Students list the four main families of musical instruments, name one instrument from each musical family, name three ways music is used in everyday life.

Students create a musical autobiography. In this fine arts lesson, students explore the emotions that music can express by listening to and discussing a variety of music. Students construct a personal timeline and a collection of music...

Students develop a concept of the relative size of objects in the nanoscale. They complete an internet assignment using the website,"Scaling the Universe to Your Desktop". Using analogies to common objects they get an appreciation for...

Students create their own stories about a trip to America, based on an oral reading. Student stories be compiled for a class Thanksgiving book.

Students study Richard Wagner and his idea of "Music Drama". Students listen to his music, pantomime, and lead "music dramas" to discover Wagner's idea of the world of composition and drama.

A nice website discussing music of the classical period. It provides detail into the style of classical music, lists some of the composers associated with classical music.

From a major publisher of classical music, this website provides a brief biography and picture of literally hundreds of composers of classical music. The discographies at the bottom of each biography allow you to find CDs and often...

Teach the basics of classical music to your students with this collection of lesson plans. Study a classical music composer and a selected piece of music with these lesson plans that are based on national and state standards.

This site contains an excellent biography on cellist and classical composer, Luigi Boccherini. Hyperlinks to additional information.

The official site of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society which was created to broaden the appreciation and encourage the performance this composer's music. By clicking through the menu, you can learn much information about his works.

A survey of the life and works of Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755), the German Baroque violinist-composer.

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.

Coleridge-Taylor was so moved when he heard African American spirituals, that he incorporated the sound into his compositions. Here is a brief biography of his life.

Short bio with a great list of works.