American Symphony Orchestra League
Information about instruments and performers plus interactive games.

Carnegie Hall
Performances
Great performances of classical music with interactive listening guides and notes. Also includes a new interactive game based on Benjamin Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra."

Children's Music Portal
Education
Offers materials and information for those interested in music education for children.

Children's Music Workshop - Advocacy
A list of music education advocacy articles.

Children's Music Workshop - Instruments
Instruments
Good source for extensive information about musical instruments.

Creative Kids Central
Interactive musical listening activities and games, including a program on Scheherezade.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids
Interactive games plus information on instruments, composers and classical music in general.

From the Top
Performances
Talented youngsters perform classical music.

Grand Piano Action
instruments
A description and illustration of how the action of a grant piano works.

Keeping Score
Education
An innovative and very comprehensive music education program developed by the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas. Current materials focus on works by Beethoven, Stravinsky and Copland.

Music education at Datadragon
Theory
A good site for information on musical symbols, clefs, note reading, time signatures, note values, etc.

Music Teachers National Association
Information on selecting a music teacher.

NASA
What do sunspots have to do with a Bach violin sonata? See (and hear!) the latest “Amazing Fact” on NASA's award-winning children's Web site, The Space Place.

Nashville Symphony Orchestra - NSO KIds
This multimedia website includes feature sections: “Symphony Spotlight” with video clips of Nashville Symphony musicians talking about their instruments and what they enjoy most about playing them; “Our Instruments,” with 3D replications of all instruments that make up the symphony orchestra and audio clips and interesting facts about each; and “Visit the Symphony,” which teaches appropriate concert etiquette.

National Arts Centre, Canada
Education
Lots of information on composers and instruments plus musical games and more.

New York Philharmonic
Interactive games plus information on instruments, composers and classical music in general.

Piano Education
education
Includes some interesting"interviews" with famous composers and lots of information about the piano and classical music in general.

San Francisco Symphony
Interactive games plus information on instruments, composers and classical music in general.

Tafelmusik Baroque Learning Centre
Education
A comprehensive Baroque music education website that includes in-depth information on Baroque composers, instruments and performance techniques, as well as Teacher Study Guides.

Tanbur Music Education Links
‘Tanbur’ is a collection of interactive Internet links collected by the music teacher at Elgin Academy, Moray, Scotland. He has tested the resources in the secondary school music classroom and for student ‘homework’ activities.

The Children's Music Network
Education
The Children's Music Network celebrates the positive power of music in the lives of children by sharing songs, exchanging ideas and creating community

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition starts on May 20. Now you can listen to contestants perform and keep track of their progress on line.

Violin Masterclass
Teaching
Violin Masterclass offers over 170 free on-line violin lessons and performances featuring the Sassmanshaus tradition. Kurt Sassmanshaus is the conductor of the Starling Chamber Orchestra.