1. To promote the education of popular music (advocacy) 2. To create educational opportunities for educators and students of popular music at all levels 3. To identify, develop, and promote best practices in the teaching and learning of popular music 4. To encourage a connection between the music industries and popular music education 5.
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Below are key reference books that provide a general overview of a topic or help identify synonyms, related terms, or basic data. These sources often include references and lists of further readings.
Biographical Sources Blues and Folk Music Choral Music Classical Music Composers, Individual - Bibliographies Country Music Dictionaries and Glossaries Early Music Electronic Music Encyclopedias and Encyclopedic Dictionaries Ethnomusicology Guides to Reference and Research Materials Indexes and Abstracts Jazz Music Theory and Musicology Musical Instruments Musical Theater Opera Popular Music Rock Music Sacred Music Women in Music
The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) has writing teams who are revising the national standards in the four arts disciplines: dance, music, theatre, and visual art. They are also creating standards for a fifth discipline, media arts. The writers of the National Music Standards are utilizing the Common Core State Standards as a model for their work.
The Core Music Standards are all about Music Literacy. The standards emphasize conceptual understanding in areas that reflect the actual processes in which musicians engage. The standards cultivate a student's ability to carry out the three Artistic Processes of Creating, Performing, and Responding.
How Music Works is a comprehensive suite of multimedia tutorials which explain music in clear, simple language you can relate to. Packed with 115 topics in nine tutorials, and illustrated with 360 diagrams and 750 demonstration sounds, the tutorials start with the very basics of music and advance to topics which are valuable even for professional musicians.
Producertech is the website dedicated to providing Online Music Software Training, with Tutorials, Courses and Lessons in Logic, Live, Reason and many more software programmes.
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.
A collection of lesson plans that teach about different musical instruments. Suitable materials are available for students from preschool to 12th grade.
Any teacher can integrate music into his or her curriculum. No special training or skills are necessary! This week, Education World offers five lesson plans that will show you how you can integrate music and make your core curriculum sing!
NEA has established this page to help educators integrate multicultural and diversity education into the K - 12 classroom experience. The following resources consist of NEA Web pages with information about multicultural and diversity education, books for multicultural educators, and web sites containing multicultural education curriculum.
