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David L. Jones is a renowned voice teacher in New York, NY., who has written many essays covering all areas of vocal technic, pedagogy and vocal rehabilitation. The content is mostly pedagogical and does not deal with fach or repertory. The articles contain many case studies with the different vocal issues discussed.

Voice instructors, especially those just starting out, tend to have trouble finding places to take their students to showcase their talents. NATS is an organization designed specifically for that purpose. It provides information for their events, the opportunity to find vocal coaches, and vocal literature that would enhance any instructor's library.

An all-encompassing website for choral directors in the United States. Provides information regarding competitions, professional development, instruction and many other areas. Journals inform teachers of latest news in the field of vocal teaching.

The purpose of the resource is to provide singing teachers multiple resources and professional development. NATS is an organization geared towards private lesson and studio teachers who work in a variety of settings and teach a variety fo students. Membership is costly but resource include access to journals and ability to register students for scholarship competitions.

Vocal Jazz sheet music for all voicing. 

SingWise teacher, Karyn O'Connor addresses many current issues in vocal music education. She presents both sides of an argument, and backs her position with evidence.

Activities and ideas for teaching young children to explore their vocal capacities.

A significant resource for choral directors and music educators. Provides free sheet music for thousands of songs. The database is organized in categories that are easy to navigate.

This wiki is the home of the Choral Public Domain Library and as is a great resource in providing FREE choral/vocal scores, texts, translations and other useful information regarding choral and vocals music. Just under 26,000 choral/vocal works are currently available by over 2800 composers. New works are being added daily. Any musician seeking free, public domain choral or vocal music would benefit from the music, resources and information provided. A community portal, bulletin board and forums are available connect together those with similar interests.

Free choral music!

Part 2 of 2. Exercises that help create good vocal tone.

Has anyone used this app? This looks like something even I would use - and I don't use our iPad much... The feature that I think would appeal to my underclass vocal majors is the ability to play along - so they can learn their music from listening rather than from reading (which some of them don't do well at all!).

From the National Association of Teachers of Singing, this site offers great resources to share with students. A wealth of information regarding vocal health is available here.

This blog has in-depth descriptions of breathing and technique in singing. One on one vocal instruction can be arranged through the site with the author.

Sing&See is vocal training software that helps you sing better by showing real-time visual feedback on your voice!

Joel Katz is a singer and educator in Toronto, Canada, who teaches at the Glenn Gould School. He is a master voice teacher who has written very informative articles on vocal technique and pedagogy.

Sheet music for vocal and instrumental jazz ensembles.

Partifi is a fantastic free, cloud-based website that converts PDF music scores into parts! Very useful for creating customized parts for students and ensembles; especially good for popular piano/vocal scores with no separate voice part available.

Acapella Resource

A quick helpful list of music terminology when wanting to speak properly about vocal music.

Here is a great introduction to vocal percussion, as it starts with the basics then shows where they can lead. Perfect for anyone developing a contemporary a cappella group.

Excellent articles on how to work with adolescent voices are on this site, including much insight on helping boys deal with changing voices.

Site provides translation to many Lieder. Translation and original text available for several languages.

Easy songs and dances to learn within one class session. I will use these to teach movement through music and vocal technique.