1. How to Optimize Your School Band's Website to Recruit Top Players: Part 1
(Archived/Teacher Resources/Band Web Sites)

This two part series is designed to give school bands an advantage by incorporating better Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for their websites. The article comes to MusicEdMagic courtesy of the g

2. St. Amant High School Band - August 2006
(Archived/Teacher Resources/Band Web Sites)

For August we have selected the St. Amant High School Band Web Site of St. Amant, Louisiana as directed by Mr. Craig Millet and Joseph Nassar.  When we first saw the home page of this site we imm

3. September 2006- Buchholz High School Band
(Archived/Teacher Resources/Band Web Sites)

Congratulations to the Buchholz High School Band and Aviance Visual Ensemble Web Site for winning the MusicEdMagic Best Web Site Design Award for September, 2006. To see the review of this nicely

4. Brandon Valley High School Band -July 2006
(Archived/Teacher Resources/Band Web Sites)

Our first recipient of the Best Band Web Site Award is presented to the Brandon Valley High School Band of Brandon, South Dakota as directed by Mr. Robert Goheen, Kevin Kessler, and Bruce Wildes.

5. Coppell High School Band Boosters- October 2006
(Archived/Teacher Resources/Band Web Sites)

  For the first time we are bestowing the Best Band Web Site Award on a booster organization, but when you see the web site you will understand why.  A very nicely designed site

6. How to Optimize Your School Band's Website to Recruit Top Players: Part 2
(Archived/Teacher Resources/Band Web Sites)

How to Optimize Your School Band's Website to Recruit Top Players: Part 2 This two part series is designed to give school bands an advantage by incorporating better Search Engine Optimization

7. Book Review: Band Nerds by DJ Corchin
(Teacher Resources/Music in General)

Band members are like a family, and all members of that family regardless of where or when they grew up share similar memories about the years spent with their friends and collegues in the school

8. Best Band Web Site Award Criteria
(Archived/Teacher Resources/Band Web Sites)

Every few weeks we will profile a new high school band web site that in the author's opinion is well designed, well planned, and well maintained.  The selection criteria have been chosen s

9. Chad Criswell Biography
(Static Content)

...al Iowa.  He has taught all levels of music instruction, including nine years teaching high school band before recently venturing into the land of elementary instrumental music.  He is a wel...

10. The Habits of Musicianship- Initial Reactions
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...University of Texas at Austin and James Byo of Louisiana State University regarding a new instrumental band method book that they have been working on over the last several years.  Since the c...

11. Music Games for Band and Choir Class
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

There was a time when band and choir teachers focused their rehearsals solely on the music for the next concert.  At the end of the day, the group might be able to play better, but chances were

12. The Wind Repertory Project
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

I have seen many different online wind band music information sites come and go over the years.  When I was a grad student I even made one myself as part of a class project.  Of course, it

13. Baroque Orchestra Beginnings
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

...of Mantua at one of the richest courts in Italy, Claudio Monteverdi was able to use a forty strong band of strings, flutes, cornetts (or cornetto, an early brass instrument) and trombones for his...

14. By Request: Band Web Site Resources
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...t I would post some additional links including a link to one of the books I referenced.  Visit my Band Web Site Resources article to view this new information.   ...

15. Student Incentives To Improve Practice
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

Music teachers and band directors all have the same problem, how to get their students to practice their instruments on a regular basis outside of class.  Most educators require some degree of ho

16. Gran Partita K 361
(Teacher Resources/Curriculum)

Perhaps one of the most prized works for wind band ever written, Mozart's Gran Partita (Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major), has been reprinted with stunning facsimiles of the original manuscripts from M

17. Gran Partita K 361
(Books/Conducting and Score Study)

Perhaps one of the most prized works for wind band ever written, Mozart's Gran Partita (Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major), has been reprinted with stunning facsimiles of the original manuscripts from M

18. Teaching In The Shadow Of A Legendary Teacher
(Teacher Resources/Class Management)

... regardless of their prior teaching experience. A First Year Reality Check  A new band director who takes a position vacated by a long term experienced teacher often finds h...

19. Up On The Housetop- Free Sheet Music and Lyrics
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

...aditional Christmas carol are available in both Sibelius and PDF formats.  All traditional concert band instrument parts are included:  flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, tuba, p...

20. Jingle Bells- Free Sheet Music and Lyrics
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

... available.  The sheet music provided contains the melody only.  It is arranged for beginning band students and should be playable by anyone with at least a modest understanding of their ins...

21. Arranging for the Concert Band
(Books/Conducting and Score Study)

...d assistance to guide composers and musicians toward the best practices for arranging music for concert band ensembles.!CBAuthorBot ...

22. Buying A Musical Instrument On Ebay
(Teacher Resources/Playing an Instrument)

... may seem like a great idea to a parent that wants to give their child the chance to play in the school band or orchestra yet does not want to pay premium prices for the instrument.  Flutes, Clar...

23. Music Quality of MP3 Recordings Can Have Negative Effect On Emotional Impact
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

... an alternative to MP3 and the lossless OGG format called FLAC is perhaps one of the most accurate (and bandwidth intensive) ways to save audio data.  Unfortunately OGG and FLAC are not supported...

24. Guitar Hero To Use Real Instruments?
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...p; Not because I am fascinated with the game so much as I am fascinated with the hold that it has on my band students.  Students that I can't get to practice for ten minutes on their clarinet wil...

25. Student Incentive Programs Revisited
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...rectory !     Dinner and A Movie- Blog post by Linda Granite, elementary band teacher Linda hit on a sore spot in my own teaching, the area of whether or not to u...

26. Percussion Musical Instruments
(Teacher Resources/Playing an Instrument)

... for the orchestra, film soundtracks, folk and traditional ensembles, jazz music, military and marching bands,  to pop and especially rock music. Orchestral percussion instruments include tubular...

27. Wii Music and Using Video Games In Music Class
(Teacher Resources/Computers)

...en way to engravings that can go directly from printer to publisher.  The bits and bytes of Garage Band and Reason have changed the way we work with live music both in the studio and in the class...

28. The Marching Band Handbook
(Books/Marching Band)

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29. Finale 2009 First Impressions
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...e file was incredibly easy and dozens of times easier to do than the old Finale 2008 method.  As a band director wanting to create assessment files for an entire band of instruments, my frustrati...

30. Duct Tape Lands Choir Trip Chaperones In Sticky Situation
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

Those of us who have spent many long semi-sleepless nights on band trips corraling hormonally challenged teenagers into their hotel rooms can take heart with this story.  Good old duct tape.&nb