David B. Williams, Illinois State University Emeritus (davedbw@fastmail.us)
Below is a selected list of web-based music teaching and creation resources, most of them free. More and more options are appearing everyday. I have not reviewed all of these sites in depth. Feel free to send me feedback especially if you find something that you feel is questionable educationally or musically. Also please share any new sites to add to the list. Dave.
Note: ** = Web-based software used in Dave's Elementary/General Music workshop presentations
Updated 2/17/2011
Elementary/General Music Sites: Orchestra Educational Websites
- **Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) Kids
- Kennedy Center ARTSEDGE
- Kennedy Center Live Webcasts and Millennium Stage
- New York Philharmonic Kidzone and SphinxKids
- Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures®
- Carnegie Hall Interactive Performance Guides
- Berlin Philharmonic Education Website
Elementary/General Music Sites: Other
- **Classics for Kids
- Classical Music Quizzes and Classical Music Trivia -- Fun Trivia
- Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
- **ArtsAlive.ca - Music
- Guide to Art Schools: Classical Music Resources
- Online Music Theory Flash Cards -- Musicards.net
- Flash Music Games
- **Kids Music
- PBS Kids Music Games
- Music Education at DataDragon
- The Music Education Madness Site: Kids' Korner
- Learn Listening Online
- Morton Subotnick's Creating Music
- **MusicTechTeacher (Karen Garrett is instrumental music teacher in Birmingham AL and TI:ME Teacher of the Year Award winner)
- Amy Burns Site for Elementary Music Teachers (Amy is elementary music teacher in New Jersey and President of TI-ME)
- **SMART Board Collections
- **NoteFlight Learning Activity Templates developed by Vermont MIDI Project
Music Theory
- **Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net
- Sojurn: The Canons and Fugues of J.S. Bach
- Big Ears: Online Ear Trainer
- Teoria: Music Theory Web
- Pocket Ears: Triads
- Eyes and Ears: An Anthology of Melodies for Sight Singing
- G Major Music Theory
- Lotus Music: Music Theory Topics and Answers
- Good Ear
- eMusicTheory
- SheepBeats: Sheeps get their grooves on
- noisegames.com
- ToneMartix
- Incredibox
- The Blues Maker (Disappeared from web; let me know you find this!)
- Sounds of Hamburg
- **Vermont MIDI Project
- Aviary Myna Audio DAW
- Soundation DAW
- **Noteflight - Score Editor
- ClubCreate: with Dubstep, the Music Studio, Charles Ives Music Lab, and much more
- AudioTool.com formerly the Hobnox Music Studio
- Computer Music Specials Issue 44: 99 Free Plug-Ins
- MusicTech Magazine (issues plus articles plus MusicTech Focus specials in depth on music software)
- Music Tech for Me (Keith Mason's site, Belmont University)
- MusicEd Tech (Barbara Freedman's site, music teacher at Greenwich H.S. in Connecticut)
- Music Professional Learning Network (Music teacher network with blogs, resources, and more)
- METOS 2010 (Music, Education, and Technology Online Summit): online conference held in October 2010 with a wide variety of presentation all available online. The METOS 2011 will be held on Columbus Day, October 2011, with more online presentations for music education and technology.
- Tech4Music.net (Dave Williams' online music technology resources)
- MusicCreativity.org (Dave Williams and Rick Dammers website for "The Other 80%." Reaching students through technology based creativity classes and activities)
- Pandora: http://www.pandora.com
- Mp3tunes: http://www.mp3tunes.com
- Others general online services include Napster, Rhapsody, iTunes, Spotify, etc.
- Zoho: http://www.zoho.com (online web-based applications for word processing, database, and more)
- Google Docs :http://docs.google.com (online web-based applications for word processing, database, and more)
- Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com (Cloud based file storage and sharing)
- Evernote: http://evernote.com/ (Cloud based note and document sharing)