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This is a website from PBS that chronicles the evolution of music recording from the phonograph to iTunes. As you read through the different stages of music production, there are interesting facets of information regarding the progression of copyright laws.

open source music software.  I did not like the earlier versions, but I think it may be time to check it out again.

This website is a good music notation program. Students can use it to make original scores or copy something for an assignment. The free download is a bonus.

This website provides a fast, easy template to create manuscript paper for treble, bass, alto, and tenor clefs. The manuscript can them be downloaded or printed.

Blank sheet music

This website has a collection of information about teaching music with technology to the students not involved in traditional ensembles. It has profiles of programs in schools, articles, and research about reaching the other 80% of secondary students.

This is a great resource for the kids in Jazz Honor's Band.  Dealing with improvising, and soloing.

The web page for the Midwest Clinic, an International Band and Orchestra Conference that takes place annually in Chicago. A plethora of resources about music teaching can be found here as well as information about the conference itself.

Ear-training exercises using piano keyboard instead of notation