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Andrea Shakespeare

Beginner Recorder Lessons ~ Progressive - YouTube - 0 views

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    This YouTube video is a series of 18 recorder lessons which progress through the different pitches played on the recorder. There is a visual demonstration of each note as well as the notation on the staff. Background accompaniment is also a part of the video.
Greg Dumas

Overview of Go for the Gold! Recorder by Kevin Babuder | Music Matters Blog - 0 views

  • Go for the Gold! Recorder is a multi-touch book created for a Mac or iPad and can be purchased through iTunes to read and enjoy in your iBooks. This is a beginner edition and from what I’ve read, to take full advantage of the interactive aspects the book offers
  • it’s best to use an iPad
  • Not only will readers learn the basics of playing the recorder, bu
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    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.
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    Here is as software program review of Go for the Gold! I have never seen a software program for the Recorder. This program can be useful for elementary school music students that are beginning to play on song flutes.
Stephen Hull

When Repetition Isn't the Best Practice Strategy: Effects of Blocked and Ra...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

  • There were no performance differences between groups at the end of three practice sessions. However, 24 hours after completing practice, random group participants were able to play significantly faster than blocked group participants without sacrificing accuracy.
  • The contextual interference hypothesis predicted that the blocked group would perform better at acquisition but that the random group would perform better at retention. Results of this study provide partial support for the second half of this hypothesis
  • Structured practice, which involves using a planned sequence of practice activities, has been found to be beneficial for students of all ages
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  • Results of this study demonstrate that repetitive practice may not always be the most effective strategy for beginning musicians. Teachers could structure class instruction using random orders, rather than relying exclusively on repetitive drill, and teach students how to structure their home practice in this way
  • Many descriptive studies have shown that beginners make very limited use of self-regulated practice strategies (Austin & Berg, 2006; Hallam, 2001; McPherson & Renwick, 2001; Pitts, Davidson, & McPherson, 2000). Therefore, it would be critical for teachers to help students make this application at home.
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    Is it better to practice the same small section until perfected before moving on to the next? Or is it better to vary the order of items practiced?
esikorski

How to Play the Clarinet : How to Begin Playing the Clarinet - YouTube - 0 views

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    This is part of a video series showing beginning instruction on each instrument. This is a great video to share with students (and parents) to help them out in the first few lessons. Some information needs to be explained more completely, but this provides good basic knowledge and helps students remember what was taught during lessons.
dre3101

Cave painting, contemporary art and everything in between | First things first | Khan Academy - 0 views

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    This was another great find from Dr. Bauer's resource list that provides an overview of Art History. This website is of interest to me for the natural connections of art and music to cultural heritage, and as an IB teacher, these connections are the basis for the media script internal assessment.
jaywerd04

MusicEdMagic - 1 views

  • Most Popular Articles Free Music Composing and Notation Software- 2015 Music Searches By Lyrics: Finding a song title when all you have are a few words Free Lyrics and Sheet Music for Popular Songs Portable Digital Audio Recorder Buying Guide With Reviews Where To Download Free Karaoke Songs MuseScore Free Music Notation Software How to Download Music to CD Karaoke and Other Music Without Lyrics Music CD-R vs. Data CD-R: Is There A Difference? Online Music Notation Editor- NoteFlight
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      I love that the MusicEdMagic.com page provides links to other noteworthy music software programs like MuseScore, NoteFlight, and other composing/notation software pages.
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    This music technology website offers a blog, sheet music, and reviews of products. They are also talking about the new NAfME standards along with technology.
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    Recent music education related articles, resources, free easy beginner level sheet music, and other music education related information. This website also has three to ten minute podcasts about music education, music technology and many about iPad uses.
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    This website has a collection of articles relating to music technology and music pedagogy in general. There are also short podcasts on a variety of topics. In addition, there are links to other sites, particularly free sheet music. It has a variety of items on it, which makes it easy to find something useful on it for everyone.
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    A source for podcasts and updates on what's new and free in the world of music technology. Sheet music, blogs, podcasts, and minimum monthly updates are a few of the things offered here, and it's all geared toward music ed tech.
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    The MusicEdMagic.com link serves as an outlet to other online music software websites, links for free sheet music, articles for music research/music making, and other electronic-focused music websites.  I was able to download free sheet music in a matter of seconds  from the musicnotes.com link provided on this link's homepage.  It has links to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest on the homepage, making sharing and communicating accessible upon first glance.  As an educator, I see this page as being best used in private practice.  Being able to provide students with some of the featured videos like "Recommended Trombone Solos and Recordings" or "Audio Software For The Classroom Or Home Recording Studio" seem like links that would be best used for people that are more interested in personal, one-on-one study and creation of music.  However, I could see these links being used in a general setting as well, like ensemble practice or music tech classes.  
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    Monthly video about the most current music technology. This is great to keep up with the latest music education technology. The video gives good ideas about many different types of music technology.
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    This blog contains many resources, including iPhone/iPad app reviews, podcasts, videos, free sheet music, and other posts about music-related technology.
slofgren57

