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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
This rather useful Excel tutorial is is divided into eight sections, which include “Entering and Editing Data”, “Formatting the Worksheet”, and “Creating a Chart”.
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 Archipelago Project is a non-profit music education ensemble dedicated to advocating musical arts through performance, residency, and consultation.
This is a site where one “can learn about the history of jazz and its artists through recordings, readings, photographs, video, and fun activities.” This resource includes modules on a variety of jazz topics and artists including: New Orleans Jazz, The Bi
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
Designed to give music educators an online tool for easy access to forums, discussion boards, advice, teaching strategies, teaching stories, advocacy tips, pertinent articles, rehearsal advice, and anything else that has to do with the field of Music Education!