Unit Eight
Music!... To Characterize the Age

Chapter 22 Music of Our Generation

VH1 Save the Music
http://vh1.com/insidevh1/savethemus/
Run, don't walk, over to VH1's "Save the Music" Web site—VH1's program to support music education in the schools. You will find ideas for what you can do to help the music program in your school. While you are there, take their music quiz and compare your answers with those of other students.

The Philip Glass Library
http://suso.eigenmann.indiana.edu/pgl/history.phtml
Read a short biography of minimalist composer Philip Glass. Click on "Media Files" to hear some of Glass' music. How did Glass make a living while waiting to be successful as a composer?

Chapter 23 Music of Previous Generations

Hot Harpsichord Information Center
http://www.geocities.com/hothpschd/domingo.html
A great site about the harpsichord. It has sound clips of harpsichord music, information about the Baroque era, and information about composers who wrote for harpsichord. Find out how sound is produced on a harpsichord, and how it differs from a piano.

Vivaldi, Antonio (1668-1741)
http://www.dj-media.com/composer_vivaldi.asp
Read a short biography of Vivaldi, the composer/priest. While there, you can listen to three of Vivaldi's famous Four Seasons. Which is your favorite?

The Classical MIDI Connection: Franz Joseph Haydn
http://midiworld.com/haydn.html
Listen to MIDI clips of some of Haydn's greatest hits. As Mozart said, "There is no one who can do it all—to joke and to terrify, to evoke laughter and profound sentiment—and all equally well, except Joseph Haydn." Listen to some of Haydn's symphonies, and compare your favorites with other students.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
http://208.4.223.8/lecagot/biography.asp
Find out more the amazing Mozart, who could compose music as fast as he could think! Read a short, lively biography, and listen to excerpts from Mozart's most famous operas. How many pieces of music did Mozart compose in his short, 35-year life?

Chapter 24 Jazz

Great Day in Harlem
http://www.harlem.org/greatday.html
One day in August, 1958, Art Kane, a photographer from Esquire magazine had the idea to get as many jazz greats together as he could for a group photo. See this famous photo and click on any portion of it to find out about individuals like Dizzy Gillespie, Marian McPartland, and Gene Krupa. How many jazz greats showed up for this 10 A.M. photo after performing until the wee hours of the morning? It's an impressive number.

The Downbeat Café—Jazz and MIDI
http://www.downbeatcafe.com/surf.html
Listen to more than 175 jazz tunes. Compare your favorites with those of your friends!

John W. Coltrane Cultural Society
http://jazz.route66.net/aLoveSupreme/CulturalSociety/
Find out more about jazz innovator John William Coltrane. What did he feel was the purpose of his music? How have his memory and music been kept alive?

Unit Eight Encore! Women in Jazz

Piano Jazz Home Page
http://www.scern.org/pj/
Check out a popular radio show hosted by a female jazz artist Marian McPartland. While you are there, look for the pages on McPartland's career and current concert schedule.