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Compilation of resources and ideas related to graduate school entrance...

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Notes from virtual discussion Friday April 26, 2024 Conversation includes...

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“Academic Ableism and its Alternatives,” virtual talk and discussion led...

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Notes from virtual conversation Friday, March 22, 2024 Discussion involves...

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Notes from virtual conversation Friday, March 8, 2024 Discussion about...

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Submitted by: Reba Wissner In a lesson on the Second...

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  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Notes from virtual conversation Friday, February 23, 2024 Participants shared...

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Notes from virtual conversation February 9, 2024 Discussion includes common...

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Notes from virtual conversation November 17, 2023 Discussion includes benefits...

Notes from virtual conversation December 1, 2023 Discussion of the...

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Notes from virtual conversation Friday, November 3, 2023 Discussion of...

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Notes from virtual conversation Friday, October 20, 2023. Examples of...

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Notes from virtual conversation Friday, October 6, 2023. Discussion about...

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Notes from virtual conversation Friday, September 22, 2023. Presenters: Alexandria...

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Notes from virtual conversation Friday, April 28, 2023. Participants shared...

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Notes from virtual conversation Friday, March 31, 2023, hosted by...

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  • Century: multiple centuries

A YouTube playlist highlighting diverse performers of western European art...

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  • Audience: undergrad + grad
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Notes from virtual conversation Friday, March 3, 2023. Notes include...

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Notes from virtual conversation Friday, February 17, 2023. Strategies and...

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Notes from virtual conversation February 3, 2023. Techniques for engagement,...

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Notes from virtual conversation January 20, 2023. Discussion of teaching...

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A short article introducing Ideas/Connections/Extensions as a rubric for assessment,...

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Our textbook, The Oxford History of Western Music, provides a...

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  • Audience: undergrad, major
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A form for students to provide feedback on presentations given...

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Notes from virtual conversation December 2, 2022; participants shared a...

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Notes from virtual conversation November 4, 2022; includes a discussion...

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Notes from virtual conversation October 21, 2022. Threshold Concepts–What challenging...

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Notes from virtual conversation September 23, 2022. Doing SoTL (Scholarship...

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Notes from virtual conversation October 7, 2022: brainstorm of current...

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Notes from virtual conversation May 13, 2022; focused on upper...

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Notes from virtual conversation April 29, 2022; focused on what...

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Notes from virtual conversation April 1, 2022; focused on public...

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Notes from virtual conversation March 4, 2022; Divulging Positionality and...

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Notes from virtual conversation February 18, 2022; How can we...

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Notes from virtual conversation February 4, 2022 focused on the...

Notes from virtual conversation January 21, 2022: tests, quizzes, papers,...

Notes from virtual conversation December 10, 2021; led by Chris...

Notes from virtual conversation October 29, 2021; shared highlights/lowlights from...

Notes from virtual conversation October 8, 2021; focused on a...

Notes from virtual conversation September 10, 2021; focused on (1)...

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Notes from virtual conversation April 30, 2021 led by Sara...

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Notes from virtual conversation April 16, 2021, focused on anti-racist...

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Notes from virtual conversation April 2, 2021, focused on student...

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Notes from virtual conversation March 19, 2021, focused on whimsey...

Notes from virtual conversation March 5, 2021, focused on curriculum...

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Notes from virtual conversation February 18, 2021, focused on ways...

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Notes from virtual conversation February 5, 2021, focused on digital...

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Notes from the virtual conversation January 22, 2021, focused on...

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"By the end of the seventeenth century, black trumpeters and...

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  • Century: 1600-1699 (17thC)

Open source article: "My intention here is to explore some...

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  • Century: multiple centuries

"We bring you over 1000 years of Black history in...

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  • Century: multiple centuries

Open Source collection: "Pedagogies of Care: Open Resources for Student-Centered...

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"This open source searchable database is intended to provide its...

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Short videos featuring early instrument demonstrations by Piffaro, a Renaissance...

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Article: "Thirteen years later and well after Anna Magdalena’s official...

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  • Century: 1700-1799 (18thC)

Resources for Diversifying Music Theory Pedagogy: "The following resources provide...

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Schirmer Cengage Learning "In Their Own Words (Source Readings)": Antiquity...

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Short podcast (7 min) and transcript about music and the...

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  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

Edited collection: "The contributors to Negotiated Moments explore how subjectivity...

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A variety of music-related podcasts: Hearing the Pulitzers; Aria Code;...

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Edited collection: "Information Literacy in Music: An Instructor’s Companion is...

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Short explainer article about the differences between the four main...

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"It took seven years for Wang Runqing to get his...

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  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Performance Archive Database for San Francisco Opera. Browse or search...

