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This Podcast includes an interview with Eric Whitacre who is well known for his compositions as well as the use of virtual choirs.

Morton Subotnick's Creating Music has a variety of music games and activities that would be suited for an elementary curriculum. I would like to use this website as a center in my classroom, to allow students to explore simple music creation and music listening.

Creating music is a site preferably for younger learners. It provides practice on pitches, timbres, ear training, and memorization.

Younger musicians can use this website to understand pitch, hearing music and create basic compositions. There is an iPad application that goes along with it and it is completely free and a great educational tool for younger children.

A Sim City-style online game (also available in a downloadable app) that is great for composition activities in the classroom. Warning: it's addictive for all ages!

This is a great resource for music educators that shares thousands of free works of music. Educators can access thousands of compositions along with translations. Many of these compositions are no longer in print.

This website offers many free choral pieces that can be used in the classroom. It assists in a budget-friendly way for performance classrooms to still have repertoire available.

The purpose of this resource is to categorize and house a large quantity of choral music. As a resource this site could be used to find a range of music for performances, warm up exercise, chorales and instrumental playing. The options for voicing and parts in very broad which makes the amount of music available vast. When searching composers, it is best to know specifics as some composers share similar surnames.

Teoria is a website that assists students with learning music theory. The website offers tutorials about note reading, chords, form, harmonic functions, and scales. Additionally, there are exercises to practice ear training, as well as written theory. Finally, the website has a reference section that has a glossary of music terms and accompanying definitions.

This website is much like musictheory.net, as it offers tutorials, references, and articles to supplement teaching. It also offers exercises, where students can practice what they learn and can be assessed using these tools.

Teoria is another extensive online resource that can be used by teachers of all levels and fields of music education. It provides detailed lessons that touch on basic music theory concepts and even extend into more advanced topics like fundamentals of composition. Educators can also make use of different ear training exercises that are available as well as various music related articles.

This is an online interactive and informative site. This page focuses on the Holidays Symphony and describes compositional techniques used by Charles Ives. It allows the user to "experiment" with sound.

Apronus Piano is an online piano that works on both touchscreens and with piano keyboards. As opposed to some online keyboard that play C when you press the letter C, D when you press the letter D, it uses the keyboard as close to a piano as possible. The second row of keys corresponds to the white keys on the piano and the number row corresponds to the black keys as they occur (with one or two exceptions). The bottom two rows can be used to play chords. The range of the keyboard can be adjusted to hear different notes. This online piano can be used as extra practice for general music or piano students or as a substitution for a real piano if keyboards are not available but computers are available. It could also be used in conjunction with composition assignments or for choral students to practice vocal lines.

The 2014 Music Standards are the new standards to follow and are available through the National Association for Music Education Music Standards (NAfME). There are links available to the various standards which include PK-8 General Music, Composition/Theory, Music Technology, Guitar/Keyboard/Harmonizing Instruments, and Ensemble. Included with the standards are the categories of create, perform, respond, and connect. There are also links to a glossary and enduring understanding, essential questions, and definitions about the new standards.

Resources for grades K-5, involving age-appropriate lessons and ideas. Ideas center around pitch, form, dynamics, rhythms, meter, performing, singing, tempo, meter, etc.

Carnegie Hall has a great resource for music educators who teach K-5th grade general music. They list the activities by grade, and even tell you what you can use each resource for (i.e. teaching rhythm, meter, singing, etc.).

The Carnegie Hall Education page for Educators provides teaching resources to teachers. They provide lesson plans, meeting certain standards, for grades K-5. These lesson plans cover everything from the basics to composition to improvisation with Brazilian Sama

Gary P. Gilroy Music is a website to listen to and purchase music for band programs. Here you can purchase marching band shows with music and choreography as well as concert band , indoor percussion and drumline music. He also offers custom marching show design and unique compositions.

This website is the Chrome Music lab. There are activities to explore all the elements of music. Some of the activities are composition related. There are visual representations of sound as well. You need to use the Chrome browser for them to work. My students really enjoyed this site.

This is a site that helps music teachers teach across the curriculum by connecting music to math, science, and art. These are online experiments that are interactive and have explanations behind the experiments.

