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A source for links to music education blogs. Blogs are categorized -- elementary, middle school, high school, kodaly-inspired, orff-inspired, technology, choir, orchestra etc.  

Some of the top music education blogs to provide instructional resources to music educators.

The title says it all. This is a collection of music education blogs, covering all kinds of topics.

The Music Education Blogs link contains links to blogs for all sorts of music educators.  The links are catered to specific school settings, teaching methodologies, ensembles, and free online services.  I enjoyed exploring several of the blogs because blogging is something I've just become acquainted to within my graduate studies with the University of Florida's Online Master of Music.  For example, I clicked on the "Elementary Blogs" tab to see what some of my elementary music educator colleagues have to say/share.  A handful of links to other teachers' blogs and websites were made available at a click of the mouse.  I clicked on the first link, "Mrs. Miracle's Music Room," and was able to read posts from "Mrs. Miracle" about her teaching strategies for classroom management when utilizing technology.  Her blog contained other features like a personal bio and links.  My blog for this course doesn't contain those things, and perhaps exploring the blogger.com website more would allow me to make similar changes to my Blog. Being able to share ideas within any online community, in this case a blogging community, could be so useful for any sort of educator.  Considering we are currently enrolled in an online Master of Music program, we are capable of sharing ideas from across the country and even across the globe.  This blog link just makes that possibility more accessible with more educators.

This blog is an organized data base of music educatin blogs categorized by topic.

Some of the top music education blogs to provide instructional resources to music educators.

This page has a large number of links to great music education websites.

This is a commercial-free site shared by many institutions throughout the world. It is a growing collection of links, categorized by teaching focus: band teachers; classroom teachers; music research; and general resources.

Great starting point when you are in need of content specific resources for K-12 music.

This website has a list of multiple websites available for music education of all disciplines. This can be used as a hub to find more specific information for lesson plans in a particular setting.

This website has a list of multiple websites available for music education of all disciplines. This can be used as a hub to find more specific information for lesson plans in a particular setting.

This website has an extensive collection of folk songs organized and searchable by various categorizations. You can search by origin, region, state, subject, song type, school grade level, tonal center, scale, tone set, melodic range, melodic element, melodic motive, rhythmic element, meter, form type, formal analysis, or game time. These indexes can save music teachers a great deal of time by helping them significantly narrow down their searches.

This website has an extensive collection of folk songs organized and searchable by various categorizations. You can search by origin, region, state, subject, song type, school grade level, tonal center, scale, tone set, melodic range, melodic element, melodic motive, rhythmic element, meter, form type, formal analysis, or game time. These indexes can save music teachers a great deal of time by helping them significantly narrow down their searches.

A searchable database of 501 American Folk Songs. Many have master copies analysis and audio recordings. Game descriptions are included. The collection can be searched by song origin region state subject type grade level tonal center scale tone set range melodic or rhythmic element/motive meter form game type.

HNU's Kodaly Center Collection is one of the music education websites that I frequent. This website allows the view to search through a vast collection of Kodaly songs to use in the classroom. These songs can be searched based upon grade level, type of song, origin and many more filters. Song types include dance and partner games, as well as call and response songs. There are songs in many different languages, some that may be familiar to students and some that would be brand new.

This is a collection of American Folk songs. The use of this would be to give a library of music for general music for elementary students to perform and practice. It would help fulfill many standards within the general music class.

This is a Kodaly folk song collection from Holy Names University. Users can search by element, grade, region, subject, and more.

This is a collection of 599 Folk Songs that can be used in the General Music Classroom. Each Song link contains rhythmic and melodic resources teachers can use to teach the song in class. Most of the links also contain recordings of the songs for the students to listen to.

Great source for training rhythmic sight-reading! Various patterns will test students' capabilities to hear complex rhythmic structures.

A fun game for students to practice rhythms independently . Different combinations of rhtyhms can be played at different tempos.

Website where students can practice reading rhythms. In one mode a rhythm is played and then the student must use the available notes to write that rhythm. In the second mode a rhythm is written and students need to select which of four audio examples sounds like what is written. This is a great resource for quick check-ins of student understanding of rhythmic notation.

This game allows the player to work on reading rhythms and rhythmic notation. There are two ways to play the game: listen to a rhythm and spell it out with provided rhythmic blocks or view a whole rhythm and choose the correct recording.

This website from Smithsonian Jazz gives teachers resources for teaching jazz education to students.  There are free lesson plans and recordings for teachers to utilize.  In some instances, lesson plans are organized by age groups.

