music education links
Please visit these terrific music education, education-based, and just-for-fun sites. Links for music-related businesses can be found in the music business directory. This is an ever-growing list, so please submit any sites you feel are appropriate. Unlinked sections are still being developed.

Links for Music Education in General Links for Elementary/Early Childhood Music Education
Links on Education Music Education Organizations
Links on Choral, Band, & Orchestral Links for Individual Instruments
Music Links for Kids Links about Sacred/Church Music
Links to Sites by Music Teachers Computer and Web Sources
Links for the Young and Young at Heart

Links for Music Education in General

American Music Education Initiative The American Music Education Initiative (AMEI) of the National Music
Foundation is designed to identify, recognize and support the creative educational accomplishments of teachers who use American music in the classroom.

About.com Musician's Exchange Directory of music schools, teachers, jobs, software, and other related resources.

About.com Teachers Corner Just for music educators!

A Passion for Jazz History of Jazz music origins, styles and musicians featuring photo gallery, timeline, festivals, webcasts, piano chords, scales, online lessons and music teacher locator.

About.com Classical Music-Music Education Links!

Earplane: Online Ear Training Earplane is a free multilingual eartraining site. Work alone or compete with others on hiscore sums. Beginners through experts can follow progress on private statistics pages. Over 200 levels of exercises, and new tests are developed monthly.

Applause Tips, Tricks, and Secrets That Will Launch Your Music Performance or Production Career! Resource for the teachers or students who want to develop or launch a performance career.

Music Education at DataDragon Stuff for kids and resource links

Education Line.com My good friend Deborah Jeter' page.

Music Assessment Website-Developed by Edward P. Asmus, Ph.D. at the University of Miami

ArtsEdge Wonderful source for all the arts, including e-mail lists.

K-12 Resources for Music Educators Extensive list of links for just about every avenue of music teaching

American Music Conference Organization dedicated to music education and its promotion

Richard Robinson's Tunebook A collection of downloadable folk tunes from all over the world.

Sharon's Education Corner Wonderful source for students to do research.

Private Lessons OnlineSite for promoting your studio or to find a private teacher. Includes discussion boards, performance dates, and more

World in Tune Music Education Curriculum including history, art, math, and humanities, with music as the core.

Music Notes, Inc. Developing reading skills through the language of music 

D3 Music Learning Network A community of websites specializing in online music education.  

Learning about Leonardo a multidisciplinary critical thinking project website

TeachList.com-Another great resource for locating teachers

MusicTheory.net-An awesome interactive music theory lesson site by Ricci Adams. Great for college student reviews!

M.U.S.I.C-M.U.S.I.C. is a nonprofit organization promoting the interdisciplinary use of popular music in education.

What Is Jazz? In a four part ARTSEDGE lecture series, recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., Dr. Billy Taylor, noted jazz pianist, historian, and educator, shares glimpses of his extensive knowledge of jazz music from its roots in the African-American slavery experience, through the early days of ragtime, and onward through swing, bop, and progressive jazz.

Jazz in America- Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. Use this site for lesson plans and more ideas on teaching jazz.

Musica Viva-Free sheet music downloads!

Rhythm Masters-a great site for teaching counting and rhythm value assessment

The Classical Music Navigator-Classical reference site that has compiled information on important classical composers and their works,arrayed these data in a fashion making it easier for the novice or casual
listener to identify additional materials that are allied to his or her already-existing "points of
familiarity."

The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique-More detailed information on this standard in performance and relaxation

The Alexander Technique for Musicians-More information on this great practice specifically for musical performance

Music Education Resource Links-This music education homepage is organized to provide links to curriculum resources for each of the nine national content standards as presented by the National Standards for Art Education.

Discovery.com-Kathy Schrock-Very comprehensive, thorough section on several great resources for teachers

Texas School Music Project-Developed by the faculty at Stephan F. Austin State University.

mymusicindex.com-a quick reference, music information resource

This Day in Music-have a small daily trivia ready for your kids!

Music ABC-Free sheet music each month

MSN Groups-Music Education Resource-community for music teachers with hundreds of useful sites

I Learn Music-Look here to see free to use lesson plans for your classroom along with excellent teacher resources.

Ancient-Future-a place where new cross-cultural music and dance is created by learning from the world's great ancient traditions.

Dr. Phil-order a tape of his show concerning the importance of music education

St. Marguerite Catholic School Site-some good directions for tinikling

JeffCo Public Schools-Includes good resources for music education

School Music Matters-Plank Road Publishing's terrific website on music education advocacy

How to Make a Clay Ocarina

Directions to the Cha-Cha Slide

From the Teacher School Music Project-How a fourth grade class used "Giraffes Can't Dance" and turned it into music

Jefferson County Schools Teacher Powerpoint Presentations-includes powerpoints on the performing arts

Powerpoint Games from Leanna Prater,Technology Resource Teacher,Fayette County Public Schools, Lexington, Kentucky

Ceremonial Music Online-download military songs for free

15 Creative Listening Adventures- from WDAV 89.9 classical station, a service of Davidson College

LessonMatch.com- listings of qualified private teachers in the Metro Atlantic Georgia area

Links for Elementary Music

Elementary General Music Teaching and Learning Center

Recorder in the Kodaly Classroom

Children's Songs by David Saphra Check this one out for midi-files!

Music Education Online Site maintained by Larry Newman, director of the Children's Music Workshop of Los Angeles

Music Education Bulletin Boards-What a great resource!

Suzuki Violin Teachers Central-teaching points, directory, and other resources

Recorder Fingering Charts of Several Varieties

Funkijam-Music Exploration for the Next Generation

Singing Guinea Pigs-Just for fun, and you can teach pitch and ascending/descending patterns

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