Digital Musicking

This website contains PDFs of wind band music that is available for free to download in the United States. The music is public domain or available via a Creative Commons license. This is very helpful with finding older music or replacing parts, especially with music that is out of print.

This band music library includes pieces that were written for American Town Bands. American Town Bands used to be so popular that almost every town in my region of Massachusetts had one. Sadly, these bands have been slowly dying out. Thanks to this website, you can find free music that those bands used to play and revive them with your ensembles.

Noteflight provides music notation software from the ease of a web browser. The program is free to use, and although there is a premium version, the free version has all the tools needed for learning and creating notated music. All works are saved in the cloud and can be accessed at anytime from any device that can access the website, making music composition easier than ever.

Noteflight is a free browser-based music notation tool. The software has cloud storage allowing you to work on creative musical products from any computer with an internet connection. It also connects to MIDI instruments. Noteflight has a paid subscription which allows you to store unlimited compositions, full access to all sounds, transposition, and the ability to print individual parts. Student accounts can be purchased which you to create "closed" classrooms allowing for creative musical products and collaboration amongst peers.

This is the official website for the West Virginia Music Educators Association (WVMEA), the service and professional organization for music teachers in West Virginia. The website provides links, resources, and information pertaining to music education in the state, including the annual All-State conference.

This website contains PDFs of music that is available for free to download in the United States. The music is public domain or available via a Creative Commons license. There is also an option to purchase some music. While bandmusicpdf.org is strictly for wind band music, IMSLP contains music for band and orchestra, as well as vocal and other instrumental works. This is very helpful with finding older music or replacing parts, especially with music that is out of print.

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is a great site to find timeless works of instrumental and vocal music. The site is free to use, but membership is available. The public domain site is easy to navigate and provides scores and recordings out thousands of composers and their music. Make sure not to click on advertisements and download something on accident in the free version. This site is a great resource for educators to find musical works from great composers that are no longer in print, and they is free.

IMSLP is a website where anyone can search music that is no longer under copyright law. Here you can find music from a symphony score to a Beethoven piano piece. This resource can be used by growing student-run ensembles that wish to perform classical music. I use this website when I want to practice bassoon repertoire or when I need to find another piece to practice on piano. This is also a great resource to show students how to properly find music with educated keyword searches through a public domain.

This website provides a multitude of tools for music teachers, among other subjects. The website contains lesson plans and teaching strategies for grades K-12. There are lessons on world music, on instruments (such as building instruments), as well as the history of musical genres. The free version is limited, but the premium version is fairly inexpensive.

Resource for UF Masters of Music Education. This site is helpful in planning lessons for application of new ideas. I love that it has something to offer every teacher from grades K-12.

I use this website sometimes to help out with some of my lesson plans if I'm in need of worksheets to help back up the topic that is chosen for that particular week. This is good for any teacher because it provides a variety of different worksheets for many topics.

Piktochart has both free and premium accounts. This infographic and presentation maker is a fabulous way for students tap into their visual creativity and present research in the form of an infographic. The possible applications of this in music classes are endless.

The lessons found here are for integrating popular music study into general music curricula. The lessons are all standards-aligned and are almost entirely historical, cultural, sociological, and musicological in nature. The lessons can also be integrated into social studies curricula. There are many opportunities in all of these lessons for students to embark on music and cultural research to enhance and deepen their understanding of the music they are learning to play/sing/perform.

This is similar to the website Choralia in that it offers part rehearsal tracks for choral music, but this website is devoted to large masterworks. This would be best for choirs who need to learn these works of parts thereof for festivals or competitions.

Choralia offers part rehearsal tracks for a wide selection of choral repertoire. Most of it is Baroque/Classical/Romantic era rep, but there is a good selection of newer works as well (Gjeilo, Lauridsen, Rutter). Sound quality is a little funky, but they do the job.

This sites contains downloadable links that contain very lucid and practical curricular ideas and suggestion for beginning and intermediate guitar classes and ensembles. The language is targeted at two groups: those teachers who are starting guitar programs and those teachers who themselves are not proficient guitarists yet are teaching a guitar class. The "further reading" at the bottom is icing in the cake.

Earl MacDonald, professor of jazz at the Univ. of Connecticut, has create this treasure trove of resources for teaching jazz improvisation, jazz theory, and jazz piano. It contains what is essentially a complete curriculum for teaching jazz improvisation that can used with singers as well as instrumentalists.

Excellent blog for great music education ideas. Also has links to his TPT's store and PD videos.

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.)

Resources for modern band. Parts are provided for different instruments and links to video and audio recordings are also available. Jam tracks and other practice tools are also available on the Little Kids Rock site

Cross-curricular lesson idea that uses a variety of educational technology tools including GarageBand. There are other similar lessons on this site that also provide and interesting model to consider.

Music education tech resources and ideas are listed and categorized by device or software (SMARTBoard, iPads, etc..)

This lesson idea explores some interesting ways of integrating different technologies in order to practice and assess dynamics.

Plickers are a useful technology tool for quickly gathering data about class preferences and knowledge. These are some ideas for the elementary music class.