Music Education World Wide Web Resources

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Resources That Provide Access To Various Web Sites

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This site's unique feature is links to a variety of lesson plans from teachers around the world.

This resource is the best I've found that attempts to comprehensively provide links to music education resources. Categories include types of instruments and areas of teaching, music education organizations and resources, online music magazines, and other various links. Many entries have brief annotations. Good resource to begin exploring "what's out there?"

This Web browser searches multiple Web indexes simultaneously and allows some flexibility with what is searched.

Webcrawler is a quick way to search the Web. It's precision is not keen, but it quickly gives you results to browse.

Alta Vista has been said to be one of the largest, fastest, and most sophisticated search engines available for the Web. You can decide whether you want to do a simple or advanced search by clicking on the boxes at the top of the page. It m ay take some time to learn the advanced searching. Good help screens.

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Indexing Tools On The Web

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"MERB is a bibliographic database of more than 27,000 resources in music and music education from 27 Canadian and International journals and other sources covering the period 1956 through the present. The journals are fully indexed by title, author, and subject." Although searching is not as flexible or thorough as on ERIC (MERB has no searchable abstracts for example), it includes journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Teaching and Learning and the Instrumentalist that are not indexed in ERIC.

"CAIRSS is a bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. Citations have been taken from 1,354 different journal titles; 18 of which are primary journals, meaning that every article ever to appear is included." Although searching is not as flexible or thorough as on ERIC or PsychINFO, it includes journals such as the Quarterly and Journal of Music Teacher Education which are not indexed in either ERIC or PsychoINFO. The focus of the primary journals leans toward music therapy and psychology and includes several journals not indexed by PsychINFO.

Includes an index to a small set of music education periodicals and the Poland-Cady Abstract collection. The Poland-Cady Abstract collection contains approximately 4,500 abstracts of research in music prior to 1965. The collection was developed by Professors William Poland and Henry Cady at The Ohio State University in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Selected Specialized Resources

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General information about Orff and the Schulwerk, organizational information such as board members and upcoming conferences. Includes the table of contents for the current issue of the Orff Echo and information on AOSA grants and scholarhips.

This page is from the Music Education Department and was designed to answer questions about pursuing a degree at the University of Washington.

Includes news briefs, information about MENC membership, articles from MENC journals, a listing of MENC publications, and a variety of links such as industry contacts, graduation requirements by state, etc.

Includes information on membership, publications, training institutes and conferences held by OAKE.

Links to a variety of music resources on the Web.