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Canadian Content: Famous Musicians

For Students 9th - 10th
Featured is a list of well known Canadian musicians with brief biographies included.
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Afro Disc: Africa Music Reviews

For Students 9th - 10th
A radio host talks about new music from West Africa. While profiling four popular artists, the substance in this site describes the flavor of the popular music.
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Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar: Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar

For Students 9th - 10th
Homepage for a website dedicated to those who play fingerstyle guitar. Includes links to related essays, tablature, books, videos, and audio clips.
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Personal Site: David Seville and the Chipmunks

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site provides information on the creator of Dave Seville and the Chipmunks, Ross Bagdasarian, and how he started The Chipmunks.
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Arranger/stylists Who Made Contributions

For Students 9th - 10th
This large site offers biographical and professional information on such arrangers as Percy Faith and Andre Kostelanetz.
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Zuckermann Harpsichords International

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Zuckermann Harpsichords contains a wide variety of harpsichords with descriptions and images, as well as specific information on materials and how they are assembled.
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Soldiers' Songs Archive of Military Folk Music

For Students 9th - 10th
Specialized site dealing in folk music connected to military history and various wars. Gives audio samples and brief history/bios of songs and singers. Limited but interesting archive site.
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Myriad Software: Quantizing

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers information on what quantizing is, how it works, when it's used. Also discusses its effectiveness.
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Carnaval: Salsa Music

For Students 9th - 10th
A page of links and information about the salsa revolution.
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Thumbnail History of the Banjo

For Students 9th - 10th
Site that focuses on the development of the banjo instrument, but also traces its role in minstrel shows of the 1800s. Offers different viewpoint of this genre.
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The Origin of the Name "English Horn"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives you a detailed description of how the English Horn was named.
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Homemade Instruments

For Students 3rd - 5th
Do you want to make an egg shaker? Come to this website and find out how. Homemade instruments can be made from different household items. Don't miss out on all of the music that can be made at home or school.
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Avatar Consultants, Inc: Definition of Intensity

For Students 9th - 10th
Power, loudness, and decibel levels of sound waves are described and explained. The relative power output of various musical instruments is given.
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Avatar Consultants, Inc: Tuning, Scales, and Temperament

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the composition of complex sounds produced by a musical instrument. Good illustration of how music is applied to physics. Quite a bit of good information, several pages linked together with good definitions as well as...
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M. Tevfik Dorak's Website: Music Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
Glossary containing useful musical terms.
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Musical Math

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Baroque Music: Composers

For Students 9th - 10th
Short bio with listing of works by genre with dates composed. Just click on "Lully".
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English Folk and Traditional Music on the Net

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a resource for English traditional music. It includes libraries, archives, magazines, and discographies and provides access to many other connected links.
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Classical Music Navigator: Forms and Styles

For Students 9th - 10th
This alphabetized list of musical forms and styles briefly defines and describes the types of musical sounds and genres created throughout history.
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Gotta Dance: American Rumba

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Gotta Dance offers an easy-to-read history of rumba.
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What Is Flamenco?

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of Flamenco dance and music.
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Alligator Records: Koko Taylor

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information about Koko Taylor. Links to pages with information about each of her albums.
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The Land of Music: Homepage

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Principally an e-commerce site, although free sample lessons and music clips are available from this award-winning provider of music education tools. The Land of Music teaches how to read, write, and enjoy music through songs, stories,...
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Maryl Neff: Definition of Folk Music

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides an excellent introduction to the folk music genre and its elements.