MakingMusicFun.net | Free Sheet Music and Music Lesson Plans - 1 views

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    This website has a wide variety of resources such as sheet music, lesson plans, composer biographies written with elementary level vocabulary, music theory worksheets, and much more. This website is geared toward elementary music but could also be useful in some middle school applications.
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    MakingMusicFun.net provides worksheets, lesson plans, and other resources for elementary music teachers. Premium users have access to more resources.
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    Making Music Fun is a great website for resources for music educators. There are tons of theory worksheets (some more appropriate for elementary school students), lessons, composer biographies and worksheets, and activities for the music classroom. There is also a library of piano music that is well-written for beginners and available in a variety of levels. Some features over the years now require purchase, but there are still tons of resources available for free.
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    This website is one of my favorites for finding elementary sub plans, fun note-naming worksheets, and other fun worksheets for kids.
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    This website offers various music resources for download, such as sheet music, theory worksheets, composer biographies, and music award certificates. It is mainly for younger aged children, but can also be used for middle schoolers.
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    A fabulous resource for eye-catching, student-engaging music worksheets that ask students to think critically about music concepts. A variety of topics are covered.
rknappmusic

StringSkills.com | Created by Gabriel A. Villasurda - 0 views

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    This site includes scale sheets, rhythm charts and bowing examples for orchestra students and teachers.  I have used this site with my school students and private students.
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    Useful and mostly free teaching materials and other resources for: school orchestra directors, private studio teachers, future string teachers and college methods classes, string players of all ages for self-study.
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    The finger patterns have really helped my students play in tune in a variety of keys.
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    Gabriel Villasurda offers a number of free resources for string education. His finger patterns are invaluable for improving intonation in a variety of keys.
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    StringSkills.com is a place for teachers to be able to look up different finger patterns for all four instruments. There are sheets for shifting to help the student to become fluent and relaxed while shifting and playing in different positions. There are also rhythm, one to two octave scales and sight reading. Each of these have a free download of work sheets that teacher and students can access online to work on in class or practice at home.
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    StringSkills.com is a place for teachers to be able to look up different finger patterns for all four instruments. There are sheets for shifting to help the student to become fluent and relaxed while shifting and playing in different positions. There are also rhythm, one to two octave scales and sight reading. Each of these have a free download of work sheets that teacher and students can access online to work on in class or practice at home.
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    This site provides several pieces that focus on certain musical performance skills. The resources are in the form of downloadable sheetmusic. This is a great site for honing in on one specific skill being taght at a time. Most teachers use method books in lesson, which are of course very beneficial but may not put enough emphasis on a specific musical concept. This site has music in several categoires including finger patterns, shifting, and rhythm to name a few. Some of the categories have downloadable curricula as well, making it a great guide for novice teacher or even experienced teachers looking for new materials to work with.
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    StringSkills.com is an excellent free resource for string teaching materials. Compiled by Gabriel Villasurda, this site contains fingering charts/suggestions, rhythmic practices (and crazy tunes to help reinforce the learning) as well as bowing techniques, scales and shifting. There are even challenge pieces to be played on one string. Definitely worthwhile for string teachers.
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    This website has free, downloadable exercises that address many string techniques. There are exercises for bowings, finger patterns, scales of varying difficulties, shifting, rhythm, and key signatures. This could be a great resource to push students from a beginner/intermediate level to being able to play advanced repertoire that involve complex rhythms, articulations and key areas. I would like to use this for upper middle school students to prepare them for high school instrumental programs. 
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    This site contains a variety of teaching materials for violin, viola, cello, and bass. Topics include finger patterns, scales, shifting, bowings, and rhythm.
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    This website is a resource full of exercises and sheet music for string instruments. There are scales, shifting exercise, and simple songs for students to download and play. There are also piano accompaniments for students to play along with for many of the pieces.
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    This website is a resource full of exercises and sheet music for string instruments. There are scales, shifting exercise, and simple songs for students to download and play. There are also piano accompaniments for students to play along with for many of the pieces.
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    Great resource for string teachers! Includes free sheet music to teach specific skills.
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    This string specific website has lots of great resources for working on different skill-sets. I particularly like this for the finger pattern exercises and rhythmic reading tunes. This helps to work on rhythm, intonation, sight-reading, and scale work.
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    This website is a comprehensive resource for string teachers which includes etudes, scale sheets, bowing resources, and more. Many resources are available for printing and sharing directly with students.
trthomas19

