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Internet Resources for Music Educators
- Armadillo's
K-12. This site has links to all subject areas, including
arts and music.
- Classroom Connect on
the Net. Internet services and reviews for music educators.
Their latest website is called TeacherConnect.
- Composers
in Electronic Residence. An interactive site designed to
explore original student composition activities in the classroom,
exchange MIDI files, and communicate with professional composers.
- Education at the Met.
This site uses opera as a vehicle for learning.
- Education Index.
Annotated links to music education resources.
- Information Resources
K-12. Cleveland State University College of Education website
with K-12 areas and student websites.
- Instrumental
Music Resources Page. Links to web sites about different
musical instruments.
- Interdisciplinary
Educational Music Links. Links to music education sites,
classical, historical, and popular music sites, MIDI and .wav
files.
- Internet
Resources for Music Teachers. Links to K-12 resources, MIDI,
and commercial websites.
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. Links for the Performing
Arts: Dance, Music, and Drama.
- Mark Corey's
Music Stuff!. This page is for band directors, orchestra
directors, choir directors, music educators and all musicians,
with an emphasis on instrumental music.
- Meet The Composer.
Meet The Composer's mission is to increase opportunities for
composers by fostering the creation, performance, dissemination,
and appreciation of their music.
- Music Education
Online. A directory of K-12 music education resources on
the Internet maintained by Larry Newman, executive director of
the Childrens Music Workshop in Los Angeles.
- Music
Education Resource Links (MERL). A great set of resources
from CMEA Bay Section member and Winter Conference clinician
Carla Piper.
- Music Educators Launch
Site. Lesson plans for K-12 teachers along with fun activities.
- Music Is and the
Value of Music in Education. Parent oriented site on the
value of music education.
- MusicNet
Interactive. Dedicated to the spread of music education.
Includes games, an encyclopedia, and information on the music
teaching profession.
- New York State
Journal: The School Music News. On-line publication of the
New York Music Educators Association.
- Lesson
Plans for Music, grades K-8. Here are links to ten elementary
or middle school music lesson plans from the Ask Eric site.
- Web
Sites and Resources for Teachers. Dr. Vicki F. Sharp and
Dr. Richard M. Sharp, Professors of Elementary Education at California
State University, Northridge, have collected sites and curriculum
resources from the Internet for teachers to use in their classrooms.
This link goes to their music resources links page.
- UCLA
Music Education Links. Resource site from the University
of California at Los Angeles for music education, the psychology
of music, and music therapy.
- Dale Wolford's
Web Site. Good materials and links from saxophonist, CMEA
Bay Section member, and Winter Conference clinician Dale Wolford
about the saxophone and music education.
- Yahoo
Music Education Links. Many music education links and links
to other areas of music.
Music Research Links:
- ArtsEdge.
National arts and education information network sponsored by
the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
- Ask ERIC. The world's
largest educational database available at no-cost to the public.
You can enter up to three terms in various combinations. This
version of the ERIC Database provides access to ERIC Document
citations from 1966 through June 1999 and ERIC Journal citations
from 1966 through April 1999.
- British
Journal of Music Education. BJME aims to provide clear, stimulating
and readable accounts of current issues in music education worldwide,
together with a section containing extended and useful book reviews.
- CAIRSS
for Music. CAIRSS for Music is a bibliographic database of
music research literature. The database is a joint venture between
faculty and staff at the University of Texas at San Antonio and
Southern Methodist University.
- Canadian Music Centre.
The Canadian Music Centre is the place to find scores, parts
and recordings of music by close to 500 Canadian composers.
- Center for Music
Research. Florida State University reasearch site related
to the central goal of bringing the best available technology
and research to music as an art form, as an educational discipline,
as a revealer of the workings of the human mind, and dedicated
to the premise that music deserves the finest
scientific inquiry that modern technology is able to support..
- College
and University Homepages. A complete listing of over 3,000
college and university homepages with links to other sources.
- Consortium of
National Arts Education Associations. The Statement of Principles
for the Value and Quality of Arts Education.
- Copyright Lawguide
for Music Educators. Guidelines for the use of copyrighted
music material for music educators.
