A Wiki which sorts band music by grade, composer, and other information. Many works have their own page with details about the composer, program notes, and errata.
The website for the National Core Arts Standards (2014). It includes the standards for music, dance, visual arts, theater, and media arts. Standards are searchable by content area and grade level. Examples of standards-based assessments are included.
The National Core Arts Standards include all of the details of the new arts standards. These are broken into creating, performing/presenting/producing, responding, and connecting categories. The website has an attached PDF for each standard with in depth information, philosophies, and ideas that shed light on the way that these can change the way we think and teach music.
The National Core Arts Standards include all of the details of the new arts standards. These are broken into creating, performing/presenting/producing, responding, and connecting categories. The website has an attached PDF for each standard with in depth information, philosophies, and ideas that shed light on the way that these can change the way we think and teach music.
National Core Arts Standards is a resource guide to understanding and implementing the 2014 Arts Standards. This site has several handbooks to help clarify the new standards. It even has the option to customize your own handbook.
This is the go-to website for the 2014 National Core Arts Standards. Here, all arts educators can find official copies of content area standards, anchor standards, Model Cornerstone Assessments, history of the new standards and information on how to unpack and understand them. Some of the links for music standards route the viewer to www.nafme.org.
This Wiki discusses works for smaller bands. In addition to the specific information on pieces, there is also information on composers of young band works.
This website contains resources related to surviving as a middle school band director, including conducting, grading, band warmup, and jazz education. There are lots of tips to be found here!
Short audio web programs about composers and music history. Useful for asking students to listen at home, and then answer questions for homework. Suitable for younger students (age 10 and younger)
Picture-dense description of how to make a violin. Suitable for younger students (age 5+), to show them the work and craftsmanship that went into making their violin.
Descriptions of various fiddle styles from around the world: Irish, Scottish, Bluegrass - as well as lesser known ones, such as Irish, Balkan, Chinese. Useful to showing the violin being used in other countries, and other forms of music than only classical.
Articles about training, and new approaches within the Suzuki methodology. While the website is intended to offer help to teachers and families; it is also useful as a pedagogy aid to engage in discussion with peers from across the USA.
I have compiled a listening library for students to utilize. The repertoire on this page is sorted by instrument and presents students with access to the standard repertoire for their instrument, performed by a musician of distinction on that instrument.
(a) The purpose of the resource is to teach music theory in a sequential, visual way. It can be used from elementary age students to college level students.
(b) The specific musical content addressed in this resource is reading and understanding standardized notation, rhythmic reading, scales, key signature, intervals, and chord progressions (diatonic, neopolitan)
(c) I would use this technology for instructional use in the classroom.
This website is a great resource for music theory lessons. Works well on white board but even better with a smart board and involving student interaction. Starts with the staff and goes all the way through analysis.
Musicyheory .net is a good start for my students because in my program we rarely have time to go over any type of music theory. This online music resource starts individuals from learning about the staff all the way to understanding how to analyze a composition or arrangement.
The San Francisco Symphony has created a way for composers and their work to come alive for students. Through this site, students can learn about various composers, musical techniques, musical history, and scores by way of working through "evidence" to arrive at conclusions about given pieces.
The San Francisco Symphony has created a way for composers and their work to come alive for students. Through this site, students can learn about various composers, musical techniques, musical history, and scores by way of working through "evidence" to arrive at conclusions about given pieces.
This source provides several lesson plans for teacher use as well as information about how music subject areas relate to music curricula. It provides several materials for teachers such as information on composers, information about Carnegie Hall, interactive sites, and historical information relating to music. Students and teachers are also able to use this site to learn about specific pieces such as "Symphonie Fantastique" and "The Rite of Spring." All of these different options make this site very resourceful for any music educator. There are also videos in which teachers talk about this site and how they have used the information provided by it in their teaching.
The San Francisco Symphony provides a variety of engaging, interactive resources for students to learn about composers, instruments, music history, and repertoire.
This is a really great resource app for music educators and students. In class, I use the tuner, the metronome, and the tone generator functions. My students love it because it makes playing in tune a little more fun, and most importantly, it is very user friendly.
This podcast is hosted by Paul Shimmons and Chris Russell. Episodes feature discussions and interview related to technology and its applications it music education.
Teaching resources from the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) include a variety of online and print resources, as well as professional development opportunities.
The Violin Site is a website with many titles of free sheet music. The music is organized by composer's last name. There is music from composers such as Vivaldi, Bach, Beethoven, Accolay, and Haydn. For some pieces, students are provided with the violin and piano part and for other pieces, students are only provided with the violin part.
The Violin Site is a website with many titles of free sheet music. The music is organized by composer's last name. There is music from composers such as Vivaldi, Bach, Beethoven, Accolay, and Haydn. For some pieces, students are provided with the violin and piano part and for other pieces, students are only provided with the violin part.
The Violin Site is a website with many titles of free sheet music. The music is organized by composer's last name. There is music from composers such as Vivaldi, Bach, Beethoven, Accolay, and Haydn. For some pieces, students are provided with the violin and piano part and for other pieces, students are only provided with the violin part.