LINKS TO MUSIC EDUCATION

American Music Conference - The voice of music making. The American Music Conference is a national non-profit music education advocacy association dedicated to supporting the importance of music education and music research with students and with members of the general public who enjoy making music and playing their own music, especially at an early age. The world's top academic countries place a high value on music education and music research. Our mission is to provide the advocacy resources needed for people like teachers, parents, recording artists and other industry professionals to create change in their own communities with making music, supporting music and playing music. The American Music Conference's goal is to support music education and music research with its music education advocacy programs, and to expand that portion of the population that enjoys making music and playing music, as a high value is placed on music education and music research.

www.aosa.org

American Orff - Schoolwerke Association. Music and Movement Education. Orff Schulwerk is a way to teach and learn music. It is based on things children like to do: sing, chant rhymes, clap, dance, and keep a beat on anything near at hand. These instincts are directed into learning music by hearing and making music first, then reading and writing it later. This is the same way we all learned our language. Orff Schulwerk happens in a non-competitive atmosphere where one of the rewards is the pleasure of making good music with others. When the children want to write down what they have composed, reading and writing find their moment. Orff Schulwerk uses poems, rhymes, games, songs, and dances as examples and basic materials. These may be traditional or original. Spoken or sung, they may be accompanied by clapping and stamping or by drums, sticks, and bells. The special Orff melody instruments include wooden xylophones and metal glockenspiels that offer good sound immediately. Played together as in a small orchestra, their use helps children become sensitive listeners and considerate participants. With Orff Schulwerk, improvisation and composition start students on a lifetime of knowledge and pleasure through personal musical experience. Learning is meaningful only if it brings satisfaction to the learner, and satisfaction arises from the ability to use acquired knowledge for the purpose of creating. For both teacher and student, Orff Schulwerk is a theme with endless variation.

www.creatingmusic.com

Childrens music games. Creatingmusic.com is a children's online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles.

www.childrensmusicworkshop.com

www.crsdm.it

CRSDM Fiesole - Centro di Ricerca e di Sperimentazione per la Didattica Musicale. Fondato nel 1980, il Centro di Ricerca e di Sperimentazione per la Didattica Musicale si propone l'obiettivo di una indagine in campo nazionale e internazionale sui problemi dell'insegnamento della musica ad ogni livello di applicazione, dalla funzione educativa specifica della scuola dell'obbligo all'applicazione di nuove metodologie nel campo dello studio strumentale, dalla nuova didattica della composizione all'insegnamento della musica in ambiti extra-scolastici. I destinatari di questo servizio sono operatori musicali, musicisti, studiosi, professori d'orchestra, docenti di conservatorio e di scuole di musica, insegnanti della scuola dell'obbligo e studenti. Questa struttura, che è stata innovativa nel settore della pedagogia musicale in campo nazionale, ha attuato numerosi collegamenti con analoghe istituzioni in tutto il mondo. L'attività promossa dal CRSDM consiste nell'organizzazione di convegni e seminari a livello nazionale e internazionale su argomenti di didattica musicale e la presentazione di metodologie musicali attraverso il confronto di esperienze pilota in ambito anche interdisciplinare. L'attività di ricerca è diretta all'individuazione di nuove tecniche specifiche per lo studio dello strumento, della voce e della composizione e nei confronti di altre discipline e di forme di espressione artistica.

www.dalcrozeusa.org

Dalcroze Society of America. The Dalcroze Society of America is a nonprofit educational organization that welcomes musicians, dancers, actors, therapists, and artist-educators who study and promote the Dalcroze Eurhythmics approach to music learning through rhythmic movement, aural training, and improvisation. Included in membership is a subscription to the Dalcroze Journal, which contains articles of interest, news, and schedules of courses and workshops. The Society is affiliated with the Féderation Internationale des Enseignants de Rhythmique (FIER), a worldwide association of Dalcroze teachers, with headquarters at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva, Switzerland. Every two years the DSA hosts a National Conference. Local chapters of the DSA offer workshops and seminars throughout the year. A Dalcroze education is a musical training comprising the basic elements of music: rhythm, dynamics, tone and form. It has three branches: Eurhythmics trains the body in rhythm and dynamics; Solfège trains the ear, eye and voice in pitch, melody and harmony; Improvisation puts it all together according to the student's own invention- in movements, with voice, at an instrument. For children, and often for adult beginners, these three aspects of the Dalcroze work are integrated in a single class, in which the students move, sing, and play as they engage in a variety of activities involving listening, responding, and inventing. 

