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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Perfect Pitch

For Students 9th - 10th
Perfect Pitch is an interactive learning environment that lets you form orchestras and create your own orchestral arrangements of music from the baroque, classical, romantic, and modern periods. Clever game design, including a...
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Classical Net

Classical Net: Johann David Heinichen

For Students 9th - 10th
A very interesting page outlining the life of composer Johann David Heinichen. This site includes his biography, a list of his compositions and links to some of his recorded music.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Dynasty, Revolution, and the Classical Age

For Students 9th - 10th
Welcome to Britain, home to one of the biggest empires in history and a rich artistic heritage. We'll start in the 16th through the 18th centuries, years that saw the establishment of Britain and British art as we know it. As you travel...
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Classical Net

Classical Net: Timeline of Famous Composers: 1100 1700

For Students 9th - 10th
A PDF timeline of composers in the Gothic, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
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Classical Net

Classical Net: Timeline of Famous Composers 1600 to Present

For Students 9th - 10th
PDF document showing composers in various musical eras from the Baroque period to modern times.
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Other

Classical Composer Biographies

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains brief biographical information about several well known classical composers including Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Frederic Chopin

For Students 2nd - 8th
Explore this brief biography of Frederic Chopin, famous Polish composer in classical music.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Johannes Brahms

For Students 2nd - 8th
Explore this brief biography of Johannes Brahms, famous German composer in classical music.
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PBS

Classics for Kids: Hildegard Von Bingen

For Students 4th - 8th
Classics For Kids provides a short biography of Early Music composer Hildegard von Bingen, born on January 1, 1098.
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Activity
San Diego State University

Classical Rummy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This card game serves as a learning aid to music students. They will learn to classify classical composers by the era in which they worked: Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern.
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PBS

Classics for Kids: Franz Schubert

For Students 3rd - 8th
A short biography of Franz Schubert (1797-1828 CE). Click to the past radio shows to hear his music and learn more about this famous composer.
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Other

Women of Note: Celebrating 250 Years of Music by Women

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographies of more than forty women composers whose works, if not their fame, rival men composers of the same time period. Biographies are generally accompanied by a list of some works by the composer, with brief descriptions. Of...
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Quia

Quia: Music Trivia

For Students 3rd - 5th
A great study tool for a music class! Students match classical muscians to the instrument they play in one of four games: matching, concentration, flashcards, word search.
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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: General Information on Frederic Chopin

For Students 9th - 10th
Page contains general information about the difficulty of Chopin's Music. Also included is a picture of Chopin.
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PBS

Classics for Kids: Johann Strauss, Jr.

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site has a short biography of Johann Strauss, Jr (1825-1899 CE) with an audio clip of the 'Tritsch-Tratsch Polka.' Click to the past radio shows to hear his music and learn more about this famous composer.
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Library: Mozart and the Keyboard Culture of His Time

For Students 9th - 10th
View this collection of documents and objects to find out about music in Mozart's time and music in the present time 250 years after Mozart.
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National Arts Centre (Canada)

National Arts Centre: Arts Alive: Music Resources: Famous Composers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Visit this site to read about the life and works of great composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, George Gershwin, plus many more!
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Ludwig Van Beethoven

For Students 2nd - 8th
Explore this brief biography of Ludwig Van Beethoven, famous composer in classical music.
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Website
Other

Guild Music: Edvard Grieg

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a brief biography of Edvard Grieg, an international Scandanavian composer of the 19th century. Information is also given on his most famous work, "the Cello Sonata in A minor opus 36."
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Other

Minnesota News Council: Edvard Grieg

For Students 3rd - 8th
Great Norwegians from the Minnesota News Council provides several biographies of Edvard Grieg with links to music clips too. Lots of images as well.
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Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: The Romantic Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site from The History Guide is great background information on the romantic period, though little of it deals directly with music.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Classical Composers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains music and biographical information about many classical composers. Information about the Baroque Era, Classical Era, Romantic Era, and 20th Century Era is also included....
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia Library: Rock Music

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Virginia provides a short discussion of the psychedelic music of the 60s. Also contains cover art from twelve albums from this period. Click on the cover to see a bigger picture.
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Lesson Tutor

Classical Composer Profile: Claude Debussy

For Students 3rd - 8th
Considered an impressionistic composer of the romantic period, Claude Debussy is discussed in this profile. Learn more about his life and music at this site.

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