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Choral teachers have access to countless public domain music, ranging from ancient classics to modern compositions released to the public domain by the composers.

This site has a lot of free sheet music and allows students to print it off and practice sight reading. This site also has a tuner, scales, and a metronome to allow students to practice properly. The purpose of this resource is to allow students to stay engaged and practice music of their choice when they get bored with the music for concerts. This helps them stay engaged and not get burned out.

Free Sheet Music!

8notes.com is full of music resources such as free sheet music and supplemental material for lessons. The sheet music includes categories such as classical, pop, jazz, film/TV, and traditional. Any music teacher knows how frequently students ask for specific tunes from television or movies. Even though they may not be played in class, students can greatly benefit from private practice on tunes they enjoy. 8notes.com also includes over forty theory lessons. These lessons begin with learning about lines and spaces on the staff and continue through many concepts all the way to the introduction of modes. In addition to the lessons, this website provides ear training exercises to accompany the theory lessons. 8notes.com is a great resource for all music teachers, not just instrumental or vocal. This site includes music and lessons for all instruments including banjo and ukulele, making it great for a general music classroom as well.

The site provides audio and visual examples of almost all of the instruments in the woodwind, brass, percussion, harp and keyboard, fretted string , and string families. The videos cover basic performance and fundamental skills.

A super resource for elementary music students to hear what all of the different instruments sound like and see how they are played. Great information on each instrument and quality sound clips. A well put together website of supplemental information. 

The University of Indiana has provided a comprehensive set of individual instrument instructional videos for all instruments. These instructional videos include woodwind, brass, percussion, harp, keyboards, strings, and fretted strings. The view can pause the videos at any time and interact with the musical passages on the right side of the video. In addition to this being a comprehensive set of resources, it is also through a reputable source.

a) The purpose of the resource is to provide interactive activities and games for students covering an array of musical subjects for use in and outside of the music classroom.(b) This resource covers EVERY national music standard! (c) I would use the free version of this site more for free-time activities and games.

Website offers a few free items for use on the IWB. I do not own a license for the paid items but the school where I student taught used this program on daily basis.

This is a fantastic flash-based website with many free music games. Students can create an avatar that moves around Quaver's music shop and studio, finding music games to play. Games focus on composition, ear training, and responding. The free games are just the beginning- Quaver Music offers a comprehensive, standards-based K-6 curriculum that is loaded with hundreds of interactive songs, lesson plans, assessment tools, video episodes, games, and more. An annual subscription is required, but teachers can purchase smaller sections of the curriculum to meet their specific needs.

This website provides a brief biography on many composers and recordings of their works performed by many different ensembles.  You can search by composer, performer, instrument, time period, and form type.  

This website offers free music streams and downloads. This is all royalty free music which makes the streams and downloads completely legal and free. The site allows you to search by composer, performer, period, form, and numerous other ways.