Chapter 4 - Performing Music

There are literally hundreds of websites that offer free sheet music and a large percentage (not ALL) of the titles are also copyright-free so you can arrange, transpose or transform the original to your heart’s content.

This collection includes engraved first editions of manuscripts by Johannes Sebastian Bach; an autographed letter from Ludwig van Beethoven; a copy of Beethoven's 9th Symphony - with his own annotations - that may have been used in the symphony's very first performance; and a signed holograph by Claude Debussy. Visitors to this website can search for manuscripts by composer. In addition to the luminaries mentioned above, this collection contains manuscripts by Johannes Brahms, Aaron Copland, Dmitri Shostakovich, Richard Wagner, and more. Each manuscript is accompanied with complete...

TwistedWave is a browser-based audio editor. You only need a web browser to access it, and you can use it to record or edit any audio file.All the audio is stored and processed on the server, so you don't need to download anything, or save your work when you are done. Close your browser window and your work is saved. Open TwistedWave somewhere else, and all your audio files, with the complete undo history, are still available.With a free account, you can edit mono files up to 5 minutes in length. Once you have an account, you can purchase a subscription to increase this limit.

An online facsimile of a theremin.

Sing&See is vocal training software that helps you sing better by showing real-time visual feedback on your voice!

Useful and mostly free teaching materials and other resources for:school orchestra directors, private studio teachers, future string teachers and college methods classes, string players of all ages for self-study.

Music Prodigy Core makes practice and assessments easier. Instant red note/green note evaluation as students playA comprehensive solution for all voices, strings, percussion, winds, guitar, piano (patented polyphonic pitch recognition system)All student levels, general music through universityNo external microphone requiredIncludes thousands of music titlesNo training requiredTeacher classroom dashboard with pre-formatted student progress reportsiPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Windows PCs, Mac OS X, and Amazon Kindle Fire

Sound Fundamentals is a complete band method for classroom and individual use. It includes embedded videos demonstrating concepts and exercises.

IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 7686 titles!

Fingering charts, recordings, and background information on string, woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments.

Touch is the University of South Florida's iPad Quintet. The group, made up of music education faculty and PhD students from the School of Music, formed shortly after the release of the first iPad.

An online game that allows students to practice note names, fingerings, and musical terms.

This notebook began in 1995 as a compilation of notes taken from lectures during "String Pedagogy," a class offered by Robert Culver, Professor of Music Education at the University of Michigan School of Music.In addition to Professor Culver's course, a t