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- Learning Musical Elements Through Listening 5-00
- Chinese Musical Instruments (Big Sky)
Provides a short description and a picture of the gongs, drums, guan, sheng, suona, bawu, di, and others.
- 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. 10-09
- Music Worksheets (MusicatSchool.co.uk - Shannon)
Provides 127 worksheets, by grade level (7 - 9) and topic. 2-01
- Quizzes - Music (MusicatSchool.co.uk - Shannon)
Provides quizzes by grade level (7 - 9) and topic. 2-01
- 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
- Top Rated Musicals and "Luminaries" (IMDB.com)
Provides a list of the top 10 rated by IMDB. (Other surveys will result in different lists). The movies include Singing in the Rain (1952), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Duck Soup (1933), A Night at the Opera (1935), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Top Hat (1935), Beauty and the Beast (1991), My Fair Lady (1964), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), and Cabaret (1972). Luminaries include Richarrd Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Bing Crosby, Irving Berlin, Stanley Donen, Judy Garland, Vincente Minnelli, and Frank Sinatra. 7-05
- Musicals (MSN Moves)
Highlights musicals over four decades. 12-05
- Musicals (Musicals.net)
Provides information on top musicals. Includes 1776, 42nd Street, Annie, Anyone Can Whistle, Anything Goes, Aspects of Love, Beauty and the Beast, Big, Brigadoon, Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk, Bye Bye Birdie, Cabaret, Camelot, Carousel, Cats, Chess, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Cinderella, City of Angels, Company, Crazy For You, Damn Yankees, Evita, The Fantasticks, Fiddler On the Roof, Flower Drum Song, Forbidden Broadway, Forbidden Hollywood, Forever Plaid, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum, Godspell, The Goodbye Girl, A Grand Night For Singing, Grease!, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, Hair, Hello, Dolly!, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Into the Woods, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The King and I, Kiss of the Spider Woman, La Cage Aux Folles, Les Miserables, The Lion King, A Little Night Music, Little Shop of Horrors, Mame, Man of La Mancha, Me and My Girl, Miss Saigon, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Oliver!, On the Town, Once Upon a Mattress, Passion, The Phantom of the Opera, Pippin, Ragtime, Rent, The Secret Garden, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, She Loves Me, Show Boat, Song and Dance, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Starlight Express, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, Titanic, Tommy, Victor/Victoria, West Side Story, and The Wiz 12-05
- Musicals (Musicals101.com)
Provides an encylopedia about musicals, including history, reviews, and essays. 12-05
- How Broadway Musicals Are Made (Musicals101.com)
Discusses the elements of a musical including The Score, The Book, Key Players: Production Team, Key Players: Creative Team, How to Write a Musical, and Getting Your Musical Produced. 12-05
- Jolson, Al (Musicals101.com)
Provides a biography. 12-05
- Musicals
- -Many Occasions (123 Cards)
"Send free animated or musical postcards to friends and loved ones."
- 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.
- Neanderthal Flute (Fink)
Provides a picture, essay, and news coverage of a flute made of a bone that is believed to be at least 43,000 years old, making it the world's oldest musical instrument.
- Arts and Crafts Projects (About.com - Osborn)
Provides activities, such making candles or crafting musical instruments. Other examples include books, dolls, hats, jewelry, sewing, paper mache, and more.
- 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
- Armstrong, Louie (RedHotJazz.com)
Provides a biography of the man considered to be the greatest contributor to the development of jazz as a musical form. Includes music 1-01
- Webber, Andrew Lloyd (Larsdotter)
Provides a short profile on the composer of musicals. 2-02
- Beatles, The (RockHall.com)
"The impact of the Beatles upon popular music cannot be overstated; they revolutionized the music industry and touched the lives of all who heard them in deep and fundamental ways. Landing on these shores on February 7, 1964, they literally stood the world of pop culture on its head, setting the musical agenda for the remainder of the decade." 9-03
- John, Elton (RockHall.com)
"Elton John is among the most successful musical artists of the modern era. In terms of popularity, he ranks with Elvis Presley and the Beatles among rock and rollers. Moreover, his longevity as an active recording artist surpasses both of them. In 1992, he broke Presley's old record for the most consecutive years of Top 40 hits on Billboard's singles chart, having been a continual presence in every year since 'Your Song' debuted in December 1970." 9-03
- Taylor, James (RockHall.com)
"James Taylor was the pre-eminent singer/songwriter of the Seventies and has remained a solid musical craftsman and performer." 9-03
- Zappa, Frank (RockHall.com)
"Frank Zappa was rock and roll’s sharpest musical mind and most astute social critic. He was the most prolific composer of his age, and he bridged genres – rock, jazz, classical, avant-garde and even novelty music - with masterful ease. Under his own name and with the Mothers of Invention, Zappa recorded 60 albums’ worth of material in his 52 years." 9-03
- Lennon, John (RockHall.com)
"John Lennon didn't invent it rock and roll, nor did he embody it as toweringly as figures like Elvis Presley and Little Richard, but he did more than anyone else to shake it up, move it forward and instill it with a conscience. As the most daring and outspoken of the four Beatles, he helped shape the agenda of the Sixties - socially and politically, no less than musically. As a solo artist, he made music that alternately disturbed and soothed, provoked and sought community. As a human being, he served as an exemplar of honesty in his art and life. As Jann Wenner wrote in the foreword to a collection of writings entitled The Ballad of John and Yoko, 'Of the many things that will be long remembered about John Lennon - his genius as a musician and singer, his wit and literary swiftness, his social intuition and leadership - among the most haunting was the stark, unembarrassed commitment of his life, his work and his undernourished frame to truth, to peace and to humanity.' " 9-03
- Cole, Nat "King" (RockHall.com)
"Cole's drummerless trio was an innovation, and no less an authority than Count Basie marveled at their improvisational interplay: 'Those cats used to read each other's minds—it was unbelievable.' Early stirrings of rock and roll can be detected in such swinging, lingo-filled tunes as 'Straighten Up and Fly Right' and '(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66,' recorded in 1943 and 1946, respectively, by the King Cole Trio."
