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A site with various Web Audio demos

This is the website for the University of Florida Online Master of Music in Music Education program.

Broadway musical theater resource for showtimes, tickets, synopsis, theaters, etc..

Broadway musical theater resource for showtimes, tickets, synopsis, theaters, etc..

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame website contains resources for education programs, jazz blogs, inductee biographies and much more concerning jazz.

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame website contains resources for education programs, jazz blogs, inductee biographies and much more concerning jazz. 

This site contains an audio example along with a viewable example of the lead sheet (in most cases). This is a fantastic resource for jazz students.

The purpose of this website is to provide a list of free jazz sheet music in the keys of Bb, Eb, and bass clef from the "Real Book". The content lists songs from A to Z which provide an audio recording link for each without any ads. Students can use this site to play along with the sheet music and accompaniment provided. It would make a great practice tool in addition to method book material for students of all ages. The author of the site also promotes a "my music apps" page for beginner and experienced musicians.

digital musicking diigo group

This is a wonderful organization tool that I have been using for the past 5 years. I do not know what I would do without this site. It keeps track of all of my students and their practice time. It has a great calendar. It is like having a personal secretary for a private studio and the possibilities are endless. I especially love the billing feature.

This is a great site to help students practice sight reading. There are many sight reading examples and the program is very user friendly and helps engage the kids.

a) The purpose of the resource is to have provide practice sight reading in and outside of the music classroom.(b) This resource covers sight reading (c) I would use this site for instructional use in the classroom and outside of the classroom.

Sightreading website that works!

This is by far my most utilized music technology site. Arizona has a great history of producing wonderful all state choirs. Within this site you can access the past 20 years of sight reading materials. This includes both block and contrapuntal and sight reading lines. I use this site on a daily basis to prepare my students for these auditions.

This is a great resource for all Music Ed questions. ASU has a wonderful reputation for musical education. I come here to learn from some of the finest teachers in my hometown state.

This is where I go when I needed the latest smash hit and it has not yet been arranged for SATB or choirs. I love this site because you can now get digital copies of the music and use it with iPad programs like FourScore to play off of in concerts. No more binders full of sheet music and papers flying everywhere! This site really is a music teacher's best friend!

I am constantly challenging my students to look for patterns in music. I didn't realize that there was actual research behind it.

This blog compared similarities between physical therapy and teaching music. It was interesting to read the list of fifteen items which are shared between the two very different topics. The list started with hydrating and described the importance of drinking plenty of water after a strenuous exercise as well as when practicing music. My favorite parts are the article included the idea of practicing slower as well as practicing for shorter periods of times more often. I think those are great teaching tips to help our students improve. So often we as musicians and teachers just want to do everything in the fastest way possible. We also spend so much of our time staying busy with life that we seem to squeeze all of our practicing into one time rather than little by little.

Doug Butchy complies a collection of music education related online resources distributed daily. He draws from blogs, Twitter and other social media sites to collect this information. His collection of links is a great starting point for daily reading.

Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, maintains a blog featuring information about performance, books, videos and other music related topics.

Henkjan Honing is a professor of Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam. This blog presents articles on the human understanding of music. Some of the articles are in English while others are in German.

This is the kids' section of the New York Philharmonic. It has very informative pages about instruments and composers. It also has games for composition, and musical puzzles. You do need to download shockwave to view the content, but it's worth it.

This website is great for elementary students to reinforce the instruments and instrument families found in the orchestra. Students can listen to the sound of each instrument and watch short videos. There are great games and assessments for students to use, I highly recommend the Orchestration Station.

This website has resources to accompany their texts, but they are certainly useful even if you don't have their text. K-8 listening maps are great and easy to download. There are also detailed histories of different instruments.

The Library of Congress maintains an encyclopedia of all performing arts collections they curate. This website can be used to access content from some of these collections and find information about most collections.

Software for learning recorder with a variety of popular tunes.  There is a fre