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

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.

Users can enter any chord and get a visual representation of how to play the chord on a virtual fretboard.

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

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.

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

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.

The official website about Leroy Anderson and his music

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

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.

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

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

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...