Welcome to the Music page

Music is one of those underappreciated courses in a school curriculum. Often it is the domain of a local hire, i.e. an underpaid woman who has a spouse working in the country in the private sector. But, music can be one of the selling points of a school. As a performance art, it gives a school a public face and a chance for parents to actually see their children doing something that they study. I mean, how many parents want to come spend an hour watching their child do long division or solve quadratic equations. Music education can also be used for cross-cultural education in ways that many other subject areas cannot. I will begin working on developing music links here although to be honest, I am having trouble finding good ones. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 Chant Links, is a great place to go if you want to find music and information on Gregorian chants. Lots of links here.

Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine, is an unusual site that is dedicated to vintage music from the years 1900-1939. If you enjoy music from this era, you need to check this site out. You'll need Real Audio to listen to the collection. Click here to get a sample.

 Epitonic Radio, isn't really a radio station like you would find around the world. It programs a wide variety of what it calls "cutting edge" music from a number of different genres. You can specify the number of songs you want Epitonic to program for you. There are a lot of MP3s to download, and they are all legal. This is a site that I just found, and I've found it fascinating. More on this later.

Free Music , is a site with a bunch of links for places to go to get free music to use on your website, podcast or video.

 The Internet Renaissance Band, has lots of midi format Renaissance music for downloading.

JazzRadio.com , is a site that offers jazz on the internet. You can get this for free or sign up and become a premium member. You'll find a wide range of jazz here from Sinatra to trumpet featured jazz to classical jazz and more. If you're teaching your students about jazz, this is a great resource.

 Links to music related websites from MusicGoals , has a huge set of links starting with software and music and going through various individual instruments and all sorts of other things. This definitely looks interesting.

 MENC: The National Association for Music Education, is a resource for music teachers. I haven't spent any time here, but it looks promising.

MetroLyrics, has the lyrics for over a million songs, and they are all legal to view. You can also check out photos of your favorite artists when looking up their lyrics.

Neverending Playlist, is a free site where you can listen to playlists of your favorite artists. Simple to use, just type in the name of the artist in the search box and a playlist appears with three controls: play, pause and skip. Cool to use, but this site requires a good internet connection to use. Plus, I have problems using this with Safari, but no problems with Chrome or Firefox.

 Public Domain Music, is a site which is a reference for identifying public domain songs and music, i.e., music that can be used royalty free. This is an excellent resource if you want to find some legally correct music.

 Royalty Free Music , offers a wide variety of royalty free music organized by genres.

 The Children's Music Web, is a charitable activity of Pickleberry Pie, Inc. This site has resources for performers, kids, teachers and parents. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet, but you probably should if you're a music teacher.

Top 10 Archive, is this cool site that has the top ten songs for each month from 1955 to 1985. You can listen to the songs in streaming mode or you can download them. This is a great way to recapture those golden days of your youth, or if you're young, you can see what Mom and Dad were listening to when they were young.

 World Music Network, is an interesting site. It's commercial and you can buy world music here, but if you are not into buying music online this site still is of interest. The site has a guide to world music where you can get information about different types of music found around the world - this part of the site is organized on a map so it's easy to find information (including videos) on the parts of the world that are of interest to you.

 Worldwide Internet Music Resources, is a group of links to music resources which include: Individual Musicians and Popular Groups; Composers and Compositions; Groups and Ensembles; Other Sites Related to Performance; Genres and Types of Music; Research and Study; Journals and Magazines; The Commerical World of Music; General. Each of these categories has many links. Interesting stuff here for the music person.