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Sub-Topics Cello Choir Classical Music Composers Events Flute Guitar Jazz Lyrics Musicals Opera Percussion Piano Pop Rhythm Viola Violin Xaphoon Lesson Plans Learning Musical Elements Through Listening 5-00 Music - Influence of Music on Your Life (Palmer and Welch) Provides a thematic set of lessons, covering two weeks of work, for ninth grade students to determine the role of music through research and creation. 6-99 Music Composition and Photography (Kodak) Provides a lesson at the 6th grade level. Music Lesson Plans (Teachers.Net) Provides approximately 50 individual lessons. Specifies a general grade level for each, such as elementary. The quality of lessons varies widely and some only announce the availability of lessons on a topic. 5-00 Music Lessons (MusicStaff.com) Provides sources of music lessons for a variety of instruments. 2-01 Music for Grades 11 - 12 (British Columbia Ministry of Education) Provides lessons on elements of rhythm. These materials are called an Integrated Resource Package. 2-01 Music for Grades 8 - 10 (British Columbia Ministry of Education) Provides lessons on Structure (Elements of Rhythm), (Elements of Melody), (Elements of Expression), and (Form and the Principles of Design), Thoughts, Images, and Feelings, and Context (Self and Community) and (Historical and Cultural). These materials are called an Integrated Resource Package. 2-01 Lists Arts - Culture Finder Provides a search for events in the arts from hundreds of sources. Audio Center Billboard Music Charts Children's Music List Early Instruments (Diabolus.org) Describes early musical instruments, such as the Flute, Recorder, Whistle, Tabor Pipe, Lute, Viols and Violins, Guitar and Vihuela, Cittern and Bandora, Gittern and Citole, Bagpipe, Shawm and Curtal, Crumhorn and Rackett, Psaltery and Dulcimer, and Cornett. 10-04 Music - By Artist (ArtistDirect) 1-02 Music - By Artist (Yahoo) Music - By Artist, Song, or Radio Station (New Radio Star) Provides a search engine to find artists, songs, and music radio stations. 4-00 Music - By Country or Culture (Yahoo) Music - By Instrument (Yahoo) Music - By Type (ArtistDirect) 1-02 Music - By Type (Yahoo) Music Glossary (AEC One Stop Group) Provides information by type of music. 11-00  Music Resources (Cook Music Library) Music Resources (MusicatSchool.co.uk - Shannon) Provides resources by topic, including classical composers, timelines, Beethoven, music theory, resources for music educators, and more. 2-01 Music Teacher Locator (A Passion for Jazz) Provides searches for music teachers by location, instrument, music style, and level of play. 05-07 Research and Study Music (Cook Music Library) Traditional Folk Songs (Searchable) Materials Chinese - Ancient Chinese Music Provides music using ancient Chinese instuments. Music Search by Pitch Sequence (QPD) Searches for music when you provide the pitch sequence. Also includes collections of works (tunes only) associated with Beethovan, Bach, Mozart, Showtunes, TV, Movies, Rock, and Elvis. 8-99 Multimedia -CD's (CD Now) Allows searches by artist, song, or album. Provides audio clips and biographies. 9-05 -Music (AOL.MusicNow.com) Provides music clips. 06-06 -Music Samples (CDUniverse.com) Provides short samples of songs. 01-07 -Music Search by Name or Title (YouTube.com) Provides music clips with video. 01-07 Classical Music (Schwob) Allows searches and provides generous audio clips. Karaoke (EatSleepMusic.com) Provides Karaoke player and music. 7-00 Music (MTV.com) Provides music clips. 07-06 Music By Age Group (Koch) Provides recommendations of music for different age groups. Includes samples and reviews of each work. 1-00 News -09-20-06 Music Training May Increase Memory in Children (CBS News) "Researchers have found that not only did the brains of young, musically trained children respond differently to hearing music, but musical training also appeared to improve the children's memories over the course of a year." 09-06 -11-02-06 Shakira Wins Three Grammys (MSNBC News) "hakira dominated the Latin Grammy awards as she won a leading four trophies, including album of the year for 'Fijacion Oral Vol. 1' and song and record of the year honors for 'La Tortura,' her smoldering duet with Alejandro Sanz, on Thursday night." 