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kjcute

Music Tech Teacher - 0 views

  • extension of the music technology and band classroom at Green Acres Middle School in Birmingham, AL
  • elementary students are learning to read, write, compose, publish and perform their music. Student work, videos, photos and music compositions are posted on this site
  • technology links, quizzes, resources and information to all music teachers interested in using technology to enhance music instruction
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    This site contains lessons, worksheets, and quizzes for young music students. In addition, there are links to other music tech related resources and suggested reading materials and other supplies
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    This is the website of a music teacher in Alabama. She has free music theory lessons and TONS of theory games and quizzes. This teacher made them all herself and shares how she did it. The site is directed toward elementary age students, though you could get away with middle school students too. High school teachers might want to create their own games.
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    This page gives a great example of how a music technology program can work. It also includes lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes, and links to completed student projects.
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    This website has useful information on using technology to teach music. There lessons and quizzes to use.
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    This is one of my favorite websites and I use it frequently at school. There are over 140 elementary music quizzes, puzzles and games. There are lessons, a piano practice interface, and worksheets all about music notes, rhythms, instruments, composers, and more. This site also incorporates the use of NoteFlight and showcases student work. There are also links and resources for music technology available on the site.
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    This website contains various lessons, worksheets and interactive elements for students and instructors in a general music to high school theory classroom.  It contains a large library of music worksheets for lesson plan strategies!
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    This website contains various lessons, worksheets and interactive elements for students and instructors in a general music to high school theory classroom.  It contains a large library of music worksheets for lesson plan strategies!
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    Ms. Karen Garrett has provided a website that is comprehensive, interactive and impressive for a classroom teacher.  Her lessons, worksheets and quizzes/games are excellent resources to use for beginner piano, note reading, rhythms, basic music history and music theory.  
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    Music Tech Teacher offers cloud based music theory lessons and quizzes for learners of all ages.
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    This website is chock full of activities, quizzes, worksheets, and more. A good number of the quizzes are interactive, which would be great for technology centered music classrooms. Though a good number of documents revolve around piano, there is plenty of material on the site that would be great to use with your students.
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    This website is chock full of activities, quizzes, worksheets, and more. A good number of the quizzes are interactive, which would be great for technology centered music classrooms. Though a good number of documents revolve around piano, there is plenty of material on the site that would be great to use with your students.
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    The purpose of this resource is to provide free instructional content for music teachers. The site is also used to provide music technology links, quizzes, resources and information to all music teachers interested in using technology to enhance music instruction.
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    Music Tech Teacher offers music based quizzes and games along with information about lessons, and band.
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    The Music Tech Teacher website is interested and contains several menus including class lessons, quizzes, and examples of student work. The music tech lessons look great and seem pretty comprehensive on my quick review.
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    Amazing resource for lesson plans, worksheets, and games to teach students about a wide variety of music topics. This website would be great for creating lesson plans for subs and would also be a great resource if you can't find printed worksheets that address theory. The games are also fun and educational, asking students to identify instruments, tempos, etc. and can act as quizzes that can be scored and printed out. Great resource!
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    Music Tech Teacher is an open resource offered by Karen Garrett as an extension of her own music classes she had previously been teaching. Ms. Garrett offers free lessons, worksheets and assessments that can be downloaded as .pdfs and used by any teachers looking for materials that could be used within their own classrooms. Ms. Garrett's resources also have a strong focus on teachers looking to specifically make use of technology in their classes.
marshallb85

IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music - 2 views

shared by marshallb85 on 27 Mar 14 - Cached
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    IMSLP is on online library of music that is now held in the public domain. It is a resource that can be freely used to print copies of music for use in your classroom for free! This resource is especially useful for string orchestras, as entire catalogs of music from such great composers as Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven can be found in the archive.
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    IMSLP is on online library of music that is now held in the public domain. It is a resource that can be freely used to print copies of music for use in your classroom for free! This resource is especially useful for string orchestras, as entire catalogs of music from such great composers as Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven can be found in the archive.
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    Public domain music is free for downloading here. For many compositions, there are several editions from which you can choose. An essential for every musician.
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    This is a wonderful site for free music and recordings of all kinds.
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    IMSLP is a valuable resource for classical sheet music. It allows teachers and conductors to download scores and parts for free.
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    Sharing the world's public domain music.
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    The International Music Score Library Project (or IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library, offers a wealth of free music scores for download. The site allows listeners to listen to many of the compositions (via midi or recording) and the public domain scores can be downloaded as PDF and printed for professional or personal use simply by accepting a disclaimer.
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    This is my favorite go to wiki site for public domain sheet music. There thousands of works from thousands of composers. You can find almost anything that is in the public domain. This is great for personal use, or to direct students looking for music. Another great use for this sight is for score study.
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    A "must have" resource for any music educator. This is a free-access extensive music library with hundred of thousand scores published in 26 different languages. Musicians can browse scores by composers, nationality, time-periods, instrumentation/genres, by melody, etc.
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    This is the go-to place for public domain music. "Happy Birthday" is here, but I am sure many more arrangements to come soon. 
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    IMSLP is a great resource for finding music to study, or doing research about composers, orchestras, compositions, etc. My students have to do a research paper each semester, and this is their primary reference for the assignment. A great, educational tool.
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    This website is a tool I often use when I need to find a specific part I am missing from a score set. It has thousands of composers and pieces that are used by music teachers and available in free domain. In addition, this website also offers a score breakdown by composer, nationality, instrumentation, time period, as well as recordings by well known musicians or performing groups from all over the world. Not only are you able to have access to music, but you can access the Naxos Music Library if you have a subscription. You are able to share your thoughts and our questions by the use of the forums and discussions. This website has various ways you can participate whether it is in a forum, contribution to submitting a score or recording, or a community project
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    One can find public domain music on this site, available for download. The library is constantly being updated with new pieces and recordings available for free. Some popular pieces even have copies of original manuscripts and updated versions.
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    This website has a large collection of public domain sheet music. Students can access this site and find a private study piece or something to work on for class.
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    This website is a hub for public domain sheet music including full scores, parts, and even recordings of pieces. It's free to use and incredible if you're on a budget for ensembles. quartets and solo work.
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    This is a database for scores and parts that are public domain and new compositions from unknown composers. This would be a good place to look for repertoire for performing ensembles. Students could also be directed here to look for music to work on their own for solos and chamber groups. This database also includes method books for individual instruments. All downloads are free. 
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    Where you can share the world's public domain music.
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    International Music Score Library Project hosts scores and parts to public domain compositions. Scores can be found to many greats throughout history, and this would make a good resource for a music history course.
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    Over 119,000 compositions in the public domain can be found here for free. This is a great resource for musicians and can be used for research, performing, and arranging. Some pieces include recordings.
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    An online resource for downloading pdf and mp3's of music scores and audio that is within the public domain for legal print and download.
kristin mckinley

Documents - Michael Watson: Musician, Teacher, Bassist, Tuning CD and Tuning Website - 0 views

  • Educational DocumentsThis page contains scale & arpeggio sheets and flash cards to help students learn the fundamentals of music on their string instrument.Scale & Arpeggio Music (these match the Scale & Arpeggio Recordings) Violin * Viola * Cello *Bass *Major ScalesMajor ScalesMajor ScalesMajor Scales Melodic Minor ScalesMelodic Minor ScalesMelodic Minor ScalesMelodic Minor ScalesHarmonic Minor ScalesHarmonic Minor ScalesHarmonic Minor ScalesHarmonic Minor ScalesMajor ArpeggiosMajor ArpeggiosMajor ArpeggiosMajor ArpeggiosMinor ArpeggiosMinor ArpeggiosMinor ArpeggiosMinor Arpeggios*All files are 2 octaves, and are in PDF FormatScale & Arpeggio RecordingsThe Scale & Arpeggio Recordings correspond to the Scale & Arpeggio Music (see above) that have helped many of my students play better in tune. Over the years, I have sold these recordings all around the world, including North & South America, Europe, and Asia. Just recently, I have also made these files available for download for Violin and Cello, and other instruments will follow soon.  There are two ways to purchase: Scale CD Order Page for All StringsDownload Violin Recording from CD Baby & Download Cello Recording from CD BabyNote Reading Flash Cards These files are in pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format.** I suggest printing these on card stock for durability. On the back are fingerings as well as note names for the instrument. However, I also use these flashcards for teaching clefs to other instruments such as treble clef reading for viola, cello and bass. Front of Flashcards (Notes on staff lines) Back of Flashcards (Note names & fingerings) Clef Violin A & D strings Violin A & D strings Treble Violin G & E strings Violin G & E strings Treble Viola A & D strings Viola A & D strings Alto Viola G & C strings Viola G & C s
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    This site is great for finding flash cards for all of the string instruments. Front and back flash cards are able to be printed from a PDF format. The notes are big enough for students and also has the fingerings as well as the notes written on the back.
dluddy

IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music - 0 views

shared by dluddy on 09 Feb 19 - No Cached
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    This website contains PDFs of music that is available for free to download in the United States. The music is public domain or available via a Creative Commons license. There is also an option to purchase some music. While bandmusicpdf.org is strictly for wind band music, IMSLP contains music for band and orchestra, as well as vocal and other instrumental works. This is very helpful with finding older music or replacing parts, especially with music that is out of print.
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    The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is a great site to find timeless works of instrumental and vocal music. The site is free to use, but membership is available. The public domain site is easy to navigate and provides scores and recordings out thousands of composers and their music. Make sure not to click on advertisements and download something on accident in the free version. This site is a great resource for educators to find musical works from great composers that are no longer in print, and they is free.
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    IMSLP is a website where anyone can search music that is no longer under copyright law. Here you can find music from a symphony score to a Beethoven piano piece. This resource can be used by growing student-run ensembles that wish to perform classical music. I use this website when I want to practice bassoon repertoire or when I need to find another piece to practice on piano. This is also a great resource to show students how to properly find music with educated keyword searches through a public domain.
crmtbear

Opus Music Worksheets | Free Music Theory Worksheets - 0 views

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    Welcome to Opus Music Worksheets, a database of high quality, free printable music education resources for download, including free sheet music, music theory worksheets, music flashcards, music business forms, and many other free music learning resources for music teachers, music students, and parents.
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    Opus Music has a great series of music worksheets suitable for general music and ensemble classes. The lessons are sequential and logical and provide clear descriptions of each topic in the lesson material before providing exercises for completion. The worksheets are available in downloadable PDF formats. These worksheets would also work well as substitute assignments if needed as a non-music teacher could figure out the directions.
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    The Opus Music website is a great resource for teachers looking for free printables. It is not a in-depth site, but instead offers a series of music theory worksheets, speed note name tests as well as flashcards and teacher printables for: business cards, lesson registration, lesson assignment and lesson billing. This site is geared towards a private studio teacher, but I have found the theory worksheets useful for beginning music students as well. All the material is free. There are also links to music teaching resources.
bumthun

Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People - 1 views

  • Beaming Nobody knows beaming like Sparky knows beaming.
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      Sparky the Music Theory Dog would be so fun for my elementary music students!
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      Sparky the Music Theory Dog posters would be great for my elementary classes!
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    This website presents a colorful presentation of music theory basics including notation, rhythm, key signatures, intervals, minor scales, part writing, seventh chords, and augmented chords. Each page can be printed.
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    Free resource for music theory posters/handouts. The posters/handouts are PDF files and can be downloaded individually or all at once. The files do not have a copyright, but can not be sold or altered.
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    This website provides PDF visuals of music theory concepts. The images would make great decor in a middle or high school theory/history classroom.
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    These theory pdfs would make fantastic posters as well as references for students.
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    This wonderful site, created by, offers free content-packed theory guides for both the experienced musician and the notation novice. The handy reference guides can be downloaded and saved for future use, as long as they are not being sold.
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    Toby W. Rush provides fifty PDFs for public use on his website "Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People." He not only invites people to print the PDFs but encourages teachers to make copies and use these resources in the classroom. There are worksheets on everything from simple meter to minor scales and counterpoint. He breaks the worksheets into topics: fundamentals, diatonic harmony, development and form, chromatic harmony, and counterpoint. This a great page to keep in mind for any age group or music classroom.
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    This website offers music theory worksheets that are friendly for musicians and "normal people". These would be a great addition to an interactive notebook at the upper elementary and middle school general music level.
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    Music Theory is a topic that can often be confusing when beginning to learn.  This website does a great job of breaking down the elements of music theory for anyone who is trying to gain deeper understanding of Music Theory.
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    This website is great for quick music theory handouts for students. It contains PDF worksheets to print and share with students. Excellent free resource!
caseymbaker

