1. Music Searches By Lyrics: Finding a song title when all you have are a few words
(Teacher Resources/Research)

...y not pull up the song title that you are hoping for.  For example, if you ran a search for Bugle Boy you would see many pages of results for Bugle Boy jeans and such before you ever found an ent...

2. Talent That Can Make A Grown Man Cry
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...ening while preparing other articles for the site.  The film is of a very brave thirteen year old boy striding out onto the British version of American Idol and in front of thousands of live audi...

3. Protecting Yourself From The Ultimate Disgrace
(Teacher Resources/Class Management)

...em is to never allow yourself to be alone with a student for any reason or for any length of time. The Boy Scouts of America have had a policy for many years that they call two-deep leadership. The po...

4. Instrument Buying On eBay
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...h a online seller. They made their bid, and about a week later the trumpet arrived. Delighted, the boy took the trumpet in to his band director for his next lesson. The band director listened to...

5. Patriotic Music: Surprising Secrets
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

...appears 'mid thunderous cheers, / The banner of the Western land.)" "Yankee Doodle Boy," George M. Cohan, 1904. "You're A Grand Old Flag," George M. Cohan, 1906...

6. Video: Assistive Technology for Band Students
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...almost no arm or hand control play euphonium in his high school band program.   For a boy named Lukas in Spokane, Washington, playing an instrument in the band was very important, but...

7. Franz Schubert- Classical Era Composer
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

...Schubert was a child prodigy, advancing through the ranks of music beginning at age eleven as a choir boy in Vienna and venturing on by age eighteen to write such masterpieces of music literature as...

8. The Music Man: The Musical and the man behind it, Meredith Willson
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

... young Ron Howard, was at first intended to be a very hyperactive character in contrast to the shy boy with a lisp that we now know. Meredith Willson penned four musicals including The Unsinkab...

9. Jesus Loves Me- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

...am Bradbury. The original lyrics were written for a Sunday School teacher to sing to a dying young boy. Nearly a hundred and fifty years after it was first sung, it is now a staple part of worl...

10. Take Me Out To The Ball Game- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

...nd strong. When the score was just two to two, Katie Casey knew what to do, Just to cheer up the boys she knew, She made the gang sing this song: CHORUS ...

11. Everything You Wanted To Know about Guitar Strings
(Teacher Resources/Playing an Instrument)

...ofessional guitarist's use and recommend is a STRING WINDER. These little devices don't cost much but, boy, they will save you so much time when you are changing your strings.   M...

12. The Japan Fullbright Exchange for Teachers
(Teacher Resources/Research)

...an the band program as the “activity instructors”. There were about 90 in the band, both boys and girls. When we got to the band hall, around 10 a.m., students were busily working with ...

13. Marching Band vs. Drum Corps
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

... drum and bugle corps can often trace their ancestry to veterans groups and youth groups such as the Boy Scouts of America dating back to the early 1900's. In the mid 1900's the school based marchi...

14. The Secret History of Drums - Parleying with the enemy
(Teacher Resources/Music in General)

... every drum, March in long procession from afar Ye silent, ye dejected men of war! Be still the hautboys, let the flute be dumb!" With acknowledgement to: Hugh Barty-King 'The Drum - A R...