MERL Music Educator Resources Links
Music Educator Resource Links by Carla Piper
This music education homepage is organized to provide links to curriculum resources for each of the nine national content standards as presented by the National Standards for Art Education. A variety of documents describing what students should know and be able to do in the arts are available on-line through Artswire and MENC. The document, "The School Music Program: A New Vision," is intended for everyone who is interested in the quality of music instruction in America's schools.
MIDI and Audio Files
- Standard MIDI Files on the Net by Charles Kelly
- NIEHS Kids Pages
- Harmony Central MIDI Tools and Resources
- Mozart's Works in Midi Format
- Laura's MIDI Heaven Archives
- Vikrams MIDI Fest
- Classical MIDI Archives
- The MIDI Farm
- Midiweb
- Kids Music Web
- Wai-Man Wong's Java Piano
- Krazykats Karaoke
Software and Multi-media Downloads
- Music Instruction Software by Brent Hugh
- Music Education Software
- Compumedia - A Multimedia Approach to Music Education
- Hypermedia Presentations
- World Wide Web Tools - Downloadable Programs for Creating Web Pages
- World Lecture Hall - University of Texas
Organizations
- Music Educators National Conference - MENC
- California Music Educators Association - Bay Section
- California Music Educators Association
- ArtsEdge
- Artswire
- American Orff-Schulwerk Association
- The Library of Congress Homepage
- Texas Cultural and Arts Network (TCAnet)
- World Lecture Hall - University of Texas
Commercial Web Sites
- Classics World
- Ars Nova Software
- MiBAC Music Software
- Softech - Home of Piano Professor for Windows
- CD World
- G. Schirmer, Inc.
- J. W. Pepper Music Network
- Opcode Software
- Passport Designs
- Cakewalk
- Rainbow Waterfall Records
- Music Yellow Pages
- Keyboard Concepts
- Independent Music Association
- Yamaha Corporation of America
Research and Publications
- Music Education Resource Base
- Australian Educational Research
- Computer Music Journal
- Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
- Music Resources - University of Indiana
- Resources of Scholarly Societies - Music
Other Music Resource Web Pages
- Kids Music Planet
- K-12 Music Resources for Music Educators by Cynthia Shirk
- K-12 Music Resources for Music Educators
- Music Education Online
- Music Teachers National Association
- Australian Arts On-Line
- Music Resources: Academic Sites
- Texas Cultural and Arts Network (TCAnet)
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National Standards for the Arts in Education
1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
- Acapella Vocal Directory
- ChoralNet
- CyberChoir
- Classics World Opera/Vocal Area
- Alexander Technique - Better Health for Singers and Musicians
- Richard Robinson's Tunebook - Downloadable printed folk melodies from Europe
- On-Line Songs and Poetry for Children
- Judy and David's Online Songbook
- American Orff-Schulwerk Association
- Roger Wagner Choral Center
- Children's Music List - Online Song Books
- The Digital Tradition Folk Song Database - The Mudcat Cafe
- The CISV Song Database
- Scouting Songs
- School of the Natural Voice - Sheila Knight
- Opera - All of Music and More
2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
- Instrumental Resource Page by Dan Traugh
- Drums and Percussion Page
- Marching Bands
- String Pedagogy Notebook
- Violin Making by Hans Johannsson
- Electronic Early Music
- Renaissance Consort
- Yahoo Instrument Links
- Home Page of the Trombone
- The Piano Education Page
- The Piano Page
- Master Classes
- Windplayer On-line
- W.A.M.S. Images - Wolverine Antique Music Society
- Curtin and Alf Violinmakers
- Internet Viola Society
- Guild of American Luthiers
- The Luthier's Shoppe - A Resource of Master Instrument Builders
- MHN Instrument Encyclopedia
- Java Guitar Tutor.
- Library of Congress Collections of Musical Instruments
- Harmonica Educator
- Harmonica Lessons
- Podium Music - Sheet Music for Various Instruments
- The Oboe
- The Internet Renaissance Band - Renaissance Music
- KIDiddles (TM) - Mojo's Musical Mouseum
- The Bassoon
- Steel Pan Tuning
- Recorder Home Page
- Wai-Man Wong's Java Piano
3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments
- What is Jazz?
- Jazz Education and Musicianship
- Styles of Jazz - a map
- The People of Jazz
- Jazz Improvisation
- A Jazz Improvisation Primer - by Marc Sabatella
- European Free Improvisation
- Jazz Online
- Mozart's Musikalisches Wurfelspiel
- Piano Education Page
- The Cutting Edge of Music Technology
- Microsoft Software Synthesizer
- Rhythmic Bytes MIDI Home Page
- Wai-Man Wong's Java Piano
- Guitar Chord Finder
4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines
- Gems and Articles on Composition by Matthew Fields
- CCRMA World Wide Web server - Stanford
- Edgard Varese
- Computer Music Journal
- Classics World
- Classical Composer Biographies
- Serveur Infosysteme de l'Ircam
- Fractal Music Project
- Schillinger System of Musical Composition
- Mozart's Musikalisches Wurfelspiel
- Microsoft Software Synthesizer
- Computer Music
- Creative Zone
- KeyKit Download Site
- Electronic Music - MIDI & Synthesis
- EMT CD-ROM (Mac)
5. Reading and notating music
- KIDiddles (TM) - Mojo's Musical Mouseum
- Reading White Mensural Notation
- Music Instruction Software
- Softech - Home of Piano Professor for Windows
- Wai-Man Wong's Java Piano
- Chord Quiz Applet
- Big Ears
- Tab Transcriber Home Page
- Music Notation Programs on the Net
- Charanga
- A1 Music & dance, music theory, songwriting, ...
- Resources for Music Theory Instruction: Index
- Jay's Set Theory Calculator
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
- Music Hall
- What to Listen For in Music
- Marsalis on Music
- WWW Music Database
- Auditory Perception
- Serveur Infosysteme de l'Ircam
- Just Intonation Network
- Resources for Guided Listening
- A Sound Beginning - Sounds Outside the Womb
- Public Events and Publications - Library of Congress
- EarMaster
- Chord Quiz Applet
- Big Ears
- Institute for Music Research
- Jay's Set Theory Calculator
- Tab Transcriber Home Page
- zZounds Music Discovery Center - Welcome!
7. Evaluating music and music performances
- Classical Music Topics
- What to Listen For in Music
- Marsalis on Music
- Music Hall
- Public Events and Publications - Library of Congress
- zZounds Music Discovery Center - Welcome!
- Charlie Horse Music Pizza
- Music exporer site - London Symphony
- In Harmony with Education
- New York Philharmonic Guide
8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
- Getty Arts Foundation
- Arts Education On-Line
- ArtsEdge - National Arts and Education Information Network
- Library of Congress Music Images
- Library of Congress Illustrated Guide to Music, Theater, Dance
- Shakespeare
- WebMuseum: Bienvenue!
- Heinemann Arts Subject Guide
- Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
- Sito - Archives and Collaborative Rituals - Images
- SCA Music and Dance Homepage
- Renaissance Dance
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture
- Yahoo Composer Links
- Early Music Consort
- Electronic Early Music
- Gregorian Chant Home Page
- Classics World
- Classical Composer Biographies
- Internet Guide to Afro-Carribean Music
- Radio Hazak - Israeli Music
- West African Music and Dance
- African Music
- West African Music links
- The Music of Americans - Library of Congress
- WLH - Music
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources Genres
- Popular Music
- zZounds Music Discovery Center - Welcome!
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