FETC 2014 - Google Docs - 0 views

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    On this PDF, there are many links that connect to music sites that students can use. All of the programs are "in the cloud". Students can access these from any computer, at home, school or on the road. All sites are included to facilitate musical creativity.
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    On this PDF, there are many links that connect to music sites that students can use. All of the programs are "in the cloud". Students can access these from any computer, at home, school or on the road. All sites are included to facilitate musical creativity.
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    This is a document that is a resource for creativity and technology for music learning put together by Dr. William Bauer for the FETC in Orlando, Florida on January 31, 2014. Other headings include: technology to facilitate musical creativity and general cloud-based technologies useful for facilitating musical creativity. This page is an excellent resource to develop ideas for learning with technology in the classroom. Many of the programs are free, easy to use and applicable to many educational ideas.  
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    Musical Creativity in the Cloud is a Google Doc by Dr. William I. Bauer. It is a list of resources to integrate technology into the music classroom and encourage creative thinking. Each item on the list will facilitate organization, creativity, or music learning. Dr. Bauer comprised a list of fifty resources to integrate technology into the music classroom including notation software, cloud-based libraries, media players, and organizational tools.
jwhitt1982

Clarinet Institute Home Page - 0 views

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    All things clarinet!  This site has free music, midi files, recordings and videos!
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    All things clarinet!  This site has free music, midi files, recordings and videos!
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    This is a site that I use frequently. Not only does the site provide useful information regarding musical ensembles and private instructors for those who live within the institute's service region, but it also serves as a resource for videos and recordings of professional clarinet players students may use as models. Furthermore, the site contains a variety of sheet music for all band and orchestra instruments. Sheet music may be downloaded from the site, or entire libraries may be purchased on a CD containing pdf files. This site makes access to solo and other forms of music literature a breeze! 
hubbardmusic

BandMusic PDF Library | BandMusic PDF Library - 0 views

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    This website contains PDFs of wind band music that is available for free to download in the United States. The music is public domain or available via a Creative Commons license. This is very helpful with finding older music or replacing parts, especially with music that is out of print.
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    This band music library includes pieces that were written for American Town Bands. American Town Bands used to be so popular that almost every town in my region of Massachusetts had one. Sadly, these bands have been slowly dying out. Thanks to this website, you can find free music that those bands used to play and revive them with your ensembles.
vaughnuf

ChoralWiki - 0 views

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    The ChoralWiki (CPDL) is a great resource for choral teachers and choir directors. There is access to free music, texts and translations, seasonal indices, and discussion forums for questions and answers about music, rehearsal techniques, and performance. 
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    Choral director on a budget? This website features over 20,000 scores by over 2500 composers! An amazing resource of free music available mostly in PDF format for use and downloading.
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    The Choral Public Domain Library is a free and legal source for free sheet music! This site offers printable scores of public domain music, often complete with text and translations when necessary. You can search this catalog by composer, title, arrangements, voicing, accompaniments, language, and genre. Complete with over 31,000 scores by over 3,200 different composers, there's a high possibility that any choral director might find something of use here!
eg_shupe

