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
- History of Hip Hop
- As Hip Hop turns 30 some people on the Web are looking back at its history.
Here's another look -- Unofficial Hip Hop Timeline
and another - The History of Hip Hop
- The History of Rock 'n Roll Visual Timeline
- (Requires Shockwave)
- Hip Hop Timeline
- from the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington (Requires Flash 4 or better)
- Iskur's Guide to Electronic Music
- An excellent look at the styles and substyles/variations found in electronic music (Requires Flash)
- 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)
- The Symphony - An Interactive Guide
Have a music-related link that you'd like to share with the class? Send it to me
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