- Courses
of Study in Sound and Music. A listing of colleges and universities
with sound and music programs.
- Eyeneer Music Archives.
An educational archival site that includes background information,
biographies, discographies, new release reviews, photos, video,
and sound samples in the areas of international music, contemporary
classical music, American music, and jazz.
- Franklin
Institute Music Education Hotlist. This site includes links
to opera, classical, jazz, reggae, instrumental, teacher resource,
and miscellaneous music sites.
- Fulbright
Fellowship Information. Information about the Fulbright Cultural
and Academic Exchange Programs.
- Getty Center for
the Arts. Online services supporting arts education from
the Getty Education Institute for the Arts (ArtsEdNet). Topics
covered range from the practical to the philosophical.
- Goals 2000 Arts Education
Partnership. The Arts Education Partnership (formerly the
Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership) is a private, nonprofit
coalition of education,arts, business, philanthropic, and government
organizations that demonstrates and promotes the essential role
of arts education in enabling all students to succeed in school,
life, and work.
- Harmony Central.
Internet resource for musicians. Departments include Guitar,
Bass, Effects, Software, Recording, MIDI, Keyboards and Synths,
Drums and Percussion, Computers and Music, and the Bands Page.
- Humanities and
Arts Pages. Links to Library of Congress and NEH-NEA online
collections.
- Internet
Experience for Music Educators . Contains articles and links
for music educators.
- Internet
Resources for Music Scholars. Maintained by the Eda Kuhn
Loeb Music Library, Harvard University. Incredible resource!
- MENC
Advocacy Network. Resources to become a supporter of music
education programs in the schools.
- Music
and Brain Information Database (MBI). Access to research
on the cognitive effects of music.
- Music Education
Resource Base. Canadian searchable database of more than
27,000 resources for music, maintained by the McPherson Library
at the University of Victoria.
- Music
Education Directory. Commercial internet directory with music
education page.
- Music Information
Resources. Web links from the Music Publishers Association.
- Musicians.com.
A website sponsored by Guitar Center. Features include musicians
search, events and promotions, musicians spotlight, cool music
links, chats and interviews, and fun and games.
- Music Net. An
internet site dedicated to the spread of Music Education and
featuring an interactive Music Education encyclopedia, tips from
inside the music profession, and exciting contests and games.
- Music Notes.
Sections include music theory, history, styles, careers, instruments,
and games.
- Music Pages.
This site contains resources for the study, composition, and
the enjoyment of music. The resources contained herein are geared
more toward the technical and compositional side of music.
- Music
Research Resources. Resources from the University of Utah.
- Music
Resources Online. This is a list of annotated links on information
technology and music scholarship.
- Music
Resources on the Internet. An extensive collection of free
music graphics and annotated links to music information, resources,
graphics, newsgroups, discussion lists, organizations, publications,
with an emphasis is on classical and jazz genres.
- Musical Resources
On The WWW. Short selection of web sites that may be of interest
to you whether you are casually interested in music or are a
working music professional.
- Music Search. MusicSearch
is a music-only search site.
- Music Teacher's
Resource Site. A web site for music teachers, written by
music teachers. Although the material featured here is geared
towards U.K. education, many teachers from all parts of the world
have found useful material here.
- NARAS Grammys In The Schools.
Grammy's in the schools website sponsored by the National Academy
of Recording Arts and Sciences.
- Nerd
World: Music Site Map. Comprehensive links to many styles
of popular and serious music throughout the world. Excellent
resource for locating musical groups.
- The New
Grove Dictionaries Website. The New Grove Dictionaries belong
to a family of world-renowned reference titles covering every
aspect of music. Titles include the Dictionaries of Music and
Musicians, American Music, Musical Instruments, Opera, Jazz,
and Popular Music.
- New
Horizons for Music Education. Website about theTheory of
Multiple Intelligences developed by Dr. Howard Gardner, co-director
of Project Zero and professor of education at Harvard University.
