Great timeline with links to sample audio files from each time period.
Music Resources on the World Wide Web gathered by the Cleveland Schools of the Arts
The Education Index list of web sites about Music.
Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's the site for basic information about classical music. Created in cooperation with W.W. Norton & Company, it's built around Essential Classics, the series specially designed to introduce you to the best music of every period. All through the site you'll find almost 200 excerpts from Essential Classics. You'll also find: Overviews of the six main periods in music history -- Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century; brief biographies of nearly 70 composers, which will bring to life the artists and their works; and 200 definitions with numerous musical examples.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources from William and Gayle Cook Music Library Indiana University School of Music.
Valuable resources for music educators and students of all areas and educational levels
Children's Music Workshop presents Music Education On-Line. This page is designed to aid music educators, students and parents in connecting with a variety of music education resources located on the Internet as well as providing an interactive bulletin board for posting questions and comments on music.
ORC enhances teaching and learning by promoting standards-based best practices in mathematics, science, and reading for Ohio schools and universities. ORC serves as a trusted source of easily accessible, peer-reviewed, high-quality, and effective resources.
This is a web site in Finland from The Sibelius Academy, a conservatory in Helsinki and it provides a list of music sites that would rival a Vienna guidebook. It not only links you to jazz, blues, rock, and pop pages but covers famous composers, gospel, instruments, research, theory, and opera as well.
This project was created with the help of Northumberland County Music Service, whose multi-talented musicians can be seen and heard playing on these pages. On each page you can see photographs of an instrument and hear the sound it makes.