Theory and Reference

Aural Concepts e-Book:

Written by Samuel Wright of wrightstuffmusic.com, this booklet is designed for all Year 9 to 12 Music 1 students to study the Concepts of Music for analyses and general study.


Aussie Educator: A Total Education Page for Australia (Music page):

This page provides general music information as well as information about MIDI and MP3 formats and sources.
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Classical Archives

Classical Archives is a music website designed for a vital but often overlooked audience: lovers of Classical Music, Jazz, Broadway, Film Soundtracks, and World Music. There are 620,000 files you can listen to (stream), or purchase in DRM-free MP3 for download by 13,000 composers and 52,000 artists from over 270 recording labels. Also includes the largest collection of free classical music MIDI files. There’s also a huge library of information about composers, genres, and musical eras that you can read while you listen.


Classics for Kids

In the classroom, classical music can be an exciting tool. The Classics for Kids® lesson plans and teaching resources give teachers practical, effective plans and activities that use classical music to help children learn. and meet national and state standards. They are based on National Standards for the Arts and state Academic Content Standards for Music, as well as on Theory of Multiple Intelligences. The materials also incorporate various philosophies, including those of Orff, Dalcrose, and Kodaly.


The Contemporary Music Course

The Contemporary Music Course is a music course of 120 video lessons that stream instantly on our website. It can be used by absolutely anybody interested in music – beginners, songwriters and arrangers. Simply register, login and click on the Subjects tab to begin right away. Cost: NZ$100 (AU$78 – BP48 – US$73) for a full years access.


The Discover-Learn-Play Music Program

The Dallas School of Music is proud to provide to music learners throughout the world the Discover, Learn, and Play Music Program, three incredible educational services designed to personalize the learning experience and maximize musical growth.


Dolmetsch Online: Music Theory and History:

A huge amount of information here.
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E-Learning Resources:

e-learning resources provides flexible, comprehensive music resources for use in schools, homes, universities or computer labs.
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Free Music Theory Worksheets:

Lots of downloadable workbook chapters and virtual flashcards on aspects of music theory, with really good reviews and recommendations from music teachers who have used them.


Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History:TimelineofArtHistory

Created by the Metropolitain Museum of Art, this particular link directs to a great article of Renaissance music. From there, you can find timelines and resources for eras in Art history from all over the world.


Interactive Circle of Fifths:

The Interactive Circle of Fifths (“the Circle” for short) is a tool designed to help musicians to figure out the key of a piece of music, easily transpose music to a different key, compose new music, and understand key signatures, scales, and modes.


Ipl2: Music History 102:IPL.orgMusicHistory102

ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2’s collections. It is through the efforts of these students and volunteers that the ipl2 continues to thrive to this day.

This link contains a collection of write-ups for the major eras of music history.


Learn the Circle of Fifths:

A series of lessons and quizzes to help students learn the circle of fifths.
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Lesson Planet: Music

Hundreds of lesson plans for Music.
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Mrs Strauss’s Music Tech Hub

Welcome to Mrs. Strauss’s Music and Technology classes! Use this page for easy access to all my websites and wikis. Help links and assignments are found on each individual site.


Music and History.comMusicandHistory

Within these pages, important musical events over the last 250 years are listed chronologically along with general historical events. We pay homage to the fact that composers live in the world. They affect the world and are affected by it. If one reads any of these files for any length, one can understand how the music being produced fits within the culture and historical period.


Music Education.edu.au

MusicEducation.edu.au is designed to support teachers in teaching music to students at all school levels from early childhood through to high school graduation. It will also assist music education researchers, university music education lecturers, school principals and others. It enables you to find high quality Australian and international music education resources through a rich, searchable database.


Music Education Portal – Melbourne Graduate School of Education

This site aims to provide highlights of music education resources available on the internet. It has been developed in consultation the with the Australian Society for Music Education (ASME) in particular the ASME Victorian Chapter. This is a developing resource for music educators.


The Music Interactive – Classroom Applications

Seeing an increase of projection systems and interactive whiteboards (SmartBoard, Prometheus, etc,) in many classrooms including music, teachers Craig Gonci and Marc Jacoby have created The Music Interactive web site as a vehicle to distribute music learning activities and games that cover a broad range of uses in both classroom and performance based environments.


Music Teaching Resources:

Download 200 high quality music theory worksheets and handouts to print, photocopy and use in your classroom.
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Music Tech Teacher:

Flash-based music quizzes, games and help pages by Ms. Garrett.
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Music Theory:

Every musician needs to know the basics of music theory. Here you can learn about note reading, intervals, scales, and much more.
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Music Theory & Education Resources:

A big collection of links for lots of music teaching stuff. If you’re looking for more websites with teaching resources, this one is massive.
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NSO Kids:

The Nashville Symphony Orchestra website for kids.
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Ricci Adams’ MusicTheory.net:

Online lessons and tutorials for music theory.
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Soundtree – Blog

The Soundtree Blog has links to teaching resources, lesson plans, and the Soundtree store, which specializes in music technology resources for the classroom.
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Teoria Music Theory Web:

Tutorials, exercises, references, and articles.
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