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• America's Shrine to Virtual Music Museum Take a virtual tour of musical instruments from around the world.
• CHICO's Music Heritage Network (MHN) is a dynamic community of educators, musicians, students, and anyone interested in multimedia use and cultural studies. MHN is committed to providing online multicultural resources designed for curriculum development. Currently, this site features sound, text and visual material. Although created with K-12 classes in mind, everyone can enjoy intriguing sights and sounds from around the world.
• Datadragon/Music Education  Learn about instruments, how to read music, various music genres and composers, and trivia from this date in music history. A well-organized site with well-presented information.
• Energy in the Air Sounds from the Orchestra. This site designed for ThinkQuest provides excellent information about the various instruments in the orchestra as well as several sound files of classical music demonstrating performances of the instruments. A discussion of how sound is made is included with diagrams of sound waves and some simple sound experiments.
• Gary Ewer's Music Theory Site offers a wealth of music resources including free online music theory classes with activities and quizzes, a glossary of music terms, composition paper to print out, and other features. Mr. Ewer is a high school music teacher, composer, and conductor.
• Heart and Soul A Celebration of African American Music This web site provides easy to read information about the different styles of African American music, music clips for each style, and a list of related and useful web sites.
• Learn about Instruments A simple web site that can be used by young students. Click on the links to learn about and hear different instruments (click on the picture of the instrument). Other topics include learning to read music, and what happened on this day in musical history.
• The Mississippi River Of Song A Smithsonian Institution series for public television and radio that explores the richness and vitality of American music at the close of the twentieth century. Although it was originally aired in 1999, you can purchase the videos or the complete multimedia pack from the PBS store. A terrific way to integrate the arts, music, and geography into your curriculum! The site provides a teacher guide and plenty of activities.
• Mudcat Café Make your own Instruments.
• Music Education Center provides teachers and students with a concise site to visit topics from the history of music to manuscript paper for composing.
• Music Education Launch Site An Internet community for music educators. The Music Education Launch Site has been a valuable source of information, services and resources for thousand of music educators all over the world for over almost 7 years.
• Music Education Resource Links An extensive well-arranged list of music resource links, including curriculum resources for each of the nine national content standards as outlined by the National Standards for Art Education.
• Musical Instrument Encyclopedia Currently lists 22 instruments with pictures, a short description of and history of the instrument and a sample of music for each. The download times are very fast (only a few seconds)!
• Music is... A site that helps you explore the value of music in education
• Nine Easy to Make Musical Instruments for Preschool Kids. Start a band! Make your own instruments out of basic items and create your own songs.
• Notation Station Allows you to notate music, arrange a song for different instruments, play back or
  record it at any stage, and share your composition with others.
• The Science of Sound and Musical Instruments The Science of Sound and Musical Instruments from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Have fun exploring sound with your students. The site provides background on the components of sound, sound waves, the ear and hearing, and hands-on lesson plan ideas that explore these concepts.
• Sing Alongs National Institute of Environmental Health Kids Pages has hundreds of children's songs, most with lyrics that have an appropriate educational message, are upbeat, inspirational, motivational, and related to the environment, health, science or other subjects. Some songs have links to related web pages about the topic in the song.
• The World of Music Listen to Instruments. Links to Other Music Sites.

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