author: (info@musicsearch.com)

"The Museum possesses one of the largest collections in the world...more than 3000 items, and the major part of them are rare or unique." This site makes the wonderful collection accessible to everybody, including pictures, data banks, the collection's catalogue, as well as guided tours and news items.

Author: Pavel Andreyev & Vasily Smirnov (andreyev@mail.com)

A large informational site about the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Contains biographies, bibliographies, links, and a database of works indexed by instrument, title, performer/conductor, BWV number, key, year and record label.

Author: Jan Hanford (jan@jsbach.org)

Developed by the Indiana University Music Library, this resource offers an index and links to academic sites, user-maintained information, non-academic sites, geographically local sites, artist-specific sites, and other lists and indices. Has links to FAQs, mailing lists, newsgroups, and virtual libraries. Go to Composers and Compositions.

Author: (resource@www.music.indiana.edu)