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
- Midiweb
- Kids Music Web
- Krazykats Karaoke
Software and Multi-media Downloads
- Music Instruction Software by Brent Hugh
- Compumedia - A Multimedia Approach to Music Education
- Hypermedia Presentations
- World Wide Web Tools - Downloadable Programs for Creating Web Pages
Organizations
- Music Educators National Conference - MENC
- California Music Educators Association - Bay Section
- California Music Educators Association
- ArtsEdge
- American Orff-Schulwerk Association
- The Library of Congress Homepage
Commercial Web Sites
- Classics World
- Ars Nova Software
- CD World
- G. Schirmer, Inc.
- J. W. Pepper Music Network
- Passport Designs
- Cakewalk
- Rainbow Waterfall Records
- Music Yellow Pages
- Keyboard Concepts
- Independent Music Association
- Yamaha Corporation of America
Research and Publications
- Australian Educational Research
- Music Resources - University of Indiana
- Resources of Scholarly Societies - Music
Other Music Resource Web Pages
- Kids Music Planet
- Music Education Online
- Music Teachers National Association
- Music Resources: Academic Sites
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National Standards for the Arts in Education
1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
- ChoralNet
- 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
- The Digital Tradition Folk Song Database - The Mudcat Cafe
- Scouting Songs
2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
- Violin Making by Hans Johannsson
- American Viola Society
- Guild of American Luthiers
- The Luthier's Shoppe - A Resource of Master Instrument Builders
- Library of Congress Collections of Musical Instruments
- KIDiddles (TM) - Mojo's Musical Mouseum
- Recorder Home Page
3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments
- What is Jazz?
- A Jazz Improvisation Primer - by Marc Sabatella
- Mozart's Musikalisches Wurfelspiel
- The Cutting Edge of Music Technology
- Guitar Chords
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
- Classical Composer Biographies
- Serveur Infosysteme de l'Ircam
- Fractal Music
- Schillinger System of Musical Composition
- Mozart's Musikalisches Wurfelspiel
- KeyKit Download Site
5. Reading and notating music
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
- Serveur Infosysteme de l'Ircam
- Just Intonation Network
- Public Events and Publications - Library of Congress
- EarMaster
- zZounds Music Discovery Center - Welcome!
7. Evaluating music and music performances
- 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 Homepage
- Renaissance Dance
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture
- Classics World
- Radio Hazak - Israeli Music
- West African Music and Dance
- African Music
- West African Music links
- The Music of Americans - Library of Congress
- zZounds Music Discovery Center - Welcome!
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