Music History Websites

Music History 102 from the Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/  

Contents to Guide to Western Composers and their Music
Designed, compiled and created by Robert Sherrane, Cataloging librarian, The Juilliard School, New York

• The Middle Ages

• The Renaissance

• The Baroque Age

• The Classical Period

• The Romantic Era

• The Twentieth Century

This is a fantastic music and art history course online.  You can view masterpieces and listen to the music of each era.  

• An additional music subject menu of links is included - http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum20.60.00/ 
• The arts subject menu provides you with additional choices - http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum20.00.00/ 

More History Websites

• Music History Resources - http://www.satellite-one.net/musicology/ 
• Music History Timeline - http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0151192.html
• Classical Music History Timeline -Chicago Symphony -  http://www.cso.org/intro_timeline.taf

• Sony Essentials of Music - http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/ (Eras, Composers, Glossary)
• Stylistic Timeline of Music History - http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/index.html?styletimeline.html 
• Music History - http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/history/music-history.htm 
• Classical Music Timeline - The Classical Music Beat - http://music.searchbeat.com/composer.htm 
• The Symphony: an Interactive Guide - http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/ 
• Sojourn - The Canons and Fugues of Bach (with movies of scores for serious musicians) - http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/bachindex.html 
• Church History Timeline - Western History Timelines Course - http://www.textweek.com/timelines.htm 
  • Music Timeline - http://www.textweek.com/musicline.htm
  • Illustrations - http://www.textweek.com/musicpics.htm 
• World History Timeline - http://www.worldhistory-poster.com/en/index_en.html 
• Classical Works Timeline - http://www.classicalworks.com/his.pages/timeline.html 
• Rock and Roll Timeline - http://www3.sympatico.ca/gary.lessard/timeline.htm
• Music History - http://www.lib.washington.edu/Music/mushist.html 
• Smithsonian National Museum 
  • Encyclopedia http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/music.htm 
  • American Music Timeline - http://americanhistory.si.edu/timeline/
• 120 Years of Electronic Music - http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/

MENC Index - http://www.menc.org/siteindex.html

• PBS Smithsonian River of Song - http://www.pbs.org/riverofsong/ 
• Opera - http://www.menc.org/guides/opera/opfront.html 
• VH1 Music Studio - http://www.vh1musicstudio.com/rtf.html 
• Native American Indian - http://www.menc.org/guides/nahm/NAHMfront.html 

• Hispanic Heritage - http://www.menc.org/guides/nahm/NAHMfront.html 

Town4Kids - Music4Kids Website

• Music4Kids Site  - http://www.town4kids.com/town4kids/kids/music4kids/musicfront.htm
• Great Composers - http://www.town4kids.com/town4kids/kids/music4kids/composers/introduction.htm 
• Orchestra Instruments - http://www.town4kids.com/town4kids/kids/music4kids/orchestra/symphony/symphony.htm

• World Instruments - http://www.town4kids.com/town4kids/kids/music4kids/world/worldmap.htm 

Musical Instruments

• Museum of Musical Instruments (MoMI) - offers users a virtual museum in which to examine, explore, and experience examples of 19th and 20th century guitars and other instruments.
• Instrument Encyclopedia - http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/ 
• Alphorn
• Drum Encyclopedia
• Drums and Percussion Page
• Mark Shepherd's Flute Page:Tips on How to Play & Make Flutes
• Flute History Timeline - http://www.flutehistory.com/Timelines/index.php3 
• Trombone Site - http://www.trombone-usa.com/ 
• International Saxophone Page
• Theremin Playing Techniques
• Trombone Page of the World
• Trumpet Player's International Network
• Clarement Colleges - Kenneth G. Fiske Museum - houses one of the most diverse collections of musical instruments in the United States, containing over 1,400 American, European and ethnic instruments dating from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.
• Finchcocks Living Museum of Music - historical keyboard instruments, mainly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with early pianos making up the main body.
• International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections - a committee of ICOM, the International Council of Museums.
• Museo del Organito Argentino - dedicated to the history of the barrel organ in Buenos Aires and throughout Argentina.
• Museum of Popular Instruments - collection of Greek popular musical instruments dating from the 18th century to the present day.
• Museum of Musical Instruments - http://www.themomi.org/museum/index2.html

• Hammered Dulcimer Web - http://www.rtpnet.org/~hdweb/ 

Ethnic Instruments

• Ethnic Instruments - http://www.paganmusic.com/instruments.htm 
• The Didgeridoo Homepage
• Phil Thornton and Ethnic Instruments - http://www.expandibubble.demon.co.uk/ethnic.html 
• Tribalsosundz - http://tribalsoundz.com/ 
• Imported Ethnic Instruments - http://www.catamuse.com/imetin1.html 
• Asian Instruments - http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/nso/asian/culture/instrum.html
• South Asian Instruments - http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~morelli/hoop.html 
• Asian Instruments - http://www.digipark.co.jp/ubuman/Ethnc.htm
• Cultural Connections - Artsedge - http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/nso/asian/culture/culture.html 
• African Musical Instruments - http://www.town4kids.com/town4kids/kids/music4kids/world/sea/angklung.htm

Early Instruments 

• University of South Dakota - Shrine to Music Museum - Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments. The collections include more than 6,000 American, European, and ethnographic musical instruments.
• Early Instruments - http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html - 
• Lutes in Arto Wikla's Music Page
• Pipe Organs and Related Topics
• Museum of Music - collection of musical instruments from the Renaissance to modern times.
• Recorder Home Page
• Books and Articles on Historical Flutes (Folkers & Powell)
• Viola da Gamba Society of America
• Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) - unique collection of musical instruments and an exhaustive panorama of ancient, modern, and traditional music.
• Musikhistorisk Museum - collection of European historical instruments, traditional instruments from Europe, Asia, and Africa, and library and archives.
• Musikmuseum - exhibit of over 650 instruments with musical samples and an interactive information system.
• Musée des Instruments a Vent - founded in 1888 by the instrument workers of La Couture-Boussey to conserve all the woodwind instruments as well as the parts, the primary materials, and the tools used.
• Oxford University - Bate Collection of Musical Instruments - collection of historical woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments.
• Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments - collection principally contains those stringed keyboard instruments which are the precursors of the piano.
• Museum of Music History - Hungary - http://www.zti.hu/museum.htm 
• Traditions and Musical Instruments of the Francophonie
• Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum - documents, preserves, and promotes the history of the ukulele, its players and makers as well as to inspire and engage people everywhere in the perpetuation of the ukulele and ukulele music through performances and exhibits.
• Vassar College - The Treasure Room - historical musical instrument collection.

Copyright 2003 by Carla Piper, Ed. D.