Teaching Resources

Russell Robinson takes your choir on an interactive, step-by-step journey into scat and improvisation using a demonstration choir.

Dalcroze Eurhythmics in the Choral Setting DVD by David Frego and Henry Leck.

Ideas and techniques for middle school choirs and jazz choirs from a master in the field.

John Feierabend presents history, philosophy, and teaching methods and ideas for his well-known curriculum.

Lillie Feierabend, an outstanding early childhood educator, demonstrates with 1st-3rd graders the Movement Exploration section of John Feierabend’s First Steps Curriculum:

Lillie Feierabend, an outstanding early childhood educator, demonstrates with 1st-3rd graders the Arioso section of John Feierabend’s First Steps Curriculum.

The puppet Prokofiev serves as narrator in Jim Gamble's production featuring a wide variety of puppet characters portraying people, animals, and animated instruments.

Lillie demonstrates with 1st-3rd graders two sections of John Feierabend’s First Steps Curriculum: Arioso and Movement Exploration.

This series by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony features beautiful documentaries on the lives and music of composers, shot on location, with Thomas's insightful biographical and musical commentary, and full concert performances. 

This series by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony features beautiful documentaries on the lives and music of composers, shot on location, with Thomas's insightful biographical and musical commentary, and full concert performances. 

This series by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony features beautiful documentaries on the lives and music of composers, shot on location, with Thomas's insightful biographical and musical commentary, and full concert performances. 

This series by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony features beautiful documentaries on the lives and music of composers, shot on location, with Thomas's insightful biographical and musical commentary, and full concert performances. 

with Dr. Robert Abramson.

Music is for everyone, insists Sr. Lorna Zemke.  Join the joyful class to learn about her readiness tools, philosophy and more. 

Trace the history and development of Jazz in 2 30-minute videos with PDF teacher's guide.

Wynton Marsalis teaches the fundamentals with down-to earth humor, vivid examples (syncopation taught by dribbling a basketball), and a contagious love of music.

Explore the phenomena of sound. Why are some sounds musical and others only noise?

 PBS documents the migratory history of blues told by the musicians that lived it.

In the story by Jonathan London, a cat creates a sound all his own and sees how the rhyme and rhythms affect his audience.