Music Curriculum
General
Music Moz
The Open Music Project. Appears to be part of the Open Directory,
but this directory focuses solely on web music resources. Use
their Shopping section to look for vendors.
Music Connection
Scott Foresman - Silver Burdett Ginn educational music products
and workshops.
Sibelius
Student versions. My choir director uses the adult version when she needs to compose or rewrite music for us. Pretty powerful music software! Kids versions made more playful. Kids can share what they compose with Groovy Music on link on this page.
Guitar Lessons
Don't Fret Note Map
With this guitar learning aid children and adults can learn to
read music and play guitar with little effort in a fun, practical
and effective way. This is a business run by an 11 year old homeschooler.
eMedia Guitar Method
Mac and Windows software to teach you to play with the greats.
Lots of bells and whistles in the software.
Instruments
Backyard Music
Inexpensive folk instruments and easily assembled instrument
kits designed for schools, travelers, and novice musicians. We
offer Banjo Lite™ five string banjos, Appalachian (lap)
dulcimers, and folk harps.
Rhythm Band Instruments
Scores, software, instruments from other lands, games, recorders,
drums, lesson plans, just about all you need to learn basic music
skills at low prices.
Lessons
Crash Course in Choral Music Reading
In sixteen easy lessons, Ed Cannan has covered all of the fundamentals
necessary to read music. Using a keyboard to sound out each note
and an instructional audio tape to go along with each lesson,
this study will benefit anyone desiring to read Instrumental
or Vocal Music.
Homespun Tapes
The home of musical instrument lessons: guitar, mandolin, organ
instruction videos and bluegrass teaching tapes.
Ike Alexander:
Ten Basic Recommended Rudiments For Percussionist
Self-teaching, purely audiological CD-based drumming lessons,
ideal for sight-impaired drummers, as well as those who learn
best by listening.
Pfeiffer House Music
A Christian homeschool music curriculum for kindergarten and
first grade. Curriculum for older students in the works.
PianoPronto
A set of 8 lesson books of graded difficulty, which spans from beginning to late intermediate and early advanced levels. The books include music from a wide array of genres including classical, jazz, folk, and pop tunes.
StarPlay
Free music education software that lets you practice by performing with professional musicians, bands and renowned orchestras. Be part of the band. Needs Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Pro or Vista. You only need to pay for music and can overcome this by creating your own scores or finding free scores on the internet.
Piano Lessons
Piano
and Keyboard Lessons
These lessons are for the advanced beginner who wants to start
creating their own compositions. From Musician News.
Quiescence
Music
With pianist/composer Edward Weiss's easy-to-follow online piano
lessons, you can master the building block skills of playing
new age piano in no time at all.
Sheet Music
Sheet Music from Sunhawk
Enjoyable site! You get to play the music before you purchase.
Good resource for all sorts of instruments and voices.
Singing
JamesK
Listen to song samples and buy some CDs from JamesK, who is also
available to play for children at homeschool conferences.
Rhythm Rhyme Results
Free samples of educational rap-style songs for teaching. Each page below includes resources on a specific topic, streaming audio of the relevant educational song, lyrics, and links to purchase the full retail versions of the related music album. Retails versions include PDF lyric booklets and four versions of each song to aid in the learning process.
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