- The New York Public Library
Digital Library Collections. Includes the Rogers and Hammerstein
Recorded Sound archives which include the Claflin (Avery) Collection,
Cowell (Henry) Collection, Finney (Ross Lee) Collection, Ito
(Teiji) Collection, Labunski (Felix) Collection, McGuire (Mitch)
Collection, Schillinger (Joseph) Collection, Schuman (William)
Collection.
- Perception
SRIG. MENC Perception and Cognition Special Research Interest
Group home page.
- President's Committee on
Arts and Humanities. Gaining the Arts Advantage. A website
devoted to the results of a study of school districts that value
arts education.
- Research
Studies in Music Education (RSME) . An online refereed journal
fostering music education research internationally, from the
University of Utah Department of Music, Faculty of Arts.
- Schools, Communities
and the Arts: A Research Compendium. An arts education information
tool developed by Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona
State University, which contains summaries of 49 pieces of applied
and academic research that relate to the many relationships between
the arts and education along with a Quickscan table that provides
an "at-a-glance" overview of the research.
- Sibelius
Academy Music Resources. Links to Music Catalogues, Church
Music, Composing, Computer Music, MIDI, Early Music, Finnish
Music, Folk Music and World Music, Instruments, Jazz and Blues,
Music Magazines, Music and Arts Education, Music Libraries and
Archives, Music Schools and Departments (38 countries), Music
Theory and Research, Opera, Orchestras, Rock and Pop, and Other
Interesting Links.
- Worldwide
Internet Music Resources. This music resource list is offered
as a service of the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana
University.
- Yahoo's
Top Music Education Sites. Categories include rock-popular
music daily news, reviews, charts, artist and album information,
music camps, companies, courses and lessons, ear training, festivals,
guitar, journals, organizations, saxophone, schools, Suzuki method,
teaching, and web directories.
- Resources Index.
Music Technology Links:
- Association for Technology
in Music Instruction. ATMI serves as a forum for the scholarly
presentation of technical information by and for specialists
in the field of computer-assisted instruction in music and disseminates
information to an audience of nonspecialists who are users of
music CAI.
- Computer
Music Journal. Computer Music Journal is a quarterly Journal
that covers a wide range of topics related to digital audio signal
processing and electroacoustic music. It is published (in hard
copy and on-line) by MIT Press.
- Computers &
Music (Retail). Computers & Music, a retail store based
in San Francisco, has been on the cutting edge of computer music
since before the inception of MIDI in 1982. The site has information
and support about MIDI and digital audio systems for home and
professional use and software and hardware.
- Ray Dretske's Site.
Features include Test Your Musical Knowledge Quiz, Music Technology
Quiz, Tunes, Song Tracks, Music Technology Terms, Information
for Teachers, and Mediastreet CD-ROM.
- Electronic
Music. This is a collection of music resource links on the
WWW related to electronic, experimental, and computer music.
Topics include software and hardware for electronic music, MIDI,
sound files, commercial sites, mailing lists related to sound,
and many others.
- Electronic Musician.
On-line version of the magazine. EM is an excellent resource
for musicians interested in personal music production. (Note:
Music educators can receive a free subscription.)
- Harmony Central.
Internet resource for musicians. Departments include Guitar,
Bass, Effects, Software, Recording, MIDI, Keyboards and Synths,
Drums and Percussion, Computers and Music, and the Bands Page.
- Kelly's Music & Computers.
Canadian website with information about music technology use
for educators and software and hardware sales.
- Keyboard Magazine Home
Page. On-line version of the magazine. Besides articles on
areas of keyboard performance, there are reviews of hardware
and software products.
- Macintosh
Educators Website. Links include Macintosh Stuff, Arts, Fun
Stuff, Information, Sources, K-12 Districts, Kids' Sites, Language
Arts/Foreign Languages, Mathematics, Library/Media, Miscellaneous
Educational Stuff, Mystery Site, Music, Science, Social Studies,
Technology, and Teacher Chat.
- Michigan
Music Tech. Online magazine devoted to music technology.
Last update was 1997, however.
- MIDI Farm. Contains
The Field, links to all MIDI and Digital Audio sites pages on
the net. Press Releases on the latest products, The Farmer's
Almanac, new features & files to updates and calender events,
and The Library, where else can you find email addresses and
how to contact people involved in MIDI.
