OPERA
OPERA BASICS
PBS website that lets you explore voices:
soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone and bass.
Learn about the story of Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto’ with video clips from the production by English National Opera.  Large screen link here: OPERA BASICS

THE ORCHESTRA 2   
ORCHESTRA
More about the orchestra from the BBC.  

STRINGS, WOODWIND, BRASS AND PERCUSSION
Data Dragon guide to each section of the orchestra.

SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA has more.

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
This site has links to instruments on the left.  

REVISION FOR EXAMS       
LEARN LISTENING ONLINE
Main page for all SQA revision (students in Scotland).

BBC SITE FOR GCSE MUSIC
Useful for GCSE (England and Wales) and SQA (Scotland) revision.

BAROQUE MUSIC
The website of the Baroque Learning Centre. Includes lots of audio clips featuring famous composers and instruments of the Baroque period.
There's also a glossary of musical terms and download resource materials.

MUSIC LESSONS
MUSIC TUTORIALS
Online music tutorials in reading music, intervals, scales, chords, harmony, musical forms. Includes listening and quiz activities. [requires 'Scorch']

POPULAR MUSIC  
ISHKUR’S GUIDE
House, trance, techno, breakbeat, jungle, hip-hop, downtempo.
Each category has lots of sub-categories. This is a really huge project.

ADVANCED LISTENING
ADVANCED LISTENING – PHILIP GLASS
The IBM glass engine enables deep navigation of the music of Philip Glass.

HARRY PARTCH
Use your computer keyboard to play unusual instruments. 
Pick an instrument and click 'Play Instrument'.    

UNFRETTED
Deniz Atalay: “Tanbur is a long necked instrument and you can see all the properties of Turkish intervals on it”.

ADVANCED MUSIC ANALYSIS
A brilliant website by Patricia Gray.  Featured composers include:
George Crumb, Steve Reich, Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy,
James Romig, W.A. Mozart.

DEBUSSY
Analysis of the Sonata for Cello and Piano (1915) by Claude Debussy. This is an excellent teaching resource from Luna Nova, a group of musicians devoted to contemporary music. Project design is by Patricia Gray.

STOCKHAUSEN
Klavierstűck X: history, description,
notation, modes de jeu, excerpts, structures.

BACH: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
The Goldberg Variations by J.S.Bach are performed here by David Korevaar.
Part of the BinAural Collaborative Hypertext (BACH) multimedia project from the Hinkle Charitable Foundation of New York and Northern Arizona University.

BUXTEHUDE
Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne. Audio and commentary by Jeff Hall.

ALBENIZ
Barcarolla Op. 202, Mallorca. The guitarist is Thomas Sheeley.

BACH: DAS WOHLTEMPERIERTE KLAVIER
Well-Tempered Clavier: analysis, scores and digital sound.  
David Korevaar and Tim Smith have produced this extensive study guide to the entire collection of  48 Preludes and Fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach.

MUSIC TECHNOLOGY
CUBASE VIDEOS
Want to improve your knowledge of Cubase? These video clips will help you get the most out of the software and your music.

VIRTUAL DRUM KIT
Learn how to mike up a drum kit and then play it using the QWERTY keyboard. This very useful program is presented by the Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Wolverhampton.

                                                
                                                
Drew Malamud gives some sound advice regarding
choice of microphones and placement techniques when recording the drum kit.