MS Band Director - For music educators - By music educators - 0 views

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    This site is a great resource for everything band related. You can find theory sheets, instrument fingering charts and even band trip support documents. Membership is free!
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    MSBandDirector.com is designed by and for music educators and provides all the information a school band director needs at their fingertips.
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    This website includes educational videos, PDFs of fingering charts, trill charts, seating charts, and links to music and music vendors. This is a great website to visit for useful links all stored in one place.
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    This website includes educational videos, PDFs of fingering charts, trill charts, seating charts, and links to music and music vendors. This is a great website to visit for useful links all stored in one place.
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    This is a forum-based website where teachers can share resources and media that they find useful. Available media include videos, fingering charts, rubrics, and blog posts, just to name a few. Though primarily geared towards middle school level, their are resources that can be found useful for all levels of band instruction.
mjzimmerman314

Little Kids Rock: Music education charity in US public schools - 0 views

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    This website offers a multitude of resources designed for music-making. This specific organization is devoted to offering musical programs to students who are in the 80% of the population that are not involved in performing ensembles. It offers curriculum, lesson plans, and interactive activities for guitar, piano, drums, bass, ukulele, composition, voice and more. There are free PDF songbooks and lesson plans that are connected to the program, that are extremely helpful towards teacher and student interest. The best part of the program is that the majority of the music is examples that students know already - a lot of pop, rock, and even hip-hop. It connects the bridge between traditional musical concepts with music of today.
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    Little Kids Rock has a multitude of resources for creating a modern band in your classroom. There are songs loaded on the website that include tab for ukulele, guitar, and bass. There are also drum set patterns included. This website serves to expose educators and students modern band and provides lesson plans to go along with the popular songs. Little Kids Rock also provides workshops on how to effectively teach a modern band program.
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    This website offers many lessons for instruments that students may be interested in playing (piano, guitar, songwriting, drums,etc). The website offers video lessons as well as current play-along songs for students to put their newly learned skills to work.
hubbardmusic

Free Band Music - 0 views

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    This website has free arrangements of band music, written with beginning bands and band programs with low budgets in mind. Pieces can be downloaded as PDFs and you can download the condensed score, as well as individual parts for all of the instruments. Pieces are rated so it is easy to find music that will work for your students.
eperegrine

Free Christmas and Sacred Sheet Music - 0 views

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    We go christmas caroling every year to the nursing home. I use some of these arrangements.
William Bauer

Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People - 2 views

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    This page includes links to each of the individual Music Theory pages I've created in PDF form. This is a work in progress; I am writing new ones regularly and fixing errors and omissions on existing ones as I find them. If you find them useful for your theory studies, you are welcome to use them, and if you find errors or have suggestions, I invite you to contact me. Enjoy! These pages are available for free under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.
msheathersmusic

https://www.tmea.org/assets/pdf/southwestern_musician/improvinearlyelem-jan2014.pdf - 0 views

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    Improvisation in Early Elementary General Music. This article explores how to improvise with your young students, starting with rhythm and then moving on to pitch. There are several singing games referenced with explanations on how to play and how to relate it to improvisation. This article breaks down the process of teaching improvisation and takes the initial fear out of it.
cedenoa23

Smithsonian Folkways - Tools for Teaching - 0 views

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    Smithsonian Folkways provides free lesson plans, activities and classroom resources on world music. The lessons can be downloaded in PDF format. The web page offers interactive features for students to learn about other music cultures and heritage.
Ginna Watson

Partifi - 0 views

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    Partifi is a fantastic free, cloud-based website that converts PDF music scores into parts! Very useful for creating customized parts for students and ensembles; especially good for popular piano/vocal scores with no separate voice part available.
hubbardmusic

The Basic Band Book | by Mr. Glynn - 0 views

shared by hubbardmusic on 11 Feb 19 - No Cached
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    This set of music books is completely free and in PDF format. In addition to that, there are videos that you can show in class or have your students view on their own at home. This is a great resource for a beginning band program that does not have a large budget. All resources are free to use, and it is based in solfege so it is easier to teach a whole room of beginners on different instruments.
Jeremy Murman

FreeDrumlineMusic.com - Sheet Music - 0 views

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    A great resource of drumline music to not only listen to but use with middle school and high school bands. The recordings are top notch and the ability to download the PDF files and look at the scores are fantastic. They are exciting cadences as well.
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