Thrivent: 500 Years of Lutheran Music (links)

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has a website on the "Celebrating the Musical Heritage of the Lutheran Church" multimedia package it made available to Lutheran congregations several years ago.

From the start page:

Within this site you will find:

• Key remarks from respected music experts
  
• Dozens of audio samples from the most famous composers from each century
  
• Background and detail information to provide perspective and context
  
• Photographs and/or artwork from each time period

Although not all resources from the compact-disc set are duplicated here, you will find musical samples, historical information and expert commentary valuable as you learn more about Lutheran Heritage and Lutheran music's role over the past 500 years.

I got there from a page of links and resources on a personal website put up by Gary Urban, an information technology specialist at Mankato State University and an active member of a LC-MS church in Mankato. Looks like a very useful website.