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Carnegie Hall: Music Educators Toolbox

New York City's Carnegie Hall is well-known as one of the world's premier music performance venues. In addition to its prestigious concerts (whose history we highlighted in the 7-07-2017 Scout Report), Carnegie Hall offers a number of educational programs through its Weill Music Institute. While most of their programs are located in New York City, music teachers anywhere can take advantage of...

https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Programs/Music-Educat...
Chordbook.com: Guitar Chords

One can't be sure what Duane Eddy or Andres Segovia might think of this interactive guide to guitar chords, but hopefully they would approve. Offered up by Chordbook.com, this online guitar chord primer takes novice and experienced guitar players through all sorts of chord variations and possibilities. Visitors can start by looking over the "Help" below the virtual guitar, as it goes over how to...

https://chordbook.com/guitar-chords/
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National Association for Music Education

The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) - "the only association that addresses all aspects of music education" - offers a number of resources for K-12 music teachers. Founded in 1907, NAfME has historically played a key role in the establishment of music education programs in the United States. More recently, the association has been instrumental in developing the National Standards...

https://nafme.org/
Science of Music: Exploratorium's Accidental Scientist

The science of music may not be something most people think to wonder about, but for those who do, this lovely online collection of exhibits and activities provided by the Exploratorium will be of great interest. Visitors can explore the science of music through these different exhibits, short movies, and questions. Some of the thought-provoking questions which are answered through short...

https://annex.exploratorium.edu/music/
The Art of Teaching the Arts: A Workshop for High School Teachers

Teaching the arts is, as one might expect, an art in itself, and teachers young and old alike will find much to engage their attention on this delightful website. Created as part of the Annenberg Media's educational resource website, this site offers an eight-part professional development workshop for use by music, theater, dance, and visual art teachers. The site includes all eight of the one...

https://www.learner.org/series/the-art-of-teaching-the-arts-...
The Maine Music Box

Created through a collaboration between the University of Maine's Fogler Library and other Maine libraries, The Maine Music Box contains hundreds of digitized sheet music scores from five major collections. First-time visitors to the site will want to click on the "About Maine Music Box" project as a way of getting started. Here they can check out the "User Information" area, which contains...

https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb/
University of South Carolina School of Music: Sheet Music Collection

The University of South Carolina Music Library has an extensive collection of over 10,000 pieces of popular, sacred, and classical sheet music that can be easily searched, due to the digital sheet music project on the School of Music website. Additionally, the cover and page images are available for those pieces in the public domain. The top 5 searches are listed on the homepage, and the titles...

https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_librar...