10-06 06-25-03 Record Labels Threaten to Sue Swappers (News.com) "In its most serious crackdown yet on file swapping, the Recording Industry Association of America said it will gather evidence against individuals who trade songs online and slap thousands of them with copyright-infringement lawsuits." 6-03 11-29-04 Big Thee in Music to Enter File Sharing (MSNBC News) "Three major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service that aims to lure music fans away from rival services where trading of music and movies remains unfettered." 11-04 12-23-03 Music Industry Piracy Subpoenas Illegal (HispanicBusiness.com) "A federal appeals court in Washington told the record industry Friday it could no longer issue subpoenas to track down and sue alleged file swappers." 12-03 Papers Alsop, Marin - Conductor (ABC News) "Marin Alsop is one of the world's most accomplished female conductors. This week, she was named conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra — the first woman ever to head up a major American orchestra." 7-05 Biographies in Music - Canadian (Canadian Encyclopedia) Provides hundreds of biographies by instrument or profession. 10-04 Chinese Musical Instruments (Big Sky) Provides a short description and a picture of the gongs, drums, guan, sheng, suona, bawu, di, and others. Gershwin, George (Awesome Library) Provides a biography of the great American composer. 2-01 Instrument Encyclopedia (Chico's Musical Heritage Network) Provides information on by type (percussion, wind, string, or electronic. Also provides information through the Sachs-Hornbostel classification scheme, by geography, or by search engine. 1-00 Movie Tunes (Hollywood Media Corp.) 3-01 Music - An Introduction (DataDragon - Lux) Provides an introduction to reading music, musical instruments, the sounds of different instruments, musical genres, This Day in Music and more. The music is slow to load, but provides recorded sound, not imitation. Musicians - Canadian (Canadian Encyclopedia) Provides hundreds of biographies by instrument or profession. 10-04 Napster - Fanning, Shawn (Time.com) Provides a short biographical statement about why this person was influential in the year 2000, according to Time magazine. 12-00 Strings - How Strings Work (Carrier) Provides information on resonates, frequency, and tones. Includes a short glossary. 1-00 Top Songs of the 20th Century (CBS News) Comments on the selection of the 365 best songs of the century presented by a study of the National Endowment of the Arts and the Recording Industry of America. 3-01 Tuning (Wikipedia.org) Includes Beat, Blue note, Bohlen-Pierce scale, Equal temperament, Fundamental frequency, Harmonic series (music), Just intonation, Just tuning, Mathematics of musical scales, Meantone temperament, Microtonal music, Musical tuning, Node (physics), Overtone, Pseudo-octave, Pythagorean tuning, Regular temperament, Spectrum, Timbre, Tuning, Well temperament, and Xenharmonic 10-04 Projects History of Music (Carrier) Provides a Hall of Fame project for classes to select the best contributors to Western musical styles. Provides resources, such as Web links by period. 1-00 Quizzes - Music (MusicatSchool.co.uk - Shannon) Provides quizzes by grade level (7 - 9) and topic. 2-01 Purchase Resources Bookstore (Awesome Library) Provides books from four sources. Sheet Music Search (NetStore USA) Provides sheet music, searchable by title, instrument, or other criteria. 11-00 Song Library for Download to iPod (Apple.com - iTune) "Featuring hundreds of thousands of songs from major music companies including BMG, EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros, the iTunes Music Store offers more than 100,000 new tracks from independent artists and record labels." 7-04 iPod (Apple.com) "A musical dream come true, the fourth-generation iPod offers huge capacity, letting you easily slip up to 10,000 songs into your pocket." 7-04 Trips Ticketmaster Online - Events 2-00 Worksheets Music Worksheets (MusicatSchool.co.uk - Shannon) Provides 127 worksheets, by grade level (7 - 9) and topic. 2-01

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