Interesting and scholarly article regarding theory/harmony in pop music vs. serious music.

Pink Floyd fans - I LOVE this version with the jazz violinist.

This is absolutely ridiculous. If your instrument has elephant ivory, even the tiniest bit, and it was made after the 1976 agreement regarding import of elephant ivory, it is considered contraband - and the government can take it from you - when you travel. The silliest part is that many people are misinformed about the use of ivory in musical instruments. Piano keys - "those ivories" - those are made from seal ivory, not elephant ivory. I wonder how much ivory used in other instruments is elephant ivory.

This explains why students who study piano for years quit and become 'the other 80%' when they reach puberty. Great ideas here for the piano teacher.

Another great app for those silly Freshmen and Sophomore voice majors. They often perform lieder, so this would be a great tool for them.

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!).

This band director put together a list of his top four requirements for tech for the band room. That doesn't mean that he actually has it...

Great resources from the Piano Technician's Guild - from word find on piano parts to the history of the instrument.

This website has reviews of several apps and hardware for the music teacher. Learn how to play guitar with an actual guitar, best digital recorder for on the field bands, and more.

Has anyone seen this? This is Dr. Williams' (the 'other 80%' guy) website that lists and describes music apps in the cloud.

This is a GREAT sight reading tool! This allows you to choose your instrument, the level for sight-reading, the time signature, and the key in which you wish it to produce a sight-reading exercise. This is very easy to use and will produce 8 new measures of sight-reading based on the aforementioned attributes.

This is the mentoring initiative for young composers that Dr. Bauer referred to in Chapter 3 of the textbook. There are online professional development resources here and also a guide to how to include your young composer students in this program.

Squeak and Blat is a column that focuses on using technology with music. This website lists all of their past postings.

Blank staff paper in all types of formats. This is easy to use, one single webpage to go to and click which type of staff paper you wish to print.

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 series of articles contain TONS of ideas for using iPads and other technology in the general music classroom. She asks what is the real use for technology - and has surprising answers. Her students also provided much fodder for thought that she shares here.

Often I encounter students who attempt to "cram" for a performance that requires memorization of their music. This article speaks to the element of memorization that I continually speak to: the importance of sleep in the process of memory. I couldn't get the diigo toolbar to work, so I couldn't highlight the relevant section, but what happens during sleep is called "memory consolidation" and this article discusses this phenomenon in easy to understand language.

MOOCs are online courses, many from top universities, some of them include a completion certificate or the equivalent. How to play the guitar is offered by UC Berkley. Other music classes are listed here, too.

This is a website that describes software for learning the recorder. It uses interdisciplinary aspects that seem to be interesting - and probably appealing to students.