Music Education



Smithsonian Global Sound - Global 'radio', tools for teaching, workshops, music ed links.

History of Music Education

Classical Music Education

ArtsEdge - free, standards-based arts teaching materials.

Soundjunction.com - Very slick, well-organized high-end (both quality and quantity) educational web site aimed at helping you "explore music", learn about "How Music Works", "About Musicians," "Instruments and Voices," "Music in Context," "Composing and Remixing," "Create Music Yourself," with "Help and Resources." Many articles, features, photos, short audio and video examples under each of the these categories on every aspect of how music is conceived, organized, composed, performed, recorded. 40 professional British musicians talk about their instruments; check out the feature on the horn; Stephen Bell does a number of short video clip demonstrations (his horn is some kind of triple - does anyone know what kind?). Includes a Garageband-like "interactive music tool" to construct your own music online quickly (track-based; drop-and-drag samples). Resources for music students and teachers. Highly recommended.

Horn Teachers Database - maintained by Hornplayer.net - currently listings for 1103 teachers.

"Gee, All I Ever Wanted to Do Was Play My Instrument..." - article on all the skills and knowledge a contemporary music student would do well to get training in (beyond playing the instrument).

Resources for Music Education - 1 page of excellent links. Comes in categories: Resources for: Band directors, vocal teachers, orchestra teachers, classroom teachers.

Music Education Swicki - A swicki is a cross between a search engines and Wikipedia - the community can add, delete and improve the results.

Middle School Band Director - created by UI alumnus Russ Weaver. Lots of links, resources, downloadable info, and more.

Band Director - Menu items: Marching, Product Guide, Archives, Travel & Festivals, Forums, Fundraising, CDs

Brevard Conference on Music Entrepreneurship

Mr Holland's Opus Foundation - donates new and refurbished instruments to deserving schools and music programs.

Music Education - Wikipedia article on the subject.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Music Education - Good collection of music education links offered by the Cook Music Library of Indiana University.

The Educator's Reference Desk - Not for music education specifically, but an excellent source of links and information on education for teachers.

MUSIC-ED - A forum on music education.

Faculty recruitment - web site of a faculty recruitment firm

Music In Schools Today (Must Create)

Music Teachers Chatboard at teachers.net.

NASM - National Association of Schools of Music

MENC - National Association for Music Education. Good set of music education links.

ASBDA - American School Band Directors Association

IAMEA - Iowa Music Educators Association

ISME - International Society for Music Education

AMC - American Music Conference: Music education advocacy

Texas Music Project - model music education advocacy organization

Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education

Ensemble - "collects, stores, and re-distributes information relating to subjects in all areas of music as taught in our schools, and sung or played in our churches, synagogs, and communities. It is jazz band, jazz choir, jazz orchestra. It is the classics in all areas. It is pop and show choir, band, or orchestra." Good set of links.

The Instrumentalist Magazine

NACWPI - National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors

College Music Society - CMS. Maintains a college music jobs newsletter, the MVL (Music Vacancy List)

MTNA - Music Teachers National Association

Link Magazine - Online British music education publication

International Association for Jazz Education

Midwest Clinic - International Band and Orchestra Conference in Chicago

AOSA - American Orff-Schulwerk Association

Music Schools - worldwide directory of music schools, plus lots of other information on music ed, learning music, careers in music, music industry, music resources. Strangely enough, under Wind Instruments you can find the Shawm, bagpipes, and the dulcian, but nothing on the horn...

US Schools of Music - similar list of links to US music schools provided by MusicalChairs.com. See here for international links.

University Music Departments Worldwide - Vast collection of links to the web sites of "all music departments in higher education" worldwide.