Subject Guides: Teaching Music: Online Resources

Teaching Rock or Jazz?

Music & Concerts
A collection of streaming resources in various music genres (jazz, opera, world music, etc.).

Alberta Band Association
Children's Music Web
Childrens Music Portal
Keeping Score The Keeping Score Education program was developed in conjunction with other Keeping Score media in order to extend the benefits of the project into today’s classrooms. The program offered teachers at all levels opportunities to learn about classical music and its connections to the core curriculum, and resources and lesson plans to help teachers integrate music into their classrooms.
Kodaly Society of Canada
Library and Archives Canada : Canadian Music Periodical Index
Library and Archives Canada : Music and Performing Arts
National Arts Centre: ArtsAlive.ca
Science of Music

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada This link opens in a new window This database is based on and will update the Second Edition of The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (1992).
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It aims to describe Canada's musical heritage and culture in its breadth and depth: the historic and current manifestations of popular, folk, religious, concert, and other forms of music, as well as Canadian music's educational, critical, administrative, and commercial aspects. Bibliographies, lists and discographies may be more limited in this electronic format than in the original Second Edition.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music This link opens in a new window The |Garland Encyclopedia of World Music| covers the music of all the world's peoples. The first release of the online version includes the complete contents of the the 10 volume print set. Future releases will contain more indexing as well as links to the associated audio examples for each volume.
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Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music Online) This link opens in a new window Encyclopedic coverage of music and musicians. Comprises Grove Music Online, the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music.
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Elementary Learner Expectation: Listening (Grades 3, 4, 5, and 6). Courtesy of:

Benjamin Britten