Curated OER
Greek Amphora
Students analyze the Greek Amphora figure in Greek art and complete related activities. In this Greek art activity, students analyze the Greek vase art and the Antimenes painter style. Students research mythology sections for stories of...
Curated OER
Can You Build a Better Mousetrap?
Students use a variety of linked sites to research information about student inventions and contests that are available for them. They research an invention they would like to see become available. They communicate their results to their...
Curated OER
The Surreal Deal
Students examine the art-historical contexts used by Salvador Dali and identify examples of them. They explore surrealism by playing the game Exquisite Corpse, automatic writing or drawing, and dream illustration. They tour the Dali Museum.
Curated OER
The Story of an Old Piano
Students read excerpts from The Story of an Old Piano. They choose a personal object and write paragraphs from the object's point of view. Their stories can be bound for the class library.
Curated OER
Flowering Philanthropy
Students plant flowers for others. They care for flowers. They summarize experiences through drawing, discussions and writing.
New York University
Music Literature: The Classical Period
Resource provides information on the Classical Period in music by discussing the three main composers most notably associated with that period: Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart.
PBS
Classics for Kids: Composers Timeline
Travel back in time with this composer timeline. This site allows you to choose a composer based on the time period. Learn about the composer and listen to examples of the composer's works of music.
Classical Net
Classical Net: Renaissance Repertoire: Renaissance Composers
Those well-versed in music will find this site helpful, as it offers biographical information on a number of Renaissance composers, along with pictures and information on compositions.
San Diego State University
Classical Rummy
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.
Quia
Quia: Music Trivia
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.
Other
Women of Note: Celebrating 250 Years of Music by Women
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...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Baroque Music
A Wikipedia article on Baroque music distinguishes it from the Renaissance and Classical styles, discusses the different musical genres the Baroque composers wrote in, lists the important features of Baroque music, and provides a list of...
Other
Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music
Visit this website for short biographies of some of the African American singers and composers who have contributed to the world of Classical music.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dynasty, Revolution, and the Classical Age
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...
Cornell University
Cornell University: Library: Mozart and the Keyboard Culture of His Time
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.
Classical Net
Classical Net: Timeline of Famous Composers: 1100 1700
A PDF timeline of composers in the Gothic, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
Classical Net
Classical Net: Timeline of Famous Composers 1600 to Present
PDF document showing composers in various musical eras from the Baroque period to modern times.
Lesson Tutor
Classical Composer Profile: Claude Debussy
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.
Other
Guild Music: Edvard Grieg
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."
Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona Univ.: Symmetrical Binary Principle
This site from the Northern Arizona University contains the meanings of the symmetrical binary principle in Bach's music and several other composers of this period.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Frederic Chopin
Explore this brief biography of Frederic Chopin, famous Polish composer in classical music.
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger
New Advent page summarizing information on Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context of resource material dated around 1910.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Johannes Brahms
Explore this brief biography of Johannes Brahms, famous German composer in classical music.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Ludwig Van Beethoven
Explore this brief biography of Ludwig Van Beethoven, famous composer in classical music.