Resources for Educators

Use a new tool, Pathways to Integration [1], to identify ways to integrate music into all content areas. With this tool, lessons can be measured for depth of integration and depth of music use. No one style of integration is “right” – however Pathways can guide teachers on their journey to full integration of music.

Recommended Links

SFSkids.org [2] — an interactive site with information and activities about music
PBS: Keeping Scores [3] - links to SFS Keeping Score Episodes from Seasons One, Two and Three, including Beethoven [4], Stravinsky [5], Copland [6], Shostakovich [7], Ives [8], Berlioz [9], Mahler: Origins, [10] and Mahler: Legacy [11].
Geography of Music [12] - maps illuminating the relationships among the various composers as well as connections between music and its broader historical and cultural context
Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia [13]— includes descriptions of special collections, searchable index of nearly 700 names associated with those collections, connections to on-line collections and presentations, and pointers to over 100,000 digitized items on line. Teaching resources are included with many subjects and entries.
American Memory Collection [14] - collection from Library of Congress chronicling historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America
Song of America Project [15] - collaborative work of Thomas Hampson and Library of Congress
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Artsedge from the Kennedy Center [17] — arts integrated lesson plans catalogued by subject and grade level, tailored to national standards
Smithsonian Folkways [18] - grest resource of world music
National Archives [19] - thousands of primary sources from the National Archives
Walden School [16] - summer music school, festival, and Teacher Training Institute offering programs that emphasize creative application, specifically through music improvisation and composition
Arts Alive [20] - National Arts Centre of Canada (NAC) is a great site to discover the excitement of the performing arts, learn about orchestral music, great composers, conductors and much more
Music History [21] - a guide to Western Composers and their music from the Middle Ages to the present
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ThinkQuest|Library|Music [22] — Annotated catalogue of internet musical resources
Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures [23]— Carnegie Hall’s interactive site
Instrument Encyclopedia [24] — Online musical instrument encyclopedia and glossary from University of Michigan
Classics for Kids [25] — Information, games, and lesson plans, as well as specialized musical topics
Art of the States [26] — new American music, with audio samples
Voices Across Time [27] — resources for using American music as a primary source in the classroom
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Chronology of Modern Music [28] - a time line of music, art and world events, beginning in the early 1800's
International Music Score Library Project [29] - a music score library, including sheet music in the public domain available for free download
Fraction Pies [30] - an interactive site which links musical rhythmic notation to fractions
National Music Standards [31]
California State Content Standards [32]
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Links:
[1] https://mail.keepingscore.org/education/music_connections
[2] http://sfskids.org
[3] http://www.pbs.org/keepingscore/episodes.html
[4] http://www.pbs.org/keepingscore/beethoven-eroica.html
[5] http://www.pbs.org/keepingscore/stravinsky-rite-of-spring.html
[6] http://www.pbs.org/keepingscore/copland-american-sound.html
[7] http://www.pbs.org/keepingscore/shostakovich-symphony-5.html
[8] http://www.pbs.org/keepingscore/ives-holidays-symphony.html
[9] http://www.pbs.org/keepingscore/berlioz-symphonie-fantastique.html
[10] http://www.pbs.org/keepingscore/mahler-origins.html
[11] http://www.pbs.org/keepingscore/mahler-legacy.html
[12] http://www.pbs.org/keepingscore/map-timeline.html
[13] http://loc.gov/performingarts/encyclopedia
[14] http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
[15] http://www.loc.gov/creativity/hampson/teachers.html
[16] http://www.waldenschool.org/index.asp
[17] http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
[18] http://www.folkways.si.edu/
[19] http://www.archives.gov/education/
[20] http://artsalive.ca/en/mus/
[21] http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/
[22] http://thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=17
[23] http://carnegiehall.org/article/explore_and_learn/art_online_resources_listening_adventures.html
[24] http://www2.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
[25] http://www.classicsforkids.com
[26] http://artofthestates.org/
[27] http://www.voicesacrosstime.org/
[28] http://solomonsmusic.net/20thc.htm
[29] http://imslp.org/
[30] http://www.philtulga.com/pie.html
[31] http://www.menc.org/resources/view/national-standards-for-music-education
[32] http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/
[33] http://www.ade.state.az.us/standards/arts/revised/