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.
An all around great site for piano teachers. Lesson and teaching ideas in plain English without all the teacher speak. This particular article applies to Group Piano / Class Piano, but there are other resources for private instructors. Very well done, and a great source for lesson plan ideas.
GoNoodle is an interactive website that offers activity songs for different classrooms. The videos can be used as brain breaks, but it also has songs that could be use in cross-curricular settings (English, history, etc).
This is an interesting website that provides interactive media of famous pieces along with a finale download of the corresponding score. A great tool to show students specific areas in a score!
This is an interesting website that provides interactive media of famous pieces along with a finale download of the corresponding score. A great tool to show students specific areas in a score!
This website is a great resource to supplement the teaching of Thematic classical pieces. The website is in German but it contains English translations of all materials.
This is a VERY old website, but if you teach square dancing (we do "Camptown Races" in fourth grade), this is the resource for you! You can click around to find detailed names and instructions for probably any square dance move you can think of, and each one also includes an animated GIF showing what each move should look like. This was a great resource for me as a non-dancer!
This website is a compilation of world music that is appropriate for children to learn about and perform. The library is vast, and is easily searchable by continent, country, and language. There are audio clips and linked videos, as well as several English translations. It's a great resource to explore world music and culture.
This is a website to use with elementary students for teaching about the components of an opera. Hansel and Gretel is sung in English and students are able to interact and make decisions about the production.
This website is a great introduction to opera for elementary general music class. Students can choose sets, costuming, lighting, and choreography in this simple re-telling of Hansel and Gretel.
This is an online interactive game for EVERYONE! Students are presented the chance to design their own opera, embark with interactive chamber music, access music resources, and even engage the entire family with a family listening activity.
This is Google's free experimental sequencer, created in 2018. There is very little verbal information - it is intuitive, simple and easy, and could be used with very young students. It also could be used by someone who doesn't read English.
This is another great, simple, web-based music sequencer that can be used to allow students to experiment with composition without needing to know anything about reading music or writing music notation. There is a large amount of sounds available and the sounds are of high quality. It is very simple to use and students can start composing right away using this site.
This site has a lot of great ear training exercises. It inlcudes scale and mode identification, interval identification, and dictation exercises. There are non-flash versions of everything.
This site has a lot of great ear training exercises. It inlcudes scale and mode identification, interval identification, and dictation exercises. There are non-flash versions of everything.
This site includes music theory, ear training, musical terms glossary, articles of form and analysis and information about musical instruments. I plan to reference this site with my students after reading about it in chapter 5 this week.
This site is a deep resource for students and instructors looking for knowledge in music theory. It also has cross-platform access to mobile phone devices and tablets through the use of games and exercises to help with ear training, chord identification, interval identification and dictation, and more.
This site is a deep resource for students and instructors looking for knowledge in music theory. It also has cross-platform access to mobile phone devices and tablets through the use of games and exercises to help with ear training, chord identification, interval identification and dictation, and more.
This is a free site($20 fee to access offline) that contains tutorials and exercises that focus on intermediate music theory concepts. The site is available in English and Spanish dialect.
This website contains tutorials and online exercises for basic music theory concepts including harmonic function, form, intervals, chords, and note identification. Also includes a music dictionary and section of scholarly music articles.
This website contains tutorials and online exercises for basic music theory concepts including harmonic function, form, intervals, chords, and note identification. Also includes a music dictionary and section of scholarly music articles.
Teoria provides tutorials, theory and ear training exercises, articles, and theory references to fortify knowledge on the above skills. It also highlights events which took place historically with renowned composers, compositions, and artists.
This website provides tutorials and exercises in music theory. There are also articles and other references for student and teacher use. This is perfect for students continuing and practicing their theory at home.
This website is great for music theory. It has theory videos and customizable exercises. The website has a bonus reference section and articles of analysis.
Music theory website which offers resources on: tutorials, references, exercises, and articles. Divided into ear training and music theory. Multiple levels are provided for each type of exercise. Great for group learning, or for students who want to discover more about music theory on their own.
This is one of the useful music theory website available for educators to use in class to assist in teaching basic music theory. The site includes articles, tutorials, and references for teaching music theory.
This web is an excellent resource to study and practice music theory. Advanced students, college students and professional musicians can take tutorials in reading music, scales, harmonic functions, intervals, chords and musical forms. After taking the tutorials there are exercises available to practice. The annual membership is only $20. The web is available in english and spanish.