- MIDI Home Page. The MIDI
Manufacturers Association is the original source for information
on Musical Instrument Digital Interface technology. MMA publications
include the Official MIDI Specification (which includes General
MIDI, Standard MIDI Files, and more), and the Downloadable Sounds
Level 1 Specification for better control of MIDI music reproduction.
- MIDIWeb - User
Supported MIDI Web Site. The MidiWeb™ contains a huge
resource of information on MIDI related subjects. You will also
find many interesting do it yourself projects and some demo-,
share- and freeware programs.
- Don Muro Homepage. This
site has information on the Don Muro Summer Institute, articles,
and other publications about music technology.
- Music software companies. See our software reviews
and links on the Bay Section technology
page.
- Res Rocket. A site
for MIDI music on-line collaboration over the world wide web.
- Shareware Music Machine.
Shareware Music Machine is the world's biggest music software
site with over 2,200 music software titles currently available
to download.
- Society
for Information Technology and Teacher Education. Website
for the information network of the Society for Information Technology
and Teacher Education (InSITE). The network is dedicated to exploring
ways in which the Internet can benefit teacher education programs
around the world.
- Standard
MIDI Files on the Net. Huge list of sites with MIDI files
containing over 20,000 unique links.
- Technology Institute for
Music Educators. Excellent resource for music technology
in education, and the site includes standards for teaching with
technology.
- WholeArts Internet
Music Conservatory. Online courses in music theory, composition,
and appreciation.
- Yahoo's
list of MIDI files sources.
- Resources Index.
Music Theory Links:
- Ear Training
Page. Includes intervals, chords, scales, advanced, and final
tests.
- Ear
Training. Eartraining is a shareware program for Apple Macintosh.
It features intervals, chords,
scales, perfect pitch, sound output via the Mac or MIDI, and
individual statistics.
- MuSICA - The Music and
Science Information Computer Archive. MuSICA Research Notes
is a newsletter issued Winter, Spring and Fall, that provides
reports and critical analysis of research on music and behavior,
including education, child development, psychology, cognitive
sciences, neuroscience, clinical medicine, music therapy and
allied fields.
- Music
Theory. Links to general western music theory and contemporary
music theory sites and articles.
- Music
Theory Online. MTO is the electronic journal of the Society
for Music Theory. MTO is published six times a year. Each issue
includes a target article, book reviews, and reports from a distinguished
panel of international correspondents.
- Music
Theory Reference. An online version of the music theory help
that is built in to the MiBAC MUSIC LESSONS software program.
The software provides extensive and flexible study of note reading,
the circle of fifths, key signatures, major/minor scales, modes,
jazz scales, scale degrees, intervals, and note/rest durations.
- Music theory software. See our software reviews and
links on the Bay Section technology
page.
- 194
Documents About Music Theory. Annotated links by Kelley Underwood,
published 1997.
- Practical Music Theory.
In English and Spanish. Promotes teoria -- music theory and ear-training
software. Also contains books and articles about music theory,
interactive music theory exercises, and music theory questions
to test your music theory skills.
- Resources
for Music Theory Instruction. Links categories include miscellaneous
Internet resources, software, journals, and organizations.
- Society
for Music Theory. An on-line resource for the educational
organization located at UC Santa Barbara.
- Solomon's Music
Theory & Composition Resources. Contains many personal
contributions by Larry Solomon, plus articles and links on John
Cage, sound files, music theory, research, composers, compositional
resources, music instruction and education.
- The Soundry.
Site about the physics of sound: how we hear it, how we record
it, and more. The site includes an Applications of Sound section
and an Interactive Sound Lab.
- The Tonal
Centre. The Tonal Centre is an interactive site for music
composers and theorists which explains and demonstrates some
of the key concepts of tonality; including chords, scales, cadences,
and modulation. Most of the musicalexamples are illustrated with
a MIDI file.
- Resources Index
Links for Conductors:
- Carnegie Hall.
Take a virtual tour of the hall, check out the concert schedule,
learn about its history, or visit the gift shop.
