Music Education MPLN

Great article describing a music teacher's extensive use of YouTube.

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.

If you ever need a folk song.... :)

Music info for iPad users

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,

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

100 Awesome Apps to Start Your Own iPhone Band

100 Awesome Apps to Start Your Own iPhone Band

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.

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.

I tried to go to this website but it was "not found"... I think the updated address is http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/vim/ . I've used this before with my students and it is a very valuable resource!

Seems to be a great project about popular music in Latin America. I am going to try this with my kids today!

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.

Upcoming movie based on Sack's excellent book Musicophilia

Short descriptions of world and cultural music.

I am looking forward to trying these!

George Lucas, a man who epitomizes creativity and innovation, has a lot of great things to say about education reform in this blog post.

Music ear training games