Music Periods

This is a large collection of architectural photographs from the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Europe.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/
Subjects: Architecture, Baroque | Architecture, Renaissance
Created by dl - last updated Dec 3, 2000

The Antonio Vivaldi Homepage

This site has a biography, timeline, texts of the words for some of the compositions, and reviews of compact disk recordings (see the sections on "The Four Seasons" for comments on over twenty recordings of this work). Includes a nice page of categorized, briefly annotated links to other Vivaldi and Baroque music sites.

http://www.antonio-vivaldi.org/
Subjects: Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741 | Composers -- Italy -- Biography | People
Created by mg - last updated Nov 7, 2003

NM's Creative Impulse: The Artist's view of World History and Western Civilization

This is a good annotated and rated directory of Internet resources for the study of history. The sections include: Prehistory, Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Greece, Rome, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Exploration, Baroque, Age of Enlightenment, Revolutions, Age of Industry, and Modern. Maintained by Nancy B. Mautz, a high school history teacher.

http://history.evansville.net/
Subject: History
Created by cl - last updated May 4, 2001

Web Gallery of Art

This resource is "a searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing over 6,500 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available."

http://gallery.euroweb.hu/
Subjects: Art | Artists
Created by cl

Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order?

This attractive site describes aspects of the European Renaissance including its origins in the Middle Ages, the rise of navigation and trade, development of the printing press, arts, and the Renaissance in Florence Italy. From Annenberg/CPB Projects Learner Online site.

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/
Subjects: Renaissance | Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence
Created by ew - last updated Aug 18, 2003

Melencolia I: Albrecht D&#252rer

Devoted to the life and work of artist Albrecht Dürer. Includes images of Dürer's woodcuts and engravings; a profile of Nüremberg, Germany, during the Renaissance; a guide to symbols featured in Renaissance art; and technical information on printmaking. Also explores themes of melancholy in Dürer's work and Renaissance music, and past and present perceptions of clinical depression. From the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles.

Virtual Renaissance: A Journey Through Time

This site combines real people, such as Shakespeare and Elizabeth I, and real places, such as the Globe Theatre, Sistine Chapel, Tower of London, and University of Padua, with fictionalized locations and citizens to create an entertaining and inclusive picture of Renaissance life. Information can be accessed through characters, locations, and chronologies, as well as a general introduction. There are a links to related sites and citations to written sources.

http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/VirtualRen.html
Subject: Renaissance
Created by km - last updated Dec 14, 2002

Virtual Renaissance: A Journey Through Time

This site combines real people, such as Shakespeare and Elizabeth I, and real places, such as the Globe Theatre, Sistine Chapel, Tower of London, and University of Padua, with fictionalized locations and citizens to create an entertaining and inclusive picture of Renaissance life. Information can be accessed through characters, locations, and chronologies, as well as a general introduction. There are a links to related sites and citations to written sources.

http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/VirtualRen.html
Subject: Renaissance
Created by km - last updated Dec 14, 2002

The Classics Pages

This site includes "over 900 pages of news, information, games and controversy about the life, literature, art, and archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome." Your questions on the classics, Latin, Greek, or the ancient world can be answered by the Oracle of Loxias (in the guise of the site author). Topics include classic authors and their works, Greek vase painting and sculpture, women, technology, and links to other classical sites for teachers and a bookshop.

http://www.classicspage.com/
Subjects: Classical literature | Civilization, Classical | Greece -- Civilization | Rome -- Civilization
Created by re - last updated Sep 23, 2002

Essentials of Music

This site offers an introduction to classical music built around Sony's Essential Classics music series. It features Eras, Composers, and a Glossary. Eras covers the six main periods in classical music history, discussing historical themes, musical context, style, and major composers. Composers includes brief biographies and works of nearly 70 composers. Glossary provides 200 terms with examples (recordings or pictures). It also includes almost 200 excerpts from the series in RealPlayer format. From the W.W. Norton & Company and Sony Classical Music.

http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
Subjects: Music | Music appreciation | Music appreciation -- Study and teaching
Created by es - last updated Jan 10, 2003

Carolina Classical Connection: An Index of Classical Music Web Site Links

This directory of online resources includes "all historical periods from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century, including classical music information on composers, music history, music theory, genres, styles and forms."

http://classicalmus.hispeed.com/links.html
Subject: Music
Created by mg - last updated Jul 17, 2002

