American Symphony Orchestra League
www.playmusic.org

Information about instruments and performers plus interactive games.

Carnegie Hall
www.listeningadventures.org
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
www.childrens-music.org
Education

Offers materials and information for those interested in music education for children.

Children's Music Workshop - Advocacy
www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/advocacy/index.html

A list of music education advocacy articles.

Children's Music Workshop - Instruments
www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/instruments/index.html
Instruments

Good source for extensive information about musical instruments.

Creative Kids Central
www.kusc.org/kids

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

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids
dsokids.com/2001/rooms/DSO_Intro.html

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

From the Top
www.fromthetop.org
Performances

Talented youngsters perform classical music.

Grand Piano Action
www.musicplay.com/action/action.html
instruments

A description and illustration of how the action of a grant piano works.

Keeping Score
www.keepingscore.org
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
datadragon.com/education/reading/
Theory

A good site for information on musical symbols, clefs, note reading, time signatures, note values, etc.

Music Teachers National Association
www.mtna.org/webforkids.htm

Information on selecting a music teacher.

NASA
spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/

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
www.nashvillesymphony.org/nsokids/

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
www.artsalive.ca/en/mus/index.asp
Education

Lots of information on composers and instruments plus musical games and more.

New York Philharmonic
www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml

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

Piano Education
www.pianoeducation.org
education

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

San Francisco Symphony
www.sfskids.org/

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

Tanbur Music Education Links
www3.webng.com/tanbur/

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

Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
www.cliburn.org

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
violinmasterclass.com
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.