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The San Francisco Symphony provides lesson plans and materials on a variety of different musical topics. In addition, many of the lessons have interdisciplinary connections connecting the music to periods in history, literature, and other content areas. The website also connects to Michael Tilton Thomas's Keeping Sore website, which has quality information on music both current and historic.

The San Francisco Symphony provides lesson plans and materials on a variety of different musical topics. In addition, many of the lessons have interdisciplinary connections connecting the music to periods in history, literature, and other content areas. The website also connects to Michael Tilton Thomas's Keeping Sore website, which has quality information on music both current and historic.

This website connects teachers with their choice of skilled adjudicators from around the US. The purpose of these connections is to get your ensembles critiqued BEFORE going to a festival/competition event so you have an idea of what to work on. Songs are submitted via recording to your chosen adjudicator (for a fee).

This website connects teachers with their choice of skilled adjudicators from around the US. The purpose of these connections is to get your ensembles critiqued BEFORE going to a festival/competition event so you have an idea of what to work on. Songs are submitted via recording to your chosen adjudicator (for a fee).

This was another great find from Dr. Bauer's resource list that provides an overview of Art History. This website is of interest to me for the natural connections of art and music to cultural heritage, and as an IB teacher, these connections are the basis for the media script internal assessment.

This is a really great local event called Art and Algorithms. It's purpose is to provide a great connection between the arts and mathematics, science, and technology. It teaches our students how to embrace the entire STEAM curriculum, and helps them make those connections in a wonderful cross-curricular event.

Noteflight provides music notation software from the ease of a web browser. The program is free to use, and although there is a premium version, the free version has all the tools needed for learning and creating notated music. All works are saved in the cloud and can be accessed at anytime from any device that can access the website, making music composition easier than ever.

Noteflight is a free browser-based music notation tool. The software has cloud storage allowing you to work on creative musical products from any computer with an internet connection. It also connects to MIDI instruments. Noteflight has a paid subscription which allows you to store unlimited compositions, full access to all sounds, transposition, and the ability to print individual parts. Student accounts can be purchased which you to create "closed" classrooms allowing for creative musical products and collaboration amongst peers.

This is a discussion by New York Times columnist, David Brooks, and Kathy Fletcher, and the director of Turnaround Arts Initiative about the important work that Turnaround Arts does through the strategic use of the arts. The discussion talks about how music facilitates brain development, why certain things in music leave people fascinated, and what magic music brings to emotion. The discussion also unfolds how the arts, and music education in particular opens the student's mind to memorisation. David Brooks says "Students understand better when topics are introduced through music". I agree with that because most students become more alert when a topic is introduced through song and it fosters the interest of students. Therefore we need arts to succeed in education. A lot of artists came from struggling backgrounds so when they talk to children that would like to succeed in the music world but are frightened that they'll never make it, they tell them "I know what you are going through but you can make it". This encourages those children to push on and excel in the arts. Kathy Fletcher says music boosts critical thinking and confidence which is ideal for students and they end up excelling in all other fields. The arts connect us all through music in a way that music created is shared all around the world. Partnerships are created to perform music and people come together to listen to music. This makes us one.

This is a clip with Bobby McFerrin, using the audience to sing. Bobby McFerrin improvises over the top as he creates the baseline for the audience to sing. He also mentions that the pentatonic scale is understood by all of his audiences no matter where he goes. This can be an interesting way to introduce a pentatonic scale to students, or improvising in a pentatonic scale. This is part of a larger TED talk entitled "Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus"

This TED Talk informs students about the natural connection humans have with music. Bobby McFerrin describes the nature of the pentatonic scale. This is a resource I like to introduce when first learning about the pentatonic scale. This shows students that music and nature are connected. I also use this for my students when I talk about the Fibonacci sequence with my math and music unit.

Music is the universal language that connects us; and this website offers a connection to peers within the field of music education around the world. Contains articles and notes about the publication. Also, definitely worthwhile to consider membership.

The International Society for Music Education connects musicians and music educators around the world. The website allows visitors to become members, attend events and gain news information about music. The organization attends NAMM every year and looks to promote the importance of music and music education for all.

The Blue Devils website is an amazing resource for connecting with the drum corps experience. Videos of performances and behind the scene takes are amazing.

Music history and elements of theory, as approached from rock music. Useful for the older students, who would appreciate seeing a connection between classical music and what they (or their peers) listen to.

This website is a fantastic resource for teaching backgrounds about Rock n Roll. I've used this as a web quest assignment for students, but could easily be adapted to full-class instruction. Offers engaging videos with great examples and connections.

This website offers high-quality educational videos that can be filtered by content type, student education level, video duration, and subtitles. The music videos are good for developing students' ability to respond and connect with music. These are not tutorials, but discussions about various music-related topics.

This community website is for children to share songs, build communities themselves, and create ideas with other children which will allow growth as a students and music lover. The purpose of this site is to give adults and students feedback on events happening, gatherings of music lovers, and to give insight into the quality of music. This site includes children's links to other websites such as Kids Music Connection and Children's Radio List. It also articles that include songs to sing, literacy learning, and events that take place within different regions of the United States.

The purpose of this website is to provide individual drum lessons to young aspiring percussionists. This also would be useful for music educators whose primary instrument might not be percussion. The content features material and video on drum rudiments, purchasing options, showmanship, performance technique, musicality and world connections.

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This webpage provides a great visual and aural example of the harmonic series. Utilizing fractions and sound properties, this is a great tool to connect science, math, and musical concepts. Also on the site are programs that can be used to compose and explore with sound bars, directions for creating homemade instruments, and more.

Compiled by the Library of Congress, Music and the Brain is a Podcast that has lectures, conversations and symposia about the connection between neuroscience and music. Kay Redfield Jamison is the project chair compiles scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists and other experts to discuss topics such as: the future of music; music and grief; the mind of the artist and others. There are 20 podcasts and they are all free!

A great site for music parents, this is a great site to direct parent to or to use as a resource for the instructor himself with many useful links connecting to ways to approach music students, parents, and administrations for both instructional and advocacy scenarios.

The Center for Music Learning was established by the University of Texas at Austin as an online collective of information that is useful for music educators from a variety of disciplines. Users can find useful pedagogical information, access research, and connect with other educators across multiple disciplines in music. 

In this article, a study shows the connectivity between reading music and the way our brains process certain information. It explains how musicians hear the music they read and non-musicians rely on visual cues.

On this PDF, there are many links that connect to music sites that students can use. All of the programs are "in the cloud". Students can access these from any computer, at home, school or on the road. All sites are included to facilitate musical creativity.

This is a document that is a resource for creativity and technology for music learning put together by Dr. William Bauer for the FETC in Orlando, Florida on January 31, 2014. Other headings include: technology to facilitate musical creativity and general cloud-based technologies useful for facilitating musical creativity. This page is an excellent resource to develop ideas for learning with technology in the classroom. Many of the programs are free, easy to use and applicable to many educational ideas.  

Musical Creativity in the Cloud is a Google Doc by Dr. William I. Bauer. It is a list of resources to integrate technology into the music classroom and encourage creative thinking. Each item on the list will facilitate organization, creativity, or music learning. Dr. Bauer comprised a list of fifty resources to integrate technology into the music classroom including notation software, cloud-based libraries, media players, and organizational tools.

The American Composers Forum BandQuest program brings some of the best living composers together to write music for school wind bands. Many works in the series incorporate a cross curricular element that connects to disciplines outside of music.