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Includes chronology, extensive biographies of obscure musicians, MIDI files, discography, bibliography, and resources.
http://www.iawm.org/
Birth and death dates of composers and performers; first performances of famous works.
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Search CLASSICALmanac, Today in CLASSICAL music SEARCH Subscribe to discussion group MUSICLASSICAList: Powered by groups.yahoo.com This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here. You can use the CLASSICALmanac Search Engine for a specific entry...An annotated bibliography of musical compositions related to chess.
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John Greschak Connections between Music and Chess This is a list of pieces of music that are related in some way to the game of chess. There is no doubt that many of the pieces listed here...Graphic timeline: typical musical forms and styles, major composers, sample MIDI files
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Prapun's Homepage ...Early Western and traditional non-Western music: Recording suggestions, discussion, articlesl links.
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Medieval Music Arts Foundation Welcome! Welcome online resources since 1991; more than four million pages viewed during each of 2002 through 2005; no unwelcome advertising Index of sub-sites: Early Music FAQ World Traditional Music T....Brief, tongue-in-cheek discussion of musical forms.
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Music Styles Having email delivery issues? Please see Home Page. Subscribe to Incompetech's Music Newsletter For alerts on tracks, loops, and writings. More Info Music Styles If you are unsure of what...Daily listing of what happened on this day; extensive introductory tutorial on music notation. (CD sales: affiliate)
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This Day in Music History: Monday, October 24, 2005 Lee topped the charts and stayed there for a week 1960)Today the song Bad by Michael Jackson topped the charts and stayed there for 2 weeks 1987)Today the song The...Extensive hypertext article by David Courtney.
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Indian Music India is one of the oldest unbroken musical traditions in the world. It is said that the origins of this system go back to the Vedas (ancient scripts of the...A brief history of Czech music, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century; Biographies and work of important composers. (Radio Hudba, Czech Republic)
http://www.radio.cz/hudba/indexeng.html
(from 1988 to current)
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Subscribe to musiclassicalist Powered by groups.yahoo.com CDnews-BOOKnews-DVDnews from Library Previews.com AIMusic.org Independent Music Directories Young New Artists we may have missed also see: aMUSIClassical directory Click to View List Entries...(Sung by church and chapel "bands" in the UK in the 18th and 19th centuries) Includes articles, sample scores and MIDI files, links, and organizations.
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Gallery Music: Home Music made its debut on the web in January 1995, hosted on one of the servers at the UK's Open University. In those days, everything was hand-coded Much of the...Articles and links about the entry of Jews into the musical professions in Europe in the early nineteenth century.
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Jewry in Music Jews into the musical professions in the period 1780-1850 more) site last revised 21-Jul-05 Read my music reviews at Please note: all written materials on this site are copyright David...Brief overview and biographical notes about conductors and performers in the classical tradition.
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Black History Classical Music History is part of the common record of humanity. It proves that people of African heritage have made enduring contributions to society throughout history. Classical music has been enriched by...Basics about the major periods of classical (art) music, with terms, composers, RAM audio examples, and purchase links. From Essentials of Music, sponsored by Sony Classical and W. W. Norton.
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Essentials of Music Eras Musical works and their composers are usually described as belonging to a specific era: Bach wrote Baroque music, for example, while Chopin was a Romantic composer. These terms serve as...Includes annotated texts about American history, from Revolutionary War songs to 1960's anti-war protests.
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History in Song The terrible beauty of the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, 1945.Welcome to my History in Song Pages. This site was first launched on Oct 20, 1997 and will remain...Describes a project by the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress to convert important collections of historical recordings to modern formats.
http://www.saveoursounds.com
Outlines and timelines on various topics in music history from the Middle Ages to the present.
http://www.geocities.com/papandrew/
Information from Smithsonian Institute about the native Mexican folk music tradition. Includes a graphical timeline, music samples, videos, guides and background material for teachers.
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Corridos sin Fronteras A traveling exhibition and educational web sitecelebrating the narrative songs known as corridos. What you'll need:Flash 5+ plug-in5.0+ browserSpeakers headphones If you see the animation youhave the Flash plug-in. If...