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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.

This website has the purpose of gaining knowledge on saxophone musicians, and ways to practice, listen, and fine tune the sound one makes. It has articles and techniques that are meant to give saxophonists needed guidance on history, ways to improve performance, and how to perform with different styles. This site includes different genres or saxophone performance, such as classical, jazz, be bop, rock and blues, and regae. There are other links for purchasing music, mouthpieces, saxophones, and practice books.

Robert H. Woody, co-author of Psychology for Musicians, posts in this blog articles and personal writings regarding music, music education, and music psychology.

This website is a tool to advocate music education and technology to a widespread group of people, and allow readers to write feedback on the website. As well as the feedback, this site is for the general musician audience to search for resources that will help with teaching in schools and responding to young musicians. This website includes articles about music technology and its benefits and uses, posts about music education, the advocacy of music and its importance to all students, and general posts about things such as copyright laws, orchestra and its instruments, apps for music, and planning education tools for teachers.

(a) The purpose of the resource is to have provide a database of articles and interviews 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 this site for instructional use in the classroom and outside of the classroom.

Advice from Bud Herseth on practice habits

This is a great article and video about a popular music class. Students at the University of Nebraska are given the opportunity to take a class that focuses on learning, performing and creating popular music and its benefits.

Music K-8 is a popular site among elementary/middle school classroom music teachers. The popular magazine is full of great ideas, music, games, articles, and musical performance programs. A very useful aspect of the website is the "Idea Bank" which is located in the Resources tab. Subscribing to the idea bank list allows music teachers to instantly interact, discuss, and share with colleagues across the nation. The diverse wealth of resources available here are sure to be helpful in every kindergarten through 8th grade music class.

Interesting and scholarly article regarding theory/harmony in pop music vs. serious music.

Thanks for sharing this! I just sent it to my daughter, who's writing a college paper on the ways Schoenberg thought traditional theory should change to reflect modern harmony. Very timely!

Interesting article on a television show that is attempting to mirror the revolution of school lunches in the music classroom.

It's easy to teach and celebrate the classic composers: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc., but this article discusses ways to incorporate the composers that are still alive today that are still creating new media in our art form.

The Kennedy Center provides videos, broadcasts, articles on music

The Midwest Marching website offers up to date information on available competitions as well as results and judging information from previous competitions. Additionally, there are great resources in the articles section.

This website deals with all things related to the saxophone. There are links on this page for many articles. Some information is geared towards beginners (such as reading notes and how to hold the instrument). Other information is geared toward more advanced players (such as improv and even changing pads/neck cork).

This is an excellent resource for piano teachers. There are articles about books to read, piano pedagogy, studio management, and other pertinent topics for piano teachers. This would be a very useful resource for teachers of all experience levels to learn more about how to fine tune their teaching.

If you're looking for free downloads or shareware, this is where you'll find it. Particularly helpful is the central news reel with regular new articles and tips.

This is the Journal of Research in Music Education. This website provides music education articles for all music educators regardless of discipline or age level. The website also offers links to music education podcasts.

Great article on using technology strategies in performing ensembles

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.

The NAMM Foundation website has many great articles about advocacy, building a great program, and various pedagogical resources.