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Four point rubric to grade students on a performance assessment

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Steven Mead's youtube page has TONS of great masterclasses and performances for young players to learn from.

Scoring Assessments Scoring rubrics are designed to clearly distinguish among levels of student performance or proficiency. This kind of scoring tool is most often applied to constructed response items and to performance-based tasks.

Purchase the books, but also get access to the lists of music the publishers find worthwhile

Licensing Information Performance Rights for NAfME Members Understanding Copyright Law Posting Your Music Performance Online Helpful Links Frequently Asked Questions Teaching Your Students about Copyright Licensing Information - Through a partnership with RightsFlow, a licensing and royalty service provider, NAfME regular and student members can use RightsFlow's online mechanical licensing utility, Limelight, to clear cover songs for their physical, digital, ringtone and interactive streaming use.

A resource with links to many possible grant opportunities.

Is your school in need of funding so you can buy new musical instruments for your students? Here are several foundations who generously offer financial aid to deserving schools and music teachers . Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts Music Scholarships - Provides grants to accredited schools which offers degrees in performing and creative arts.

List of Music education grants for teachers.

You need permission from the people who wrote the music (composers, lyricists and music publishers) and the people who performed and recorded it (performers and record labels). This means you might need to contact more than one organisation to get permission to use music depending on how you want to use it.

Sound effects are used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media. These trick of sound are mostly achieved by combining technology, ingenuity and creativity. Sound effects are important for digital media because an appropriate sound effect can easily ... Continue reading » Free music, sound clips, ect.

Free music related images and graphics pertaining to musicians, artists, singers, choirs, performers, drum majors, conductors and DJ's.

The following scholarship and grant opportunities are available to high school and college students involved in music education and music performance. They are provided here for the convenience of Tri-M Honor Society and NAfME Collegiate members. For more information on these scholarships, please visit the websites referenced.

How can you add to your classroom and curriculum without depleting your pocketbook? Request free teaching materials and other items from organizations that appreciate the services educators perform. Here you will find out how to obtain hard copies of terrific lesson plans, videos, and other resources for your classroom.

Professional and free sheet music for trumpet to print and download in PDF, MP3 and MIDI. A large collection of trumpet sheet music from past and present for your practice, performance and enjoyment.

The World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) is the only international organization of wind band conductors, composers, performers, publishers, teachers, instrument makers and friends of wind music. It is the only organization completely dedicated to enhancing the quality of the wind band throughout the world and exposing its members to new worlds of repertoire, musical culture, people and places.

Allows students to have accompaniment without a person and helps students practice more efficiently.

Allows students to have accompaniment without a person and helps students practice more efficiently.

SmartMusic transforms the way students practice and learn. This interactive tool, used by music educators across the country to enhance their programs, provides a way to dramatically improve students' skills. As students play along with music onscreen, SmartMusic gives them immediate feedback on their performance by showing correct pitches and rhythms in green and incorrect in red.

The Arkansas State Music Teachers Association, Incorporated, is an affiliate of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). Its purpose is to further the art of music, and to promote the growth and professional development of its members by providing programs that encourage and support teaching, performance, composition, and research.

by amandahutchison February 8th, 2015, marks the 57th annual GRAMMY Awards airing live from LA's Nokia Theatre on CBS. Hosted, as usual, by rapper-turned-actor LL Cool J, the list of performers couldn't be more off the charts.

Helpful tips for new directors going to Arkansas Choral Performance Assessment