Blog - Recording Revolution - 0 views

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    The Recording Revolution blog and joint YouTube account, are great resources for teachers who are introducing the concept of mixing to students. The blogs cover a wide range of FAQ from beginners and feature videos that use Pro Tools as the DAW, but can be applied to any DAW that has comparable plugins and effects.
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    Blog for home studio recording by Graham Cochrane. Graham provides excellent posts as well as videos on music production, engineering, recording, and mixing that are geared to home studio enthusiasts but would be a great resource for high school music technology courses as well.
kjcute

Music Tech Teacher - 0 views

  • extension of the music technology and band classroom at Green Acres Middle School in Birmingham, AL
  • elementary students are learning to read, write, compose, publish and perform their music. Student work, videos, photos and music compositions are posted on this site
  • technology links, quizzes, resources and information to all music teachers interested in using technology to enhance music instruction
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    This site contains lessons, worksheets, and quizzes for young music students. In addition, there are links to other music tech related resources and suggested reading materials and other supplies
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    This is the website of a music teacher in Alabama. She has free music theory lessons and TONS of theory games and quizzes. This teacher made them all herself and shares how she did it. The site is directed toward elementary age students, though you could get away with middle school students too. High school teachers might want to create their own games.
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    This page gives a great example of how a music technology program can work. It also includes lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes, and links to completed student projects.
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    This website has useful information on using technology to teach music. There lessons and quizzes to use.
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    This is one of my favorite websites and I use it frequently at school. There are over 140 elementary music quizzes, puzzles and games. There are lessons, a piano practice interface, and worksheets all about music notes, rhythms, instruments, composers, and more. This site also incorporates the use of NoteFlight and showcases student work. There are also links and resources for music technology available on the site.
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    This website contains various lessons, worksheets and interactive elements for students and instructors in a general music to high school theory classroom.  It contains a large library of music worksheets for lesson plan strategies!
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    This website contains various lessons, worksheets and interactive elements for students and instructors in a general music to high school theory classroom.  It contains a large library of music worksheets for lesson plan strategies!
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    Ms. Karen Garrett has provided a website that is comprehensive, interactive and impressive for a classroom teacher.  Her lessons, worksheets and quizzes/games are excellent resources to use for beginner piano, note reading, rhythms, basic music history and music theory.  
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    Music Tech Teacher offers cloud based music theory lessons and quizzes for learners of all ages.
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    This website is chock full of activities, quizzes, worksheets, and more. A good number of the quizzes are interactive, which would be great for technology centered music classrooms. Though a good number of documents revolve around piano, there is plenty of material on the site that would be great to use with your students.
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    This website is chock full of activities, quizzes, worksheets, and more. A good number of the quizzes are interactive, which would be great for technology centered music classrooms. Though a good number of documents revolve around piano, there is plenty of material on the site that would be great to use with your students.
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    The purpose of this resource is to provide free instructional content for music teachers. The site is also used to provide music technology links, quizzes, resources and information to all music teachers interested in using technology to enhance music instruction.
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    Music Tech Teacher offers music based quizzes and games along with information about lessons, and band.
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    The Music Tech Teacher website is interested and contains several menus including class lessons, quizzes, and examples of student work. The music tech lessons look great and seem pretty comprehensive on my quick review.
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    Amazing resource for lesson plans, worksheets, and games to teach students about a wide variety of music topics. This website would be great for creating lesson plans for subs and would also be a great resource if you can't find printed worksheets that address theory. The games are also fun and educational, asking students to identify instruments, tempos, etc. and can act as quizzes that can be scored and printed out. Great resource!
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    Music Tech Teacher is an open resource offered by Karen Garrett as an extension of her own music classes she had previously been teaching. Ms. Garrett offers free lessons, worksheets and assessments that can be downloaded as .pdfs and used by any teachers looking for materials that could be used within their own classrooms. Ms. Garrett's resources also have a strong focus on teachers looking to specifically make use of technology in their classes.
johntc11

Ear Trainer - 0 views

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    This is an online site for ear training. It has tests covering intervals, chords, scales, cadences etc.
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    A basic platform with ear training exercises at various levels of difficulty, including jazz chords, intervals, scales, and cadences.
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    For teachers who want to help their students improve their ear-training skills, Good-Ear is a great and easy-to-use website that focuses entirely on this topic. This resource has a simple layout and allows its users to train their aural skills on anything from intervals and chords to harmonic progressions. Teachers who are just beginning to introduce this skill to their students can also find use in the beginner level training exercises. Good-Ear is free and can easily be used by not only teachers, but also students who have access to an electronic device and internet source.
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    This is great tool to develop an ear for music. It has all of the qualities and the features to be able to help the student become a stronger performer. Being able to hear is very important when it comes to music. What I love mostly about this training tool, it strengthens your ability to enhance perfect pitch.
cheyroseb