- The Center for the Promotion
of Contemporary Composers. The Internet's largest informational
resource for composers and performers of contemporary art music.
- The Conductors
Guild. A music service organization devoted exclusively to
the advancement of the art of conducting and to serving the artistic
and professional needs of conductors. The Guild is international
in scope, with a membership of over 1,800 individual and institutional
members.
- Ensemble. Band, Choir,
and Orchestral Directors/Leaders page.
- Andrew Levin's
Conductors Home Page. Web page of the conductor of the Clemson
University Orchestra. Includes links to conducting resources,
bloopers from student papers, jokes, etc.
- Performing
Arts Library. Archives and files of the University of Maryland
collection.
- The
World of Wind Ensembles & Symphonic Bands. Contains current
information pertinent to the field. Includes a chat area, a resource
guide for repertoire, and submitted programs from around the
world.
- Resources Index.
Brass Instrument Links:
- B-flat Music Production.
Unique trumpet music, links, and recordings.
- Bibliography
of Writings about Brass. This listing cumulates the bibliographies
published by David Lasocki of Indiana University in the Brass
Society Journal since 1990. It covers writings about Western
brass instruments and their makers, making, original performance
situations, performers, performance practices, repertory, and
depiction in works of art through the nineteenth century.
- French Horn
Links. And other information for Horn lovers from Karen Martin.
- Horn Players
FAQS. A collection of commonly-asked questions about the
French Horn maintained by Ron Boerger.
- Instrument
Pages. Brass website maintained by David J. Brinkman, Assistant
Professor, Department of Music, University of Wyoming, Laramie.
- International Horn Society. An international
organization for people with a mutual interest in the Horn.
- International
Trombone Association. Dedicated to the advancement of trombone
teaching, performance and literature.
- International Trumpet
Guild. Organization to promote communications among trumpet
players around the world and to improve the artistic level of
performance, teaching, and literature associated with the trumpet.
- The
Trombone Page. Contains addresses of music and instrument
companies, employment information, ensembles with trombones,
equipment specifications, trombone related links, professional
trombonists
with web pages, a trombone bibliography, trombone news and a
photo gallery.
- Trumpet Player's
International Network. The TPIN is a virtual meeting place
for trumpet players of all ages and experience levels from all
over the world housed at Dana College, a small liberal arts college
near Omaha, Nebraska.
- Tubists
Universal Brotherhood. TUBAonline is a wealth of resources,
links, friends and colleagues for tuba and euphonium players.
- Resources Index.
Woodwind Instrument Links:
- Bassoon
Home Page. Information on playing the bassoon, the instrument
and its history, and home pages of other bassoonists.
- Clarinet
Music. Clarinet music in the public domain.
- The Flute
Network. The Flute Network is a non-profit educational corporation
which is now in its 15th year of serving flutists, flute teachers,
and the people who love them. This web site is designed to augment
the print publication of The Flute Network.
- Flute
World. The largest supplier of flute music, flutes and piccolos
for both professional and student use.
- Huub's
Oboe Page. Information and links about the oboe.
- International
Double Reed Society. A world-wide organization of oboe and
bassoon players, instrument
manufacturers and enthusiasts.Their website contains areas with
information about double reed publications, MIDI, conference
and membership information and directory, the IDRS Archives,
links, OnLine email services, Gillet-Fox competitions, and fingerings.
- International
Sax Home Page. Saxophonists web site contains reviews of
what other saxophonists are doing, articles about the saxophone,
news from the saxophone world and beyond, interviews, general
information, history and statistics, links, and access to the
saxophone.org FTP site to download pictures, sounds and MIDI
files.
- International
Clarinet Association. A site about the artistry, technique,
teaching and physics of the clarinet and the activities of the
ICA.
- Saxophone.
Commercial site is dedicated to Adolphe Sax and his marvelous
invention, the saxophone.
- Resources Index.
Stringed Instrument Links:
- American Federation of Violin
& Bow Makers. Website for a federation of over one hundred
of the finest makers, dealers, and restorers in the United States
Canada, and France.
