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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 website is a web-based music notation program which creates and stores professional-looking scores which can be accessed on the computer or mobile devices. The basic program is free, but the upgrades are very affordable. This is an invaluable and easy-to-use resource for musicians.

The purpose of this website is to create compositions using standard musical notation. Noteflight saves scores and allows instant playback. Composers can share their work with others easily.

Simple web page that has several tuning drones in differing keys. Great for tuning exercises with older students

This is an amazing resource for saxophonists and directors looking for help with their instrument. This site contains over 10,000 users who help and assist with finding "the lick," alternate altissimo fingerings, forward coning, and more.

This is an amazing resource for saxophonists and directors looking for help with their instrument. This site contains over 10,000 users who help and assist with finding "the lick," alternate altissimo fingerings, forward coning, and more.

This is a great website for building a WebQuest. In addition, teachers can share, comment on, and build upon each others web quests.  

Audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web. Responses are displayed in real-time on gorgeous charts in PowerPoint, Keynote, or web browser.

Music Education and Technology Blog created by music teacher Samuel Wright. The purpose of this resource is to share students' projects, apps reviews, iBook's, web lessons, compositions, arrangements, music videos and podcast among other resources used by Wright in his teaching.

This is a statistics web site by David M. Lane, from Rice University. The website format is that of a textbook, with links to each chapter's text and videos. A must visit for future quantitative researchers.

Smithsonian Folkways provides free lesson plans, activities and classroom resources on world music. The lessons can be downloaded in PDF format. The web page offers interactive features for students to learn about other music cultures and heritage.

Purpose of this resource: This resource is a custom instrument fingering chart generator. Musical Content: This website allows for the creation of custom fingering charts for standard band instruments, as well as world music instruments, keyboards, and wind controllers. There are options for standard, student, and professional model instrument charts, and each chart can be customized to include any combination of keyholes. Different colors can be used to fill in each chart. Other information: This website is maintained for current version web browsers, and is not currently compatible with internet explorer.

This web page offers free printable of stories and props for kids. Even though it's not a music education site, elementary music teachers that use stories to teach music concepts such as beat, high/low, soft/loud, among other concepts, can find excellent patterns to print and use in their classes. There are many books based on songs.

Marching.com is a fantastic site for the marching band fanatic. It provides information about events for marching bands that take place all over, scores from competitions, links to competitive high school bands that can be found on the web, and a directory of incredibly useful resources for marching bands. The website also includes articles about new and innovative aspects of marching bands. 

The Clarinet Institute web site is the most detailed educational resource for clarinet.  Users can find recordings, videos, and free sheet music to use for educational purposes.  Many etude books, method books, duets, ensemble compositions, and solo literature can be accessed here.  The videos and recordings offer a catalog of solo and chamber performances for students to listen to and watch.

A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects.

A web app that helps structure a brass warmup. Written for trumpet, it is applicable to other instruments too.

TwistedWave is a browser-based audio editor. You only need a web browser to access it, and you can use it to record or edit any audio file. All the audio is stored and processed on the server, so you don't need to download anything, or save your work when you are done. Close your browser window and your work is saved. Open TwistedWave somewhere else, and all your audio files, with the complete undo history, are still available. With a free account, you can edit mono files up to 5 minutes in length. Once you have an account, you can purchase a subscription to increase this limit.

I have been using the Twisted Wave app for music editing for over a year now and have found it to be very user friendly and a wonderful resource.

The Solfeg.io program is a web- and subscription-based tool for individual or group learning of specific popular songs. There is a list of pre-loaded popular songs with scrolling piano parts and lyrics, along with lead-sheet symbols and drum parts available. The software helps teach music reading and learning by ear using a scrolling video interface.

Music history and elements of theory, as approached from rock music. Useful for the older students, who would appreciate seeing a connection between classical music and what they (or their peers) listen to.

This website is a fantastic resource for teaching backgrounds about Rock n Roll. I've used this as a web quest assignment for students, but could easily be adapted to full-class instruction. Offers engaging videos with great examples and connections.

Classical Classroom is a podcast that offers a welcoming and simple approach to all things classical. It covers topics such as instrumental music, choral/opera music, film scores, composer biographies and more. The podcast is available through multiple platforms like iTunes, GooglePlay, and the web.

A free software that allows the user to make a groove up to four parts. Once the groove is made it can be shared on the web or the midi can be downloaded and used in other programs.

This is a web-based game for recorders. Students play recorder, and the sound initiates different actions in the game. It teaches breath control, rhythm, melody, fingerings, technique, and more. Students have a great time progressing through the different levels.