"The Fifties and Sixties found Cole recording with various orchestras, including Nelson Riddle's and Billy May's. While his work from this period shared little with the rock and roll revolution that was under way, Cole's broader influence on the idiom as a musical pioneer and as a popular star is undeniable." 9-03
- Gordy, Berry (RockHall.com)
"Berry Gordy founded and presided over the musical empire known as Motown. As a young black man working in often inhospitable times, Gordy endeavored to reach across the racial divide with music that could touch all people, regardless of the color of their skin. Under his tutelage, Motown became a model of black capitalism, pride and self-expression and a repository for some of the greatest talent ever assembled at one company."
"In its Sixties heyday, Motown's parade of hits revolutionized American popular music. After Motown, black poplar music would never again be dismissed as a minority taste. For more than a decade, Berry Gordy and his talented cohorts translated a black idiom into the Sound of Young America. Aesthetically no less than commercially, Motown's achievements will likely remain unrivaled and untoppable." 9-03
- 05-23-04 Videos Reveal Americans Bombed Iraqi Wedding (CBC News)
"The videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding party that survivors say was later attacked by U.S. planes early Wednesday, killing up to 45 people."
" 'There was no evidence of a wedding: no decorations, no musical instruments found, no large quantities of food or leftover servings one would expect from a wedding celebration,' Brig.-Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Saturday. 'There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too.' " "An AP reporter and photographer, who interviewed more than a dozen survivors a day after the bombing, were able to identify many of them on the wedding party video - which runs for several hours."
"Prominently displayed on the videotape was a stocky man with close-cropped hair playing an electric organ. Another tape, filmed a day later in Ramadi and obtained by APTN, showed the musician lying dead in a burial shroud - his face clearly visible and wearing the same tan shirt as he wore when he performed."
"[Brig.-Gen.] Kimmitt has denied finding evidence that any children died in the raid although a 'handful of women' - perhaps four to six - were 'caught up in the engagement.' "
"However, an AP reporter obtained names of at least 10 children who relatives said had died. Bodies of five of them were filmed by APTN when the survivors took them to Ramadi for burial Wednesday. Iraqi officials said at least 13 children were killed."
"Haleema Shihab, 32, one of the three wives of Rikad Nayef, said that as the first bombs fell, she grabbed her seven-month old son, Yousef, and clutching the hands of her five-year-old son, Hamza, started running. Her 15-year-old son, Ali, sprinted alongside her. They managed to run for several metres when she fell - her leg fractured."
" 'Hamza was yelling, 'mommy,' " Shihab recalled. 'Ali said he was hurt and that he was bleeding. That's the last time I heard him.' Then another shell fell and injured Shihab's left arm."
" 'Hamza fell from my hand and was gone. Only Yousef stayed in my arms. Ali had been hit and was killed. I couldn't go back,' she said from her hospital bed in Ramadi. Her arm was in a cast."
"She and her stepdaughter, Iqbal - who had caught up with her - hid in a bomb crater. 'We were bleeding from 3 a.m. until sunrise,' Shihab said."
"Soon American soldiers came. One of them kicked her to see if she was alive, she said."
