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Download this program to arrange and create your own midi creations. You do not need a midi keyboard to use this. The computer keypad can be used to play the midi sounds.

This website provides music educators with connections to MIDI, Mp3, Smartboard, and other music technology resources.

Website provides a large list of MIDI and technology resources for music educators. Site includes paid and free resources that provide technology to the music classroom as well as sites that provide feedback on those resources. This is a great website for teachers are interested in providing their students more technology in the classroom. 

A website about web browser's MIDI capabilities.

Soundation is a really cool program that allows the users to play with loops, midi files, wav files, and even creating your own music. This could be a really great way to get your students to compose their own music through technology!

Soundation is a really cool program that allows the users to play with loops, midi files, wav files, and even creating your own music. This could be a really great way to get your students to compose their own music through technology!

This is a web-based software which is free with the option to upgrade. It is similar to GarageBand, but is great because it doesn't require a specific type of computer to use. To use, one simply drags in the loops and MIDI tracks to create their own songs. The free version has its limitations, but can still create some amazing tracks for the classroom.

This is a great listening resource to use with our students. It includes playlists and collections of recordings, historical and biographical information on composers and classical music, and midi recordings of sheet music.

This is a subscription-based website (free to join) that contains over 30,000 classical music files by various composers in MIDI, MP3, or WMA streaming file formats. You can download up to 5 songs per day, and it also contains biographies and historical timelines.

A companion website to HyperHistory Online, this website contains recordings of classical pieces that can be easily accessed. It can be searched by time period or composer. A handy resource if covering a music history unit.

MagicMusicTutor.com has some really good materials available for free. I have had particular success with the free song arrangements for boomwhackers. There are also tutorial videos, music theory worksheets, virtual instruments, classroom ideas, guitar tutorials, a MIDI song library, and the site admin accepts requests for new materials.

Music transcription software

ScoreCloud is a free notational software. There is also a paid version, but the free version is fully functional. This program allows for MIDI input, traditional computer notation input, and also translates live music performance into notation. The online features of this program allow for sharing of files with others through email and social media. ScoreCloud is downloadable as a computer program and application for IOS devices. This program could be used to help teach music creativity, music literacy, and music response.

ScoreCloud is a free notational software. There is also a paid version, but the free version is fully functional. This program allows for MIDI input, traditional computer notation input, and also translates live music performance into notation. The online features of this program allow for sharing of files with others through email and social media. ScoreCloud is downloadable as a computer program and application for IOS devices. This program could be used to help teach music creativity, music literacy, and music response.

Audiotool is a wonderful resource that allows the modern musician to have an old-school audio studio at their fingertips. It even includes digital representations of classic synthesizers, as well as a number of tracks to use in mixing one's own creation. It can also be used with a MIDI keyboard. It might prove useful for contemporary, "other 80%"-style music courses.

This website serves the purpose of giving music teachers from grades 1-12 games, music symbols, guitar chords, and rhythm exercises for teaching. It allows teachers to have something to give students when preparing for a test or the next section of a class. This website includes features such as midi pianos, ear training courses, the lines treble and bass clefs for study, and rhythm games for understanding and foundation.

This website provides an extensive collection of folk music from Britain, Ireland, and America. It provides free MIDIs of folk songs, lyrics, and information about each piece. This site is great for students to explore folk music.

Sonja, an app available in the app store, lets you read, write, record, and edit music hassle free. It' serves as a great educational tool for singers and musicians that lets you play or sing along with other app users. You also have the ability to import MIDI and audio files as well.

All things clarinet!  This site has free music, midi files, recordings and videos!

All things clarinet!  This site has free music, midi files, recordings and videos!

This is a site that I use frequently. Not only does the site provide useful information regarding musical ensembles and private instructors for those who live within the institute's service region, but it also serves as a resource for videos and recordings of professional clarinet players students may use as models. Furthermore, the site contains a variety of sheet music for all band and orchestra instruments. Sheet music may be downloaded from the site, or entire libraries may be purchased on a CD containing pdf files. This site makes access to solo and other forms of music literature a breeze! 

Noteflight provides music notation software from the ease of a web browser. The program is free to use, and although there is a premium version, the free version has all the tools needed for learning and creating notated music. All works are saved in the cloud and can be accessed at anytime from any device that can access the website, making music composition easier than ever.

