Music Learning Today - 2nd Edition

TwistedWave is a browser-based audio editor. You only need a web browser to access it, and you can use it to record or edit any audio file.All the audio is stored and processed on the server, so you don't need to download anything, or save your work when you are done. Close your browser window and your work is saved. Open TwistedWave somewhere else, and all your audio files, with the complete undo history, are still available.With a free account, you can edit mono files up to 5 minutes in length. Once you have an account, you can purchase a subscription to increase this limit.

The Keeping Score web site is designed to give people of all musical backgrounds an opportunity to explore the music and life of the composers featured in the Keeping Score television series in depth, and at their own pace.

"Piano roll" animations of musical works.

QR code generator.

Create, play and share fun learning games for any subject, for all ages, for free!

An online facsimile of a theremin.

Principles of Orchestration online course by Nikolay Rimsky Korsakov orchestration - Garritan Interactive

This set of free online resources for music teachers includes lesson plans and activities, summative and formative assessments, video examples, and documented best practices.Designed to be effective and adaptable in a wide variety of music classrooms, the resources were developed through Carnegie Hall’s five-year residency in a New York City elementary/middle school.

SafeShare.tv is the Safest Wayto Watch and Share YouTube and Vimeo videos.

Hansel and Gretel: Learning about Opera! is an online educational experience featuring Humperdinck's Opera Hansel and Gretel. Players can control interactive elements in every scene and watch the play unfold. Design your OWN opera!Parents and children or student groups can experience and enjoy these activities together and learn about opera music and theatre. Music listening guides and music games assist with exploration of the elements of orchestral and opera music. At the end of the story, additional information and resources can be found Backstage at the Opera.

Develop custom schedules for each class; view and print lessons by day, week, or class; create class templates for any day of the week; connect to national, state and local standards; attach files and links to your lessons; adjust your lesson schedule with a single click; allow students to view your plans online; share your plans with other teachers; easily re-use lessons from one year to the next.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts 372 art history books online. All of the books can be read online or downloaded as PDFs (warning, some of them are massive files). You can search through the catalog of books by thematic category, format, and publication type. And, of course, you can search through the books by title, author, and keyword.

The U.S. National Gallery of Art hosts more than 25,000 images of famous and not-so-famous works of art. Nearly all of the images can be downloaded and re-used for free. NGA Images also allows you to register and create online collections of images. The collections are called lightboxes.

Here's a fun collection of interactive websites related to Music that work great on your SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard.

Share SMART Board resources, tips, and best practices

Introducing "Blues + YOU": play-along tracks available online--free of charge--so musicians can practice with mp3 downloads in a variety of configurations! Tailored to intermediate and advanced players, this unique product will become an invaluable resource for both college and high school jazz programs. The newest recording from The U.S. Army Blues, Something Old, Something New: Yours to Borrow From the Blues has tools to use and tunes to enjoy!

Until AM is the first full-fledged DJ tool tailored especially for the era of online digital music, allowing for a seamless blend of cloud-based music storage and local audio files.

The project radio aporee maps was started in 2006. it is a global soundmap dedicated to phonography, field recording (and related practices) and the art of listening. it connects sound recordings and places, in order to create a sonic cartography, open to the public as a collaborative project. It contains recordings from numerous urban, rural and natural environments, showing their audible complexity, as well as the different perceptions, practices and artistic perspectives of its many contributors, related to sound, public and private spaces, listening and sense of place.

Sing&See is vocal training software that helps you sing better by showing real-time visual feedback on your voice!

Useful and mostly free teaching materials and other resources for:school orchestra directors, private studio teachers, future string teachers and college methods classes, string players of all ages for self-study.

How to create a rubric with Google forms.

Music Prodigy Core makes practice and assessments easier. Instant red note/green note evaluation as students playA comprehensive solution for all voices, strings, percussion, winds, guitar, piano (patented polyphonic pitch recognition system)All student levels, general music through universityNo external microphone requiredIncludes thousands of music titlesNo training requiredTeacher classroom dashboard with pre-formatted student progress reportsiPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Windows PCs, Mac OS X, and Amazon Kindle Fire

Royalty free clip art and images.

Designer and developer, Kyle Stetz, created this instrument for creating ascii beats. They might be useful for creating hiphop tracks - based on what you type into the input box. Use student names, school names, teams, projects and other text to create interesting beats.

The Infinite Jukebox may come as somewhat of a revelation. For an introduction, readers may go to the site and click on a few of the popular tunes listed on the homepage. For instance, selecting Superstition by Stevie Wonder kicks off the 1972 hit in the way you've always heard it. But then The Infinite Jukebox takes over, matching beats and rhythmic patterns to create intelligent patterns for where the song can go next. No simple loop here. Instead the song plays for as long as the listener would like, but with seemingly infinite variety. Once users understand the basic principle, they can...

The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.

Tagboard is a whole new way to experience the great content from the social networks you already know and love. Each tagboard is a collection of social media posts [from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and others] that share a common hashtag. Tagboards can be embedded on websites, integrated in to mobile apps, and shown on large displays.

Splice is a cloud platform for music creation, collaboration, and sharing.

Teachers will be introduced to Google Apps for Education as a resource to enhance collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity with students, colleagues and their school community. Emphasis will be placed on introducing resources that provide best practices when using Google Apps for Education. The course is online and divided into 10 self paced modules. Each module can be completed individually. Staff will demonstrate completion of each module through a Google Form.

This page includes links to each of the individual Music Theory pages I've created in PDF form. This is a work in progress; I am writing new ones regularly and fixing errors and omissions on existing ones as I find them. If you find them useful for your theory studies, you are welcome to use them, and if you find errors or have suggestions, I invite you to contact me. Enjoy! These pages are available for free under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.