As the students become more advanced, the three branches are formally separated, each having its own class. However, in the spirit of musical wholeness that characterizes Dalcroze, each class includes all three aspects of the work.  Dalcroze training stimulates, develops, and refines all the capacities we use when we engage in music: our senses of hearing, sight, and touch; our faculties of knowing and reasoning; our ability to feel and to act on our feelings. Coordinating these capacities is the kinesthetic sense, the feedback mechanism of the nervous system which conveys information between the mind and the body. The education of this sense to the purposes of music is at the heart of the Dalcroze work.  This approach, so radical in its inception one hundred years ago, has found its moment in the current explosion of interest and research in music education. The newest discoveries and theories of learning point exactly to the teaching innovations that Dalcroze proposed at the beginning of this century.

www.music-journal.com

European Music Journal. The European Music Journal (EMJ) is the European internet journal for music and musical education. The publishers´ aim is to make use of the possibilities offered by the internet for creating a forum for the field of teaching music within this medium. Readers will have a wide range of theoretical and practical articles for immediate application throughout Europe without delay and use the multi-media possibilities of the internet. (...)

www.jogosmusicais.com.br

Jogos Musicais. Notas Espaciais, Sequência Rítmica, Memória Musical, Show Musical.

www.leducation-musicale.com

L'Éducation Musicale. Revue bimestrielle pour l'enseignement de la musique en collèges, lycées & universités, écoles de musique & conservatoires. Avec un supplément annuel comprenant l'analyse des ouvres au programme de l'Option facultative (toutes séries) & de l' Enseignement de spécialité (série L) du baccalauréat.

www.menc.org

MENC: The National Association for Music Education. As the premiere music education association in the United States, the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) is devoted to assessing and improving the state of music education in schools on all levels. The MENC Historical Center collection includes administrative records, MENC publications, and papers of past presidents and other eminent music educators.

www.musicteachers.co.uk

Music Teachers UK. MusicTeachers.co.uk is a free service which aims to support musicians in every aspect of education and performance.

www.musicpsychology.net

musipsychology.net. Online magazine about musicpsycholoy, musictherapy and Thrilling Music.

oake.org

Organization of American Kodály Educators. The mission of the Organization of American Kodály Educators is to enrich the quality of life of the people of the USA. through music education by promoting the philosophy of Zoltán Kodály.

www.playmusic.org

Playmusic.org.

www.playmusic.org

San Francisco Symphony Kids. The San Francisco Symphony (SFS) welcomes you to the SFS Kids' Site. We love music and are committed to music education, within our community and beyond. This website, in conjunction with our live performances, provide a great way for people of all ages to hear, learn, and have fun with music. Consider this site your premier web destination for learning about music - that's why it's here! And, if you'd like to share this site with others, send them a postcard. We hope you enjoy the SFS Kids' Site and we encourage you to visit time and time again!

www.kodaly.org.au

The Kodaly Music Education Institute of Australia. KMEIA is a community of music educators who are inspired by the educational and aesthetic philosophies of the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodály. Our members seek to adapt his ideas to create programs of excellence for Australian children. As a professional association, KMEIA upholds the highest standards of music education through supporting and resourcing Australian music teachers. Our aims are: Promote the principles of Zoltan Kodaly through classes, workshops, conferences, publications and training courses, To equip music educators with the tools and inspiration to be the best musicians they can be. Improve music education for the children of Australia through our work and our association with other music organisations. Participate in the global network of the International Kodaly Society.

www.kodaly-inst.hu

Zoltán Kodály Pedagogic Institute of Music Kecskemét. A former Franciscan monastery, erected in 1736, in the center of town of Kecskemét was rebuilt from 1973 to 1975 to house the Zoltán Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music. (...) The decree establishing the Zoltán Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music was declared on 15th June, 1973. The Institute began its public operation in the summer of 1975 after a long and thorough preparation. Its first undertaking was the 3rd Kodály Seminar for Hungarian music teachers. In the founding decree the main aims of the Institute were stated, as follows: a) to reveal the theoretical and practical experiences necessary for the development of music education: to work out suggestions in relation to the practical activities of educational institutions; b) to organise the dissemination of the methods of Hungarian music education abroad; c) to provide post-graduate training for foreign music pedagogues in the field of Hungarian music pedagogy and methodology. In order to realise its aims the Institute should organise academic conferences, meetings and other events both in Hungary and abroad to serve the aim of regular exchange of experiences.

www.themusicland.co.uk

The Music Land. The UK's online community for music education. The MusicLand began publishing music resource material in 1999, and was one of the first sites in the UK to provide a range of free material for Key Stage 3 through to A-Level. In 2004, it has broadened its portfolio to include a number of software applications and the development of additional published resources. We have also launched a subscription area to provide high-quality materials to our members. Now, with approximately 10,000 community members and about half-a-million page views per year, The MusicLand is recognised as one of the leading and most innovative web resources for music education. A recent survey by the Fischer Education Trust on the music resources used in Schools suggested that The MusicLand is the most popular, and useful, website to teachers and students in the UK.