Noteflight is a free browser-based music notation tool. The software has cloud storage allowing you to work on creative musical products from any computer with an internet connection. It also connects to MIDI instruments. Noteflight has a paid subscription which allows you to store unlimited compositions, full access to all sounds, transposition, and the ability to print individual parts. Student accounts can be purchased which you to create "closed" classrooms allowing for creative musical products and collaboration amongst peers.

This website provides a collection of operatic midi files and/or scores on Aria collections of Berlioz, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, and Wagner, as well as partial collections of over 50 other composers, for a total of 1,288 Arias.

The Aria Database has: 1288 Arias ,177 Operas , 65 Composers, 389 Translations,1027 Aria Texts and 223 MIDIs. The search features on this site are impressive. You can search using the name of the aria, opera, or the role. You can also search by voice part or vocal range. While the website is not adding new material, most vocalists will be able to find what they are looking for with the depth of material already entered.

The Aria Database is a free website to find useful material for music educators, students, and performers. It has a huge library of Aria and Opera roles that are easy to search. It comes with very useful information such as range, translations, setting, synopsis, and recordings. Searching is easy and can vary in degree simple search, Aria search, Opera search, Role search, or browse the many selections. People can contact or contribute to this website. I do not see any scores, but there are links that do provide them.

Similar to Soundtrap.com; this online DAW is a great resource for student to create music with loops. I've used this in a technology class and students enjoy the variety of loops.

Soundation is a fully functioning cloud-based DAW, similar to Soundtrap. The look is darker and more professional, and the effects processing is more sophisticated. This could be a good option for college-level recording and collaboration, whereas Soundtrap's colorful look and simplicity would be more appropriate for middle- and high-school use.

Soundation is a Digital Audio Workstation similar to sound trap though soundation appears more professional, and the effects are more sophisticated. With soundation, students learn to do recording, editing, mixing, instrument patches, and MIDI input. Soundation is good for university level whereas Soundtrap's simplicity is good for middle and high school. Like soundtrap, it has a free one month trial with limited accessibility and to access the full premium, one has to pay. Soundation helps students acquire the 4Cs i.e Collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking. It is a good resource for teaching studio composition and for enhancing the musicianship of non traditional music students.

Sound trap is an online Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that one can use to create loops and tracks online. One doesn't need to download any software to install sound trap, it is typically online and is a very good resource for teaching creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking (4 Cs). I like sound trap because it enables students and teachers to continue work anywhere any time (in and outside the classroom). Teachers can easily add projects and invite students to work on the project any time anywhere. The fact that one can invite another person to work on the same project and/or even record a track together is mesmerizing. With sound trap, it is easy to record any instrument, download a track, and best of all, you can record using a microphone and/or use the free loops, MIDI, and effects that come with the software. A school has to purchase the software and add students to start using it. However, the software has a one month free trial which teachers can try out with their students before purchasing.

Remember when Finale used to be able to import pdf files? PlayScore 2 is a great work-around. Music scanning software that includes the ability to export as a MusicXML file or MIDI file which can then be imported into programs such as Finale, Sibelius, to be edited, transposed, or re-arranged. ALSO - this is a great tech blog to follow / subscribe to.

What better way to involve students--regardless of musical talent and ability--in the music-making experience than to integrate technology into our everyday classroom instruction? Blogger Ethan Hein provides his audience with seven sample lessons that use music technology as the means through which to teach music-specific content; among the examples he provides are assignments for making music with loops, MIDI, and found sound. By adapting any of these lessons for use in our own classrooms, Hein is convinced that we can engage and involve all students in the music-making experience.

For teachers looking to make use of listening examples in their classes, Classical Archives offers a substantial database of recordings and listening examples. Users can filter examples based on genres, periods or by individual composers and have access to both live recording and even MIDI recreations of famous pieces of classical and more contemporary music.

One of the original titles of music notation software. Finale was first available in the late 1980's and has been in constant development ever since. The software is available in 3 service levels: Finale, Printmusic, and Notepad. Notepad is a free version and only offers limited features. The full version of Finale has full capability to produce professional-looking scores and is also capable of exporting audio and MIDI files. Finale also comes bundled with Garritan Aria player VST and a decent-sounding instrument pack. Finale also features educational worksheets and templates which are very useful for teachers.