Interesting Links
- • All Music Guide
- A good place to get information about artists and music styles
- • BBC Guide to the Orchestra
- Would you expect to find a saxophone in an orchestra? Or, are composers using synthesizers with orchestras? Find out here
- • Billboard.com -- Singles Charts and Album Charts
- Billboard Magazine Web site. Check the Chart Rewind links on the Charts pages to see which artists on the charts 5, 10 or 15 years ago are still popular today.
- • The Blues
- PBS Series Web site
- • Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures
- (requires Flash 5 or better)
- • Electronic Music Interactive
- Some advanced material on how electronic music is created (Requires Shockwave)
- • Encyclopedia of Popular Music
- Online information about many popular music styles
- • Grove's Music Online
- Excellent online music resource. Accessible only from campus computers
- • Hip Hop Timeline
- from the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington (Requires Flash 4 or better)
- • History of Hip Hop (Hip Hop turned 30 in 2004)
- Here's another look -- Unofficial Hip Hop Timeline and another - The History of Hip Hop
- • Hip Hop Culture
- Article at Wikipedia about the various elements of the culture
- • The History of Rock 'n Roll Visual Timeline
- (Requires Shockwave)
- • Iskur's Guide to Electronic Music
- An excellent look at the styles and substyles/variations found in electronic music (Requires Flash)
- • James Brown
- Find out more about the "Godfather of Soul"
- • JAZZ. A Film By Ken Burns
- PBS series Web site. Make sure you visit the Jazz Lounge
- • Music and Music History 102
- at the Internet Public Library
- • Music
- Article at Wikipedia
- • Rock and Roll
- Article at Wikipedia covering the origin and history of the style and its substyles
- • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Greatest Hits
- from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Results of poll conducted Summer 2000)
- • Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
- from an article published in 2003
- • Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
- from an article published in 2004
- • The Symphony - An Interactive Guide
- created by two students from Australia for a 1998 ThinkQuest Internet Challenge
Have a music-related link that you'd like to share with the class? Send it to me