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This is a great site to utilize for music history lessons! It has popular american songs and composer biographies to use for student read alouds or assessments. I will definitely be coming back to this site in the next few weeks!

Introduce your students to the lively genre of Rock and Roll trough this Hall of Fame site! Students can learn important histroy facts, famous Rock and Roll Legends, and references to some of the greatest rock and roll hits of the American culture!

Admittedly, I'm a total geek for the "old classics", but I find this website absolutely amazing! In about 3 minutes time I was able to locate about a half dozen pieces that I've been looking for at some point or another since I started teaching. I think there are resources that every band director could use here.

Public Domain town band music library. Would be great for so many things - especially playing marches at MPA that aren't overdone.

This is another invaluable resource of Public Domain compositions for the Band World. So many of the old marches and waltzes are out of print and difficult to come by, but this website has an extensive list of great works that are all public domain. A great resource not only for finding pieces to play, but also for doing some traditional score study.

A list of the NPR 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century with recordings.

American Choral Directors Association. This site is a resource for national choral standards, conferences, repertoire, and choral education articles. 

Professional Organization that can provide music advocacy and an avenue for choral music resources and advancements. Website offers music lists that only include quality repertoire.

As a saxophonist, the North American Saxophone Alliance is a valuable organization that is dedicated to the advancement of the saxophone. The organization is comprised of performers, teachers, students, and enthusiasts. The group provides important resources for saxophonists at all skill levels, no matter what their background. It is a strong community network that is working hard to foster appreciation and love for the saxophone. 

The site for MTNA. Many resources available for members and non-members.

Student resources for the American Vernacular Music textbook - very helpful outlines!

The American String Teachers Association is filled with helpful resources for string teachers specifically. The "teaching resources" page includes tips for working on string specific content such as bowing technique and left and right hand position.

Class recorder method by Texas music educator, Jo Lynn Cookus. The method is based on common American folk songs that are commonly taught in elementary settings, and therefore integrates well with common curricular models including Kodaly and Orff. It is a lesser-known alternative to common recorder methods including Recorder Express, Recorder Karate, etc. The author is a seasoned music educator with 30+ years of music education experience teaching elementary education, choir, and band.

League of American Orchestras is a site for educators, professional musicians and students can explore. Teachers can look at advocacy and the government to find out what is happening in legislation. There is a career center for teachers and professional musicians who are looking to perform. Everyone can learn about Learning and Leadership development of students and teachers. The Knowledge, Research and Innovation tab is great as it is the latest research happening. You can also find conferences, meetings, journals, conducting, composing and performing tab.

This site is a great resource for orchestra teachers. The purpose of this resource is to provide information about the current state of music programs and opportunities for orchestral students. The content of this site is mainly articles and registration links for different conferences. There are also links to webinars, fellowships, etc. as well as current issues revolving around orchestral music/education. Some sources particularly helpful for teachers are a link with interesting facts about orchestra and articles about how to reach out to bigger audiences. It offers a subscription for "Symphony" Magazine and provdes information about composing, conducting, and performing, all major elements or any music education program.

This website has resources for orchestra students. Students can find practice and performance tips, learn about local and famous orchestras and musicians, and find resources for their specific instruments.

This website list 10 top rated sites that offer free music education resources, e.g., technology, music and instrument lessons, platforms for educations to share ideas, web based curriculum,

Folk Song Collection that may be used to help find songs for teaching almost any musical concept. Primary and Secondary Sources with authentic notation and referenced material.

The American Folk Song Collection is a website that music educators can use to search for hundreds of folk songs. Each song includes a PDF of lyrics, melody, game/dance directions, song analysis, rhythms, and original source (some also include recordings). The website also includes basic information about the Kodaly approach.

The Kodaly Center website is a valuable resource for all music teachers and especially those teaching elementary general music. The website contains videos about the history and philosophy of Kodaly, as well as recent news and upcoming events being held at the center. The most impressive feature of this site is the pubic domain library of songs and the precise ways they are categorized. Songs can be searched and categorized by: Origin, region, state, subject, song type, grade level, tonal center, scale, tone set, melodic range, melodic element, melodic motive, rhythmic element, meter, form, formal analysis and game type. Once you find a song you can see all of this detailed information as well as (in most cases) listen to the song, often sung by a child or group of children.

This website provides information related to jazz and jazz history. This website, under the education tab, provides multiple jazz recordings. Additionally, lesson plans are provided to help align the tracks with classroom activities.

Teaching resources from the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) include a variety of online and print resources, as well as professional development opportunities.

The Grid Book is an American series of education books geared towards modern marching battery percussion, as well as front ensemble. The site offers videos, sheet music and 1 on 1 lessons with the site owners, who are 2 of the most in-demand marching percussion gurus in the country.

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 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.

This site is created to provide an American historical view of jazz. It offers exhibits and collections as well as items for jazz appreciation.

This site is a resource for jazz composers, Composition, Media examples, and Jazz events. 

Music by Kids for Kids, is a website dedicated to the incorporation of composition and notation software into music classrooms. The "Education" tab on this site will suggest software programs and resources to use in any music education setting.

Provided by Holy Names University in conjunction with their Kodály Center, "American Folk Song Collection" is a valuable resource for music teachers, parents, choral conductors and composers.Exploring the collection of repertoire allows a music teacher of any grade level the opportunity to obtain musical scores, lyrics, song analyses and background information. All applicable to constructing curriculum, selecting repertoire for a performance ensemble or building a personal database of favorite songs. Recordings provided by the Library of Congress and other resources and short films on the history and work of Zoltán Kodály, make this a strong resource for instructional planning and classroom implementation.

HNU is a site in which students, teachers, parents could utilize to find songs, lyrics, scores, song analysis, background information, and deeper insight into the works and methodologies of Zoltan Kodaly.