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Music Education

Tools and techniques for teaching music and music appreciation.

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ArtsAlive.ca - Music
http://www.artsalive.ca/en/mus/musicresources/teachers.html: Resources for both parents and teachers in their quest to expose children to music. It includes classical music to listen to and movies to watch. It even has a dictionary of musical terms.
Children's Music Portal
http://www.childrens-music.org/index.htm: This is a wonderful resource for parents, teachers and musical artists who work with kids. Listen to kid songs, find classroom resources and ideas for using music in early childhood, get CD reviews, and find other Web resources for children’s music and song lyrics.
Jazz for Young People
http://www.jalc.org/jazzed/j4yp_curr/#/welcome: Listen to and find out about Jazz at this site composed just for kids. Topics include improvisation, the Blues, Louis Armstrong, and Thelonious Monk, among others.
Music and Music History
http://www.lessontutor.com/musicgenhome.html: This page has good worksheets for teaching music concepts: notation, rhythm, note values, time, tone and keys, for example. Also on the site are short biographies of famous composers including Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Haydn, Liszt, Mozart, Saint-Saens and Tchaikovsky.
Music Ideas
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/music/contents.htm: Here are some ideas for teaching music for ages 5-11. The subject areas include musical elements, musical composition and notation, instruments and listening to music. There are also guides to music resource books.
Parents' Music Room
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/parents/index.shtml: Information for parents that is meant to help them use music to motivate their children. A resource from the BBC, it has suggestions on games that explore music with children, learning instruments, and different news and career information about musicians.
Smithsonian Jazz
http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/start.asp: Lesson resources for teaching jazz, from the Smithsonian Institute. Includes handouts and lesson plans, as well as jazz recording and oral histories from famous jazz musicians.

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