Chapter 3 | Websites for Band Directors

These Internet sites provide a variety of resources to the band director and educator, from sheet music downloads to software to research.

Bibliographies of Music

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.]

http://www.iamic.net/

Wind Repertory Project

http://www.windrep.org/

History of the Wind Band/Ensemble

IBEW: Internet Bandsman’s Everything Within

http://www.ibew.co.uk

Lipscomb University Department of Music: “A History of the Wind Band,” by Stephen L. Rhodes

http://www.lipscomb.edu/windbandhistory/

Lending Libraries

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

Music Education

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://musiccreativity.org

Online Practice Record

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/

Research

David Whitwell
Whitwell Books [Publications by David Whitwell]

http://whitwellbooks.com/

“Essays on the Origins of Western Music”

http://www.whitwellessays.com

Timothy Reynish [Writings and resources on wind band/ensemble repertoire, conducting, recordings, and reference.]

http://www.timreynish.com

Sheet Music Downloads

Band Music PDF Library

http://www.bandmusicpdf.org

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

NewBandMusic

http://www.newbandmusic.com

Project Gutenberg: The Sheet Music Project

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Sheet_Music_Project

Social Networking

BDG: Band Directors Group on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/banddirectors/

Community Music E-mail List

http://community-music.info

Software and Notation Programs

Band-In-A-Box notation software from PG Music, Inc.

http://www.pgmusic.com/

Finale notation software from MakeMusic

http://www.finalemusic.com/

Hitsquad Music Software [Resource for music shareware]

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/

Musescore notation software

http://musescore.org

Noteflight: Online music notation software

http://www.noteflight.com

Sibelius notation software from Avid Technology, Inc.

http://www.sibelius.com

SmartMusic interactive music learning software from MakeMusic

http://www.smartmusic.com

Technology Institute for Music Educators

http://www.ti-me.org