Music Education Blog Carnival Is Reborn ~Submit Posts Today!
January 31, 2010 – 6:51 pm | Comments

I am officially announcing the rebirth of the Music Education Blog Carnival with this post!  The last published edition of the Music Education Blog Carnival was published on May 1st 2009.   While it was my intent …

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The Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News Weekly ~2-1-2010
February 1, 2010 – 12:05 am | Comments
The Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News Weekly ~2-1-2010

Monday’s Music Quote, Plato: “Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul”
The Morning Music News Follows Directly, Standby:
A Possible Future for iPads & Tablet PCs in the Music Classroom:  Fantastic article …

MusTech.Net’s Music Educators To Follow On Twitter List Update ~1/31/2010
January 31, 2010 – 7:59 pm | Comments
MusTech.Net’s Music Educators To Follow On Twitter List Update ~1/31/2010

Music Educators To Follow On Twitter:
Updated: 1/30/2010
This list is an important list.  This is a reviewed list of interesting and useful MUSIC EDUCATORS to follow on TWITTER.  This list was created so that a legitimate list …

The Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News Weekly ~1-18-2010
January 18, 2010 – 12:01 am | Comments
The Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News Weekly ~1-18-2010

Monday’s Music Quote, Aaron Copland: “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
The Morning Music News Follows Directly, Standby:
Sibelius 6 vs Finale 2010/Review Article: A Great review/comparison …

Quick Update From MusTech.Net
January 10, 2010 – 10:27 pm | Comments

Hello all!  I hope you all had a great New Year and your School Year is off and running!  I will be posting a more detailed note toward the end of this week when I …

Monday Morning Music Mix – Education News Everywhere ~1-4-2010
January 4, 2010 – 1:39 am | Comments
Monday Morning Music Mix – Education News Everywhere ~1-4-2010

Monday’s Music Quote, Mencius: ”If the King loves music, it is well with the land.”
The Morning Music News Follows Directly, Standby:
Apple wins appeal in earbud hearing-loss lawsuit:  ”Just because something can benefit from some improvement doesn’t …

Monday Morning Music Mix- Music Education News ~12-28-09
December 28, 2009 – 12:01 am | Comments
Monday Morning Music Mix- Music Education News ~12-28-09

Monday’s Music Quote, John Cage: “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
The Morning Music News Follows Directly, Standby:
EIS [Educational Institute of Scotland] says music tuition is ‘vital’ …

Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~12-14-09
December 14, 2009 – 6:00 am | Comments
Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~12-14-09

Monday’s Music Quote, John Williams: “So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it’s gratifying to have something you have done linger in people’s memories.”.

 
The Morning Music News …

Who Was Dominic The Donkey? -The REAL Inexactitude Behind The Christmas Donkey
December 13, 2009 – 8:13 pm | Comments
Who Was Dominic The Donkey? -The REAL Inexactitude Behind The Christmas Donkey

One of my friends posted a question on Facebook about Dominic, the Christmas Donkey, so I decided to see what I could discover about the etiology of our revered old friend… The truth is that …

Musician Style Justice- The Musician IS Mightier Than The Airline!
December 10, 2009 – 7:57 pm | Comments
Musician Style Justice- The Musician IS Mightier Than The Airline!

This story is unbelievable, yet sadly -totally “believable”.  A friend of mine sent me this story today and it details how United Airline Employees apparently destroyed Dave Carroll’s Taylor guitar and would not compensate him for …

Chad Criswell and MusicEdMagic.Com Giving Away Great Music Software Prizes
December 3, 2009 – 10:44 am | Comments
Chad Criswell and MusicEdMagic.Com Giving Away Great Music Software Prizes

This is a great time for Music Educators/Musicians to “get in” on some great music realted “freebies” …just in time for the holiday season!
As you know MusTech.Net has been giving away FREE iSchoolBand.Com subscriptions to k-12 …

Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~11-23-09
November 23, 2009 – 8:59 am | Comments
Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~11-23-09

Monday’s Music Quote, Johannes Brahms: “It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.”.
The Morning Music News Follows Directly, Standby:
Free iSchoolBand Accounts for K-12 …

Amazing YouTube Music Video Series #9 -The Talking And Speaking Piano
November 21, 2009 – 9:49 am | Comments
Amazing YouTube Music Video Series #9 -The Talking And Speaking Piano

Amazing YouTube Music Video Series #9: The Talking And Speaking Piano
Original YouTube Title:
Speaking Piano -Now with (somewhat decent) captions!
Original Date Posted on YouTube:
February 5, 2009
Original Poster’s Comments:
“A “speaking piano” reciting the Proclamation of the European …

Free iSchoolBand Accounts For K-12 Ensemble Directors -MusTech.Net And iSchoolband.com Team Up
November 17, 2009 – 5:29 pm | Comments
Free iSchoolBand Accounts For K-12 Ensemble Directors -MusTech.Net And iSchoolband.com Team Up

I have some exciting news for a limited number of ensemble directors.  iSchoolBand.Com has granted MusTech.Net a limited number of free 1 year subscriptions to their site for ensemble directors that are avid readers and supporters of …

Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~11-16-2009
November 16, 2009 – 5:00 am | Comments
Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~11-16-2009

 
Today’s Monday Morning Music Mix (grab your favorite heated beverage and “take five”):

Monday’s Music Quote, John Coltrane: “You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere”.
The Morning Music News Follows Directly, Standby:
6 Ways for Teachers to …

Dr. Pisano and the Tweet Weekly (Nov. 13):
November 6, 2009 – 7:29 pm | Comments
Dr. Pisano and the Tweet Weekly (Nov. 13):

The Weekly Twitter from Dr. Pisano:
Save $1500 and watch some pop stars at home… they’re only lip-syncing in concert…Australia outraged -rightfully so. http://bit.ly/2QDZX9
If you are a k-12 teacher that uses the magazine in-tune monthly frequently …

The Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~11-02-2009
November 2, 2009 – 10:24 am | Comments
The Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~11-02-2009

Today’s Monday Morning Music Mix (grab your favorite heated beverage and “take five”):
Monday’s Music Quote, Leo Tolstoy: “Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
The Morning Music News Follows Directly, Standby:
The Power of Music: An op-ed by …

The Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~10-26-2009
October 26, 2009 – 6:30 am | Comments
The Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~10-26-2009

Today’s Monday Morning Music Mix (grab your favorite heated beverage and “take five”):
Monday’s Music Quote, Gustav Mahler: “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to …

Microsoft 7, The Upgrade Play by Play, Expanding Files Fix, And More
October 23, 2009 – 11:58 am | Comments
Microsoft 7, The Upgrade Play by Play, Expanding Files Fix, And More

I put myself through yet another Microsoft Upgrade Process as an “early adopter”  just so that I could understand better what everyone will be experiencing when they choose to upgrade their Microsoft Products (If possible, the …

Signs That You Might Want To Re-Think Being A Teacher Or Your Current Teaching Perspective(s)
October 21, 2009 – 3:09 pm | Comments
Signs That You Might Want To Re-Think Being A Teacher Or Your Current Teaching Perspective(s)

I’ve worked with many teachers.  I’ve been taught by many teachers pre-k through 12th grade, under-graduate, graduate, and throughout my doctoral education-related degree programs.   I work with students aspiring to be teachers, student-teachers,  cooperating teachers, …

The Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~10-19-09
October 19, 2009 – 6:00 am | Comments
The Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~10-19-09

Today’s Monday Morning Music Mix (grab your favorite heated beverage and “take five”):
Monday’s Music Quote, Leonard Bernstein: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever …