| Archive.Org 
The Internet Archive provides thousands of links to public domain works and information on almost every topic and is a great source for music education research.
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| Copyrights and Copywrongs - From Education-world.com
A nicely done and fairly detailed article specific to educators on the topic of copyright law and copyright in the classroom. Includes many off site links to additional information.
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| Folk Songs of America - Wax Cylinder Recordings
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, the American Folklife Center has a collection of MP3 recordings of american folk songs in MP3 format made from the original wax cylinder recordings. If you are doing a unit on Grieg or Granger or even about Ticheli's Cajun Folk Songs you can use these recordings as a resource to demonstrate the early recording techniques used by these composers.
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| HISTORY OF MUSIC IN ISLAM
A web site of the Muslim Sufi Order which gives an excellent history are reason why some in the faith consider singing, playing or listening to music to be disrespectful of the Quran
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| Musical Notation Systems & Electronic Music Links
A very cleanly written and well organized listing of links to a variety of online music resources. Section headings include: - Analytical Music Notation Systems
- Compositional Music Notation Systems
- Performance Music Notation Systems
- Digital Encoding Formats for Music Notation
- Online Databases of Printable Scores (generated from virtual music data)
- Online Databases of Virtual Scores
- Online Databases of Scanned Musical Scores
- Searching Musical Data
- MIDI Links
- Musical Data Programming
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| Popular Songs in American History
From the Popular Songs in American History web site: American Folk and Traditional Music with Lyrics, Midi Files, Tune Information
and History behind the folksongs and ballads. With folksongs arranged by time period. A very interesting collection of dozens of american folk music pieces bundled together with links, midi files,lyrics, and other information. Very nicely done. Requires Apple Quicktime to play the music files. |
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| Researchers Mull Gaming's Impact On Learning 
A well written article from eSchool News on the topic of video gaming and increased aptitude in certain fields. See that kid playing video games over there? He might be your next neurosurgeon!
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| Study Reveals Teens' Strong Commitment to Music and Music Making
The NAMM Foundation recently announced the results of a recently published research study by Patricia Shehan Campbell, Ph.D. of the University of Washington as part of the Foundation’s Sounds of Learning research initiative.
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| The Music Education Resource Base
The MERB is a comprehensive database of music education journal articles dating back to the 1970's. The index is searchable and while it does not include full text or summaries of the articles it catalogs, it does provide date and publication information. The MERB database seems to have been updated last in 2002. While the site still works it appears that new data is not being added to the database. |
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| The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM)
The NAMM is a trade industry group comprised of music retailers from across the country. They provide several useful printed documents and tools through their web site and through their member companies.
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| The Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
From The Smithsonian Folkways web site: Supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound. This very nicely done site houses hundreds of recordings of American music searchable by genre, title, composer, etc. The recordings are available for purchase on custom CD or cassette. Each song also has a brief preview in MP3 format. Similar to iTunes and other online music retailers, but you won't find this music on any of those other sites. VERY NICE AND USEFUL!
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| Wax Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at UCSB
Early wax recordings of many different genres of early 1900's music including vocal solos, orchestral pieces, and performances by the United States Marine Band circa 1909. Provided by the University of California at Santa Barbara
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| When Works Pass Into the Public Domain
A page that lists all the various iterations of US copyright law pertaining to the time at which a specific work becomes part of the public domain. Use this page to determine whether or not a piece of music you want to arrange or use is no longer protected by copyright.
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