This website is great for beginning musicians. It provides instructional videos for the flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, violin and cello. It provides suggestions for the parents of these beginning musicians. It is a great tool for music advocacy.
This website provides tutorials and exercises in music theory. There are also articles and other references for student and teacher use. This is perfect for students continuing and practicing their theory at home.
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 website provides free blank sheet music for any ensemble you could ever need. This is perfect for your beginning composers. You never have to buy sheet music again!
This website provides a brief biography on many composers and recordings of their works performed by many different ensembles. You can search by composer, performer, instrument, time period, and form type.
This website has profiles of 52 classical composers. Each composer has a page discussing famous compositions, family, a timeline, videos of professional recordings, and links to other resources. This is a great place to begin researching classical composers.
This website has bulletin board ideas, worksheets, certificates and much more you can download for your music classroom. It is a great place to begin looking for materials for your K-8 classroom. All downloads have a fee.
This website has a list of concert band pieces suitable for beginning concert bands. This list is organized alphabetically by the composer's last name. It provides the title of the piece, a brief description of the piece, the arranger, publisher, and difficulty level.
This is an excellent resource for jazz educators. It includes jazz history information, links, resources, books, festival information, jazz theory, and much more.
This is the website for The Midwest Clinic, a conference for band and orchestra teachers/conductors/professionals in Chicago every December. This is where you can register, view the performance schedule, and find out more information.
This is the website for the Instrumentalist Magazine where you can read the articles online if you are a subscriber. Links to other magazines and summer music camps are also provided.