Links

Futurism and the Futurists
This is a site dedicated to documenting the Futurist movement in the late 19th and at the turn of the 20th century
http://www.futurism.org.uk/futurism.htm

The Futurism Manifesto
This is another futurism site with the complete manifesto
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/manifesto. html

Luigi Russolo's 'Intonarumori'
This has some interesting information on Luigi Rusolo and the Futurists
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machi nes/futurist/

Dave's Percussion Library
A database of drum and percussion information
http://www.davesabine.com/music/library/d efault.asp?ID_list=8

Percussion Instrument Books
A list of percussion instrument books
http://www.musictrader.com/bookper.html

Bar Methods
List of Mallet Percussion Methods
http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcz/BarMethods.1.h tml

Music Library: Guides to Research in Percussion
A resource to aid in researching percussion topics
http://www.lib.utk.edu/~music/guides/percu ssion.html

Music Departments
A list of music departments worldwide
http://sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Links/Musdept s/

The History of Experimental Music in Northern California
A chronology of events in one of the centers for experimental music
http://www.o-art.org/history/

Drum Lesson Database
A database of lessons on various topics on the web
http://www.drumsdatabase.com/

Tap Space Productions
A good model to use for music publishers websites, good percussion titles
http://tapspace.com/index2.html

Early Percussion Ensemble Recordings
A nice catalogue of early percussion ensemble recordings
http://www.essentialmusic.com/archives/w orks_performed.html

Library of Congress
Slonimsky's collection within the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/special/Sloni msky/Slonimsky-HTML-Doc11.htm

Oberlin College Percussion Ensemble Programs
A list of the percussion ensemble programs from Oberlin College
http://www.oberlin.edu/percussn/events/pa stopg.html

'A New, Self and Complete System of Drum Beating, Including the Reveille, Troop, Officer Calls, Signals, Salutes and the Whole of the Camp Duty as Practiced At Headquarters, Washington City; Intended for the United States Army and Navy'
http://www.fifedrum.org/resources/music/ashworth

'Drummer's and Fifer's Guide' - George F. Bruce and Daniel Emmett
http://www.civilwarmusic.net/bruce_emmett.php

Percussion Physics

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/music/percus.html

Afro-Caribbean

Mamborama
This web site has a brief glossary and historical information
http://www.mamborama.com/cuba_music. html

Grupo Fantasia
This web site has a brief glossary of various Afro-Caribbean Dances and Rhythms
http://www.grupofantasia.com/

Salsa History
This web site contains information on videos and recordings of Salsa music
http://salsavideoreviews.org/

University of Salsa
This web site has a nice glossary of Salsa Music terms
http://www.planetsalsa.com/university_of_s alsa/glossaryae.htm

African

Foundation Course In African Dance Drumming
Good information and excellent links
http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/ Foundation.html

Djembe-L FAQ - Your Number One, Global, Online Source
A nice website on djembe and related information
http://www.drums.org/djembefaq/index.htm

"A Guide to Jembe"
An article by Eric Charry, an American ethnomusicologist who specializes in the music of West Aftrica, about a drum used by the Mande. (This is an unedited expanded version of an article published in Percussive Notes 34, no. 2 [April 1996]: 66-72.)
http://echarry.web.wesleyan.edu/jembearticl e/article.html

African Drumming
Dancedrummer.com is an outstanding web resource maintained by Kevin O'Sullivan, who studied African drumming in Ghana as Fulbright scholar in 1994-95. Among this site's resources are a "virtual drum museum" that allows you to "play" and hear the various drums in an Ewe drum ensemble, a site on "traditional rhythms" that demonstrates how each drum functions in an ensemble piece, and several other links to pages on the history and culture of the region. (Warfield)
http://www.dancedrummer.com/index.html

Djembefola
West African Djembe and Dun Dun drumming
www.djembefola.com

Middle Eastern

Middle Eastern Drum History
A brief history of drums in the Middle East
http://www.ghawazee.org/rhy/his.html

Jas's-- Middle Eastern Rhythms FAQ (for dumbek, etc.)
A breif lesson on rhythms for various middle eastern drums
http://www.ghawazee.org/rhy/rhythm.html

Free Drum Lessons and Hand Drum Rhythms Notated
A collection of basic hand drum lessons and rhythms
http://www.alternativeculture.com/music/rhyt hm2.htm

Frame Drum Central
Good information on Frame Drumming
http://rhythmweb.com/frame/index.html

Middle Eastern Rhythm Guide
Description of different Middle Eastern dance rhythms
http://www.blackroot.org/drumming/Guide0. html

Indonesian

Gamelan
This is a website that talks about the different instruments in a Javanese Gamelan orchestra. It describes seventeen different instruments in total and has some very detailed pictures on the web site as well. There is also a brief history of the Gamelan and a brief description on what to expect at a Gamelan concert. This would be an excellent resource for a middle school music teacher wanting to introduce Indonesian music to his/her class. (Lawrence Shane)
http://www.joglosemar.co.id/gamelan.html