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  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Notes from virtual conversation: “'But will they pass the exam?'...

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Article Abstract: "The repeated use of the ‘Goldberg’ Variations in...

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"BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Institute publishes articles on Bach...

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  • Century: 1700-1799 (18thC)

"Music courses contain students from a wide variety of demographic...

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Google sheet featuring links to pandemic performances: Ebun Oguntola's "2020";...

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  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

Blog: "Debunking myths and calling out lazy writing in published...

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  • Century: multiple centuries

"Featuring posts on music of the following Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese,...

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"Founded at Georgia College in 2015, Trax on the Trail...

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Video essay: "From 1925-30, British music educator Percy A. Scholes...

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  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Video essay by Tantacrul: "In this video I explore how...

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  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

Book: "Few developments in the industrial era have had a...

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  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Video: "Les Paul demonstrates the handy playback system that allows...

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  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Database with a project goal to realize "a comprehensive, authoritative...

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  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Video: "With music as with words the task of the...

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  • Century: 1500-1599 (16thC)

Video: "A demonstration by Andrew Stein Raftery, Associate Professor of...

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Video: "A traditional craft demonstrated by G. Henle Publishers. This...

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"The idea of a global music history may be traced...

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Blog post for MLA's Profession that posits pedagogy as (musical)...

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Text of a presentation titled "Queer Musical Orientalism" for the...

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  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

2019 blog post about cultural appropriation in Caroline Shaw's Partita...

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  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

2014 article in The Guardian: "Beyoncé Accused of Sampling Roma...

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Blog post in Musicology Now summarizing research on "Handel's investment...

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  • Century: 1700-1799 (18thC)

"In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to...

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  • Century: multiple centuries

"The voices of women such as Abbess Hildegard of Bingen,...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

"Musical Women in England, 1870-1914 delineates the roles women played...

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  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1800-1899 (19thC)

Resources Page: Chapter summaries, bibliography, and resources (linked websites, video,...

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  • Century: 1600-1699 (17thC)

Ongoing series of blog posts on pedagogy by musicologists: "Learning...

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Accessible video essay that draws on interdisciplinary scholarship to talk...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

"Chalkboards and projectors are familiar tools for most college faculty,...

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"Historical ethnomusicology is increasingly acknowledged as a significant emerging subfield...

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  • Audience: grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

"The ideal pocket-sized manual for undergraduate and master's students in...

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Excerpts from the 33 1/3 series, magazines, books and blogs...

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Video and excerpted transcript of conversation between Erica Scheinberg, Sara...

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Short opinion article by Diep Tran for American Theatre: "It’s...

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"How do marginalized communities across the globe use the medieval...

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  • Century: multiple centuries

Compilation of useful pronunciation resources: For example; Iowa Public Radio's...

Web publishing platform for teachers and students. Includes class management...

"Half-hour documentary on black entertainer Sam Lucas, written by Sandra...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

"With essays written by leading performer-scholars, The Clarinet offers unique...

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  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

"With its innovative multimodal approach, [Danielle Fosler-Lussier's] Music on the...

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  • Audience: undergrad, gen-ed
  • Century: multiple centuries

Mary McAteer's Action Research in Education "seeks to assert the...

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"Nota Bene is a journal of musicology developed by the...

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  • Century: multiple centuries

"This is an anthology of a different kind and at...

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  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

History of Music I (MUS 213M) provides a survey of...

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  • Audience: undergrad, major
  • Century: multiple centuries

Nancy Riley's assignment text for alternative and creative presentations of...

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Louis Epstein's "Remote Learning Syllabus" (April-May 2020); for students. Includes...

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The Black Opera Research Network "wishes to serve as a...

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Open Access Musicology is a "peer-reviewed, open-access, online, modular catalogue...

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  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

"'Beyond Tokenism' is dedicated to helping music history instructors develop...

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Podcast: "Conversations with scholars about music." Episodes run for approximately...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

Creating core-groups in the virtual classroom is an online teaching...

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"The U.S. Newspaper Directory records are derived from the library...

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  • Century: multiple centuries

Inside Higher Ed article: "Mays Imad explores seven ways professors...

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Animated graphic scores (music animation machine). Extensive catalog rooted in...

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  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

Engaging four-minute video essay about the physics of sound. Description...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

"Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast from WQXR’s...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

Interactive, multimedia modules exploring Western classical music through "composers," "musical...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

"The Josquin Research Project (JRP) changes what it means to...

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  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1500-1599 (16thC)

"The Crash Course team has produced more than 32 courses...

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  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

"The Early Music Theory website was founded by Ronald Woodley...

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Century: 1400-1499 (15thC)

"The Cantigas de Santa Maria database is designed to give...

