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Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy (1862-1918 CE), a famous French composer/musician, went to school to study piano, but failed. This resource describes how he was able to still become a famous composer. Also learn more about his life and his works. Use...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Music for Kids: Famous Pianists
A site showing some of the worlds greatest piano players ever. Learn about famous pianist from all genres of music.
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LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Tale in Orange [Pdf]
A tale about autumn. The third of a series: Marianna loves orange color -and everything with orange color (oranges, carrots etc)- and with a magic turn of events she finds herself in Portokalia. A strange land where pianos write...
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Antonin Dvorak
When Dvorak's father sent him away to learn German, he also learned piano, organ, and viola. Listen to this composer's work using RealAudio or Windows Media Player. Use this site to learn more about Antonin Dvorak's (1841-1904 CE) life...
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Camille Saint Saens
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921 CE) started playing piano quite early in his life. He gave his first public performance when he was just five-years-old. Read more about this French composer and listen to his work using RealAudio or...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Modern Jazz Quartet (Mjq)
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ), an American musical ensemble noted for delicate percussion sonorities, innovations in jazz forms, and consistently high-performance standards sustained over a...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: James P. Johnson
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features James P. Johnson, a highly influential black American jazz pianist who also wrote popular songs and composed classical works. A founder of the stride piano idiom, he was a crucial figure...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Bobby Short
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Bobby Short, an American cabaret singer and piano player who in his personal and performance style came to represent a sophistication and elegance typical of an earlier era.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Little Brother Montgomery
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Little Brother Montgomery, a major African-American blues artist who was also an outstanding jazz pianist and vocalist. He cowrote "The Forty-Fours," a complex composition for piano that...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: August Wilson
Read about the life of African-American playwright, August Wilson, author of a cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about black American life. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Fences (1986) and The Piano Lesson...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Shirley Horn
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Shirley Horn, an American jazz artist whose ballads, sung in a breathy contralto to her own piano accompaniment, earned her both critical acclaim and popular renown. This site, rich in...
Scott Alexander
The Red Hot Jazz Archive: James Fletcher Henderson
Biography, discography, suggested reading, and links to Fletcher Henderson's contemporaries.
PBS
Classics for Kids: Musical Instruments
An A-to-Z directory of all the instruments and tools of the orchestra. Each entry includes a description, a picture, and a sound sample.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Inventors & Inventions From the 1700s
Use this site to learn more about early inventors and inventions from the 18th century. This web page offers text and images on various inventors and their inventions. You can also access information about inventors and inventions from...
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Listening Library
At this resource listen to a selection of audio clips that feature the works of a full range of composers and a full orchestra of instruments. Scroll down an alphabetical list to find the composer or instrument you want, then choose the...
Then Again
Then Again: Web Chron: Frederick Chopin
This site from the North Park University provides a brief biographical sketch of pianist Frederick Chopin describes briefly the Polish nationalist themes in his compositions.
PBS
American Experience: Technology Timeline: 1752 1990
Short descriptions of important technological innovations produced in America and the date of their introduction.
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Instrument Encyclopedia: Bassoon
This essay provides general and historical information on the woodwind instrument, the bassoon, which is a "larger and lower-voiced version of the oboe." Included are references to famous musicians who worked with the bassoon and several...
Other
Sound Feelings: Ten Amazing Free Sight Reading Tips
Although designed for the pianist, perhaps anyone could benefit from these practical self-reading tips.
University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Instrument Encyclopedia: Clarinet
This article, providing general information on the clarinet -- "a very popular woodwind instrument which originated in Islamic and Asian countries" -- includes an image of a clarinet, several references for reading and research, and a...
Other
Tone Savvy: E Music Theory
This site provides good online learning games and exercises for music theory. It also has a lot of options for teachers if they choose to subscribe.
Other
Sight Reading Techniques
This site features a few short essays about how to sight read more effectively.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Art of the Stamp: Thelonious Monk
View the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1995 to commemorate Thelonious monk, one of the founders of modern jazz. With a short biographical passage.
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