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. 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

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

...sic Search By Lyrics At Yahoo Music: Surf over to http://music.yahoo.com/search and type in a few words of the lyrics to the song you have forgotten the name of.  A few seconds later you w...

4. The Star Spangled Banner- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

Are you looking for the words, lyrics, or sheet music to The Star Spangled Banner? This document contains the sheet music to the National Anthem of the United States of America. You can view the sh

5. Silent Night- Free Sheet Music and Lyrics
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

... part of Silent Night, the traditional Christmas carol by Franz Grubner, which was written in 1818 using words penned by Father Joseph Mohr.  Parts are available for all common concert band instr...

6. My Country Tis of Thee- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

The words and printed music to My Country Tis of Thee for all instruments. PDF and Sibelius source files are available for all standard concert band instruments.   My Country 'Tis of

7. Sibelius 5 Review: Music Notation Software For Everyone
(Teacher Resources/Computers)

Sibelius Software recently released version 5 of their popular flagship music notation package.  Sibelius has come a long way in the past few years, and the improvements that the compan

8. Deck The Halls- Free Sheet Music and Lyrics
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

...; named Nos Galan (click here to hear a MIDI file of the original Nos Galan melody ).  The original words were quite different and had nothing to do with the Christmas season as we have come to a...

9. Alouette- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

...uba [PDF] [Sibelius] Alouette FULL SCORE [PDF] [Sibelius] The Words or Lyrics To Alouette: Additional information about the words and lyrics below can be...

10. Kum Ba Ya- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

...ionaries and eventually returned to the United States with the first line altered to reflect the Angolan words for "Come By Here." Other disparaging histories attribute the song to a group ...

11. Amazing Grace- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

...n [PDF] [Sibelius] Amazing Grace FULL SCORE [PDF] [Sibelius] The Words or Lyrics To Amazing Grace: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That sav’d a w...

12. Electronic Pet Peeves
(Archived/Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...fact that you have a higher chance of being successful if you have a domain name that shares the same keywords as the main focus of your site. For example, my site, www.musicedmagic.com is all about ...

13. The Best Personal Karaoke Players
(Teacher Resources/Computers)

There are a lot of personal Karaoke players available on the open market today. When finding a Karaoke player to purchase, it can be hard to select a player that will provide the best performance

14. Autism and Vaccines Get Their Day In Court
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...used in childhood vaccines is to blame for some types of sudden onset, regressive autism.  in other words, the kids were fine and became autistic only after being given doses of a preserved vacci...

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

...] [Sibelius] Up On The Housetop FULL SCORE [PDF] [Sibelius] The lyrics (words) to Up On The Housetop: Up on the housetop reindeer pause, Out jumps good old Santa...

16. The First Noel- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

This document contains the words and free sheet music to the traditional Christmas carol , The First Noel,  The carol dates back many centuries and was first officially published in the early 1

17. Buying Cheap Clarinet Reeds: Let The Buyer Beware
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

Students playing clarinet for the first time go through a lot of reeds.  As a result many parents want to know where to buy cheap clarinet reeds.  Unfortunately there are many places that

18. Joy To The World- Christmas Free Sheet Music and Lyrics
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

...n, bells, and voice.   Like many traditional Christmas songs and carols, the music and words to Joy to the World were composed by different people at very different times in history....

19. America The Beautiful- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

...] [Sibelius] America The Beautiful FULL SCORE [PDF] [Sibelius] The Words or Lyrics To America The Beautiful: Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, For amber ...

20. Clarinet Reeds: What To Buy
(Teacher Resources/Playing an Instrument)

Buying reeds for a clarinet is not the most simple of decisions. There are many different manufacturers of clarinet reeds, each with a different method of grading and cutting their products. Wh

21. Ode To Joy- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

...leted in 1824 as the final part of his Ninth Symphony, Ludwig Van Beethoven Ode To Joy sets to music the words of the German poet Friedrich Schiller to create one of his final and most well known wor...

22. Music Notation and The Birth of Rhythmic Notation
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

...to use specific patterns and lengths of steps. These early rhythms can be visualized in the descriptive words "stomp","step", and "hop." "Stomps," were the lo...

23. The Story of Pomp and Circumstance
(Teacher Resources/Music History)

...tance is not known as a graduation piece. In 1902 Elgar arranged Pomp and Circumstance to fit with the words of another of Elgar's pieces, the Coronation Ode. This arrangement was primarily done fo...

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

...issues that we often glide over as we attempt to jam fingerings down a students throat. In other words, the method forces a teacher to teach the most important habits of musicianship with eve...

25. Mendellsohn Wedding March- Free Sheet Music
(Teacher Resources/Sheet Music)

This article contains links to the famous Wedding March written by Felix Mendellsohn.  Parts are provided for all concert band instruments including flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, tromb

26. Hearing Loss In Children From iPods and Other Environmental Factors
(Teacher Resources/Music in General)

...hear the voices of children and women (due to the frequencies involved in their speech) and asking for words to be repeated several times. Hearing Loss Prevention: In some European coun...

27. Sibelius Announces $100 Rebate Offer
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

The music notation wars are evidently heating up as Sibelius announced today that they will begin to offer a $100 rebate on new purchases of Sibelius 5 Full Version.  Even educator version purc

28. Do I Need a Sequencer for my Keyboard?
(Teacher Resources/Playing an Instrument)

...lable. The purpose of a sequencer is to record ‘performance information’, or in other words everything that goes into making a sound, but not usually the sound itself. To playback t...

29. Teacher Travel Troubles: Leave Your Laptop At Home
(Blogs/Tales From The Podium)

...on that a laptop is the same thing as luggage and should be open to being searched (giving them your passwords, etc).  For any teacher getting ready to take an international band or choir trip (o...

30. Sibelius 5 Review: Music Notation Software
(Computer Software/Music Notation)

Sibelius Software recently released version 5 of their popular flagship music notation package.  Sibelius has come a long way in the past few years, and the improvements that the company has made in