Kodaly Inspired Classroom - 0 views

  • but this actually took about 25 minutes with both of my classes.
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      Someone else's trial is my preparation
  • I said that we would be doing something kind of new in music the next few times we have class so I wanted to share with them about it today so that we could spend all of our time in centers the next two times. 
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      Builds anticipation :)
  • nstead of having all of the centers spread out around the perimeter of the room, which is where I put them when we were actually doing centers, I lined up all my centers at the front of the room under the board. 
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      Provides easy access
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  • I emailed the list to their teacher and asked their teacher to line them up in that order (so the four students in group 1 are first, followed by group 2 and so on....) the next time they came to music.
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      Very smart idea.
  • played" each center one or two turns
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      Good for preparation
  • On my computer, I had the zip file that contained all of the PDFs for each file pulled up so that as I was going through them with the whole group, if I wanted them to be able to see something better, I could show them the PDF version instead of the  tiny cards I was holding for some of the centers.
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      Helps reinforce expectations for each center
  • I had directions for each center posted at each center in case they forgot or were absent when we went over the centers, but there seemed to be no issues with students knowing what to do at each center.
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      An ounce of preparation is worth a pound of cure.
  • they were all in the right order.
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      If the classroom teacher is aware of expectations, they can help support and enforce them
  • Do you have other ideas that I haven't thought of? Share below!
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      It would be good to have centers for each grade, or kits within center stations for each grade-- color coded
  • This is a really fun practice game for upper elementary and middle school! I also love this game for older beginners because it is an easy way to take those easy ta and titi rhythms and really make a more challenging game.
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      We used to do a game like this for theatre. I would love to use this as a beginning of the year activity for assessment, or a way to practice certain parts for a concert.
  • This could be done as an ostinato pattern that is repeated, or you could rotate through a set of cards for the students to play.
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      I like the idea of using cue cards with simple rhythmic ostinatos to accompany a cd track. You could introduce the ostinatos before the activity and practice by switching between cards. Once the kids feel comfortable, play the song and use the cue cards.
  • Use rhythm flashcards to create a song that the students know well. Have the students clap and read the rhythms and see if they can figure out the mystery song.
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      Would be awesome to use with 4/5th grade and disney songs.
  • Then students work to find the flashcards they need to match the rhythms of that song.
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      Could have students work in teams for a prize.
  • I Have, Who Has game cards
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      I LOVE i have/who has. It's a great way to reinforce aural skills and ensure that your students are paying attention
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    This blog is written by Lindsay Jervis, a Kodaly trained elementary music teacher. She shares her classroom ideas, successes and failures, and so much more. Each blog post is also linked to her TeachersPayTeachers website so that you can purchase the resources needed for a very affordable price.
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    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.
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    Blog and resources focused around teaching through the Kodaly methodology. The author also has substantial resources available for purchase through teachers pay teachers.
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    A series of annotations on the home page of a Kodaly inspired blog. Features 2 articles.
joemarino

Dallas Symphony Orchestra - 1 views

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    This is the Dallas Symphony's kids page. They have great videos and resources about the instruments of the orchestra and composers. There are lesson plans available as well. This is probably geared more toward younger students.
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    Exploration of the Symphony Orchestra Instruments. Teachers may use this for introducing instruments into general music classrooms or beginner orchestra or band.
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    A fun website produced by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to introduce children to music from different eras, composers, instrument timbres, and listening activities. The site also offers instructional and fun hands-on activities.
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    The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's purpose for creating this site is to compile a variety of interactive games and resources for kids to access and explore orchestral instrumentation and sound. The games and interactive information is engaging and informative, especially for the young general music student as well as beginning instrumentalists.
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    The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has compiled a website for teachers and students. The materials from this site will enhance certain musical concepts being taught in class to increase students' levels of engagement. There are videos and songs to enhance music lessons, as well as ideas and materials for lesson plans. The DSO page also provides multiple resources and links to other educational outlets for students in elementary school, as well as accompanying teacher resources and activities for their students.
kristineyang3

Instant Success Music - 0 views

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    This website has resources for beginning strings and band. All the pieces have easy music patterns that are suitable for beginning players but are arranged in styles that are exciting and motivating to practice. This would be a good place to look for music for a beginning group's first concert. 
mmaccari

Be Part of the Band - 0 views

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    This webpage is part of a larger website dedicated to recruiting and retaining music students. Through a compilation of videos, stories, and information, students can see the benefits of participating in a school music program.
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