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Call for Nominations: Music Educators Journal Advisory Board - 10/10/2008

  Call for Nominations: Music Educators Journal Advisory Board MENC is seeking nominations for a new group of contributors to the work of Musi ... more

An Array of Recorder Methods - 10/08/2008

Many American schoolchildren learn to play the soprano recorder as a first instrument and an introduction to music. Lois Veenhoven Guderian offers a u ... more

Copyright: The Public Domain Maze - 10/08/2008

What’s public domain (PD)? Copyrights do expire eventually. A work with an expired copyright or that never had a copyright is in the public doma ... more

Copyrights (& Wrongs): Arranging, Adapting, Transcribing - 10/01/2008

Want to simplify some music for your beginning chorus or transcribe a piano piece for flute? Arranging a copyrighted musical work requires the permiss ... more

Liberty for All: A Musical Journey - 10/01/2008

Welcome to the Liberty for All: A Musical Journey Web page! Click below to learn more about the Liberty for All enhanced CD series. Each Teacher's Gui ... more

Sacred Music: Forbidden or Essential? - 10/01/2008

Does music with a sacred text have a place in the public schools? “Eliminating sacred music is terribly insulting to the rich (and yes, histori ... more

MIOSM 7-12 Song Writing Contest - 09/26/2008

Here's an opportunity for your students to get creative for MIOSM®!  Students are to write a song based on the 2009 Music In Our Schools Mont ... more

October Teaching Music Strikes the Right Chord - 09/25/2008

The October '08 issue of Teaching Music will be in the mail soon.  Check out this lively roundup of stories when it arrives: Music for V ... more

Sing a Boatload of History with Folk Songs - 09/25/2008

When singing folk songs in class, “the songs themselves become our teaching assistants, or more properly stated, we become their assistants when ... more

Copyright: Recording and Selling Student Performances - 09/17/2008

Teachers and parent groups often want to record student performances. What does copyright law dictate? The 1976 Copyright Act set forth voluntary gui ... more

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