Website | Description |
Ceolas | Houses the largest online collection of information on Irish and Celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites. |
Classical Music Pages | A German-based website providing almost everything you need concerning classical music – its history, biographical information about composers (with portraits and short sound examples), explanations of the various musical forms and a dictionary of musical terminologies. |
Down Beat’s Jazz 101 | Available on Down Beat magazine’s website, this is a brief but comprehensive history and guide to jazz. |
FindSounds | A free site where you can search the web for thousands of sound effects and musical instrument samples. |
Leaving Cert. Music Resources for Students | This page in the Leaving Cert. Music section of our website provides the complete Prescribed Works on YouTube, web resources for students and links to third-level music programmes in the Republic and Northern Ireland. |
MusicAtSchool | A UK-based site that provides resources, links and over 170 free worksheets for teachers and students. |
Naxos Education | The website of Naxos, the budget classical record label, has an excellent education section, which includes, among other things, an A-Z glossary of musical terms and brief composer biographies. |
The Violin | An interesting site on the violin, its history, its performers and the art and science of violin making. |
World Music Central | An excellent general-interest world music site, it includes up-to-date information on musicians, recordings and festivals, as well as useful glossaries of world music genres and instruments. |
Worldwide Internet Music Resources | Developed by Indiana University, this comprehensive site is one of the richest sources of music links on the web. |