Music Education and Pedagogy

From the website: "This set of free online resources for music teachers includes lesson plans and activities, summative and formative assessments, video examples, and documented best practices. Designed to be effective and adaptable in a wide variety of music classrooms, the resources were developed through Carnegie Hall’s five-year residency in a New York City elementary/middle school"

Website states: "Save The Music offers curated online music resources for students, teachers, and families, spanning music history to music theory, tailored for learners at all levels."

"Use this collection to explore with students how artists of different eras, music styles, and locations around the planet used their songwriting and performances to bring awareness and calls for peace to the masses."

"TeachRock has partnered with PBS, Higher Ground, and Show of Force to create materials that bring the eight-part, Emmy and Grammy nominated Soundbreaking series into K-12 classrooms. The standards-aligned lessons are tailored for students in social studies, language arts, geography, science, and general music classes, and feature rich educational resources, including the interactive Soundbreaking TechTools that allow students to experience firsthand the technological breakthroughs explored on screen."

"Groovin’ to Jazz includes thirty-one original recordings with lesson plans designed for intermediate level (ages 8-13) and middle level (ages 13-15) students. Some lessons have worksheets to go with them. Most lessons are designed for teachers with limited resources and space."

Through the Preservation Hall Foundation. A free music teaching research for K-12 educators.

From the website: "The Blues educational outreach campaign, created by Experience Music Project, provides teaching strategies and resources for teachers to assist in the integration of blues music, culture, and history into American classrooms, with emphasis on grades 9-12."

Primary emphasis is on Voices Across Time: American History Through Music, A project of the Center for American Music (University of Pittsburgh Library System), and the Society for American Music.

"Bring the world of music to the classroom! MIM’s Educator Resources are meant to deepen and extend the learning that takes place on a field trip to the museum. K–12 educators can maximize their learning objectives with free supplemental materials for the classroom which include hands-on activities, lesson plans, video clips and photos, and gallery activity pages."

Via the Society for Ethnomusicology's Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation. Authored by Patricia Sheehan Campbell: https://music.washington.edu/people/patricia-shehan-campbell

See this guide for an orderly depiction of a number of Open Educational Resources in Music organized by course area and resource type

"The Journal of Music History Pedagogy publishes original research on any aspect of the teaching and learning of music history at both the undergraduate and graduate level, for all audiences (majors, non-majors, and the public), and all genres of music."

Featuring pedagogical resources including but not limited to lesson plans and activities.

Ranges across surveys, popular, art, and theatre musics, with some composer or work-specific focus, too.

A resource for "teaching music history more inclusively," featuring resources utilized "in the classroom [including] assignments, lecture notes, and more."

"These undergraduate syllabi are the winners of the SMT's Diversity Course Design award and together serve as a model for other instructors of music theory in implementing an inclusive music theory curriculum."

"This site contains musical excerpts intended for use in the undergraduate Western tonal music theory core curriculum. Each theoretical concept is illustrated in a series of examples by women and composers of color. I have intentionally chosen examples that are aimed for the pedagogical moment when each concept is introduced in the majority of Western tonal music theory curricula. For example, excerpts demonstrating predominant chords do not contain chords employing secondary function, as most students study predominant function prior to secondary function etc."

"[T]he members of the Engaged Music Theory Working Group collectively assembled the following bibliography to encourage music scholars to engage directly with issues of cultural politics—race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, intersectionality, decolonization, and disability—in their research and teaching."

From the website: "Music Department Chair Adriana Helbig is one of the world's leading scholars of Ukranian music. Her knowledge is in demand with the local and international press. This page will be updated with new resources as they become available. "