Digital Musicking

BrainPOP is a great site for video lessons on music. The videos are very basic in design with the elementary level in mind, but could be of good use for any introductory music course.

Resource for UF Masters in Music Education. BrainPOP is a fun interactive site for young students to take control of their own learning. It allows for students to learn about concepts and composers that most interest them. There is lessons embedded into the program as well as videos to go along.

Smithsonian Jazz is a website fro music educators. It covers every facet of jazz. It has links to concerts and Jazz collections and archives. This includes links to articles, sheet music etc. This website also has a link to lessons surrounding great artists such as Ellington, Ella, Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter and many more. Jazz Appreciation Month is covered as well as all Masterworks in the Jazz Genre.

Musictheory.net is an all encompassing music theory website. It includes lesson plans and on-line, interactive exercises that solidify and enhance those lesson plans. This website also includes great theoretical tools. These tools include interval calculators, analysis, chord and scale calculators and even a 12 tone row matrix. It also has utilities such as an pop-up piano and metronome.

Classic Cat is a website that hosts over 6,000 classical recordings. The user is able to look up songs by composer, title and genre. It also houses a link to "Young Composers". Each recording is a full recording. This is perfect supplement to any Music Appreciation lesson plan while studying the Classical Era.

Online Practice Record is a fantastic tool to aide performers of all levels with keeping a record of their practice. The program is easy to use and tracks practice time, music practiced, and questions or comments the user might have to refer to later. The records can be printed or emailed to others, which is an important feature for teachers. The teacher even has the option of entering comments directly into a practice record. 

This site is great for teachers looking to motivate students to practice more consistently. Its purpose is to make practicing more interactive by providing a record of student practicing and the opportunity for teachers to view and comment on the student's practicing. The recourses include practice logs, comments by teachers, student-set goals, and the pieces practiced. This site is very student-directed in the sense that the students set their own practice goals and must be motivated to be more successful in their practicing in order to make progress in their record of practicing statistics. Although you do have to register to use this site, there is no charge and it allows teachers to provdie students with some guidance in their practicing.

This is a website that students can use to track their daily practice habits. It tracks amount of time, what was practiced and all records can be printed off for students to analyze. The lesson teacher is also able to add comments on each post.

8note Recorder is a great website that has free recorder music listed by difficulty and categories. It is an easy website to navigate and can provide great enrichment music for those schools that use recorder stations in the classroom. It is especially helpful if your students have one-on-one technology to use where they play the recorder.

Jazz in America is an all encompassing Jazz education website. It offers everything from what jazz is and how it began to lesson plans that examine characteristics of all different jazz styles. The website discusses important performers and composers. It also looks at how jazz evolved. Audio and visual examples are provided. Assessments are also provided in this website.

String Bass Online is a website designed specifically for bass players. There is a section with information about bass technique: how to hold the bass, bow holds, how to care for the bass, etc. There is also a section with free sheet music for students to download and play along with. There is another section with scales and etudes for the bass as well as a section of Christmas music for bass players to download and play.

String Bass Online is a website designed specifically for bass players. There is a section with information about bass technique: how to hold the bass, bow holds, how to care for the bass, etc. There is also a section with free sheet music for students to download and play along with. There is another section with scales and etudes for the bass as well as a section of Christmas music for bass players to download and play.

String Bass Online is a website devoted to the string bass. It includes information about string bass basics, such as how to set up the bass and start playing the bass, bass fingering charts, bass care, bass practice tips, how to read music, and much more. It also has free sheet music for the bass and exercises specifically for the bass. Finally, it offers a string class that discusses string music throughout history. These websites are great because they keep everything instrument specific rather than covering all the instruments together.

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.

Cello Online is a website with specific help for cello students. The website contains sheet music for students to download and play. The sheet music also has accompaniment for students to play along with. The website also contains fingering charts for cellists, technique information, information on how to care for the cello, information on the history of the cello and a page for Christmas music.

Cello Online is a website with specific help for cello students. The website contains sheet music for students to download and play. The sheet music also has accompaniment for students to play along with. The website also contains fingering charts for cellists, technique information, information on how to care for the cello, information on the history of the cello and a page for Christmas music.

Cello Online is a website devoted to the cello. It includes information about cello basics, such as how to set up the cello and start playing the cello, cello fingering charts, cello care, cello practice tips, how to read music, and much more. It also has free sheet music for the cello and exercises specifically for the cello. Finally, it offers a string class that discusses string music throughout history. It is a similar structure to Viola Online, with slight variations in what is offered for the instrument. There is also a link to a store for all these websites for purchases for the instruments.

Viola Online is a website devoted to the viola. It includes information about viola basics, such as how to set up the viola and start playing the viola, viola fingering charts, viola care, viola practice tips, how to read music, and much more. It also has free sheet music for the viola and exercises specifically for the viola. Finally, it offers a string class that discusses string music throughout history. It is a similar structure to Violin Online, with slight variations in what is offered for the instrument.

Violin Online is a website devoted to the violin. It includes information about violin basics, such as how to set up the violin and start playing the violin, violin fingering charts, violin care, violin practice tips, how to read music, and much more. It also has free sheet music for the violin and online lessons for the violin. Finally, it offers a string class that discusses string music throughout history.

Band World Magazine online is a magazine that encompasses everything Band. It has articles that relate to every thing Band directors deal with and encounter every day. There are areas that you can only look at if you are a subscriber, but there are also free options as well.

This website is all things oboe! Students and teachers can find valuable information about oboe repair, practice, and fingerings.

Resource designed for teachers and parents of oboists who are not strong in oboe. Includes practical resources to help students, repairs, tips for reeds, fingering charts, and more.

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This site provides teachers and students with a rich history of jazz music. Teachers and students can find videos of jazz musicians, repertoire and resources for Jazz Appreciation Month and tips and tricks for teaching jazz concepts such as swing and improvisation.

Smithzonian Jazz has a vast resource of archives, recordings, timelines, lesson plans, and interactive resources support Jazz Education and Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM).

Quia has over 200 music games and activities to help students review a variety of topics, including musical instruments, instrument families, note naming, and popular music trivia.

Musical Online has a pedagogy page dedicated to resources and support for learning a new instrument, particularly as an adult. There are links to external sites for guitar, piano, voice, and drum lessons include Flowkey, Musical U, Free Drum Lessons, and Justin's Website (guitar resource).

This video is a glance into the world of hip-hop producers and how the genre was and is inspired by jazz. It can serve as a great starting point for an NTM class that is looking to start a composition task and provide inspiration to students.

Isle of Tune is music sequencer where users build compositions visually using houses, roads, plants and cars. Can be used to reinforce a range of musical concepts.

Fun music creativity site. Game. Sequencer for kids.

Isle of Tune is a website (and app for iOS) that allows students to create an island with sound producing plants, houses, and other objects. As cars drive on the island, a melody or beat is produced based on where the objects are located and what these objects are. Isle of Tune allows users to compose in a non-traditional manner using a fun, interactive interface

An incredible TED talk by Benjamin Zander discussing how music has the power to impact all listeners. He takes the audience on a journey of how music is more than just sound and how everyone has the capacity to appreciate classical music.