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Matt's Favorite Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching Music

Some tools that could benefit a music classroom; completely free and user friendly.

__Some Links That Make You Think__ A.K.A. //"Online Resources for Teachers"//

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This site contains a large archive of texts for music. They are in several different languages, many with translations available for them. The site can be searched by poet, composer who used the text, genre, language and year composed. This is a great way to find texts to use for music, compare the ways that different composers set different texts and find lyricists for unknown pieces.

[|IMSLP] This is a great, comprehensive site with access to free sheet music. For teachers with "smartboards", these files could be put up on the screen and written on to explain certain composition/theoretical techniques while you mark it up. It saves paper and makes the music visible for everyone. The site is careful to obey copyright laws, so you have no need to worry about whether the music you're using is legal or not.

[|Choral Public Domain Library] Like IMSLP, this is a public domain resource of music available for download. This has some extra editions of vocal and choral works that IMSLP does not always have. It can be searched by composer, genre and poet. It also offers a section of translations and texts for pieces.

[] This site contains many lesson plans for poetry units in the classroom. It also has recordings of poets reading poetry, which is a fascinating glimpse into the text. Each poet's entry has multimedia associated with them as well as their works listed. If you're looking for new ways to experience poetry, this is a great place to start.

[] This site contains some really neat poetic resources. It contains recordings of poets reading their own works. Its a great way to hear poetry being read by people who are committed to it's existence. []

This is a great lesson plan created by the Kennedy Center. It focuses on the epic //Beowolf// and how it can be connected to the arts. You could use it in the same fashion as my lesson plan of you can follow their idea. Either way, it's a great resource to use for teaching a tedious text.