Music Education
Assignments
Annotated Bibliographies
Annotated Bibliography
Kratus
Rose and Countryman
Hourigan
Veblen
Abramo
Bowman
Brinkman
Stavrou
Tobias
Niknafs
Veblen & Beynon
Beynon, Veblen & Elliot
Woodford
Myers
Eisner
Veblen
Zaffini
Abeles
Wordle
Series
Ideal Music Teacher Drawing
Dolloff
Teacher Interview
Apps for Music Education
Musicnotes Sheet Music Viewer (FREE)
A great organizational tool for sheet music scans, PDF’s, and access to music from musicnotes.com library of sheet music.
I would personally use this as a teacher, but if my school was cracking down on using less paper, or if my ensemble had a lot of repertoire, AND if they all had iPads, the students could all of digital copies of their music instead of printing it all out in hardcopies.
Genius Scan (FREE)
This app turns your phone into a portable scanner. It turns pictures that you take of documents into a PDF on your phone. This is a faster and more effective way to create PDF’s of sheet music or any kind of document.
I would use it to create digital copies of all kinds of sheet music and forms that I could then share digitally to my students over email or Google.
Ear Trainer ($9.99)
This app trains the musical ear with over 260 exercises including interval comparison; chord identification, chord progressions, scales and melody.
In a busy music classroom, when students are finishing up work, if some students needed something to do while I was busy working with other students, they could spend time on this app, training their musical ear. This could also be a helpful study tool or homework exercise.
Fingering ($8.49)
This app has comprehensive charts for all common brass and woodwind instruments, and includes a keyboard which can show the concert pitch.
Instead of having paper printouts of fingering charts, or having the students always ask me about a certain fingering, they can look it up using this app.
Voice Memos (Comes with all apple products)
This app is not commonly used for music, but it can be. During personal practice sessions, students can learn to use this recording device to listen to how they sound and improve upon it.
As well, as a teacher, I could have students record their technique or performance tests using this app, so that I have a recorded version I could listen to later and mark.
Metronome (FREE)
In personal practice, students can use this free app on their device rather than borrowing the classroom’s or having to purchase their own metronome.
I would encourage my students to use this in their personal practice.
Virtuoso Piano (FREE)
This app is helpful because it is good to have a keyboard always at your fingertips. This can help with multiple areas of being a musician.
It can be used to figure out simple tunes, or harmonies, or to find a starting pitch.
Garage Band ($6.99)
This app has pre-recorded loops of a collection of instruments. It is fun and easy to create compositions. This app can also be used to edit personal recordings.
I would use this program primarily as a forum for the students to edit recordings, make mash-ups or parodies. I would use the loops with beginner groups as an introduction to using the app.
Hum ($2.79)
This app uses audio recording and note taking to organize personal compositions.
I could have students explore personal or group composition writing using this app, particularly vocal songs. It would also promote the inclusion of popular music.