The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards is a newly formed partnership of organizations and states who will lead the revision of the 1994 National Standards for Arts Education. The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) plans to complete its work and release new, national voluntary arts education standards in fall, 2012. The standards will describe what students should know and be able to do as a result of a quality curricular arts education program. NCCAS is committed to developing a next generation of voluntary arts education standards that will build on the foundation...
Provides funding for to nonprofit organizations that offer engaging and innovative music instruction to children in communities where music education either does not exist or is underdeveloped.
Annenberg Learner uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. It is part of The Annenberg Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.Annenberg Learner's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching...
Music & Memory is a non-profit organization that brings personalized music into the lives of the elderly or infirm through digital music technology, vastly improving quality of life.
The MayDay Group is an international community of scholars and practitioners with a two-fold purpose: [a] to apply critical theory and critical thinking to the purposes and practices of music education, and [b] to affirm the central importance of musical participation in human life and, thus, the value of music in the general education of all people.
Academic Room is a social enterprise that facilitates multidisciplinary engagements among scholars and researchers around the world. Our mission is to democratize access to scholarly resources, which are organized in over 10,000 academic sub-disciplines. We share the conviction that easy and unimpeded access to quality educational resources should be a right and not a privilege. Our platform allows academics, researchers and students to create highly specialized portals for their subfields. These portals can be enriched with professional directories, scholar profiles, video lectures...
The DLP Music Program. The Dallas School of Music is proud to provide FREE comprehensive music courses for students of all ages wanting to Discover, Learn, and Play Music.
Aquallegro is a great way to improve your musical ability. It contains quizzes on various aspects of music, as well as detailed help files with tips and mnemonics. All of the quizzes are scored while in progress, so the user continuously knows how well they're doing, and it is easy to customize Aquallegro so it works the way you want it to. It also contains Administrative features for teachers, making it an excellent tool in any music program. Aquallegro is perfect for the comprehensive music student or just for the curious that want to hone their musical skills. With a price of $0, how could...
Music Education Standards and Assessment | A Music Educators Resource
Information from the 50 U.S. states in one place, giving music educators access to vital information and best practices from across the country. The website includes information on music standards, teacher evaluation policies, and contacts for all state departments of education and music educator association organizations. Visitors can provide updates and participate in state-level discussion forums.
Soundation Studio has all the functionality of a professional desktop DAW including real time effects, virtual instruments, automation, recording and much more! And best of all - It’s online, accessible through your browser.
Free-scores.com : Mondial de la Partition Gratuite (Partitions Gratuites PDF, MIDI et MP3)
For the past 10 years Free-scores.com feature PDF free sheet music, Mp3 audio, Midi and other services.Free-scores is a free broadcast and media hosting for composers, arrangers and publishers. It linking contact between musicians and monitoring the audience of your musical works. Interpreters record and add their interpretations on the site. We also feature a directory of free sheet music sites. You are asked to always respect the rights of use of these scores (possible copyright or licensing).
American Civil War Music and Resources: Performing Arts Encyclopedia: Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has created this delightful site that brings together hundreds of items that tell of the musical culture of the American Civil War. First-time visitors will want to start by perusing the Civil War Sheet Music section. Here they will find 2,500 pieces culled from the Library's collection, including songs about various generals, battles, and a longing for the tranquility of home life. Further along, the site also includes the Civil War Era Band Music section. This area features over 700 musical compositions, along with over a dozen audio files of these fine ditties...
Audiveris is an open-source Optical Music Recognition software which processes the image of a music sheet to automatically provide symbolic music information in MusicXML standard.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web...
Bach to Rock - America's Music School | Beginner Music Lessons to Advanced
Bach To Rock is the Music School for students of all ages. B2R’s unique method is based on the knowledge that students learn best when they join together to play the music they like the most. That’s why we use special arrangements of the music of our time and combine individual lessons with band instruction. Weekly “jam sessions” lead to Battles of the Bands and recording sessions in B2R Studios, our own professional recording facilities. B2R also holds regularly scheduled public concerts that encourage students to become seasoned performers. These creative group activities foster teamwork...
Multicultural Music Lessons & Printables (K-12 Resources) - TeacherVision.com
Introduce your students to music from around the world with these multicultural lessons, printables, and references. Use these resources to explore the diverse history of musical traditions in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Your students will enjoy making native instruments, playing traditional song and dance games, and singing folk songs from different countries and cultures. There are multicultural resources for studying musical notation, performance, composition, and more!
Arts at the Core | Connecting education policy with experience
The College Board believes that the arts expand student potential by encouraging creativity, innovation and critical thinking skills, and that a comprehensive arts education is an effective tool for developing the whole child, keeping students in school, and promoting high achievement.
Sound On Sound | Recording Techniques | Audio Technology | Music Production | Computer Music | Video Media
Welcome to SOUND ON SOUND, the world's premier music recording technology magazine. Based in Cambridge, England and independently-owned, we've been delivering our quality monthly print magazine since 1985. This web site houses our continually-expanding archive of highly informative articles (from January 1994) that chart the impact of technology on the music production and recording processes.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web...
Music Practice Log, Chart, Schedule, Sheet, Planning, Assessment
The documents on this page aid music practice, performance preparation, and other sorts of creative work. Feel free to download and print them for educational and self-study purposes