- American String Teachers
Association. The American String Teachers Association with
the National School Orchestra Association promotes excellence
in string and orchestra teaching and playing.
- American String
Teachers Association of California. Website for the California
branch of the ASTA and NSOA.
- Bow
and Bowed String Instruments Resources. Seattle violin maker
David Van Zandt provides and excellent set of links related to
the violin, bows, and/or bowed stringed instruments on his website.
- Bowed Electricity.
Site about the electric violin and what non-classical violinists
are doing.
- Catgut Acoustical Society.
The CAS brings together researchers in musical acoustics, violin
makers, composers, string players, and lovers of the music they
make to promote the application of scientific principles to the
construction of instruments in the violin family.
- Dansm's
Acoustic Guitar Page. This site contains an acoustic guitar
song page, links to other acoustic guitar sites, and lessons
for acoustic guitarists. It encompasses all types of music from
rock to folk in all eras of modern music. Lots of guitar information,
links and tablature.
- The
Electric Guitar. From an exhibit shown at the National Museum
of American History, 1996 -1997.
- Guitar Base. The only
online community for vintage guitar enthusiasts.
- Guitar Net. A commercial
site, featuring the chord of the week, guitar theory and technique,
and links.
- The CMEA Bay Section Guitar Page.
Interviews of San Francisco Bay Area guitarists and instructional
pages about playing the guitar.
- The Harp
Page. Large comprehensive set of links for and about harp
players.
- International
Society of Bassists. Official website has features on Bass
Clubs, Bass Events, Summer Workshops and Festivals, Double Bass
Literature, Moderated Forums, and Double Bass Related Links.
- Internet Cello Society.
An international cyber-community of cellists seeking to advance
the knowledge and joy of cello playing around the world.
- Internet
Resources for Double Bass Pedagogy. A resource primarily
for the classroom string teacher whose primary instrument is
not the double bass, but has young bassists in the classroom.
- Jazz Guitar Online.
Internet publication for the jazz guitarist.
- Jazzstrings
Homepage. Website about jazz string players past and present,
with an emphasis on violinists. Contains player lists, ensembles,
and discographies.
- Maestronet
Home Page. Includes an Instrument Showroom with a database
about instruments and bows, and a Conservatory with graded sheet
music for students and teachers of piano, violin, viola and cello
with matching MIDI files, and a discussion area.
- New Directions
in Cello Playing. Website for a book about natural, tension-free
ways of playing and presents anatomically-improved techniques
that prevent performance-related injury.
- Orchestralist.
An international forum for conductors, composers, players, and
their colleagues in the orchestra business.
- The South Bay Guitar Society.
Promoting classical guitar in the Bay Area. Read the interview
of SBGS president Daniel Roest on the CMEA Bay Section Guitar
Page.
- Stickwire.
Webpage about the Chapman Stick, an electric fretted stringed
musical instrument that is played with a tapping technique.
- String
Pedagogy Notebook. Contains a searchable index of graded
orchestral literature, techniques for the right hand and the
left hand, ear training, chamber music, books and information
about strings and the teaching process, and QuickTime movies.
- Henry Strobel, Violin
Maker & Publisher. Henry Strobel's professional manuals
on violins, violin making,
and repair are used in violin shops and schools worldwide.
- Twinkle,
Twinkle, Little Star. Website about the Suzuki method for
strings.
- The Viola da Gamba
Society of America. Website for the society of players, builders,
publishers, distributors, restorers and others sharing a serious
interest in music for viols and other early bowed string instruments.
- The Viola Web Site. Links
to various viola sites and a forum for violists to discuss, work
together and inform each other of their viola-related activities,
such as upcoming events, plans for the next viola congress, and
the development of new chapters.
- Violink - The World of
Violins. Contains links to more than 3,300 searchable resources
related to stringed instruments all over the world.
- Violin Making and
Care. Site for violin maker Hans Johannsson includes samples
of sound and pictures of his instruments, a sequential description
of the construction of a violin from A-Z, entries on wood, varnish,
glue, tools, design/proportion and instrument care.
- The
Way String Instruments Went. Site about the history of string
instrument making.
