Music and the arts are vital to every child's education. Is your child's music program in danger of being cut? This site offers effective tips for taking action and the latest evidence of music's importance.

The VH1 Save The Music Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of education in America’s public schools by restoring music programs in cities across the country, and raising public awareness about the importance of mus

Discover what the MusicFriends program is, read what advocates have to say, and who our supporters are. MusicFriends releases a monthly online Newsletter. Read past newsletters at the archive. Get involved with your community. There is information to get

Why Music? is a series of radio public service announcements produced twice annually by MENC to coincide with Music In Our Schools Month in March and with the traditional beginning of school in late August.

The purpose of ACB is to encourage and foster adult concert community, municipal, and civic bands and to promote the performance of the highest quality traditional and contemporary literature for band.

Welcome to one of the world's largest set of community band and orchestra links! Since 1995, people have used the information contained here to try and find web pages for groups located in that area. We hope you will find what you are looking for.

Welcome to the Learning Tools section of the Marine Band website. The information in this section will help you learn more about the history and mission of "The President's Own."

New Horizons Music programs provide entry points to music making for adults, including those with no musical experience at all and also those who were active in school music programs but have been inactive for a long period.

Information on the Transit of Venus March from The Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater and Dance.

This website has a comprehensive list of links to resources and websites related to many aspects of bands and band music.

Instrument fingering charts by Alfred Publishing.

The following information aims to explain about the various variables of a mouthpiece's shape and how they affect its performance. In addition we've tried to aid selection by giving comparison charts and narrative on which models are the most popular.

Some suggestions for parents who are wondering when and how to introduce their children to music.

Website for the Mountain Lake Colloquium, a retreat for teachers of general music methods. Includes information and related links.

This website has been developed over the years by faithful organizers and contributors from around the world to keep the military band tradition alive by honoring the past, supporting the present and encouraging the future of band music.

The official website of John Coltrane, legendary jazz saxophonist.

Website of Down Beat Magazine, a magazine dedicated to jazz performance artists. Includes some biographies and other resources.

The Library of Congress website devoted to Gerry Mulligan, legendary jazz saxophonist. Includes biographical information and other resources.

Website for Lionel Hampton, legendary jazz percussionist. Includes recordings, videos, and biography.

The Louisiana State Museum Digital Library Jazz collection is composed of photographs, audio recordings and musical instruments from the collections of the Louisiana State Museum.

NEA Jazz in the Schools takes a step-by-step journey through the history of jazz, integrating that story with the sweep of American social, economic, and political developments. This multi-media curriculum is designed to be as useful to high school histor

PBS site devoted to their series on Dave Brubeck, legendary jazz pianist.

Website devoted to the Stan Kenton Orchestra, an influential jazz band. Includes biographical information, external links, and other resources.

This website has a brief, yet comprehensive introduction to the history of jazz music.

The Maryland Historical Society is proud to host the definitive collection of jazz-pioneer Eubie Blake. Blake, born in Baltimore in the 1880s, went on to become one of the most popular ragtime composers of his era and one of the more influential music

This site links to other selected websites that have a music educational merit and resources.

Welcome to The Classical Music Navigator, a new concept in classical music education! Whereas many other introductions to the classical music world are in the business of inculcation--they talk at you, about the composers and the music--we have created a

Links and resources about copyrights for music.

INFOhio's state-funded resources are available and useful to all Ohio's K-12 students and teachers.

This collective blog is just one project of the Music Educators Network.Musiced.net provides blogs and webspace and serves as a hub for collaborative projects.