This University of Pittsburgh site provides a wealth of information about American songwriter Stephen Foster. This link discusses his professional career with various other links within the text about minstrel shows, etc. Return to the...

See images and find out about the original sheet music from the early 1900's. Famous songs such as "Dapper Dan", "Down the River", and more. You can search for music by title or author.

This site includes 14 activities which explore how math and music are related. Great exercise opportunity for any student to sharpen their math and musical skills.

This online quiz is a fantastic tool to check your knowledge of intervals. Keeps score, and can be customized to fit specific lessons (augmented intervals, diminished intervals, double accidentals.)

If you are interested in arranging your own music, you should check out the tips offered at this website. Including a history of how music was arranged, this site also gives several good ideas of how to make your arrangements interesting.

Counting the number of beats in a common folk song, the students will use composition and classroom instruments to discover different combinations for accompaniment.

In this lesson, students will create a rhythmic composition using cups to demonstrate understanding and identification of various sounds. Musical skills addressed include improvising, composing, listening, and playing.

A complete, undergraduate level online course on music composition with computers. Includes all course material, projects, assignments, and exams with solutions.

A complete, undergraduate level online class on the topic of modern music in the 1900s. Includes exams.

Alan Belkin provides four of his pedagogical booklets about composing music. They discuss fundamental principles of musical composition, counterpoint, orchestration, and harmony. and provide guidance to student composers.

Young music students rarely see or, better still, hear a connection between the different types of scales, modes, intervals and other compositional techniques such as meter, tonality, and form used in both traditional 'Art' music and...

This site is an effective and fun way to help children understand music better. There are several online interactive games to play to better understand rhythm, pitch, scales and much more.

Here is an excellent site that allows you to print your own music paper. The great feature of this site is that you can also create your own customized version of music paper to better suit your needs.

Composing your own music is just a click away with this blank music paper. Several templates are available to help you quickly begin composing. Simply select the one you would like and print out as many copies as you need.

Quite a bit of biographical information here at Music Web, a very complete listing of his compositions, and a good list of recordings as well.

In this interactive you will compose your own music in 4/4 time. Hit play to hear to hear your song then send it to your friends!

A brief site on the advent of technology changing how music is written (and by whom) forever. One bad point is that for most of the links to work, you have to figure out for yourself where they go and type it in.

Musink Lite is a 'free' music-composition software package for Windows, that lets you write music at unprecedented speeds. Musink lets you create anything from orchestral scores to short-musical-snippets, to exercise books. Musink will...

A music theory worksheet species counterpoint. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].

A music theory worksheet regarding species counterpoint. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].

A music theory worksheet regarding species counterpoint and melody. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].

A music theory worksheet regarding species counterpoint. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].

A music theory worksheet regarding species counterpoint. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].

A music theory worksheet regarding species counterpoint. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].