Created by Google developers, this site contains various apps associated with different musical elements with the premise that users would simply explore. Songmaker and Kadinsky allow the creation of musical ideas while others explore rhythm chords, and how sound functions. Each app is extremely easy to use and is beneficial in any general music setting.

Flat is a cloud-based online music notation software. This is another alternative to Finale Notepad, MuseScore, and Noteflight.

FLAT is essentially Google's attempt at notation software. Thus, it is extremely intuitive. Though more limited than other programs, it essentially does everything a student composer would need. Students can sign up for an account with a Gmail address and can easily share their scores with each other and their teacher.

Music notation softwares like Finale and Sibelius are quite costly for students to purchase and use. Flat.io is a free online music notation software that allows you to notate music online, and share it with your friends in the cloud. It is collaborative in a way that people get to comment on your music, and you also get to comment on other people's compositions. All you need is to sign up with either google, facebook, or with your email address. It is a good resource for teachers to set notation assignments, and while students do the assignments, they learn many concepts in music such as tempo, speed, dynamics, phrasing, structure, to mention but a few.

The Sax on the Web website contains valuable articles, transcriptions, and resources for all musicians including saxophonists.  The most popular aspect of this site is the forum.  The forum contains transcriptions, member compositions, insight on equipment, and many other discussion topics.  The forum marketplace allows users to list instruments and equipment for sale, allowing members to contact each other to purchase items.  Many college saxophone professors belong to this page and provide answers to user questions and valuable articles.  This is a great resource for all students, although the focus is on saxophone and other woodwinds.

The Sax on the Web website contains valuable articles, transcriptions, and resources for all musicians including saxophonists.  The most popular aspect of this site is the forum.  The forum contains transcriptions, member compositions, insight on equipment, and many other discussion topics.  The forum marketplace allows users to list instruments and equipment for sale, allowing members to contact each other to purchase items.  Many college saxophone professors belong to this page and provide answers to user questions and valuable articles.  This is a great resource for all students, although the focus is on saxophone and other woodwinds.

Sax on the Web is one of the largest saxophone sites on the internet. The site includes one of the largest saxophone forums, with contributions from big names in saxophone. The forum also includes a buy/sell/trade section. There are many articles pertaining to saxophone included on the website.

Launchpad Arcade is a great tool to introduce students to composing music. It has a variety of sounds and loops, and allows for a lot of artistic freedom. Using this for a composition could allow for as much or as little structure as you wish.

This website lists a large assortment of music education games that cover aural training, composers, compositions, instruments, notation, and symbols/vocabulary. "Ultimate List" is an accurate title! This looks like a compilation of several games from several websites all pulled into one. This is fantastic.

The Ultimate List of Online Music Education Games is a website filled with numerous resources available in aural training, composers, composition, instruments, notation, symbols/vocabulary and variety. These are free and students could even use them while at home and teachers can use to reinforce any lesson.

Comprehensive list and links to music education games. The list is sorted by what the games focus on (aural training, composers, etc.)

This website offers a free template for printing staff paper. Several customizable options including staff size, clef, indentation, and guitar tab are also included.

Create your own blank sheet music. Tons of customization including TAB.

A Flash-based website that allows the user to print free manuscript paper for personal use. Choose from a variety of clefs, with options of brackets, barlines and more.

This website focuses on jazz history and music. Activities are designed for ages 8-13 or 12-15. Each famous jazz musician or historical page includes the story behind the composition, recordings, and suggested activities that engage students in the listening selection.

Download this program to arrange and create your own midi creations. You do not need a midi keyboard to use this. The computer keypad can be used to play the midi sounds.

This site is something that most music educators today are familiar with; Finale. it provides a free download of Finale as well as blogs and training tutorials about how to use the program. The purpose of Finale is to all teachers (and students!) to create their own music. It can be anything from an original composition to an arrangement of a familiar song to a replica of something that has already been created. Not only does finale help build musical creativity, but it also teaches students about the basics of music notation. This site is a great source because it takes you step-by-step through downloading Finale, making it more user-friendly, especially for those that might not have as much experience with more recent music software.

This is a database for free downloadable sound effects. This would be another good resource to have in a music technology classroom. Students can use downloadable clips for sampling projects and sound effects in compositions. Teachers can also use sound effects if needed for both music theater performances and ensemble performances.