In continuing yesterday’s theme of finding music, today I wanted to share some links I’ve found for free Christmas Music: Making Music Fun – A variety of levels, simple/straight-forward melodies, rather than arranged pieces. Music for Music Teachers – simple melodies; not very exciting musically, but good for those who just want to play familiar […]
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Monday Mailbag – Finding Music
You seem to have plentiful sources of repertoire at your fingertips. I am having a hard time finding good supplemental music for my small, beginning studio. The closest music store is about an hour away, so I rely heavily on internet searching and shopping. However, I find it difficult to know the level of the […]
New Music Blog and Free Download on Music Education Benefits
One of the families in my studio sent me a link to this brand new blog that has been launched by Sonlight (a curriculum for homeschoolers). The blog is primarily geared toward families pursuing music education (rather than teachers), but I think it will be a great place to get ideas! You can also download […]
Lots of Free Music!
Rebecca W. just alerted me recently to this fabulous Musopen website! Have you seen it yet? They have an enormous selection of music (audio) and sheet music that can be accessed for free, played from the site, downloaded, and embedded into other websites. In fact, as I type this, I am enjoying listening to a […]
Around the Music Blogosphere
Here are several posts that I’ve found particularly interesting over the past week or so: Jason, at The Piano Pedagogy Page, has been doing a series on Do-It-Yourself In-Service for independent music teachers. What a fascinating concept! I really appreciated this sixth post in the series on taking the time to practice and play well […]
New Website with Lots of Free Music Resources!
Have you seen the new InsideMusicTeaching.com website? The site was created by Philip Johnston, founder of the popular PracticeSpot.com. In his e-mail last week, Mr. Johnston indicated that he would no longer be updating the Practice Spot website, so it looks like this new Inside Music Teaching site will be the place to keep up […]