The National Association for Music Education website is an incredible resources for all music educators.  On this site, users can access articles published by fellow educators and professors on an array of topics.  Users can also gain insight on lesson planning, upcoming events, career opportunities, and access to a community of music educators.  Research studies published through NAfME provide valuable information for students to read and analyze.  Students can access valuable resources, discover music events, and gain information regarding auditions.

The purpose of this resource is to help students with ear training for interval recognition using familiar tunes. The musical content is in the form of links to YouTube clips that demonstrate different intervals. This source is valuable for teachers because it builds on what students know (the familiar tunes) and provides immediate links for patterns of intervals both ascending and descending. It also allows you to select only the examples you want to use and print them out on their own chart. It also provides tutorials and music facts about theory and technology. Like many other software programs, it offers a free trial, making it more marketable and appealing to teachers and students alike.

This website will generate a list of intervals with related songs to learn the intervals. By picking the song of your choice, you can build a custom list to meet your students' interests. The list is printable and can be distributed to your students.

A helpful site for students who are working on learning and mastering their intervals. Provides a great list of songs that you can associate the intervals with to help remember them.

This website features free access to musical excerpts of famous songs and melodies to illustrate examples of musical intervals. Each excerpt is a link to a video on YouTube. You can create your own song chart of favorite pieces to use as an example of each interval in ascending or descending patterns. Music educators would find these examples very useful for classroom instruction. The Earmaster company also offers ear training materials for purchase including over 2000 exercises for musicians of all ability levels. Free trials are available and it is advertised that music schools and universities use these products.

Great resource for music teachers to teach intervals. It is a list of popular songs and pieces that utilize specific intervals, and includes links to the audio or youtube examples.

EarMaster organizes an ample amount of repertoire for learning specific intervals. The music examples are categorized by ascending and descending intervals of minor/major 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, perfect 4th, 5th, octaves, and tritones. The youtube examples will start immediately where the specified interval can be heard. Students can choose to memorize any examples listed to help them remember the sound of specific intervals.

This site offers a service that one wishes they had until they realize it exists. Essentially, if offers lists of songs that can be used to teach intervals. For many choirs - both middle and high school - the majority of students have not had proper ear training. A fun and effective way to do this remedially is to use familiar or easy to sing songs that students can reference to develop their ears. This site puts many song titles in one place to help facilitate that.

This website allows teachers to find songs that are associated with particular intervals. There is a free version but the paid (2.99/month) has more features. This software basically generates a chart with a list of songs for each interval and can be used as an excellent ear training activity!

This website provides browsers with a repertoire of songs that feature particular melodic intervals. Several of these songs are accompanied with links directing browsers to a YouTube recording of the corresponding song.

This website offers different musical examples for each musical interval. This instructional tool will help build students ear training skills.

This software is shareware and a great alternative to using the pricer competition. It can allow the student to create music at home on their personal computers. It also has great value as a teaching tool and teaching student how to compose or arrange.

This is a free, web-based, cloud-based notation software program. Users can create, view, print, hear and share scores. This program is similar to Sibelius and Finale, but has the advantage of being web-based. It is MIDI and iOS compatible. Users can participate in a community of sharing scores. Noteflight is free, but Premium features require a monthly subscription. Educators can purchase a "Learn" subscription which allows students to have their own accounts that are managed by one (or several) teachers.

Great resource to have notation software accessible for free. Limited in the amount of scores you can create, but you are able to print and hear a MIDI playback.

This program is a good tool for notating music. Students can create original works or copy something for an assignment. Has many of the features as the expensive programs.

The teacher who runs this website keeps other teachers up to date on what's going on in technology, especially for the iPad.

Can the iPad get even better

This is a blog by Christopher J. Russell, an author and music educator. This blog includes a lot of resources for iPads and use in choral rehearsals. It also has an extensive list of other great music blogs the author recommends.

This is a blog by Christopher J. Russell, an author and music educator. This blog includes a lot of resources for iPads and use in choral rehearsals. It also has an extensive list of other great music blogs the author recommends.

Technology in Music Education is an excellent resource created by Dr. Christopher Russell. The blog shares information on integrating technology into the classroom & school music program. The blog also shares helpful reviews of apps for the iPad, music software, choral warm-ups using technology, downloadable pdf resources and more.

Technology in Music Education is an excellent resource created by Dr. Christopher Russell. The blog shares information on integrating technology into the classroom & school music program. The blog also shares helpful reviews of apps for the iPad, music software, choral warm-ups using technology, downloadable pdf resources and more.

This blog focuses on technology in music education. I have found some great sites such as Staff Wars from this blog.

This blog provides helpful information, especially for using iPad as a teaching tool.

This site is a blog dedicated to music education technology, with a great deal of emphasis on the iPad.