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This website is a spin off of a Podcast from Mrs. Miracle. MusiQuest is an application designed to utilize technology to make music education accessible, creative and fun, and in keeping with digital advancement. Different music genres, personalize learning, cross curricular studies, song writing and sketching, melody, and, literacy and drama are a few of the attractions fo this website.

This website features a number of famous classical composers. Biographies and links to important musical works are featured. Additional features include links to classical music stations and stores and recommendations for setting up home audio systems. There is a blog and several interviews of musicians who share the great composers' intriguing life stories and interesting anecdotes.

This website contains biographies and information on many Classical, Romantic, and other composers of different genres.

This website list resources available to music instruction. Educators can find providers of music lessons, lesson planing pages, blank sheet music.

This website has many piano/keyboard resources that can be printed. It has great, colorful visuals for students to use that are decently explanatory on their own.

This website provides many resources pertaining to teaching piano. There are games, worksheets, improv help, and ear training resources to help teachers and students.

Carnegie Hall made an animated and interactive listening map for all four movements of Dvorak's "New World Symphony" and it's wonderful! I use this with my sixth graders during our music history unit!

This site has a listening map while Symphony No. 9 is playing. It helps tell a story while also showing themes and what instruments are playing.

Music Ed Blogs is a website that features information about all areas of music education. The website itself is a collection of, what it rates as being, the best music education blogs. There is a wide variety of resources available to the viewer on Music Ed Blogs. They have articles on everything from why you should attend a conference to songs and games for Valentine's Day. The website also has several free resources that would be especially useful to a new, or first year, teacher.

Although this website doesn't focus on one specific blog or concept area, it's a great resource to find a wide array of information. Not everything on this website will interest everyone, but it's easy to find something that pertains to your subject area. It also includes a wide variety of bloggers, thus giving the reader the opportunity to see content that they normally might miss.

The College Band Directors National Association is a very reputable source of information about everything music education, especially in terms of band. Through publication of their journal and social media accounts, there is a constant source of information about teaching resources for the band music classroom, and they have an entire committee dedicated to technology in music education.

This article is about works finally becoming public domain after 20 years

a short description of Komitas the song collector that inspired Johnnie Vinson's Armenian Rhapsody

Create, play back and print beautiful sheet music with free and easy to use music notation software MuseScore. For Windows, Mac and Linux.

Music Notation Arranging and Writing music

This interactive guide by composer Abbie Betinis goes through a step-by-step question guide that allows conductors to answer questions about how they want to perform and/or reproduce music. The guide then explains the appropriate licenses needed to ensure the copyright holder is fairly treated. It also tells you how to obtain these licenses.

This is a blog by flute player and teacher Dr. Cate Hummel. She writes weekly posts that offer suggestions on how to improve students' flute playing, as well as equipment suggestions and troubleshooting guides. Her writing style is to the point and easy to understand.

This is a great resource to start out any student playing a low brass instrument.

This website is lesson plans relating to music from the Smithsonian Folkways program. There is music from all over the world located here and lesson plans for various ages and grade levels. They are organized by continent.

I love the resources on this website. I use them in a variety of different ways to teach world music!

Online Music library with a vast amount of repertoire that can be used in the classroom or private use.

A great resource from the NY Philharmonic. Being able to see the notes that all the great conductors have made on the scores, and embrace the history of this orchestra has been a lot of fun. Also helps a lot with score study and analysis of some of the major works for orchestra.

This is the Digital Archives from the New York Philharmonic. This has copies of past programs as well as digital copies of scores owned by the Phil. The scores also have the markings from the past conductors of the Phil.

A great article showing how to take a well known tune and teach students how to compose their own melody. The article goes through the process of how to teach it. First you help students to write a base line, have them improvise a rhythm, then they can discover the notes of each chord, and write their own melody using chord tones.