History of Music

The Classical Music Pages
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/classmus.html

Red Hot Jazz Archive - history of jazz 1895-1930
http://www.redhotjazz.com/

Electric Guitar
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/guitars/

A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html

Musicals 101
http://www.musicals101.com/contents.htm

120 Years of Electronic Music
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/

The Piano Page - find history under Resources
http://www.ptg.org

Classical

Classics for Kids - games, hear the music ***
http://www.classicsforkids.com/

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

Jazz

Duke Ellington Music Sampler
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_ellington_duke.htm

PBS Jazz for Kids - join the Jazz Band, meet a musician
http://pbskids.org/jazz/

PBS Jazz Lounge
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/lounge/

Musicals

Broadway: The American Musical - PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/hello/index.html

Musicals 101
http://www.musicals101.com/contents.htm

Musical Instruments

San Francisco Orchestra for Kids - instruments, reading sheet music***
http://www.sfskids.org/templates/home.asp?pageid=1

Play Music.org - take a seat in the orchestra, write your own music***
http://www.playmusic.org/

The Symphony Orchestra: An Interactive Guide***
http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/orchestra.html

Dallas Symphony Orchestra for Kids - make your own instruments***
http://www.dsokids.com/2001/rooms/musicroom.asp

The Orchestra: A User's Manual (includes movie clips of artists explaining their instruments)
http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~ahugill/manual/intro.html

Other Music Genres

Sea Shanties: Popular Songs in American History (also - folk music of England, Ireland, etc.)
http://www.contemplator.com/america

Gospel, Spirituals
http://www.negrospirituals.com/song.htm

Folk Music (American)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Culture,+Folklife

World Music
http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/home

Music Education

K-12 Resources for Music Educators
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/music/k-12music/

Jazz for Young People (created by Jazz at Lincoln Center)
http://jalc.org/jazzED/j4yp_curr/launcher.html

PBS: Middle Level Music Lesson Plans
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit/middle-music.html

Picture Books Featuring Music

Smithsonian - Jazz Books for Children
http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/bibliography/bib_start.asp