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This site allows the user to create interactive timelines to share on the web.  Many resources can be added to the timeline entries.  

Dipity is a free online timeline website. Students can create timelines for music history.

This musical timeline was designed by Google; It is based on what was bought and when through GooglePlay. You can explore the numerous genres and subgenera of music through this interactive timeline. Popular albums are also linked to each genre. What a great visual for students!

Dipity allows to create digital timelines gathering material from other online sources on a single interface.

This website is a great resource for K-5 music.  There are jokes, games, and information regarding famous composers, including recordings of famous pieces of music.  This can be used by a classroom of kids in a computer lab, or by a teacher for lesson planning.

Classics for Kids is a resources for teachers, parents, and children. It provides lesson plans, music games and interactive links, a podcast, tips for parents, and information about composers, instruments, and music history. The lesson plans (written by my former music education professor, Dr. Kay Edwards) are standards-based and incorporate elements of Orff, Kodaly, and Dalcroze.

This website is for elementary/general music education. It is a resources for lesson plans on composers, music theory, and music listening.

Pick a year and see what songs were popular.

A fun resource of music listening through the years. Simply click on a year and popular songs will appear with the ability to listen to them. A great way to compare the different years of music or simply use as a timeline function. 

A website created by the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz and designed for instructors. It offers lesson plans at no charge for 5th - 8th - 11th grade. Lessons examine jazz styles, performers, and composers. The website provides instructors with video and audio media, handouts and quizzes for students, and assessments.

Developed by The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Jazz in America provides jazz educators with many great resources, including lesson plans, curriculum ideas, and audio samples.

The purpose of Jazz in America is to educate middle and high school students on the history of Jazz, help students think creatively, and to develop an appreciation of jazz music. The musical content includes lesson plans, a timeline, glossary, important musicians, style sheets, and audio recordings to use in instruction.

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This site provides teachers and students with a rich history of jazz music. Teachers and students can find videos of jazz musicians, repertoire and resources for Jazz Appreciation Month and tips and tricks for teaching jazz concepts such as swing and improvisation.

Smithzonian Jazz has a vast resource of archives, recordings, timelines, lesson plans, and interactive resources support Jazz Education and Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM).

Musician's way is a website that is useful for both teachers and students alike. The website provides viewers with practice guides and tips, which are ideal for students, and workshops, which would be ideal for educators. Musician's Way is a companion website to the text of the same name written by Gerald Klickstein. The website also has resources for teachers who are looking for inspiration to bring more creativity into their classroom.

This is a supporting website for Gerald Klickstein's book, "The Musician's Way". Resources are organized by category, most of which contain additional reading/links on a topic like practice, creativity, and performance. Additionally, teachers/students can download practice documents for planning, timelines, and developing good practice habits as a musician.

This modest but interesting site traces the history of rock music by decade, from its roots in the African American Rhythm and Blues to the grunge craze of the 1990s. Along the way, readers can glean interesting tidbits (did you know that the term "rock and roll" was coined by Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed?) from well-constructed essays, and view classic photos of rockers across the generations.

For my History of Rock and Roll class! This is a great website with a detailed timeline of Rock music. This can be easy to add to the classroom or give to the students for resources. 

This website is a great source if you are wanting to learn more about Rock n' Roll music, especially when teaching it. The specific content relates to teaching music history, specifically American music history.

Songfacts is a website that enables educators and students to learn the historical background of artists and their songs. There is a search engine that allows for an easy look-up of any artist, and accompanying this search is a timeline of major events, a brief history of the artist's life, and insight that the general public may not know about the artist. There is also research and insight about individual songs that the artist released or collaborated on. Songfacts can be a great resource to give more context about music that students are learning to in and out of class. It can engage students in listening to music more actively if they are intrigued about the artist's life, struggles, achievements, vision, and motivation for creation.

A software tool to create visual 'bubble' maps representing the musical form of user provided audio files in mp3, wav, or m4a formats. This is the software that I reviewed for Module 5, and it just works for the purpose it was created. Educational and at the same time just plain fun to play around with!

Classics For Kids is a great website with fun activities and music resources for use in the classroom. Each month, they feature a different composer and provide activities, handouts, and listening maps that help students learn about various topics in classical music history. There are also online games for kids and lesson plans for teachers.

Classics for Kids is a website that is full of information about classical music for kids/students. It includes links to learn about various composers, listening examples, activities, games and quizzes about music. There are lesson plans also available for teachers, and a parent information link is also available. This is a great site for introducing students to the genre of classical music.

Site for a plethora of music information, games, activities, downloads, broadcasts, listening, all relating to music education.

This website has profiles for several baroque, classical, romantic and 20th century composers. Each page seems easy to ready, and has video links as well as links to sources.

This website works as a database for many famous composers. Students can use this website to complete music history projects as well as composer projects. Composers are organized by country or by period.

The purpose of this website is to portray the artwork of the creator. With the posted artwork are description of the composers available the site. This website would be a useful resource for history facts about composers form multiple musical periods. The website also offers information about prominent and lesser known composers from several countries. YouTube inks are often provided for a listening example of each composer's work.

After using this website for a graduate level course in American Vernacular Music History, I was really impressed with it's use for educators. Organize music history in a timeline view to allow students to click and learn more on their own.

This is the companion website to textbook for the Technology Assisted Music Learning class. It includes information about current online resources, lesson plans and many other ways to use technology in the music classroom.

The purpose of this site is to provide a companion website for use with the book "Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music." This bookmark is useful as a quick access to reference material pertinent to our use of technology in the classroom as well as in the MUE6696 course.

This is a website from PBS that chronicles the evolution of music recording from the phonograph to iTunes. As you read through the different stages of music production, there are interesting facets of information regarding the progression of copyright laws.

This is a great listening resource to use with our students. It includes playlists and collections of recordings, historical and biographical information on composers and classical music, and midi recordings of sheet music.

This is a subscription-based website (free to join) that contains over 30,000 classical music files by various composers in MIDI, MP3, or WMA streaming file formats. You can download up to 5 songs per day, and it also contains biographies and historical timelines.

A companion website to HyperHistory Online, this website contains recordings of classical pieces that can be easily accessed. It can be searched by time period or composer. A handy resource if covering a music history unit.