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...

The composer, conductor, writer, and teacher Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of 20th-century America's most important musical figures. The Leonard Bernstein Collection is one of the largest and most varied of the many special collections held by the

Over 22,000 pieces of sheet music (songs and instrumental works), contributed primarily by the Bagaduce Music Lending Library and the Bangor Public Library, and dating from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, have been scanned as se

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.

Free online broadcasts of many events and audiovisual programs in the field of performing arts and documentaries.

The official website about Leroy Anderson and his music

The Chatfield Music Lending Library is the only one of its kind in the world today. Dedicated to the preservation of our musical heritage, the library has collected and cataloged more than 5,000 pieces, many of which are no longer in print.

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.

Free method books, fingering charts, scale sheets, band music, solo and ensemble music, flash cards, clip art, and an easy to use website creator.

The Nature of Expertise: 19 Principles of Effective Instruction Demonstrated by Three Distinguished Artist-Teachers in Music.

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.

Amadeus II is a very powerful sound editor for Macintosh. It runs on MacOS 9.2 and up, as well as natively on MacOS X.

This site is the online companion to my book, The Macintosh iLife '06, published by Peachpit Press and Avondale Media.

Updates, loops, and plug-ins for GarageBand.

The CD-Rom companion to O'Reilly's tutorial text for GarageBand.

Peachpit's tutorial text for iLife software suite.

This series of movies starts by taking you through the basics of using the GarageBand interface, and then shows you how to work with Apple Loops, Software Instruments, and Real Instruments.

O'Reilly's publisher website for their published GarageBand tutorial text.

Tutorials and advice for using GarageBand including links and listings of published tutorials.

Peachpit's publisher webpage for their GarageBand tutorial book.

Various video tutorials for using Garage Band.

Amazon's retail page for Apple's training series for GarageBand.

Advice, news, tutorials, and other resources for use with GarageBand.

MacBand is an online directory of songs and loops made by artists using Apple Computer's GarageBand software.

Welcome to Macidol. The easiest place to host your music for the world to hear. This is music of a different value.

Tips for efficiently using GarageBand.

Lessons plans for implementing GarageBand in the classroom.

GarageBand tutorials by Apple.

Apple's website for GarageBand including tutorials and various other resources.

Virtual Composer is a graphical multiple track musical sequencer and analyzer for the Macintosh, designed for perfect execution of complex polyphonic music using QuickTime's Musical Instruments libraries or using custom SoundFonts libraries to replace Qui