This is the web site of the history special research interest group (SRIG) of the Music Educator's National Conference.

Offered as part of the eNotes site, the Encyclopedia is a good resource for both students and others who wish to brush up on any number of composers, musical terms, performers, and so on.

Transcriva is transcription software for the Mac. Whether it's your meeting minutes, interviews, lectures, home movies, dictation, speeches, or your favorite TV show, Transcriva can help you transcribe them all. You do the typing, Transcriva takes care of

Gray Matters raises awareness of current brain research. The video series features presentations by leading neuroscientists and can be viewed in their entirety or as shorter clips for specific learning objectives in the classroom.

Self-awareness, savvy strategies and practical skills make the difference between tenure and failure. Even small changes may produce big effects over time. I hope that some of the tips and tactics on these pages will move you closer to your goals.

The site features over 18,000 songs in the public domain; well-known chestnuts from the early days of jazz.

S.U.M.S is a free resource for people who teach statistics. It builds interactive, fun and highly effective tutorials designed to help students understand basic statistics.You can tailor the tutorials by providing a small data set on which the tutorials

Scholarly articles on advocacy by people such as Wayne bowman, Elliot Eisner, David Elliott, and Don Hodges, all collected in one place on the ISME web site.

The Timeline Index : People, Periods, Places and Events in a chronological context.

The Getty Museum's "Explore Art" web site allows users to browse artists by name, or look over the collection by object type or subject. Other features include videos of artists at work and Getty's outdoor sculpture collection.

Exchanging Notes was an exchange of ideas between teachers and composers in 2002, designed to strengthen and investigate new strategies for the teaching of composition across the secondary music curriculum. The Exchanging Notes resource can be downloaded

The National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) is a major education research center within UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and includes other partner institutions and scholars.

Patriotic Melodies tells the stories behind many of the songs that have now become part of the American national heritage. A combination of hymns, national songs, music of the theater, radio and television, military themes, and poetry, all of this music d

Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal

MERI aims to disseminate recent research that contributes to global views of music education.

The Wind Repertory Project™ is an attempt to create a comprehensive database of wind literature, expanded by contributions of selected band directors/conductors, students, and wind band enthusiasts worldwide. Here you will find detailed information on l

It is the mission of Conn-Selmer, Inc. to provide an educational center, ongoing reference source, and support network for the professional growth of music educators.

Access to opera libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses, discographies, and so on. The site also contains an opera information directory, which features an opera composer index containing 4800 entries. Free "Opera For Everyone" CD's.

Look up and listen to Billboard's #1 song on a specific date in history.

The Habits of Musicianship is an introductory method book for the first year of instrumental class instruction. Appropriate for use in middle school beginning band classes and in college instrumental techniques classes.

This online introductory textbook covers everything from states of consciousness to social psychology. The online text includes sixteen chapters, and each chapter contains a number of parts that break each topic into smaller subtopics.

Mario Paint Composer is a remake of the music system from the original Mario Paint for the Super NES. It is made by unFun Games. The game is completely free.

Wufoo strives to be the easiest way to collect information over the Internet.Our HTML form builder helps you create contact forms, web surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a sin

Mp3realm is a search engine designed to search the web for audio in mp3 formats. It can search for title, album, artist, or genre. It also has an index of lyrics which allow you to sing along with the songs or look at the lyrics.

Listen to free Internet radio and find new music online.

Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this m

You are a worker in a tire factory. To break the monotony you and your co-workers start making music using the found item in the factory. The game lets you layer the instrument timbres and make musical choices to create new music.

Use your audio recorder to collect environmental sounds from the neighborhood, then create a piece of music from these sounds. Next, go to the studio and use the multitrack editor to combine the sounds into a new piece of music.

Historical music for educational use that our research indicates is copyright free. Also, links to Historical music for educational use that is freely available on the Web.

John Medina shares his interest in how brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and work. Each chapter describes a brain rule—what scientists know for sure about how our brains work—and then offers transformative ideas for living.