Texas Music Educators Association
This is the site where your Region/State Etudes and All
State Excerpts
are listed. From this site you can download the All State
Excerpts. You
can also see if you made All State after the rankings are posted.
TMEA also offers HUNDREDS of Links to:
*Colleges/Universities/Schools of Music
*Music Advocacy/Support Groups
*Music Education/Organizations
*State Governing Organizations
http://www.tmea.org
Music Agency Inc. - Instrument Insurance
All Risk Instrument Insurance Plan:
*Protect your instrument from Accidental Damage, Fire and
Theft!
*Worldwide Coverage
*Immediate Claim Service
*Insures for Replacement Value
*Insures for any Leased Instruments, School or Privately
Owned
Instruments
http://www.musicagencyinc.com
Region 26 Orchestra Web-Site - This site lists the audition
excerpts for
your Region etudes. This site will have a listing of the chair
placements
of the Region Orchestra strings after 9:00pm on the day of the
auditions.
http://www.region26orch.net
Southwest Strings - Mail Order Music/Supply/Instrument Vendor
http://www.swstrings.com
Classical Net
This web-site offers THOUSANDS of links to music related
topics!
http://www.classical.net/music/links/musiclnk.html
The University of Texas Performance Calendar.
Most events are FREE!!!
http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/music/events/
Karadar.com
Provides sound files and information on composers. MANY MP3's
and MIDI
files!
http://www.karadar.com/
Free Classical Music!
http://www.musopen.com
Texas School Music Project - Educational insights,pointers and
wisdom from
top music educators at Stepehn F. Austin State University.
Ideas, classroom
strategies, practical information, "tricks-of-the-
trade", and more for
teachers and advanced students, greenhorns to grandmas.
http://www.tsmp.org
Piano Nanny - This free site takes you step by step through three
stages of
piano playing: Beginner, Intermediate and advanced. Each stage
is broken
down into a set of 35-minute lessons that you can take at your
own pace.
There's a built-in student notepad to jot down key points that
can be saved
for future visits. You can also click on a "12-note
keyboard companion" to
view a diagram of the notes being explained. From lesson #5
onward, the
course uses audio files to show key priniples and how to play
selected
pieces.
http://www.pianonanny.com
Musical Melodies - Students can create different musical contours
by
choosing
different shapes. They can then listen to how they shaped a
certain piece of
music.
http://www.creatingmusic.com/contours/index.html
Drum Bum - This site is a portal with links to more than 400 free
drumming
and music-theory lessons for drums. The information, arranged by
subject,
covers everything from phrasing and soloing to lessons in various
drumming
styles. There are sections dealing with health issues, such as
hand cramps,
and items on how to care for and repair instruments. Many
lessons include
sound-file examples of the techniques and ideas discussed.
http://www.drumsdatabase.com
Free Music paper - Hundreds of papers you can download and print
for free.
They've got music paper, graph paper, financial paper, etc.
http://www.printablepaper.net
The Center for Music Learning - The CML is a research and
teaching unit at
U.T. Austin whose purpose is to investigate the processes of
skill
development and knowledge acquisition in music, integrating the
results of
systematic research from multiple disciplines across the
university and best
practices in the disciplines of music.
The Center's central goal is not merely to improve the
quality of music
instruction but to change fundamentally the ways that music is
taught at all
levels and to further the development of a citizenry that is
musically
knowledgeable, literate, skillful, and confident, and that takes
pleasure in
their experiences with music.
http://www.cml.music.utexas.edu
Arts in Education Advocacy Site.
http://www.AmericansForTheArts.org
KMFA Classical Radio Station - Did you hear a GREAT piece on KMFA
at 6:17
last night? Want to know what it is? Go to the KMFA web-site
for that
information!
http://www.kmfa.org
Classics for Kids - Sponsored by the WGUC 90.9 classical radio
station in
Cinncinatti. Great general music information, musical
games,links etc.
http://www.classicsforkids.com
This amazing site can be used to seach for classical composers,
their works,
their contemporaries, etc. It also lists music and musicans from
almost any
genre that you could think of!
http://www.allmusic.com
Metronome On Line - This great site has a metronome that you can
hear on
your computer! AND it also has an A - 440 that you can tune to.
http://www.metronomeonline.com