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Welcome to the MERLOT Music Portal, an educational resource for teaching and learning. You are invited to join MERLOT - it's free - and contribute to this growing Music community of instructors. As a MERLOT member, you can contribute learning materials and assignments, submit your own learning materials for evaluation, and get access to great ideas to help you teach online and in the classroom. Browse the MERLOT Music Collection to find the high quality online learning materials for music studies.
Bruce A. Whisler, Editor
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A TED video of Evelyn Glennie presenting her ideas on listening. This video is an excellent point of departure for student discussions on listening and the nature and purpose of music and music making. It is also an excellent model for students preparing outreach programs.
New Materials
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Brass Techniques
Textbook for undergraduate brass methods course focusing on brass instrument techniques and pedagogy. Brass Techniques...
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Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
Music Theory for the 21st–Century Classroom is an openly–licensed online college music theory textbook that is meant to...
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Join 99 Restaurants Survey @ www.My99experience.com
If you recently visited 99 Restaurants Locations share your experience that will help to make improvements and changes in...
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Rethinking Social Action through Music: The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín’s Music Schools
How can we better understand the past, present and future of Social Action through Music (SATM)? This ground-breaking...
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Classical Music: Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges
This kaleidoscopic collection reflects on the multifaceted world of classical music as it advances through the...
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Music on the Move
Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along....
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Resonances: Engaging Music in its Cultural Context
Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context offers a fresh curriculum for the college-level music appreciation...
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Music Appreciation
Each instructor of music appreciation brings unique expertise in differing genres. I encourage you to utilize this text...
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Music and the Human Experience
The authors of this text have selected music carefully in order to make your experience as positive as possible. First,...
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Acoustemologies in Contact: Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity
In this fascinating collection of essays, an international group of scholars explores the sonic consequences of...
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Welcome to the Beatles
Organized, authored, and edited over the course of five months by a class of eighteen Virginia Tech undergraduate...
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Foundations of Hip-Hop
Deejaying, emceeing, graffiti writing, and breakdancing. Together, these artistic expressions combined to form the...
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MUS 101-Elliott Jones | Lumen Learning
Welcome to Music 101. I think you’ve made a smart choice to spend some weeks studying some of the greatest music ever...
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Vocal Literature (online course)
This is a service-learning vocal music course designed mainly for music students who wish to learn and perform the genre...
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Jazz Focus • A podcast on Anchor
A focused look at some specific moments in recorded Jazz history . . Jazz Recording history and how it has both impacted...
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Open Research Library: Open Access Books
The Open Research Library (ORL) will eventually contain a scholarly collection of 20,000+ Open Access books available to...
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24 Preludes op. 28 by Frédéric Chopin
Analysis of Chopin's 24 Preludes Op. 28
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Inventions BWV 772-786 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Musical analysis of Bach's Inventions BWV 772-786
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Music Appreciation: Its Language, History and Culture
Introduction to works representative of a variety of music traditions. These include the repertoires of Western Europe...
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Fundamentals of Acoustics for Sound Engineers and Music Producers
This website provides a set of course materials (in english and german) for undergraduate (bachelor) students in sound...
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Discover the Arts, vol.1: Intro, Visual Art, Music and Dance | Unit 3: Dance
This is Volume 1 of a textbook for a Fine and Performing Arts survey, an introductory course.
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Music and the Child
Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children’s identity and...
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Tutorial Logic: vocal transformer
Video tutorial sobre la herramienta de transformación de voz de Logic
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Tutorial Praat: Introducción
Tutorial sobre las funciones elementales de Praat, herramienta de análisis de voz y del sonido.
New Members
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Cante YacobellisState University of New York System - Albany -
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Rachel SeaveySaint Mary's University
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Rose SperrazzaNortheastern Illinois University
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Alan YankeeChaffey College
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Francesca BarbieriCalifornia College
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William BraunConcordia University-Wisconsin
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Robert HutchinsonUniversity of Puget Sound
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Seth AllenSimmons College of Kentucky
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Materials by Discipline
- Aural Skill and Ear Training (38)
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- Music Appreciation (128)
- Music Education (93)
- Music History (102)
- Music Technology (61)
- Performance (112)
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- World Music (19)
Music on the Web
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'Their struggle needs to be told': Plans for Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame unveiled
Jul 24, 2021 12:30 PM PDT
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Review: Conductor Michael Morgan jazzes up guest appearance with SF Symphony
Jul 24, 2021 11:17 AM PDT
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Honoring Jack Nall, y'all: Former Cooper High band members celebrate longtime director
Jul 24, 2021 11:00 AM PDT
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Music fills the air at Jazz and Blues Festival at Fisk
Jul 24, 2021 10:48 AM PDT
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Choosing the right gig the difference between playing clubs or concerts for Guide Rock native
Jul 24, 2021 10:37 AM PDT
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The death of Mason City's Wagner-Mozart Music Hall
Jul 24, 2021 10:03 AM PDT
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Symphony violist Jeannette Wee-Yang finds life balance in Spokane
Jul 24, 2021 09:06 AM PDT
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Family, musicians remember Anita Pipes, an original member of Grande Ronde Symphony Orchestra
Jul 24, 2021 08:56 AM PDT
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Dave Matthews Band Play First Show of US Tour 2021
Jul 24, 2021 08:00 AM PDT
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Beach Music Festival returning to Aiken this August
Jul 24, 2021 07:48 AM PDT
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New musical group for youth coming to Killeen
Jul 24, 2021 07:03 AM PDT
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Rock and Roll Hall of Famers on Way to Interlochen
Jul 24, 2021 07:01 AM PDT
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Howard Skinner: An open letter to the Board of Directors of the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra
Jul 24, 2021 06:30 AM PDT
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The Oratorio Society of NJ elects new board members
Jul 24, 2021 06:18 AM PDT
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A conversation with Old Crow Medicine Show
Jul 24, 2021 06:07 AM PDT
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Mae Simpson Music plays at 2nd Street Stage
Jul 24, 2021 05:56 AM PDT
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Album Reviews: Seth Bernard, Tiny Tree, Bruce Matthews, EPCYA, Matthew Milia & more
Jul 24, 2021 04:48 AM PDT
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As An Army Chorus Member, He Didn't Carry A Weapon. His Job Was To Sing
Jul 24, 2021 04:37 AM PDT
Music on Twitter
- Music educators: Join your professional organization today and get a strong start on the coming school year!… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…3 hours ago | NAfME
- Making end-of-summer plans? Read “Beyond the School Year: Why Music Camp Makes a Difference” by NAfME member Amy K.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…9 hours ago | NAfME
- Register for @asbdaband “Legends Series” interview with composer and educator Robert Jager taking place next Wednes… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…23 hours ago | NAfME
- Recently @PMEAstate members collaborated with Music Service Learning Tuesday to repair donated musical instruments… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | NAfME
- Read “‘Nothing Better or Worse Than Being Black, Gay, and in the Band’: A Qualitative Examination of Gay Undergradu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | NAfME
- RT @ArtsReducation: It's Here! Welcome to the Arts ARE Education Podcast, where we talk to the national and state leaders who are building…1 day ago | NAfME
- New blog: “Find what makes you unique and build upon your strengths.” Read “5 Tips to Make Yourself More Marketable… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago | NAfME
- “Improvement should be the goal in life, in education, in the creation of art, in work, and in everything that we d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…2 days ago | NAfME
- In “Yay Storytime! Musical Adventures with Children’s Picture Books, Part 8,” Thomas Amoriello Jr., NAfME Council f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…2 days ago | NAfME