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• - Includes annotated texts about American history, from Revolutionary War songs to 1960's anti-war protests.
  
• - Information from Smithsonian Institute about the native Mexican folk music tradition. Includes a graphical timeline, music samples, videos, guides and background material for teachers.
  
• - Graphic timeline: typical musical forms and styles, major composers, sample MIDI files
  
• - Includes chronology, extensive biographies of obscure musicians, MIDI files, discography, bibliography, and resources.
  
• - Basics about the major periods of classical (art) music, with terms, composers, RAM audio examples, and purchase links. From Essentials of Music, sponsored by Sony Classical and W. W. Norton.
  
• - Brief history of classical music in Finland; by Pekka Hako.
  
• - Brief overview and biographical notes about conductors and performers in the classical tradition.
  
• - A brief history of Czech music, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century; Biographies and work of important composers. (Radio Hudba, Czech Republic)
  
• - Extensive hypertext article by David Courtney.
  
• - (from 1988 to current)
  
• - Masonic influences on Classical music, and music in the Lodge: Notes, MIDI samples, and facsimile pages.
  
• - Birth and death dates of composers and performers; first performances of famous works.
  
• - Daily listing of what happened on this day; extensive introductory tutorial on music notation. (CD sales: affiliate)
  
• - (Sung by church and chapel "bands" in the UK in the 18th and 19th centuries) Includes articles, sample scores and MIDI files, links, and organizations.
  
• - Early Western and traditional non-Western music: Recording suggestions, discussion, articlesl links.
  
• - Describes a project by the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress to convert important collections of historical recordings to modern formats.
  
• - Articles and links about the entry of Jews into the musical professions in Europe in the early nineteenth century.
  
• - Brief, tongue-in-cheek discussion of musical forms.
  
• - An annotated bibliography of musical compositions related to chess.