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.
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.
A collaboration between the American Choral Directors Association and the Library of Congress. Contains public domain choral music that users can download, information on the composers, and material related to historical context and stylistic features.
The Arts Based Educational Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) provides a community for those who view education through artistic lenses, who use a variety of arts-based methodologies, and who communicat
This rather useful Excel tutorial is is divided into eight sections, which include “Entering and Editing Data”, “Formatting the Worksheet”, and “Creating a Chart”.
American Psychological Society - Teaching Resources
Compiled by the American Psychological Society, the links are divided into topical sections that include health psychology, statistics, clinical psychology, research methods, and a dozen other topics. Links to online statistics glossaries & calculators.
African-American Band Music and Recordings (The Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater and Dance)
The core of this presentation consists of “stock” arrangements for bands or small orchestras of popular songs written by African Americans. In addition, a smaller selection of historic sound recordings illustrating these songs and others are available
Roots of Rhythm - Teacher's Guide and 10 Lessons for 5th and 6th Grade is an innovative educational resource that combines music with history, social studies, geography and language arts to create an exciting, multi-dimensional, "cross-curricular" model.
Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute.
African Drumming - dancedrummer.com - African Music
African Music - Traditional West African Drumming - Percussion Lessons - Instructional Movies, Texts, and Manuscripts - Drum Set Orchestrations - Interactive African Instrument Museum - Online Music Education - Anlo-Ewe History, Ethnology, Ethnomusicology
Sounds, images and text illuminate the sweep of Met History from the formation of the company in 1880, the first performances in 1883, through to the conclusion of the 2003-04 season.
This is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
Scribe 4 is an optimally flexible data analysis program that permits users to label events in live observations or in QuickTime movies, summarize event timings, and play back labeled events in customized configurations.
General information about organizations and agencies that offer services and support for persons with disabilities. Information for 19 different disabilities and syndromes aligned with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act.
The purpose of the Center for Music Learning is to investigate the processes of human skill development, integrating the results of systematic research from multiple disciplines with best practices in music and music pedagogy.
Live Illustrations by Professionals (LIPS) is designed to afford young musicians a close-up view of artists' embouchures in action. Each LIPs video page includes a discussion with the artist about the essential fundamentals of the instrument.
This section of my site contains MIDI files, which I have sequenced, of ragtime piano pieces by :Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, Jelly-Roll Morton, Eubie Blake, and others.