History

• http://www.sdopera.com/pages/education/edusourcebook/ArPasHome.htm
  An excellent source for information about the composer, the opera, bel canto, commedia dell' arte, historical and artistic sources for Don Pasquale, and more.
• http://www.pirandello.com/opera.html
  A brief but thorough history of Italian opera.
• http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/costhistpage.htm
  A costumer website with illustrations of European dress through the ages.
• http://www.marquise.de/en/index.html
  A website comprised of paintings illustrating European fashion over several centuries.

• http://www.teachopera.org
  TeachOpera is a national collaboration between New York City and Opera America regional companies dedicated to providing education materials that support K-12 teachers and teaching artists using opera in their classroom curricula. Check this out for field tested, interdisciplinary opera based lesson plans.
• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/education/lesson8_overview.html
  An innovative lesson plan for more advanced students on how to create an opera inspired by Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are.
• http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/opera/index.html
  Another fresh and interesting lesson plan on creating a class opera.

• http://www.delpiano.com/carnival/html/commedia.html
  Commedia Dell Arte site with brief description of the history of the genre and characters.
• http://www.commedia-dell-arte.com/
  Brief descriptor of commedia dell arte as an art form and time line for its development.
• http://www.geocities.com/commedia_dellarte/Characters/characters.html
  A site with stock commedia character name list, costume and character descriptions. These can be contrasted and compared with the characters in the opera.
• http://alpha.furman.edu/~dcummins/commedia/
  A commedia site with typical dramatic scenarios that have similar plot devices to Don Pasquale. Also character lists and photos of masks.

• http://www.musica.uci.edu
  A website composed of articles discussing the relationship between music and various parts of the brain. A great resource of raw material on the scientific impact of music
• http://www.playmusic.org
  Created by the American Symphony Orchestra League, this site allows users to go back stage to learn about all the instruments of the orchestra. Sight and sound recognition of orchestral instruments.
• http://www.creatingmusic.com
  Morton Subotnick's on-line creating music site.
• http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/orchestra.html
  The Symphony an Interactive Guide--Discover the wonders of the modern symphony orchestra with their comprehensive guide to the instruments and layout of the orchestra.
• http://www.discovereso.com/index.htm
  Edmonton Symphony Orchestra - Here you'll find lots of information on the symphony orchestra, conductors, musicians and the instruments they play.
• http://www.dsokids.com/2001/rooms/musicroom.asp
  This Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids site has an interactive instrument encyclopedia, music room, games, and coloring pages.
• http://www.clevelandpops.com/popskidz.htm
  Click on the pictures to hear the sounds!
• http://cbc4kids.ca/general/music/the-music-stand/guess-the-instrument/current/
  Think you can identify musical instruments just by their sound? Try this quiz. For each instrument, we'll give you two sound clues, then a picture.
• http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/glossary/glossary.html
  Online glossary, all the terms are clearly defined and linked to other related terms. In many cases you will be able to listen to an example chosen to illustrate the term.
• http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
  The Instrument Encyclopedia. A sampler of some of the world's most interesting musical instruments. The purpose of this site is to allow you to explore the diversity and creativity of musical traditions as you browse our gallery or search for a favorite instrument.

• http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/home.html
  New York State Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment website. The learning standards for all curriculum areas are available in PDF format.
• http://www.state.ct.us/sde/dtl/curriculum/currkey2.htm
  Connecticut State Department of Education curriculum guidelines and standards pages for all curriculum areas available to download in PDF format.
• http://www.state.nj.us/njded/cccs/index.html
  New Jersey Department of Education-New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards' page with "click-throughs" to each curriculum standard area.
• http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org
  Excellent teacher's curriculum resource for arts based lesson plans. On-line submission of lesson plans is also available.
• http://www.nycopera.com
  New York City Opera's online lesson plans and resources from Opera is Elementary. The site also provides information about the New York City Opera season, discount student ticket offers, synopses and composer biographies.
• http://www.menc.org
  National Music Educators website with standards, resources and curriculum.