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Musipedia is a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. Entries can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last but not least the Parsons Code, a rough description of the melodic contour. Musipedia uses the "Melodyhound" melody search engine. You can find and identify a tune even if the melody is all you know. You can play it on a piano keyboard, whistle it to the computer, simply tap the rhythm on the computer keyboard or use the Parsons code.

This open source book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. It guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives through play, games, creativity, and movement. Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.

Much of the content posted initially to this wiki was ported over from the former Home Practice Online website. HPO was created in 1998 as a resource for young instrumentalists and their directors. HPO was used by many band directors, and was featured in numerous music education articles, texts, and at conferences and university music education technology classes, all over the United States. With the advent of Web 2.0, and its ease-of-use, perhaps this wiki can expand the scope, content, and usefulness of HPO.

His approach? He decided the song would be in C, then assigned each note a number: C=1, D=2 and so on up through 9. Using those assignments, he played the sequence of Pi: 3.14159 through 31 decimal places. He assigned numbers to chords, too, but could only play the chords every other note and still make it sound vaguely musical.

Music and the Bassoon includes: (1) Over 360 tunes to play, including folk tunes, popular songs, classical music, technical exercises, and "play by ear" assignments for beginners through professional players. (2) Many audio clips so you can hear professional bassoon playing on the tunes you are studying, and get a good sound in your head for which you can strive. (3) Many instructional videos that will help you see and hear how to play bassoon well. (4) Over 50 duets or canons where you can play in harmony with the audio clip.

The coalition has vowed that every child in Britain will have access to a musical education. So where's The money? And where are all The teachers?

Cocojams is a repository of information, examples, and videos of children's playground rhymes & cheers.  Cocojams uses a folkloric approach to showcase the words of real rhymes that children and youth recite.  Cocojams.com feature*s pages on African American civil rights songs, fraternity & sorority step & stroll chants, as well as (clean) military cadences, sea shanties, and Mardi Gras Indian songs. Cocojams.com also features video examples of selected song & dance traditions and - as a bonus feature - includes pages on the origin & meaning of selected personal names & nicknames. the tie that connects all of these pages is my interest in children's playground rhymes, music, dance, and naming traditions.

Detroit priorities - Sandow on the Detroit Symphony Strike - http://bit.ly/gLbots

Op-Ed about the state of the Detroit Symphony

Great Post with examples of how to use google forms in the classroom.

This interactive explores the variety of musical instruments in orchestras from baroque to modern. Players can learn how instruments are made, create their own orchestral arrangements, find out about famous players and composers, and put instruments into their historical context. Guided listening is combined with questions about the history,

These resources examine copyright law in The history of "borrowing" sounds in music, and raise provocative questions about what is creative and what is criminal. These lessons are directed toward grades 9 through 12, and college students for use in The following subject areas: media studies, media literacy, social studies, history, sociology, media production, music and language arts, business, and legal studies.

Richard Byrne gives an overview of the new discussion feature added to the commenting system of Google Docs.

One of the best sites for Advocacy Information

Awesome Link to "The Artistry of Pops" Louis Armstrong Information (and YouTube embed)

The Official site of The Professional Learning Network for Music Educators

Upcoming movie based on Sack's excellent book Musicophilia

Great article on the benefits of being involved in a college marching band.

New post: Interesting Ways to Use an iPad in the Classroom http://goo.gl/fb/odhM9

@dougbutchy - Check out the SoundTree Middle School Keyboard Lab Curriculum: http://bit.ly/iZciRJ and here: http://bit.ly/iIwDHs #musedchat

Great summary!