Web Sites Internet Music Resources Elementary Music Teachers and Classroom Teachers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. www.beethovenandcompany.com (music and classroom) www.bradburnspts.com (parents and teachers) www.friendshiphouse.com (primarily teachers) www.jwpepper.com (instrumental) www.maleckimusic.com (choral) www.musicarts.com (all music) www.musicmotion.com (music-many instruments-movement/action supplies) www.musick8.com (plays, musicals, choral) www.stantons.com (choral, instrumental, vocal, piano and organ-both sacred and secular) www.westmusic.com (band and orchestra, primarily) www.creatingmusic.com (Mort Subotnick's Web site) kids may play with sounds and sketch with music www.musictheory.net (interactive lessons for beginners to advanced students; eartraining; staff paper www.teoria.com (skill-reinforcing exercises-identify intervals, chords and scales by ear) www.good-ear.com (fine-tune the ears - identification skills on advanced jazz chords; determine perfect pitch or not)
Additional Internet Sites: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. www.learnpianoonline.com (8 step-by-step lessons to be an advanced beginner) www.piano.avijon.com/index.html (Piano Education Page - find a piano teacher; parent guides) www.mutopiaproject.org (free sheet music by well-known composers) www.drumbum.com (huge selection of drum lessons) www.judyanddavid.com/cma.html (songs to sing with children) www.musicsimplymusic.com/tip-parents.htm (advice for parental support of kid endeavors) www.musicianshipbasics.com (theory quizzes) www.harmonicvision.com (Music Ace-premier music theory software for Mac and Windows) www.codamusic.com/notepad (free music notation software-scores played back as a MIDI file) www.amazon.com (search by an artist's name or browse free downloads by musical genre) www.mp3.com (independent musician's works exposed and tunes from major-label
11. artists) 12. www.lessonplanspage.com (over 2,000 lesson plans for all grade levels) 13. Activity Idea Place (1,450 + free theme-based lesson plans: for Pre-K and K) 14. Lesson Planz.com-The Lesson Plans Search Engine (3,000 + resources/plans for all grades) 15. www.bear share.com
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Music city.com (site suggested by MVESC) www.cim.edu/index.php (School Voice Search Page for Music/Performing Arts) www.cim.edu/d1Programs.php#inter (college students come and play for your students!!) www.radio-locator.com (live access to any radio program you want!!) www.freeplaymusic.com (also live access to any radio program you want!!) www.freesheetmusic.com (with Adobe Reader get free music downloads) www.The Arts Edge (The Kennedy Center) (music links by style) www.World Internet Music (music links by style) www.tucows.com - Anvil Studio 2002 (audio of composers, recorders and karaoke) Google Search Net (burn CDs for $80 charge each - then use them at school)
Curricular Resources in Music: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. http://www.cln.org/Indisclaim.html>disclaimer http://www.cln.org/themes/songs.html http://www.menc.org (research on musical development of children before birth to age nine) http://www.teaching ideas.co.uk/music/musicresourcesteachers.htm http://members.home.com/veeceet/index.html (over 50 children's songs) http://www.acd.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storsong.html (Children's Lit. Guide) http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/music.html http://www.playmusic.org/ (classical and orchestral studies) http://www.teachers.net/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Music http://www.childrensmusic.org/ (teacher materials and songs) http://www.cowboy.net/~mharper/Chmusiclist.html (projects, music sites) http://dir.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/index.html (50 + subcategories) http://members.tripod.com/~Trip/music/gallery.html (free music clip art) http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html http://www.landofmusic.com/ (songs, games, movement, books) http://jarl.cs.uop.edu/~cpiper/musiced.html (Content Standards and links) http://hyperion.advanced.org/15413/ (theory, history, styles, instruments) http://www.aosa.org (Orff Schulwerk-sing, insts., improvisation) http://www.menc.org/guides/wlc/tg04/TeachersGuide.html (3/11 WL Concert) www.music-expressions.com (innovative teaching tools) www.scottforesman.com (active learning exp.-supports educators) www.superscopetechnologies.com (change keys and tempo; record to CD) www.artsacademyamerica.org (workshops in Music, Theatre, Visual Art) http://www.mireap.net/cgi-bin/otherStates.mac/input (apply to districts - JOBS) http://electronicportfolios.com/portfolios.html. (alt. Assessment.) http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/ (creating Web pages) http://www.bsu.edu/web/cfa/music/mused/portfolios www.mmoore7@utk.edu (Natl. Symposium on Multicultural Music) www.mibac.com (Music Lessons 1 and 2, Fundamentals, Chds. Harmony) www.musicgoals.com (Music Goals by eye and ear; Rhythm-Elem-Advanc.) www.bandbasics.com (theory and notation bks. 1 and 2) www.vipstrings@earthlink.net (beginning level string program) www.kendallhunt.com (Jazz History Overview-paperback & 3 CDs) www.berkleemusic.com (Jazz Composition: Theory and Practice)
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www.teacherideaspress.com (American Musicians Making History paperbk.) www.eduscreen.com (Switched on Sound: 20th Cent. Music - Gr. 7, 8) www.emediamusic.com (300 + song-based Piano and Keyboard Methods Bk.) www.wadsworth.com/music _ d/ (PianoLab: an Introd. To Class Piano with CD)
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