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 Kid’s Pages
- Harmony Central MIDI Tools and Resources
- Mozart's Works in Midi Format
- Laura's MIDI Heaven Archives
- Vikram’s MIDI Fest
- Classical MIDI Archives
- The MIDI Farm
- Children’s MIDI Song Files
- Wai-Man Wong's Java Piano
- Krazykats Karaoke
Software and Multi-media Downloads
- 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
- Ars Nova Software
- MiBAC Music Software
- Softech - Home of Piano Professor for Windows
- 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
- 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
- Music Appreciation
- Musical Cultures of the World
- K-12 Music Resources for Music Educators by Cynthia Shirk
- 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
- 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
- Sing Along Songs
- The Digital Tradition Folk Song Database - The Mudcat Cafe
- The CISV Song Database
- Scouting Songs
- School of the Natural Voice
2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
- Instrumental Resource Page by Dan Traugh
- String Pedagogy Notebook
- Violin Making by Hans Johannsson
- Electronic Early Music
- Renaissance Consort
- Musical Instrument Links
- Yahoo Musical Instrument Links
- The Piano Education Page
- The Piano Page
- Windplayer On-line
- W.A.M.S. Images - Wolverine Antique Music Society
- Internet Viola Society
- Guild of American Luthiers
- MHN Instrument Encyclopedia
- Library of Congress Collections of Musical Instruments
- Harmonica Educator
- Harmonica Lessons
- Podium Music - Sheet Music for Various Instruments
- The Internet Renaissance Band - Renaissance Music
- KIDiddles (TM) - Mojo's Musical Mouseum
- The Bassoon
- 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
- 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
- Classical Composer Biographies
- Serveur Infosysteme de l'Ircam
- Fractal Music Project
- Schillinger System of Musical Composition
- Mozart's Musikalisches Wurfelspiel
- KeyKit Download Site
- Electronic Music - MIDI & Synthesis
5. Reading and notating music
- KIDiddles (TM) - Mojo's Musical Mouseum
- Reading White Mensural Notation
- Softech - Home of Piano Professor for Windows
- Wai-Man Wong's Java Piano
- Chord Quiz
- Music Quizzes, Games, Practice Pianos
- Worksheets for Young Musicians
- Music Tech Teacher
- Big Ears
- Tab Transcriber
- Music Notation Program
- Charanga
- Resources for Music Theory Instruction
- Jay's Set Theory Calculator
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
- Music Hall
- What to Listen For in 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
- Big Ears
- Institute for Music Research
- Jay's Set Theory Calculator
- zZounds Music Discovery Center - Welcome!
7. Evaluating music and music performances
- What to Listen For in Music
- Music Hall
- Public Events and Publications - Library of Congress
- zZounds Music Discovery Center - Welcome!
- Charlie Horse Music Pizza
- In Harmony with Education
- New York Philharmonic Guide
8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
- Getty Arts Foundation
- ArtsEdge - National Arts and Education Information Network
- Library of Congress Music Images
- Library of Congress Illustrated Guide to Music, Theater, Dance
- Shakespeare
- Visual Arts For Learning
- WebMuseum: Bienvenue!
- Heinemann Arts Subject Guide
- Center for Research in Computing and the Arts
- Sito - Archives and Collaborative Rituals - Images
- SCA Medieval and Renaissance Music Homepage
- SCA Renaissance Dance Homepage
- Renaissance Dance
- Renaissance Dance Database
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture
- Composer Links
- Music Appreciation
- Musical Cultures of the World
- Electronic Early Music
- Gregorian Chant Home Page
- Classical Composer Biographies
- Internet Guide to Afro-Carribean Music
- Radio Hazak - Israeli Music
- West African Music and Dance
- The Music of Americans - Library of Congress
- WLH - Music
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources Genres
- zZounds Music Discovery Center - Welcome!
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