this site provides a list of links to resources on the arts of many areas in Africa, South America, and Asia. Most of these include photos, information, and links on visual arts, theatre, and dance, in addition to music.

Gallery of Indonesian Songs

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1823/fr-anak.htm

this site offers listings of children’s songs, popular songs, national songs, and folk songs from Indonesia. Lyrics appear on the screen while MIDI files provide melody and accompaniments. It is a challenge to fit the Indonesian words with the melodies, but after several listening, it can be done.

Bali and Beyond

http://www.pacificnet.net/gamelan

found on this site are colorful pictures and detailed descriptions of Balinese and Javanese gamelan, shadow puppet theatre, and Balinese dance.

Singing

Index of Children’s Songs

http://www.danmansmusic.com/childrens

this listing of 16 children’s songs includes many nursery rhymes. There is no notation for the melodies, but texts and chord symbols are offered.

Kit Eakle’s Virtual Music Classroom

http://cnet.unb.ca/achn/kodaly/koteach/resources/toc.html

it offers students an opportunity to learn songs from the Internet. Sound recordings and notation are provided, together with suggested activities, such as a dance and the exploration of variations using changing dynamics, tempi, and other elements.

Midi’s for Kiddies: Songs for Children

http://www.concentric.net/~Gamba

it offers an extensive collections of songs classified by topic, such as “Autumn songs,” “Earth Day songs,” and “Winter Holidays.” A few include notation for Orff accompaniments.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias in Music

Music History 102

http://www.ipl.org/exhibit

this portion of the Internet Public Library contains one-paragraph overviews of historical periods of Western art music, illustrated with artwork from each period. For major composers, whose names are highlighted, there are links that provide photos and brief biographies.

Electronic Music Dictionary

http://www.unm.edu/~loritaf/pnorefsh.html#1Dictionary

this site presents a concise list of Italian terms used for tempo, dynamics, and articulations, with one-word English translations.

Glossary of Musical Forms

http://www.unm.edu/~loritaf/pnorefsh.html#Glossary

consists of a relatively short list of common musical forms with concise definitions.

Glossary of Musical Terms

http://www.hnh.com/mgloss.htm

it offers an extensive glossary of terms associated with classical music. Some have links to composers’ pages that provide either more details or descriptions of ways in which composers used the defined term in their music

Musical Categories

http://www.hnh.com/intro.htm#categories

As part of a broader “Introduction to Classical Music,” this site provides a brief description of classical genres such as orchestra music, keyboard music, chamber music, theatre music, and so forth.

Musical Instruments

http://www.hnh.com/intro.htm#instruments

as part of “Introduction to Classical Music,” this site offers a verbal description of instrument families and individual instruments. No pictures or sound samples are included, but the descriptions are detailed and accurate.

MusicNet Encyclopedia

http://tqd.advanced.org/3306/cqi-bin/encyclopedia/encyclopedia.cqi

an alphabetical list of terms, composers, musical styles, and forms, this resource’s definitions and descriptions have been written by middle school students.

Courses

COE 502 Dr.'Krus's Visual Statistic World http://www.public.asu.edu/~pythagor

MUE 792 Historcial Research - MENC Founders' Project

http://www.public.asu.edu/~aajth/history/index.html

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