ARTS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
http://www.aep-arts.org
COMMUNITY/SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ARTS (C/SPA)
Sarasota County collaborations among people in the arts community
and the school
district to maintain and improve local arts education
opportunities
http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us
MUSIC EDUCATORS NATIONAL CONFERENCE
http://menc.org
FLORIDA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
http://www.flmusiced.org
Sarasota Orchestra
4th and 5th graders throughout Sarasota and Manatee counties attend the Children's Concert every spring. Students learn about the orchestra and the pieces and their composers in their music lessons at school.
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ESSENTIAL CLASSICS is a series especially designed to introduce
casual listeners and serious music students to the best music of
every
period with 200 excerpts as well as the following.
Eras: Overviews of the six main periods in music history --
Middle Ages,
Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century.
Composers: Brief biographies of nearly 70 composers, which will
bring
to life the artists and their works.
Glossary: 200 definitions with numerous musical examples.
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
TEN LESSONS THE ARTS TEACH by Wendy Katz
Although some educators view the arts as closer to the rim of
education than to its core, Elliot Eisner argues that the arts
are a critically important means for developing complex and
subtle aspects of the mind. He outlines "ten lessons" that
illustrate how various forms of thinking are evoked, developed,
and refined through the arts:
1) The arts teach children to make good judgements about
qualitative relationships;
2) The arts teach children that problems can have more
than one solution and that questions can have more
than one answer;
3) The arts celebrate multiple perspectives;
4) The arts teach children that, in complex forms of
problem solving, purposes are seldom fixed;
5) The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their
literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know;
6) The arts teach students that small differences can have
large effects;
7) The arts teach students to think through and within a
material;
8) The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said;
9) The arts enable us to have experience we can have from
no other source; and
10) The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes
to the young what adults believe is important.
http://www.naea-reston.org/
FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION/ARTS FOR A COMPLETE EDUCATION
http://www.faae.org
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: MUSIC: HISTORY
Meet Stephen Foster, American songwriter, and learn about the
history behind his
music. This PBS site also offers sheet music, a photo gallery,
and a timeline.
http://www.yahooligans.com/arts_and_entertainment/music/History/
BRAIN RESEARCH & MUSIC
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/18/MNG5277BJR1.DTL
INTRINSIC VALUES OF THE ARTS EXPAND EXTERNAL VALUES
http://www.rand.org/publications/MG/MG218/
COMPUTERIZED PIANO TEACHING PROGRAM
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/06/NBGDSCI0EM1.DTL
LINKS TO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING MUSICAL
http://www.musiceducationmadness.com/
MUSIC K-8
Good resource for elementary and middle school music teachers and
students
http://www.musick8.com