Gamelan Sekar Jaya (Balinese Gamelan in America)
This web site, devoted to the Gamelan, is maintained by a non-profit volunteer organization (GSJ) dedicated to the study and presentaion of Balinese performing arts. Places to look on this site are the library, which has useful articles on gamelan, and the most impressive was the Interactice Media section (Shockwave required) where you can "play" a Calung and a Balinese Gamelan. (Beth Bichler)
http://www.gsj.org/index.cfm

Gamelan Music
This site focuses on Gamelan music. It has history, music samples, geography, and gamelan instruments. It would be good from middle school through high school students. It is very organized, with colorful pictures and graphics, and has a lot of information. (Becky White)
http://alek.zipzap.ch/gamelan/inde_eng.htm

Japanese/Taiko

Taiko
Another informative Taiko website
http://www.drumdojo.com/world/taiko.htm

Kobushi Table of Contents
Japanese Drumming website
http://www.kobushi.com/contents.htm

Taiko Drumming
Another site on Taiko, good interviews of players
http://www.dmamusic.org/taikowithtoni/perf ormances.html

Steel Drums

How Steel Drums are Made
Good information on the construction of steel drums and other background iformation
http://www.blarg.net/~toucans/Toc/makePa n.html

When Steel Talks
Excellent website of information, interviews, and recordings
http://www.basementrecordings.com/nap/h book/hb3376.htm

Brazilian

Brazilian Hand Drums
Same link as before, but with focus on Brazilian instruments
http://www.alternativeculture.com/music/rhyt hm2.htm

Play Pandeiro
Pandeiro lessons and other information
http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/easy/731/pand eiro2.htm

India

Tabla.com
Information on Tabla drums, including performers
http://www.tabla.com/tablahpg.html

THE TABLA SITE
This website contains almost everything you would ever want to know about the Tabla. It has a great chart on how and where to hit the drum to produce the mnemonic syllables. It includes some wonderful pictures, and their articles provide very useful information on the different musical forms. There is also an illustrated article on the cyclic form that really helps one understand their uses of rhythm and meter, and there is an amazing glossary that contains hundreds of Indian musical terms clearly defined. This is a great overview on North Indian music. (Anja K. Wax)
http://www.chandrakantha.com/tablasite/

Basic Overview of North Indian Tabla
Focus on the North Indian style of Tabla performing. It is a sub-section of the previous site
http://chandrakantha.com/tablasite/articles/ overview.htm

Ireland and The British Isles

The Bodhr"n Page
Lessons and Information on the Bodhr"n
http://www.ceolas.org/instruments/bodhran/

Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America
This website contains traditional folk songs of each country. The website lists numerous songs in chronological order dating back from the 17th century to a few songs composed during the 1900's. Each song listed has information about the piece including its concept and origin. Also listed are the lyrics and related links on additional information about the song. Each country has links that briefly discuss its history and biographies of its native composers. This site is a wonderful resource for teachers. (Suzanne McPherson)
http://www.contemplator.com/ireland/

Celtic Music
Ceolas is one the largest web sites for celtic music established since 1994. It provides the history of celtic music, instruments used, profiles of artist, reviews, sound samples, and plenty other forms of resources in dance and culture. This would be a great source of information for teachers and students from middle school to the college level. (Edrick Rhodes)
http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html

Drum Circles / World Music

Drum Circle Hand Out
Drum Circle handout and activities
http://w3.iac.net/~moonweb/Drumming/Dru mCircleHandout.html

World Music Central
As described by the title this site is a World Music nexus that can be best described as an up-to-date "World Music Magazine." Providing everything from CD and book reviews to concert schedules around the globe World Music Central is an eclectic array of world music information. Some of the particular resources of interest displayed on the site are: a glossary of world music instruments with definitions, a forum for relaying your questions to the world, and interviews with leading world music artists. Though this site may not help much in specialized directed research of a particular culture, it will provide you with an up-close look at what is happening in world music today. (Alex Panagiotacos)
http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/

The Educational Cyberplayground Ethnic Music Page
The content on this awsome website is too rich to list, but let it suffice to say that it would be a priceless tool to the music teacher. It provides numerous ways and forms to integrate folklore and ethnomusicology into the K-12 classrooms, as well as providing links to many external sites. While too complex and wordy for most students, it would be a must-visit for any music teacher. (Aristides Salgueiro)
http://www.cyberpg.com/Teachers/folk.html

Jazz

Solo Vibraphone Discography
Solo Vibraphone Discography
http://wind.cc.whecn.edu/%7Egundet/Solo_ Vibes/Discography.html

Transcriptions of jazz vibraphone solos
A list of Jazz Vibraphone Transcriptions
http://members.aol.com/russg1776/vibetra n.htm

The ABC's of Chord Voicings
Great lessons and theories on voicing chords in jazz for mallet players
http://www.malletjazz.com/lessons/voicings .html

Jazz Studies Store
Helpful products by a former UCF sabbatical replacement
http://Jazz-studies.com/

Percussion Programs

Southwestern Percussion Studies
UCF alum Thad Anderson, Director of Percussion Studies at Southwestern University
http://www.southwestern.edu/~andersot