Music+Notes

Title and URL

 * Title: [|Music Notes]
 * URL 
 * Site is a .org. This is appropriate because the site is an informational site sponsored by an educational company.
 * Authors: Ryan Damico, Lauren Mirsky, Jesse Friedman
 * The authors do not have any specific credentials as this website was designed during the authors' senior year at Lakeland High School in New York. The site was desgined in 1998 as an entry to [|ThinkQuest], an informational website design competition

Instructional Content:

 * Site contains basic theory lessons on
 * Pitch
 * Value
 * Meter
 * Intervals
 * Scales
 * Keys
 * Triads
 * Inversions
 * Figured Bass
 * Tempo
 * Dynamics
 * Style
 * Site also contains brief history information, style information, and instrument information.
 * Finally, the site also contains professional information about careers in music
 * The website contains a [|reference] page as well as an [|awards] page
 * MENC Standards
 * Standard 4: Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines
 * Standard 5: Reading and notating music
 * Standard 6: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
 * The page is slightly outdated, last being updated in 2001. However, the main author of the original site created an updated [|sister site] at that time.

Purpose, Viewpoint:

 * This website was designed to convey music theory and history facts to its visitors as well as informations about professional careers in music.
 * [|ThinkQuest] sponsors the website as well as the competition for which it was designed.
 * While the website does note adopt a specific viewpoint and no bias is evident, it does contain a [|links] page to additional resources

Reputation:
While not many pages link to this page specifically, over 5,000 pages link to the sponsor of the webpage. Additionally, the webpage itself has won approximatley 70 awards for website design and content. Finally, the sponsor appears to be a reputable source.

Overall Evaluation:
While the site does contain good information, it is clearly dated since it was last updated in 2001. The content and information on the site was solid, but I would have liked to have seen more. I feel that each individual theory "lesson" on the site would make a good introducation to a classroom lesson on the same topic. I felt that the site was well organized and, overall, very good.

Rating: * * *

Michael Pavlik (4/5/2007)