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Incredibox is a great website to explore musical creation and entertainment. Incredibox invites you to become the conductor of a group of human beatbox. You can share your compositions with others from all over. It's a really fun website that even students will enjoy using.

Incredibox is a neat web-based app where seven loops at a time are available for students to use at a time. They may remove and add loops at any point, and there are unlocked special content available for certain combinations. This makes it seem like a game. Students can share their compositions, but unfortunately cannot download it without paying. Regardless, this is a fun activity where all the loops sound good-no matter what the combination.

Students can arrange an acapella mix using different beat boxers and vocals. 

I love this program.  Great for the kids on a snow day, or a day we cannot get in the band room, but can use the computer room.

This is a unique website which allows the user to create rhythm loops with characters in costume representing the individual loops. It is an easy-to-use program which allows the user to create endless combinations of rhythm patterns and sound effects. Selecting the correct combination of figures will unlock bonus features. The program is fun for all ages.

This is a website for students to compose beatbox-type songs. Students can combine melodies, rhythms, sound effects and voices to compose their piece.

This is user friendly, fun, loop-based software where users can mix their favorite loops and then record and easily share their creations with others. This program is free to use on a computer and can be purchased for an iphone or ipad.

I have LOVED this website so much. I use it in class on a regular basis for a variety of uses. It is used as meaningful sub plans, rewards, and to explore creativity and composition. I also use it to discuss beatboxing and form.

This is an excellent website that produces high levels of student engagement and buy-in. It allows students to "mix" their own music using pre-created beats, rhythms, and melodies.

This is the link for our incredibox software we used in class. Make sure you save to the email stacipendry@yahoo.com so I can see your pieces. Version one will not record

This is the Choral Public Domain Library. Users can search this database of public domain choral works for classroom use.

CPDL is an bottomless vat of choral music, most of it older than 100 years old and thus in the public domain. Not all music on here is in the public domain. The music that isn't is clearly noted as such.

CPDL is a website devoted to choral music in public domain. All the music on the website free to download and use. Composers can also upload new music that is still free to the public. Donations are appreciated and used to keep the website running.

The purpose of this resource is to provide free choral and vocal scores, text and translations. There is a huge database of material.

Why re-invent the wheel when someone has already created the resource you need? TeachersPayTeachers is that resource for everything from classroom decor to lesson manipulatives and presentations.

This is a great resource for any educators. Teachers pay teachers is an online website where teacher share and sell their creative ideas for other teachers to use in their classrooms. You can purchase materials, lessons plans, assessments, and pretty much anything for a lesson plan you are using, or in need of. You are also able to upload and sell your creative ideas to collaborate with your colleagues. This is a useful tool if you find yourself in a jam for a lesson or in need of supplemental materials.

Teachers Pay Teachers is a resource for a wide variety of teacher-created lesson plans. Teacher-authors can share their lesson plans and resources via digital download, and receive payment in return. The search function allows teachers to find materials related to a particular subject and view the ratings from other users. Music teachers need to use careful keywords and search tactics to weed out lessons aimed at incorporating songs in the general classroom, but there are many great music education plans about music elements, instruments, guided listening, etc., as well as rubrics and visual aids.

Teachers pay teachers is a website that allows educators to purchase curriculum and resources from other educators. There is a wide variety of resources available on the website for every age group and subject area. I find this website to be incredibly helpful when I am looking to use technology in my teaching. Many teachers upload their lessons including links and videos, which allows students to see and hear many great examples of music.

Teachers pay teachers is basically the amazon for any educator to find lesson plans, games, manipulatives, and much more. I love to check out teachers pay teachers when I need new ideas on teaching music and generally I look for music games. I actually have a store on TPT, but hardly upload anything because I stay busy. I believe my most popular buy is my music jenga game, if any UFME students want it I would be more than happy to send it your way, for free!

Teachers Pay Teachers is a platform where educators can support each other and share resources. There are all kinds of resources available from composer studies, music theory, games, and centers.

Teachers Pay Teachers contains music lessons, interactive media, and administrative aids developed by music educators around the world. While many of the resources are for purchase the cost is minimal and there are many available for free. The musical content ranges from specific learning objectives (like steady beat for elementary classrooms) to entire curricular supplements using specific teaching methods (such as Kodaly). While there are resources for performing ensembles, most tend to be for elementary or beginning performing ensemble classes.

Great resource for all subject matters. It also keeps a library of all your purchases in case you lose them. All lessons I have bought through here have been of very good quality and easy to use.

Site where teachers can find music lesson ideas from other teachers. Print outs, IWB, lessons, etc...

Teachers Pay Teachers a website where you can look up different resources for your classroom from sub plans, posters, to fun activities to play with your students. When teaching a specific concept in music class such a dynamics, this resource will have vocabulary with pictures, power-points, and activities to play with students in order to reinforce the concept. It is a great website that eliminates the time component of creating these documents on your own time, while also supporting others teachers with inexpensive prices for their products.