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Century: 1200-1299 (13thC)

Introduction to Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque instruments. Pages for individual...

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

"DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) is a...

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Century: multiple centuries

"Cantus is a database of the Latin chants found in...

  • Geographic Area: Europe

"This archive contains critical editions of seventeenth-century Italian madrigals and...

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1600-1699 (17thC)

Library of Congress Digital Collections includes more than 60 music-related...

  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

"Tunes, lyrics, recordings, sheet music–all are components of popular songs,...

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  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

Short documentary by Stephen Fry about the Tristan Chord; for...

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1800-1899 (19thC)

"The LiederNet Archive is the world’s largest reference archive of...

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  • Century: multiple centuries

"The musicologist Mylène Pardoen has recreated the background sound environment...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1700-1799 (18thC)

"Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion charts a path...

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  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

Music pedagogy article in Rethinking Music (1999, reprinted 2010). Not...

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Book: "For teachers and graduate students, Briscoe (musicology, Butler U.)...

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"The Music History Classroom (2012) brings together essays written by...

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"The Art of Teaching Music (2008) takes up important aspects...

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"Music Manuscripts Online provides access to a selection of more...

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

"Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

Internet Archive; manuscript of Francis Child's English and Scottish Popular...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1800-1899 (19thC)

"The International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education...

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Mary Natvig (ed), Teaching Music History, published by Routledge in...

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Collaboratively sourced annotated bibliography with an emphasis on music history...

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Open source journal. Website includes a resources page with links...

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"The Sheet Music Consortium is a group of libraries working...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

"The EBBA team’s priority is to archive all of the...

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  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

"The New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

"Workshops and free resources for educators from José Antonio Bowen."...

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Teacher preparation for student lesson on primary sources. "A guided...

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Patrick Rael's "Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide...

  • Audience: any undergrad

"MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all...

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

"Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized...

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  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

A style guide about music writing by University of California...

"This [online] course covers the basics of the [14th c...

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1300-1399 (14thC)

"Dedicated to the idea that music commentary and criticism can...

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  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

"The world's largest freely accessible database for information on musical...

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

Audio guides for books by Alex Ross including Wagnerism, Listen...

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

"This website provides links to substantial open-access projects of use...

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

Database of online music resources, sorted by category ("General", "Band/Wind...

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

A collection of syllabi for American music history courses, sorted...

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: for instructor use
  • Century: multiple centuries

A style guide for students about musicological writing "based on...

  • Audience: general

"The “Music in New Jersey” website explores the wide diversity...

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

"This journal is published by students in the University of...

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

Syllabus for Music History I: Global Overview The emergence of...

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  • Audience: undergrad, major
  • Century: multiple centuries

Lesson Ideas for tackling Race and Contemporary Country Music by...

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: for instructor use
  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

An open-source music appreciation textbook organized thematically by uses of...

A bibliography challenging the Eurocentric canon of music theory through...

  • Geographic Area: North America

An open-access digital anthology comprising alternative press publications sourced from...

  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

This website by Jesse Stommel features answers to commonly asked...

Description of a final project featuring a 3000-word white paper...

  • Century: 1800-1899 (19thC)

Outline of the grading system called "specifications" or "specs." It...

A syllabus of collected scholarship relating to Asian American Studies....

  • Geographic Area: North America

by: L. Dee Fink A guide to the basic components...

A graphic novel laying out a history of musical borrowing,...

Students complete a T-Chart to compare different live (recorded) performances...

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Example of assignment text for student reflection and self-grading; the...

Online archive of cylinder recordings. "This searchable database features all...

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

"Document analysis is the first step in working with primary...

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in higher education for the...

Bibliography, assignment, and lesson plan suggestions for teaching the Harlem...

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: undergrad, gen-ed
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

A blog post with links to digital copies of main...

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: 1200-1299 (13thC)

Contemporary classical music blog. "Through a unique blend of music...

  • Audience: general
  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

A list of some PSG Facebook-recommended free scheduling software: Calendy...

Scholarly Research for Musicians presents a range of research methods...

  • Audience: grad

A podcast about the making and meaning of popular music....

  • Audience: general
  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

Digital scholarship exploring understudied record of early African diasporic music....

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1600-1699 (17thC)

"[O]penly–licensed online four–semester college music theory textbook. This text differs...

Perusall: free and subscription levels; allows instructors to create online...

Bibliography and assignments for introducing "students to musical voices and...

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  • Audience: undergrad + grad

The mission of the Journal of Undergraduate Research in Music...

  • Audience: undergrad, major

This site contains musical excerpts by and biographies of women...

  • Audience: undergrad, major

A digital library/bibliography of resources about Black Music History from...

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: general