Romantic Chronology

An extensive hypertext chronology of the Romantic era. Literature, art, or politics--if it occurred or was written sometime between the 17th century and 1851, chances are it's covered here. There's also an excellent list of other chronologies on the Web.

http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/
Subjects: History, Modern -- 17th century | History, Modern -- 18th century | History, Modern -- 19th century | Romanticism
Created by cl - last updated Nov 24, 2002

Romantic Circles

"...devoted to the study of Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, their contemporaries and historical contexts." Includes bibliographies, scholarly articles and criticism, conference information, WWW resources, and reviews. You can keyword search electronic texts.

http://www.rc.umd.edu/
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century | Romanticism

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

This San Francisco, California based orchestra is "dedicated to historically-informed performance of Baroque, Classical and early Romantic music on original instruments." The site includes a concert schedule, lists of Orchestra musicians and recordings, and opportunities for volunteers.

http://philharmonia.org/
Subjects: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco, Calif.) | Musical groups -- California -- San Francisco | Early-music specialists |

Carolina Classical Connection: An Index of Classical Music Web Site Links

This directory of online resources includes "all historical periods from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century, including classical music information on composers, music history, music theory, genres, styles and forms."

http://classicalmus.hispeed.com/links.html
Subject: Music

Essentials of Music

This site offers an introduction to classical music built around Sony's Essential Classics music series. It features Eras, Composers, and a Glossary. Eras covers the six main periods in classical music history, discussing historical themes, musical context, style, and major composers. Composers includes brief biographies and works of nearly 70 composers. Glossary provides 200 terms with examples (recordings or pictures). It also includes almost 200 excerpts from the series in RealPlayer format. From the W.W. Norton & Company and Sony Classical Music.

http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
Subjects: Music | Music appreciation

Carolina Classical Connection: An Index of Classical Music Web Site Links

This directory of online resources includes "all historical periods from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century, including classical music information on composers, music history, music theory, genres, styles and forms."

http://classicalmus.hispeed.com/links.html
Subject: Music
Created by mg - last updated Jul 17, 2002

The Official George and Ira Gershwin Web Site

Gershwin fans will enjoy this site about the American songwriting team whose memorable music and lyrics reflected the Jazz Age of the twentieth century. Visitors can listen to portions of sound recordings, view a timeline and photographs of the brothers' lives, and read their personal profiles. Includes references, descriptions of selected films and shows, and lists of concert schedules and happenings. Requires Macromedia Flash Player.

Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns

A history of this distinctly American form of music. Jazz in Time "places jazz against the backdrop of American history." Included are audio clips of many jazz performers (RealPlayer), and extensive Biographies from the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. The Beatnik plug-in is needed for Jazz and Kids to allow children to improvise music. There are also children's testimonies, an interactive timeline, and an opportunity to learn about rhythms. There are related links as well as lesson plans and activities for educators. The transcripts are available and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Created to tie in with the ten-part PBS series.

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
Subjects: Jazz -- History | Jazz musicians | Biography

University of North Texas Music Library: Jazz Research Portal

Briefly annotated collection of links to jazz metasites, history, artists, online journals, and academic programs and archives. From Donna Arnold, Music Reference Librarian.

http://www.library.unt.edu/music/links/jazz.htm
Subjects: Jazz | Jazz -- Computer network resources -- Directories
Created by dl - last updated Mar 6, 2002

Gayle Dean Wardlow: America's foremost blues researcher

Contains interviews of and articles by Mississippi Delta Blues researcher and record collector Gayle Dean Wardlow. An excellent source for information on blues music and the record industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Also includes information on "talent broker" H.C. Spear, who "discovered" blues musicians Charlie Patton, Skip James, and Tommy Johnson.

http://www.bluesworld.com/WARDLOW.html
Subjects: Blues (Music) -- History and criticism | Blues musicians -- Mississippi | Wardlow, Gayle
Created by tm - last updated Jun 26, 2001

The Blue Highway (TBH)

The Blue Highway contains brief profiles of 20 blues greats (with RealAudio and WAV sound clips), and over 25 essays. This searchable site also includes news, a message board, the Muddy's Cabin chat room, a browsable list of international radio programs, and a comprehensive collection of Blues Links, including real-time and archived blues radio broadcasts (RealAudio).

http://www.thebluehighway.com/
Subject: Blues (Music)
Created by tm - last updated Oct 18, 2000