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Since the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception,

music, when combined with a pleasurable idea is poetry.

Music without the idea is simply music. 

Without music or an intriguing idea, color becomes pallor;

man becomes caucus; home becomes catacomb.

- Alan Parsons -

Band Resources

Good Ensembles to Listen to

Dallas Wind Symphony

Eastman Wind Ensemble

Los Angeles Symphonic Winds

Seattle Symphony

United States Marine Band

Instrumental Organizations

National Flute Association

International Clarinet Association

International Double Reed Society

International Saxophone Home Page

International Trumpet Guild

International Horn Society

International Trombone Association

International Tuba/Euphonium Association

Percussive Arts Society

Influential Composers of Band Literature

Percy Grainger

Gustav Holst

Vincent Persichetti

John Philip Sousa

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Choral Resources

Choral Organizations

Choral Net

Choral Public Domain Library

Jazz Resources

Jazz Sites

Jamie Aebersold Jazz

All About Jazz

Jazz Online

People of Jazz Index

Influential Jazz Artists

Cannonball Adderley - Saxophone

Count Basie - Piano

Art Blakey - Drums

Clifford Brown - Trumpet

Dave Brubeck - Piano

John Coltrane - Saxophone

Chick Corea - Piano

Miles Davis - Trumpet

Duke Ellington - Piano

Bill Evans - Piano

Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet

Benny Goodman - Clarinet

Herbie Hancock - Piano

Milt Jackson - Mallets

J.J. Johnson - Trombone

Pat Metheny - Guitar

Glenn Miller - Trombone

Thelonious Monk - Piano

Charlie Parker - Saxophone

Jaco Pastorius - Bass

Sonny Rollins - Saxophone

Wayne Shorter - Trumpet

Horace Silver - Piano

McCoy Tyner - Piano

Music Theory Resources

Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net

General Music Resources

Organizations

Washington Music Educator's Association

Music Educator's National Conference

Washington Music Teacher's Association

State University Music Websites

Central Washington University

Eastern Washington University

Pacific Lutheran UniversitySeattle Pacific University

University of Puget Sound

University of Washington

Washington State University

Western Washington University

State Music Competitions

Musicfest Northwest

Famous Classical Composers

Baroque Era

Johann Sebastian Bach

George Frederick Handel

Classical Era

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Romantic Era

Hector Berlioz

Johannes Brahms

Frederick Chopin

Felix Mendelssohn

Franz Schubert

Richard Wagner

Late Romantic Era

Antonin Dvorak

Edward Elgar

Edvard Grieg

Gustav Mahler

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Ottorino Respighi

Jean Sibelius

Richard Strauss

Impressionism

Claude Debussy

Maurice Ravel

20th Century

Bela Bartok

John Cage

Aaron Copland

Lukas Foss

(the only composer of merit that I've actually met)

George Gershwin

Paul Hindemith

Charles Ives

Walter Piston

Sergei Prokofiev

Dmitri Shostokovich

Igor Stravinsky

21st Century

John Adams

Philip Glass

John Williams

Mr. Kelsey's Favorite Popular Music Sites

Asia

Chicago

Dan Fogelberg

Natalie Imbruglia

Journey

David Meece

Mr. and Mrs. Kelsey with David Meece, 2003

Pat Metheny

Alan Parsons

Toto

 

 

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