http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 21 May 2013 02:56:09 PDT Tue, 21 May 2013 02:56:09 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=228537 An introduction to orchestral instruments. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86230 The Museum of Musical Instruments (theMoMI.org) presents the world's first virtual documentary exhibition devoted to Woody Guthrie, one of America's most-loved folk heros. 'Bound For Glory: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie' is a comprehensive interactive exhibition that integrates history, music, photographs, essays, poems, letters and drawings to tell the remarkable story of the legendary Woody Guthrie. This exhibition is meant to be an online complement to the Smithsonian Institution's extraordinary traveling exhibition: This Land Is Your Land: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie. It also includes informative articles and reviews of the Smithsonian production. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=316175 A collection of Blues in the Piedmont Style featuring the work of the inimitable Blind Blake and other favorites such as Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy, Bo Carter and Memphis Minnie. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80291 With this tool you can easily add interactive music glossary terms to your own webpages. You can restrict the glossary to subcategories like jazz, world, classical etc. Once displayed the glossary terms can be used as keywords to search a database of related musical topics. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80609 I would like to submit www.musicked.com as a valuable tool for music teachers, students and enthusiasts world-wide. The site is a subsidiary of The Dallas School of Music, Inc. which has been providing world-class music education services for over a decade. MusickEd.com is staffed by a professional team of full-time degreed music educators. There are many FREE resources at the site including: Free Support Center - where users have access to a Knowledge Base and e-Glossary for answers to general and specific music questions. They can also browse our Download Center to retrieve invaluable musical documents. The 'e-ticket' system lets users interact 24/7 with our faculty to address their specific questions and receive personal attention. FREE Community Center - where Chat Rooms allow a real time exchange of ideas and Bulletin Boards enable users to share their thoughts and begin their own discussion forums. Thank you in advance for considering www.musicked.com as a link and please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=718398 'The Nineteenth Century American Sheet Music Collection at the UNC-Chapel Hill Music Library includes approximately 3,500 popular vocal and instrumental titles from the 1830s to the end of the century. This site contains catalog descriptions and digital images of the individual pieces in the collection. It was acquired as 125 bound volumes which were individually gathered by the original owners of the music, often young women who wanted to collect their favorite pieces of sheet music into one volume. In some cases, the original owner's name was embossed on the cover. Those volumes for which we have information about the owner can be accessed here.' http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=383879 An introduction to both the backstage and workings of a philharmonic orchestra http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=82646 A Chinese language search portal; includes music resources. Contains sound files in various formats, images, album cover art, and links to other sites. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=255275 Identify the characters in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (in Italian and English). Active links to pantheon.org provide additional background on the mythological names. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=297588 GDN has linked policy research institutes from 11 regions and more than 100 countries. GDN offers a range of journals services to address the difficulty faced by many researchers in the global south in accessing journal articles to support their research.There are journal articles in the following areas: Humanities, Communication, World History, Language, Global Economy and Regional Studies. For more information about GDN see: http://www.gdnet.org/middle.php?oid=245.