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This interactive explores the variety of musical instruments in orchestras from baroque to modern. Players can learn how instruments are made, create their own orchestral arrangements, find out about famous players and composers, and put instruments into their historical context. Guided listening is combined with questions about the history,

The Official site of the Professional Learning Network for Music Educators

George Lucas, a man who epitomizes creativity and innovation, has a lot of great things to say about education reform in this blog post.

This open source book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. It guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives through play, games, creativity, and movement. Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.

Upcoming movie based on Sack's excellent book Musicophilia

Amazing resource for Jazz!