These Internet sites provide a variety of resources to the band director and educator, from sheet music downloads to software to research.
American Composers Forum, BandQuest repertoire project
http://composersforum.org/program/bandquest
Arizona Band & Orchestra Directors Association, “Standard Repertoire for Young Band” compiled by Douglas Akey
http://www.aboda.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/standardrepertoire.pdf
International Association of Music Information Centres [More than 40 nations are represented, with contact information and websites for each MIC.]
IBEW: Internet Bandsman’s Everything Within
Lipscomb University Department of Music: “A History of the Wind Band,” by Stephen L. Rhodes
http://www.lipscomb.edu/windbandhistory/
Arkansas Valley Wind & Percussion Ensemble, Inc., Lamar, CO
http://www.lending-library.com
Chatfield Brass Band & Music Lending Library, Chatfield, MN
http://chatfieldband.lib.mn.us/
The Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, Philadelphia, PA
http://libwww.library.phila.gov/collections/collectionDetail.cfm?id=14
Kahn Academy [The music section includes instrument demos, history, and repertoire information.]
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/music
Library of Congress: Music Treasures Consortium [Links to digital manuscript collections at The Juilliard School, Harvard University, the British Library, the Morgan Library and Museum, The Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, and others.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/treasures/treasures-home.html
Library of Congress: Performing Arts Reading Room
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/
Music Creativity Through Technology, by Rick Dammers and David Brian Williams [Non-traditional music program information, “dedicated to music educators working with the “Other 80%” of students in our schools.”]
http://www.onlinepracticerecord.com
United States Army Field Band: Instrument Repair Videos
http://www.armyfieldband.com/pages/education/repair.html
University of Texas at Austin, Center for Music Learning: Live Illustrations by Professionals [“Live Illustrations by Professionals is designed to afford young musicians a close-up view of artists’ embouchures in action.” Videos of instrumental technique.]
https://cml.music.utexas.edu/online-resources/lips/live-illustrations-by-professionals/
David Whitwell Whitwell Books [Publications by David Whitwell]
“Essays on the Origins of Western Music”
Timothy Reynish [Writings and resources on wind band/ensemble repertoire, conducting, recordings, and reference.]
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)/Petrucci Music Library
http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
The Library of Congress, American Memory project
Music for the Nation, American Sheet Music collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/mussmhome.html
The March King: John Philip Sousa
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/sousa/sousa-home.html
African-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883–1923
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/stocks/stocks-home.html
Project Gutenberg: The Sheet Music Project
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Sheet_Music_Project
BDG: Band Directors Group on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/banddirectors/
Band-In-A-Box notation software from PG Music, Inc.
Finale notation software from MakeMusic
Hitsquad Music Software [Resource for music shareware]
Noteflight: Online music notation software
Sibelius notation software from Avid Technology, Inc.
SmartMusic interactive music learning software from MakeMusic