This module has been created by Dr. Carly Johnson, Chair of the Department of Music at Alabama State University, to supplement commercial textbooks available for college-level conducting courses.  The culturally diverse images, musical scores, and videos featured in the module provide more inclusive content, representative of students from historically marginalized groups, and aid in deconstructing racial, ethnic, and gender biases often associated with the study of Western art music and with holding leadership positions in music.  The module begins with reflective questioning, identifying and examining equity barriers in Western art music, and ends with pathway resources for underrepresented students to pursue additional study beyond the conclusion of the course. Included in this module are several activities and assessments that can be used in a variety of ways, suitable for both in-person teaching or for synchronous or asynchronous online instruction.

This lesson contains resources and activities to be used in the elementary music classroom to teach students about the instruments and their purpose in an orchestral setting.

This resource contains links and lessons to give students a basic understanding of instruments of the orchestra, how to categorize them into families and where and why they are located in the orchestral setting

Multimodal Musicianship is an open educational resource for learning music theory and ear training. The content engages concepts related to tonal harmony, suitable for a two- or three-semester music theory and ear training curriculum in a liberal arts college or other higher education setting. This collection of materials offers multiple modes of engaging content—with text, musical examples, audio examples, video content, application activities, and links to supplemental content—designed for users to learn and reinforce their knowledge according to their learning styles and needs.

This unit is based on the fourth-grade core text, Yolonda's Genius , by Carol Fenner. It intends to connect the core text to the general music curriculum and focus on responding and expressing identity through music. Students will concentrate on the responding and connecting processes from the National Core Arts Standards. Students will spend time exploring the identity of Andrew, the young boy in the novel who cannot read and barely speaks, but creates incredible music with his harmonica. Students will then create what they believe Andrew's music sounds like, and use what they learn about Andrew's creative process and the musical elements to create an original composition based on their own identity. This unit would work best if the General Music teacher works together with the fourth-grade Language Arts teacher.

This series of programs introduces middle school students to creativity and music. This installment features renowned pianist and educator Cecil Lytl.e (27 minutes)

In this six song collection, students will learn and perform New Orleans music on the recorder. Select from a solo version, solo with note names version, and/or a duet version.

- Recall historical, cultural, and prominent singers, songwriters, and performers related to New Orleans music.
- Discuss song meaning and significance to the city of New Orleans.
- Read and play New Orleans music on a recorder.
- Perform a New Orleans song on a recorder.
- Recognize music as a tool for recognizing historical figures and music traditions.

Preservation Hall Lessons is designed for all K-12 teachers or educational professionals that want to foster the culture and history of New Orleans music genres. The lessons can be integrated into general content areas like Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Science, or beginning to advanced Music Education studies.

The ancient and original skills of playing music by ear are as important as ever in the 21st Century. Play-by-Ear differs from other methods with a focus away from the individual onto facilitating others to participate. Play-by-Ear provides a common denominator to quickly engage with inclusive participation and minimal resources. Community group leaders, substitute teachers and therapists are often called upon to lead music on short notice. Participants can mix and range from total beginners at all ages to some accomplished in traditional methods. Such groups may have no scope for follow-up so require some instant gratification with whatever is available on the spot. The core Play-by-Ear method achieved an Australian Innovation Patent in 2016 and has since been extended to fulfill school and community curriculum levels. Techniques are demonstrated to cover the full AASL 21st Century skill domains, ranging from a single finger chord on a ukulele up through use of digital tools to produce a music video for a worldwide audience.

The purpose of this textbook is to provide resources about teaching low brass instruments to music educators and future music educators. The book was developed by the author as part of the open/alternative textbook initiative at Kansas State University. It Is the textbook used for the Kansas State University course Music 239-Low Brass Techniques and Materials.