Music Resources

Links verified 8/25/2022

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1. A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments -  
2. Blank Grand Staff Paper - for music teachers
3. Blank Music Worksheet - Provided by Lesson Tutor
4. Brass Instruments - A history of brass instruments
5. Build your own instruments - (from WannaLearn) - Directions on how to build numerous instruments
6. Children's Music Web - Resources for Kids, Parents, and Teachers, and they also have a list of performers who may be available.
7. Children's Music Portal - Teacher Resources Classical songs, Early Childhood collections.
8. Classics for Kids - Many activities for students
9. Classics - At Kunst der Fuge you may listen to 5 files/day for free. resource of Classical music in Midi/Zip
10. Counting Music - enter the notes and it counts the music with you
11. Creating Music - many activities to choose from
12. Dallas Symphony Orchestra - excellent resource
13. Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine - This site is devoted to vintage music from the early decades of the 20th Century. All recordings have been transcribed into streaming Real Audio from the original 78 rpm discs.
14. Do-a-rein-deer - Make your own music by using the mouse to squeeze the reindeer nose!
15. Drum Machine - make your own rhythm or drum patterns with popular Unifix cubes.
16. Encounter - From Silence to Symphony - Fantastic interactive site that shares information about the creation of a symphony from the instruments, to the conductor to the symphony! Listen to what each instrument sounds like. (This site is designed for broadband users.In order to experience parts of this site you will need both Quicktime and Shockwave plugins) 
17. Finale NotePad 2006 - free music notation software - other software to download, some are free and some are fee-based.
18. Fortissimo - a ThinkQuest site with a music dictionary, composer pictures and biographies, instrument pictures, and instrument sounds 
19. Fraction Pie Rhythms - connects your knowledge of fractions to musical notes and rhythms
20. Good Ear - free ear training on the net
21. Grand Staff Note Speller worksheets
22. Guide to Remote/Distance Learning Music for Students/Teachers - fun games and learning tools to teach music remotely. (some are not free)
23. Guitar Teaching Resources - Download these free music sheets to help guitar instruction.
24. Beginner Guitar HQ how to play guitar by ear
25. Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920 - from the American Memory section of the Library of Congress
26. History of Jazz MUsic - a detailed timeline
27. Kididdle's Musical Mouseum - a place where you can find the lyrics to your favorite kids' songs, send out a request for a long lost song, or maybe help somebody else find the one they're looking for. If you know the title of the song you're looking for, the Alpha Index is the place to go.
28. Indian Carnatic Music - the premier online resource for Indian music
29. Indiana University School of Music Worldwide Internet Music Resources 
30. Instruments - large list of links from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music.
31. Instructional Materials in Music - web sites to enhance your lessons
32. Jazz Age - Welcome to the Jazz Age Page. Listen to sound clips from the past together with people and historical events in the Jazz Age!
33. Keyboard to print
34. Learn about instruments - click on each instrument and hear what it sounds like
35. Marian Anderson: A Life in Song - This exhibition celebrates the artistic development and musical career of Marian Anderson. Renowned throughout the world for her extraordinary contralto voice, she is also remembered for her dignity and grace under pressure.
36. Meter - make rhythmic meters by combining two and three syllables words
37. Metronimo has educational musical games such as identifying composers, instruments and musical notes.
38. Music Chamber - This site was created so that people could gain an understanding and appreciation for chamber music. (a ThinkQuest site)
39. Music Connects - fun facts, activities, and lessons that support music education at home
40. Music Education Online: Music Education Resource Links Page
41. Music Education: Worksheets for Children - bass clef and trebel clef, progressive worksheets, #1 is easiest in each group
42. Music Hotlist posted by the Franklin Institute 
43. Music Education at DataDragon - "explore some parts of music with the DataDragon online tutorials and guides"
44. Music in Connexions: - A K-12 Teacher's Guide - wide variety of offerings, including multi-disciplinary lessons, lesson plans that can be presented by teachers who are not music specialists
45. Music K-8 Magazine - online magazine
46. Music Notes - an interactive online musical experience - (a ThinkQuest site) 
47. Music Review Worksheet
48. Music Teacher Resources - one of the many resources available from the Educational CyberPlayground - look at their index on the left of the page
49. Music Theory - great site for learning theory; resources for instruction, trainers, and music utilities.
50. Music Theory Fundamentals
51. Music Theory - tutorials, exercises, questions, references, and many other wonderful selections to choose from
52. Music Theory and Educational Resources - a multi link site with many resources
53. Music Teachers Chatboard - share your ideas and learn new ones
54. Musical Fraction Bars - your fractions will transform into a musical composition you can see and hear
55. Music Worksheets - Download these free worksheets for your music students; major and minor chords - great site for learning theory; resources for instruction, trainers, and music utilities.
56. Orff Music Instruments to Make - instruments which can be easily made and used to enhance the Orff music classroom - Some are suitable for student projects, and some are more advanced. 
57. Opera Plots - one hundred opera plots, listed by title 
58. Pattern Block Rock - In this activity, you can compose and play your own rhythmic songs using geometric shapes.
59. Printable Songs for Teachers - scroll past the Teachnology information to find the list
60. Reading Music - introduction to the most important topics in reading music in an easy to understand way
61. Renaissance Instruments - Elizabethan instruments 
62. Renaissance Music - a collection of links from the About network
63. The Rhythm Trainer - Free program for learning and practicing rhythm.
64. Romantic Music - Romanticism is a more radical kind of expression, it seeks out the new, the curious, and the adventurous.
65. Sing-Along Songs - presented by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)  
66. Songs for Teaching - stick with the links to Lyrics, that's free but everything else is for sale
67. Music to Play and Sing Worksheets - songs with .pdf worksheets
68. Sphinx Kids - music, videos, and games [requires Shockwave]
69. Stearns Collection - one of the largest accumulations of such artifacts housed in a North American university.
70. Stars and Catz - a suite of music tools and resources, all of which are entirely free to use and designed to be smart phone, tablet and desktop friendly
71. The Symphony - a Thinkquest site - an interactive guide[This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.]
72. Stylistic Timeline Of Music History - from the music of ancient times to 21st Century music
73. Teaching with Songs - from Isabel's ESL site
74. Texas School Music Project - "This site is intended to help you make music with children by providing ideas and information about specific problems common to all specialists in your discipline. Within these pages you will find teaching tips and "tricks of the trade" for music educators of all levels."
    

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