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This free site includes an on-line orchestration course and a free jazz arranging course. There are sample music libraries, a virtual instrument forum, Linux Audio and music discussions related to sound software and open source initiatives, a virtual piano forum, and many more topics for students and teachers.

I really like the composer-related activities, especially when they related to recorder. I think that many times, students (and parents and classroom teachers) don't view the recorder as a real instrument. I think this is a great way to show them that they can play along with famous classical melodies. 

Brought to you by Teachers Pay Teachers, this resource revolves around music history and middle school students studying composers. At only $5, it provides a 2 week interactive unit on composers and includes project guidelines, composer lists (baroque, classical and romantic composers), rubrics, and more.

Purpose of this resource: Chordify is a useful website for determining the chord progressions of almost any song. Musical Content: Chordify allows users to upload or link to recordings and analyze the chord structure. This works for all genres, including classical music. The chords are displayed in text form, and you can follow the chord changes through the piece while your original file plays. Other information: When using Chordify, educators should double-check the chords. Files with extra sounds (such as applause) can cause the program to add extraneous chords, and suspensions/inversions are not written out. This resource is still helpful for score analysis, and even for choral directors with limited keyboard proficiency. Chord changes can be written in to concert music to allow for a simpler harmonic accompaniment when teaching.

Naxos is a resource of over 1 million recordings in myriad genres. It requires a subscription but would be an excellent investment for a school library (other non-music classes could take advantage of it). Files a flash streamed and one does not need any special software to make use of this site.

Naxos is a Music Library full of wonderful recordings of music. It is the largest classical music publisher for CD's and has a variety of current recordings of new music as well as many old favorites. This is a must have resources for schools and other music professionals.

Pandora radio offers free customized radio stations that play songs relating to certain genres or artists. Listening is essential for musical development and understanding.  Students can access everything from jazz and classical, to Latin and opera.  

A great group that covers a lot of contemporary songs, often creating mash ups with Western classical pieces. Don't be fooled! They play piano and cello and sometimes sing.

Choralia offers part rehearsal tracks for a wide selection of choral repertoire. Most of it is Baroque/Classical/Romantic era rep, but there is a good selection of newer works as well (Gjeilo, Lauridsen, Rutter). Sound quality is a little funky, but they do the job.

What a great resource site for music recordings! Our student computers block YouTube, thus this site will be great for my students who wish to research and listen to new music. Currently, a second grade "reading" group will be writing biographies of composers, and I want them to be able to listen to their compositions.

This website offers free music streams and downloads. This is all royalty free music which makes the streams and downloads completely legal and free. The site allows you to search by composer, performer, period, form, and numerous other ways.

A great resource for obtaining recordings of your favorite classical composers. All music is royalty free and can be used in the classroom. Also, the recordings are organized by composer, performer, instrument, form and time period

The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Kids website is a fun interactive website for students that allows for students to discover, listen, play, perform, conduct, and compose music through interactive activities and games.

Games, lessons, and information about classical and orchestral music for kids made available through the San Fransisco Symphony. Resources for teachers, parents, and students are also available. It is a flashed based platform so it may not work on some systems.

With the popularity of the movie "Amadeus", there is a bit of misconception about the famous classical composer. This academic blogpost does a fair amount to parse fact from fiction, and can be a nice supplemental resource for music history syllabi.

Audiotool is a wonderful resource that allows the modern musician to have an old-school audio studio at their fingertips. It even includes digital representations of classic synthesizers, as well as a number of tracks to use in mixing one's own creation. It can also be used with a MIDI keyboard. It might prove useful for contemporary, "other 80%"-style music courses.

This is an interesting website that provides interactive media of famous pieces along with a finale download of the corresponding score.  A great tool to show students specific areas in a score!

This is an interesting website that provides interactive media of famous pieces along with a finale download of the corresponding score.  A great tool to show students specific areas in a score!

This website is a great resource to supplement the teaching of Thematic classical pieces. The website is in German but it contains English translations of all materials.

Thoughtco.com/music has many articles pertaining to many different genres and styles of music. It has anything from, pop, country, and hip hop, to world music, classical, Latin, and punk. It also has a music education section that has lesson plans, articles on music history, theory, instrument care, and instruction. This would be a great resource for students to research topics in music.

This website is complete with a composer gallery that is somewhat similar encyclopedia entries. Students may find this useful when completing research projects or learning about specific composers.

This site offers an in depth look at music history. It allows you to "explore the music" by composer, history, musical scores, staff picks and even musical technique.

This site offers an in depth look at music history. It allows you to "explore the music" by composer, history, musical scores, staff picks and even musical technique.

This is a website companion to the keeping score series from the San Francisco Symphony. It provides great resources on the various pieces of classical music and their composers. Great resource for music history and appreciation.

PBS Kids' Chuck Vanderchuck is an amazing tool for teaching music genre and history. My students love it and ask for it year after year.

Chuck Vanderchuck is a fantastic resource for teaching students about different genres found in music (not just classical!). Kids love the different sounds that genre-based instruments make, fun catch phrases that Chuck repeats throughout the site, and different historical facts about how each genre originated. Students are invited to move to music, arrange their own combos with different instruments, and engage in memory games to help them learn the content provided.

This website allows students to experiment with different genres of music. It gives students a chance to have their own "jam session."

The Studio Jams youtube channel is a promo channel for the line of Studio Jams DVDS, but is filled with many modern covers of classic tunes, all played by professional musicians in a professional studio. A great resource for examples of jazz/fusion musicians really plying their craft.

Descriptions of various fiddle styles from around the world: Irish, Scottish, Bluegrass - as well as lesser known ones, such as Irish, Balkan, Chinese. Useful to showing the violin being used in other countries, and other forms of music than only classical.