" 'I pretended I was dead so he wouldn't kill me,' said Shihab. She said the soldier was laughing. When Yousef cried, the soldier said: 'No, stop,' said Shihab." 5-04
- 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
- Scales (Wikipedia.org)
Includes Bark scale, Beaufort scale, Fujita scale, Glasgow Coma Scale, Kardashev scale, Logarithmic scale, Mel scale, Mercalli Intensity Scale, Musical Scales, Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale, Pediatric Glasgow Coma Scale, Richter magnitude scale, Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, Scoville scale, Tanner stages, Time scale, Torino scale, and Volcanic Explosivity Index. 10-04
- 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
- 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
- -07-02-05 Millions Gather for Live 8 (CNN News)
"Millions were gathering at concert venues across the world Saturday for a massive musical effort to focus attention on global poverty." 7-05
- Ibrahim, Alex - Peace Through Music (MyHero.com)
"Alex is a leading member of the Peace Links Musical Youths, a group of young Sierra Leoneans who write and perform music that spreads a message of peace, tolerance and reconciliation throughout their country." 7-05
- Saturn's Rings Make Music (NewScientist.com)
"Saturn's magnificent ring system - a huge disc resembling an old gramophone record - turns out to share another property with the LP: it constantly emits a melodic series of musical notes." 9-05
- Lennon, John (Wikipedia.org)
"John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was best known as a singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist for the British rock band The Beatles. His creative career also included the roles of solo musician, political activist, artist, actor and author. As half of the legendary Lennon-McCartney songwriting team, he heavily influenced the development of rock music, leading it towards more serious and political messages."
"He is recognized as one of the greatest musical icons of the 20th century and many of his songs, such as 'Imagine' and 'Strawberry Fields Forever', are often ranked among the best songs in popular music history. In 2002, the BBC conducted a vote to discover the 100 Greatest Britons of all time, and the British public voted Lennon into 8th place." 12-05
- McCartney, Sir Paul (Wikipedia.org)
"Recognised as a top musical icon of the twentieth century, McCartney is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful composer in popular music history. He has a record twenty-nine US number one singles, twenty of them from the Beatles, the rest taken from Wings and his output as a solo artist. Combining his work with and without The Beatles, McCartney has written or co-written over 50 top ten hits, more than any other songwriter. McCartney has been an influential bassist as well as an accomplished singer, guitarist, pianist, and drummer."
"McCartney and John Lennon were the main songwriters in The Beatles, and many of McCartney’s compositions of this period, including 'Hey Jude', 'Eleanor Rigby,' 'Yesterday' and 'Let It Be', are frequently ranked among the best songs in popular music history." 12-05
- String Theory Basics (SuperStringTheory.com)
Includes the basics for understanding string theory. "Think of a guitar string that has been tuned by stretching the string under tension across the guitar. Depending on how the string is plucked and how much tension is in the string, different musical notes will be created by the string. These musical notes could be said to be excitation modes of that guitar string under tension."
"In a similar manner, in string theory, the elementary particles we observe in particle accelerators could be thought of as the 'musical notes' or excitation modes of elementary strings."
"But the number of string theories has also been shrinking in recent years, because string theorists are discovering that what they thought were completely different theories were in fact different ways of looking at the same theory!" 02-06
- 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
- Ryan, Bianca (Wikipedia.org)
"Bianca Taylor Ryan (born September 1, 1994) is an American singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who won the debut season of NBC's America's Got Talent. At age 11, the prodigy repeatedly performed to standing ovations from the studio audiences, and her finale appearance—singing "I Am Changing" from the Broadway musical Dreamgirls—prompted show judge (and onetime prodigy) Brandy to shake her head and proclaim that Ryan 'makes me want to go practice … that's how good you are.' [1]" 04-07
- -09-13-07 Super Scope to See Hidden Texts (BBC News)
"The hidden content in ancient works could be illuminated by a light source 10 billion times brighter than the Sun."
"The technique employs Britain's new facility, the Diamond synchrotron, and could be used on works such as the Dead Sea Scrolls or musical scores by Bach."
The method uses x-rays. 09-07
- Twelve-Tone Technique (Wikipedia.org)
"Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony and, especially in British usage, twelve-note composition) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music. All 12 notes are thus given more or less equal importance, and the music avoids being in a key. The technique was tremendously influential on composers in the mid-20th century." 10-07
- Cornale, Kayla - Music System for Children With Autism (Top20Under20.ca)
"Motivated to help her 9 year old cousin who has an autism spectrum disorder to learn to spell and read, Kayla Cornale invented "Sounds and SyllablesT", a teaching system which applies the musical component of 'pitch' to the process of learning language."
"Through extensive research, Kayla discovered that autistic children have an apparent talent for tone and pitch recognition." 12-07
- -Filtering Water With LifeStraw (Wall Street Journal)
The light blue straw with a resilient polystyrene shell looks like a child's musical recorder. When someone sucks through the straw, the water flows through textile and iodine filters, which kill off viruses and bacteria such as E. coli."
"The company says nongovernmental organizations and nonprofit agencies already have bought hundreds of thousands of the drinking tubes and are distributing them in countries with unsafe drinking water."
Awesome Library does not endorse these products but provides them as examples. 07-07
- Free Music (Pandora.com)
You provide the song or artist, and Pandora builds musical selections for you. 02-09
- Les Paul Tribute (CNN News)
Provides a musical tribute. 08-09
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