An amazing site for all instrumentalists that includes audio/video demonstrations of most woodwind, brass, string, percussion, and keyboard instruments. Examples of articulation, timbre in different registers, mutes, vibrato, special effects, and more are provided.

This is the online version of the text, A Jazz Improvisation Primer. Here you can find information on almost every topic relating to jazz improvisation, from jazz history to music theory to practical advice on playing in a group.

Jazz sheet music education, free (with no ads) for anyone who loves music.

Game produced by the Kennedy Center's Arts Edge. Perfect Pitch teaches students about the instruments in an orchestra through a baseball game setting. The game introduces students to four eras of orchestral music and the instruments used in each. Students can create their own small orchestras and virtually play each instrument to hear how it sounds. After building an orchestra students then test their knowledge in short quizzes about the instruments and their sounds.

A sortable library of lesson plans that are free to download and use

Stanton's Jukebox allows you to create customized playlists from our Listening Library to:- Easily compare titles that you are considering- Arrange your concert program order to vary styles and tempi- Build playlists for each ensemble to assist with rehearsal planning & score study- Generate & email personalized URLs to students to enhance at-home practice- Forward playlists to your school administrator or booster group to requisition funding

A service/search engine that catalogs music tracks from YouTube.

Simple online theory lessons and exercises presented as short videos. This is much like Kahn Academy for music.

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

iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. iRubric School-Edition empowers schools with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards.

ClassicalClips.com is a growing database of classical music videos and biographies of classical composers from around the web!

BrassMusician.com is a magazine and community website for brass players, by brass players. On BrassMusician.com you’ll find articles covering a wide range of categories, including playing tips, how to, news, opinion, performance videos, reviews and more. You’ll also find an active and friendly community of fellow brass players.

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.

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.

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 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.

Ear Training On The Run is a series of audio courses designed to teach musicians and aspiring musicians to identify, solely by hearing, intervals, chords, rhythms and other basic elements of music

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.

Music theory tutorials on clefs, key and time signatures, scales, chords, and more.

Wikifonia is the place for musicians to publish and collaborate on lead sheets.

Royalty free music to use in multimedia projects.

Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. Share your music, download your favorite artists!

The Interactive Circle of Fifths ("the Circle" for short) is a tool designed to help musicians to: (a) figure out the key of a piece of music, (b) easily transpose music to a different key, (c) compose new music, and (d) understand key signatures, scales, and modes.

Access the world’s biggest iOS ringtone and sound effects library. More than 15,000 sounds ready to download as ringtones for your iPhone or turn your iPad into a massive sound effects deck. From monkeys to mustangs with unlimited downloads!

Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. I designed it for my own classroom, and want to share it with other teachers... for free! Flubaroo works with Google docs.

Instructional strategies determine the approach a teacher may take to achieve learning objectives. Five categories of instructional strategies and explanation of these five categories can be found within this site. Instructional methods are used by teachers to create learning environments and to specify the nature of the activity in which the teacher and learner will be involved during the lesson. While particular methods are often associated with certain strategies, some methods may by found within a variety of strategies. A sampling of instructional methods with accompanying explanations are...

The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.

CAT is a free service of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP), and hosted by the University Center for Social and Urban Research, at the University of Pittsburgh, and QDAP-UMass, in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Efficiently code raw text data sets; Annotate coding with shared memos; Manage team coding permissions via the Web; Create unlimited collaborator sub-accounts; Assign multiple coders to specific tasks; Easily measure inter-rater reliability; Adjudicate valid & invalid coder decisions; Report validity by dataset, code...

a fun website that offers information about specific happenings in music each and every day.

Provided as part of the Smithsonian's rich resources on folk music, students can interact with a jazz band. They can choose from three songs representing different jazz styles and then raise and lower the volume of a particular instrument sound to hear it more accurately. If students select specific instruments, a window pops up with more information about that instrument's role in jazz ensembles.