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Provided by Holy Names University in conjunction with their Kodály Center, "American Folk Song Collection" is a valuable resource for music teachers, parents, choral conductors and composers.Exploring the collection of repertoire allows a music teacher of any grade level the opportunity to obtain musical scores, lyrics, song analyses and background information. All applicable to constructing curriculum, selecting repertoire for a performance ensemble or building a personal database of favorite songs. Recordings provided by the Library of Congress and other resources and short films on the history and work of Zoltán Kodály, make this a strong resource for instructional planning and classroom implementation.

HNU is a site in which students, teachers, parents could utilize to find songs, lyrics, scores, song analysis, background information, and deeper insight into the works and methodologies of Zoltan Kodaly.

This is a great site for people of all ages who want to learn about and practice music theory.

This could be good for small ensembles and combos. Creates a melody, harmony, and bass part customized to instrumentation needs. Also provides lyrics.

This is a podcast designed to help piano teachers of all experience levels. They discuss different teaching techniques, studio information, practice ideas, and other helpful information. This can be used by piano teachers to enhance their teaching knowledge and learn ways so successfully run their piano studio.

Follow this to the second video (the first doesn't play), and teachers will be inspired to keep working with singers who initially may appear hopeless. 

Great website for puzzles, quizzes, composition activities, instrument families and a great introduction to the NY Philharmonic.  This would be excellent to use before attending a NY Philharmonic concert. 

This is a great website for students to review concepts learned in class. "Instrument Frenzy" is a high speed game that can be used to review instruments and categorize them by family. 

A great website for students to learn about the instruments, and people of the orchestra. They also learn about composers and compositions, and are able to make their own instrument, mingles, and minuets. A great website to use for elementary students who are learning about the orchestra.

This is a collection of resources for musicians coping with repetitive use injuries. It includes a "to-do" list and a guide to related books on the subject.

This website provides links to websites about different injuries and syndromes musicians can suffer from. It also explains how to avoid these injuries and provides an extensive list of recommended books for prevention and instrument technique.  

This page was authored by Arthur Lehman who played euphonium in the President's Own U.S. Marine Band. The page discusses intonation issues facing wind bands. The purpose is to discuss causes of poor intonation and it also provides some diagnostic information. The page also contains links to professional recordings of euphonium players which could serve as a valuable resource to young low brass musicians. 

This website contains valuable resources for music educators and students for all areas and educational levels. The webiste also contains links for other important websites one might be interested in.

This website is a collection of music websites that K-12 music educators can use in the classroom. The links are grouped by band, choir, orchestra, classroom, all music.

This is a collection of links to various sites and resources for use by music teachers and students. The purpose is to provide access to recordings, videos, master classes, tips, lessons, and a variety of other resources. The site contains links to fingering charts, videos, and musical recordings for various ensembles including band, orchestra, and choir. 

Discusses the importance of the March in American Concert band literature.

Naxos is a resource of over 1 million recordings in myriad genres. It requires a subscription but would be an excellent investment for a school library (other non-music classes could take advantage of it). Files a flash streamed and one does not need any special software to make use of this site.

Naxos is a Music Library full of wonderful recordings of music. It is the largest classical music publisher for CD's and has a variety of current recordings of new music as well as many old favorites. This is a must have resources for schools and other music professionals.

"This application is a simple metronome. It's simple but has a very stable tempo, unlike some of the other free metronome applications. And unlike nearly all free applications this metronome has NO ADS so your kids won't be solicited by dating sites whilst practicing their instrument."

- It is filled with interviews with orchestral musicians, games, activities Students can learn about composers - be transported to another country! and learn about the composer's music.

Make your own songs in the online studio app and publish them on the audiotool platform and listen to free music produced by the audiotool artists.

This is a great tool for testing note reading. The website is full of teaching ideas in all music realms. www.teachingideas.co.uk/music

Music - Play this fantastic game to learn the notes on a musical stave. How many points will you score?

Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. Learn more about UDL

A collection of pop songs that work well for school ensembles: mostly 3 or 4 chords

SMARTBoard Music Lessons Pinterest Board

This podcast has discussions about all things related to band. Topics range from tips on specific instruments, how to choose music, and interviews with composers and teachers. It is geared more toward the Texas band director experience, but is still a great resource for all band directors.

Podcast website as well as different resources found in website all related to band.