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The home of IKS: this website includes overviews of Zoltan Kodaly's life and work as a composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator. Members can receive publications and newsletters and connect to Kodaly music educators around the world.

Home to the percussion divisions of WGI (Winter Guard International). The site contains visual and audio media links and downloads, schedules, ticket information, and live webcast information for WGI "The Sport of the Arts." WGI is one of the fastest growing musical activities in the United States, comprised both student (scholastic) divisions and professional (independent) divisions. WGI has mission of providing the highest level of music education possible, constantly pushing and setting new musical standards.

Music theater ordering information for show rental. 

Perfect resources for staying up-to-date with current news and all things clarinet in the professional clarinet world, with many resources to link to: The Clarinet Journal, free music downloads, research, and ideas related to both clarinet teachers and performers. Check this often!

This resource provides information for anyone who plays or teaches the french horn. You can subscribe to their publication - The Horn Call. This is a great resource for all teachers to learn more about the horn and for all horn students to be a member of.

Access scientific research journal articles of ACDA Current issues and previous issues as well as archived issues.

May Day is a group of music educators and researchers that strive for changes in musical education paradigm towards cultural diversity and social justice.

Finding choral pieces can be a difficult task. This site offers (through membership) access to thousands of scores specifically for choral ensembles. It allows you to hear a demo of the piece and also provides information about the composers.

Finding choral pieces can be a difficult task. This site offers (through membership) access to thousands of scores specifically for choral ensembles. It allows you to hear a demo of the piece and also provides information about the composers.

The purpose of this website is to explore resources for trombonists of all ages to help improve musicianship. The content provides possible performance and workshop opportunities, competition events, and scholarship opportunities. It also offers musicians and educators access to high quality audio recordings and videos.

digital musicking diigo group

A great resource for trombonists from professional to amateur. Includes pedagogy, competition listings, orchestral openings, and more.

Drum corp is something that many high school students dream of becoming a part of.  Many students in marching bands around the world dream to become a DCI champion.  Vic Firth teamed up with the Cadets and have made videos with the music from their 2015 production, "The Power of 10" featuring the selection "Waltz".  Students can play along whether they are in the front ensemble, snare line, bass line, or tenor line.

This site is full of helpful resources for trumpet players.  It also features important dates for contests.  I use this site often for my trumpet players.  They like to read the links and articles. 

10 question quiz about music from around the world (intermediate to advanced)

New Horizons is a network of music education programs for adults. New Horizons advocates for participatory music opportunities for adults who either had little or no music education in their younger years or have had little connection to music making since their school years. New Horizons groups are independently run organizations in the United States and many foreign countries. The first New Horizons group was started by Dr. Roy Ernst at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.

Percussive Arts Society provides countless files, resources and recordings for your aspiring percussionists as well as percussion classes to provide quality instruction. The Percussive Arts Society is also a membership and subscription service as well as providing a annual conference across the country. 

The Percussive Arts Society is the largest organization for percussionists and drummers from all over the world. Becoming a member grants access to an extensive archive of videos, publications, and articles related to percussion pedagogy, performance, etc. PASIC, the international convention hosted by PAS, is a multi-day event featuring percussionists and lecturers as well as networking opportunities.

The Percussive Arts Society website provides several resources for music educators. There are magazine subscriptions available as well. This site can help not only percussionists, but non-percussionist educator who are looking to find help in teaching percussion.

A library of children's songs from around the world. This site can be used to find appropriate songs for elementary kids. This would be a great resource to fulfill all the standards of the general music class and include a few more under the connect and discover portions of the standards.

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

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.

Looking for a blog? This website gives the top five blogs for music teachers!

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.