YouTube Amazing Music Video Series #1: GRP All-Star Big Band, Cherokee
YouTube Title:
Cherokee..Arturo Sandoval Chuck Findley and more
Date Posted on YouTube: 
November 26, 2007
YouTube Original Poster’s Comments:
“A great line-up of Arturo Sandoval, Chuck Findley, Randy …

The Olympic motto, Citius, Altius, Fortius, is a Hendiatris, or a figure of speech.   These three word phrases were typical in ancient Greece and Rome (Veni, Vidi, Vici, etc.).    Citius, Altius, and Fortius translate to …

We all can “talk the talk” when it comes to supporting Fine Arts Education among our friends, but what about really doing something about it on a local level?  Can we do anything at all?  …

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Harris Interactive released the results of their Music Education Poll mid-November of last year.  Here’s a summary:

Music education is associated with those that go on to higher education.
Music education is also associated …

I joined the International Society of Music Educators (ISME) mid-last year.  I did this to become part of a larger music education community.  One that transcends national boundaries.   As many of you know, I am …

Insert Trumpet Fanfare Here!

100 Music Education Bloggers by January of 2009

Mustech.net and the DigitalMusicEducator.wordpress.com have started a campaign to have 100 Music Educators blogging about music, education, and technology by January of 2009. We are inviting …

Since there was so much interest in my post about August Rush, I decided to interview two of my best students in the “Alternative Music” class using Pod-o-Matic, the same service that Joe and Darren …

Our we wasting a time with music advocacy and the current state of music education?  I posted a comment on Travis Weller’s site:  Composing Like Mad on his article entitled “At 3:15 p.m., class is just …

On Monday we took the Grove City College Marching Wolverine Band to one of the many festivals that we attend each year. This was not a festival that we have attended in the past. …

The following was a collaborative effort and appeared in the program of the 12th Annual Mercer Mustang Band Show on Saturday, September 8, 2007.  The article was written by Travis J. Weller (Band Director, Mercer …

I asked our current marching band president, Brad Volek, to write a little bit about his experience this year as the college band president. One thing you will notice while reading this article is …

 
MENC has posted this interesting idea/concept in the dusty hollows of their technology bulletin board/discussion forum:
Posted by MENC Staff on August 09, 2007 at 16:19:25:
Help Make Music Education Part of the National Debate
on the Future …

AN URGENT CALL: HELP ME COMPLETE THIS LIST! 
Well, I have to tell you I honestly tried to put together this list but… we’re awful as music educators getting the word out about our blogs.   There are only …

Every year I have between five and eight trumpeters play for Baccalaureate and Commencement. The trumpet fanfares add a regal mood and “air of importance” to the events that not only look and sound …

Guest Author Series #1: Why Do I Teach?
Author: Scott DiTullio
Profession: Director of Bands, Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District, PA
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I recently co-wrote an article with Dr. Susan Creasap from Morehead State University, for the NBA Journal. As …

RSS feeds are changing the web world of today.  In effect, they are making the web easier to navigate and enabling us to easily find “current” information that we are interested in. 
I have become enamoured …

I’ve been writing (blogging) for awhile now.  I have made a concerted effort to understand SEO, write great articles and provide a “killer” site here at http://mustech.net for all my visitors and friends.
It did not take …

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The DRM issue is one that is both frustrating and confusing.  James Frankel has published a number of his thoughts about this subject on his website: Music Technology in Education.  In his latest article: Copyright or Copywrong …

[tag]Copyright[/tag] can be confusing, especially for well meaning [tag]musicians[/tag] and [tag]music[/tag] [tag]educators[/tag].  It is unbelievable how quickly [tag]intellectual[/tag] [tag]property[/tag] went from being something fairly hard to duplicate and reproduce to something that can be done virtually instantaneous, …