Performing Arts Links

American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals ca. 1490-1920 - A series of 200 dance manuals which include everything from minuets to square dancing.
AskERIC Lesson Plans: Music - Great teacher-created lesson plans.
Baroque Music Home Page - An extensive baroque music site with music samples, biographies, information, and much more.
Broadway World Wide Theatre - Playbill Online links to US and international shows.
Children's Music Workshop - A guide to K-12 music education; includes many well-arranged links and a place for teachers to post questions to other teachers.
The Classical Music Navigator - This site contains compiled information on classical music composers, their works and resources to find additional classical music.
The Costume Page - An extensive, well-organized set of links to online sources of information for those interested in the costume arts.
Digital Tradition Folk Song Database: Search Page - A site for older students that allows keyword and title searching to over 6000 folk songs and includes midi files for some of them.
Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine - Streaming RealAudio recordings of late 19th and early 20th-century music
DSOkids - A fun and educational music site created by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; it includes both a teacher and student section.
Early Music Chicago: Web Resources - Links to sites with information and music from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments - Photographs and descriptions of many instruments from this era.
Hear The Music Play - Now with hundreds of in-depth articles, people who love music have a place to discover expert advice on the top gear (for almost any discipline).
K-12 Resources for Music Educators - A list of annotated links to music sites for band, orchestra, vocal, and classroom music instruction.
mFiles - Downloadable MP3s of classical music and some sheet music.
Mojo's Musical Mouseum - A site to find the lyrics to many of those kid songs you thought you had forgotten.
Music Education Resource Links (MERL) - An extensive and well-arranged list of music education sites.
Music for the Nation, American Sheet Music 1870-1885 - Over 22,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era.
Music Library Association: Sheet Music Collections - Links to online sheet music collections; great support for an interdisciplinary lesson including music and social studies.
Music Resources on the Internet - An extensive list of music sites from Indiana University including academic music resources.
Musicals.net - Information about dozens of popular Broadway musicals including a synopsis, song list, and related links.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts offers arts-based educational programming free to teachers and students across the country through the Performing Arts Series. Programs feature artists and companies who perform at the Kennedy Center and explore the areas of music, dance, theater, and literature.
Puppetry Home Page - A comprehensive list of links to all types of puppetry resources on the Internet.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Lesson Plans - A series of interdisciplinary lesson plans that use music as the basis for the lesson.
Sapphire Swan: Dance Directory - An extensive list of links to dance resources on the Web, arranged by dance style.
Shanties and Sea Songs - A large collection of traditional shanties and sailor songs.
Songs for Teaching: Using Music to Promote Learning - A site which provides information on ways to use music to teach content across the curriculum.
Sound Bible - A site with free sound clips, sound bites, and sound effects; great for presentations and movies.
Visit SoundJunction for a fabulous collection of interactive tools for exploring and creating music. Sections include how music works, musicians, instruments and voices, composing and remixing, and more. SoundJunction was created by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in the UK.
Texas School Music Project - A site with ideas and information for the teaching of music, band, chorus, and orchestra in schools.
Theatre History on the Web - An extensive list of links to historical information, current practices, and to all aspects of drama and theatre.
World Music Resources - Links to worldwide cultural and ethnic music information.