General Music Sites
Types of Music
Classical Composers
    

General Music Sites
  

Historic Musical Instruments
An extremely detailed site from Edinburgh University.  Everything you could wish to know about musical instruments, in text, sound and pictures. Useful for primary children (with help) and secondary/university work.
Lindsay Music
This music company sells a wide range of sheet music and scores suitable for use in schools.
The Music Land
This is the UK's online community for music education and has a wide variety of free resources and other interactive features including online aural tests.
Music by Arrangement
David Bellwood is a part time "peri" in Leeds and in his spare time runs a small company providing original music for use in schools. He will provide scores for your specified selection of instruments and abilities. There are some free samples available from his site.
Music Notes
An excellent ThinkQuest site. The site has several useful sections: Theory, Music History from medieval to modern times, instruments (with illustrated descriptions and histories of all the commonly used musical instruments), Musical Careers and Interactive Games. There is also a links list.
Music Room
Music Room is an online music shop which has a useful school's section.Plays and Musicals
Mainly grown up plays and musicals but there is a page of school ones.
Sara Jordan's Edu-Mart Resources. Songs that Teach!
SchoolBand
David Bellwood's pages of help and advice for teachers wanting to start their own orchestra or band.Includes some free easy music to get you started.
Starpolish
StarPolish are dedicated to educating and empowering artists, with an emphasis on artist advocacy and artist development. They are also committed to supporting the arts by rewarding and highlighting the most hard-working and deserving artists. If you are an artist, a music lover or industry exec looking for new sounds, somebody who wants to break into "the biz", or just plain curious how this crazy business of music operates--then StarPolish has something for you.' They are not strictly 'school' music but are for keen musicians offering help in getting started in the business. It's American and gives grants (but they don't know if IRS laws will allow trust money to come overseas).
  

Types of Music
  

Mary Haley's ragtime and related music home page
For fans of Ragtime, the history of the 'Big Three Fathers of Ragtime' with sound and numerous links to associated sites.
   

Classical Composers
  

Classical Net - Composer Master Index
A catalogue of resources, including recordings, books, articles, scores and CD buying guides, with links to other 'Classical' music sites. Useful for keen musicians and secondary/university research work.
Classical Composers
Comexos
Composers' Experimental Online Suite (ComeXos) from University of Salford,  is designed to be used by whoever would like to learn about sound, audio design and create their audio samples online. Selected modules from the Composers' Desktop Project (CDP) are provided for users to create audio samples online.
MusicWeb
All sorts of stuff about Music and musicians. There is a very useful section about (mainly) British composers.
Edward Elgar
Benjamin Britten
This page is from MusicWeb
J.S. Bach Home Page
Johannes Brahms
Edvard Grieg Museum - Troldhaugen
Handel
Franz Joseph Haydn
Franz Liszt
Gustav Mahler
Biography, books, his music and a collection of images of Mahler and his family.
The Mozart Project
Biography, Bibliography, Catalogue of works and Essays about the man and his music.
The Secrets behind Franz Schubert
His life, his music, his musical friends and foes, and much more.
Robert Schumann Then Now and Always
Biography, a comprehensive guide to his works and some less well-known facts about the him.
Richard Wagner Archive
Lots of information about Wagner, his work and his family.