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I am grateful to people who share their work without selfishness and not for money. Fair use and Creative Commons have made the life of us music educators easy.There are lots of resources for Creative Commons and Other Copyright friendly media available to use in class.

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.

This is an interesting read that was linked on Dr. Bauer's resources discussing the connections of arts and common core standards.

This informative Edutopia article by blogger and professor Karin Nolan encourages educators about the simplicity about integrating their current teaching approach and curriculum structure with a standards-based curriculum. You do not have be a musician to satisfy the standards either.

This is a great article for the classroom teacher who is looking arts integrated lessons.

Creative Commons is a site that supports creativity and sharing. This site contains a portal to public domain. 

This site provides a plethora of jazz education advice. This is made by either professional jazz musicians or educators. It covers topics as style, improvisation and jazz history. This type of information would be useful to jazz educators.

This resource offers advice on a range of jazz improvisation topics for the aspiring jazz musician. The writer brakes down common problems an improvising musician faces and offers structured exercises and ideas to overcome particular musical issues.

This resource offers advice on a range of jazz improvisation topics for the aspiring jazz musician. The writer brakes down common problems an improvising musician faces and offers structured exercises and ideas to overcome particular musical issues.

30 Writing Prompts with a Music Theme. This could be a great way to incorporate Common Core writing standards into the music classroom. An added plus would be to use it to help students respond to music.

This website was developed to share and discuss the science of rudimental snare drumming.  You can also use this source to develop ideas for teaching and developing your marching percussion section.  Also included are common exercises that can be used.

One of most common ways of recognizing intervals is by associating them with songs that are familiar. This website provides an excellent list of reference songs for every interval. They also include recordings of each reference song. Each excerpt illustrates the interval it is associated with. Earmaster also includes various ear training exercises for musicians at all levels. The training exercises are free to try, but do eventually cost in order to use. 

Music performance anxiety is something that troubles many musicians from students all the way up to adults.  There are many coping skills and techniques that can help with this anxiety.  One of the most common techniques is the Alexander Technique, which is talked about in this article.

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.

Tagboard is a whole new way to experience the great content from the social networks you already know and love. Each tagboard is a collection of social media posts (from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and others) that share a common hashtag. Tagboards can be embedded on websites, integrated in to mobile apps, and shown on large displays.

This is an entertaining and educational video from Ted Talk. Famous singer and songwriter Bobby McFerrin uses the crowd to improvise a pentatonic scale. This is only a small clip from the event "Notes and Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus" from the World Science Festival.

Educator Ken Thompson describes several views or perspectives on balancing an ensemble. By asserting his opinion as well as that of Francis McBeth, he weighs the pros and cons of some of the most common models, including the "Christmas tree pyramid." In short, Thompson uses SBO Magazine as a means through which to discuss the need for teachers to make balance an integral component of their day-to-day instruction.

This page lends itself as a particularly valuable resource, especially for those whose weakness is intonation. In it, you will find philosophies, phrases, analogies, activities, and what the author terms "common threads" for approaching the aforementioned topic with your students. Among the most popular suggestions are singing, practicing characteristic tone quality, and listening down, or back, to the tuba section--all of which can and should be practiced in the early stages of a student's musical development.

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.

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.

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.

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Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. Soundcloud is an incredible resource that can but used in the classroom frequently. The site offers a whole collection of music uploaded under a creative commons license, meaning they are available for use as long as you follow any guidelines that are set by the artist.

The Choir Ninja podcast is an excellent resource for choir directors of all types! Ryan Guth provides insight and advice on how to handle common issues that arise when directing choirs. Several prominent members of the Choral Director community have also made guest appearances on this program, and provide their own insight.

This article from the choral journal discusses issues surrounding including transgender students in the choral classroom. It centers around using meaningful conversation and dialogue to make these students feel comfortable. It also works through common scenarios and equips readers with vocabulary to address this in their own classrooms.

This is an excellent list by esteemed conductor Karen Bruno that showcases several pieces that are great for treble choirs. The best part of the list is that it doesn't showcase the same tried-and-true standards, but rather she goes beyond the typical scope and brings in works that are not so common. It's a great resource for programming!

This blog is a critique of the common "everyone gets a trophy" system of musical competitions that is pervasive in today's arts culture. The author expands to make a compelling argument to limit the amount of awards given in our school music programs (thus eliminating the participation certificate).