This site is great for finding just about anything you could need in the classroom, developed by other teachers! They have general lesson plans, substitute lesson plans, worksheets, and more!

A website including lesson plan ideas, bulletin board suggestions, singing games, and songs to teach musical elements in a Kodaly-inspired sequence. The website also includes links to her Teachers Pay Teachers store that includes ready-made lesson plans, worksheets, assessments, and teacher tools.

Flat is a full-featured online music notation tool. The product has commercial and educational versions. The educational version has teacher administrative controls and allows an educator to integrate Flat into common learning management services including Google Classroom and Canvas. Students and teachers can collaborate on the same notation projects, and have the ability to integrate and link to external content (e.g. YouTube). Flat also has a plugin for Google Documents which allows users to create and embed short selections of music notation into their work.

This is online notation software that can be used by teachers and students.

This website is a music writing software that can be used online as well as offline. The layout of the program is simple to navigate and grasp. Students can easily learn how to arrange or create compositions here. Collaboration on projects is simple. Projects can be shared with one another. There is also a feature in which a teacher can leave written notes within the scores themselves.

IMSLP is on online library of music that is now held in the public domain. It is a resource that can be freely used to print copies of music for use in your classroom for free! This resource is especially useful for string orchestras, as entire catalogs of music from such great composers as Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven can be found in the archive.

Public domain music is free for downloading here. For many compositions, there are several editions from which you can choose. An essential for every musician.

This is a wonderful site for free music and recordings of all kinds.

IMSLP is a valuable resource for classical sheet music. It allows teachers and conductors to download scores and parts for free.

Sharing the world's public domain music.

The International Music Score Library Project (or IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library, offers a wealth of free music scores for download. The site allows listeners to listen to many of the compositions (via midi or recording) and the public domain scores can be downloaded as PDF and printed for professional or personal use simply by accepting a disclaimer.

This is my favorite go to wiki site for public domain sheet music. There thousands of works from thousands of composers. You can find almost anything that is in the public domain. This is great for personal use, or to direct students looking for music. Another great use for this sight is for score study.

A "must have" resource for any music educator. This is a free-access extensive music library with hundred of thousand scores published in 26 different languages. Musicians can browse scores by composers, nationality, time-periods, instrumentation/genres, by melody, etc.

This is the go-to place for public domain music. "Happy Birthday" is here, but I am sure many more arrangements to come soon. 

IMSLP is a great resource for finding music to study, or doing research about composers, orchestras, compositions, etc. My students have to do a research paper each semester, and this is their primary reference for the assignment. A great, educational tool.

This website is a tool I often use when I need to find a specific part I am missing from a score set. It has thousands of composers and pieces that are used by music teachers and available in free domain. In addition, this website also offers a score breakdown by composer, nationality, instrumentation, time period, as well as recordings by well known musicians or performing groups from all over the world. Not only are you able to have access to music, but you can access the Naxos Music Library if you have a subscription. You are able to share your thoughts and our questions by the use of the forums and discussions. This website has various ways you can participate whether it is in a forum, contribution to submitting a score or recording, or a community project

One can find public domain music on this site, available for download. The library is constantly being updated with new pieces and recordings available for free. Some popular pieces even have copies of original manuscripts and updated versions.

This website has a large collection of public domain sheet music. Students can access this site and find a private study piece or something to work on for class.

This website is a hub for public domain sheet music including full scores, parts, and even recordings of pieces. It's free to use and incredible if you're on a budget for ensembles. quartets and solo work.

This is a database for scores and parts that are public domain and new compositions from unknown composers. This would be a good place to look for repertoire for performing ensembles. Students could also be directed here to look for music to work on their own for solos and chamber groups. This database also includes method books for individual instruments. All downloads are free. 

Where you can share the world's public domain music.

International Music Score Library Project hosts scores and parts to public domain compositions. Scores can be found to many greats throughout history, and this would make a good resource for a music history course.

This software is shareware and a great alternative to using the pricer competition. It can allow the student to create music at home on their personal computers. It also has great value as a teaching tool and teaching student how to compose or arrange.

This is a free, web-based, cloud-based notation software program. Users can create, view, print, hear and share scores. This program is similar to Sibelius and Finale, but has the advantage of being web-based. It is MIDI and iOS compatible. Users can participate in a community of sharing scores. Noteflight is free, but Premium features require a monthly subscription. Educators can purchase a "Learn" subscription which allows students to have their own accounts that are managed by one (or several) teachers.

Great resource to have notation software accessible for free. Limited in the amount of scores you can create, but you are able to print and hear a MIDI playback.

This program is a good tool for notating music. Students can create original works or copy something for an assignment. Has many of the features as the expensive programs.