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Offline amanfang

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Web sites
on: August 15, 2006, 08:53:12 PM
What websites do you go to for resources/information on teaching (Pianoforum excluded)?

I'll start with a couple of my favorites:

www.pedaplus.com  - I like his teaching resources - flashcard games and whatnot.  There's also a pedagogy forum there, but it can be a lot slower as far as responses go. 

www.practicespot.com  - I enjoy the articles on here especially.  It's easy to read, and he has some different ways of approaching things.  There are also other resources on this page.

What else?
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Offline bernhard

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Re: Web sites
Reply #1 on: August 27, 2006, 01:27:58 PM
Theory and analysis:

https://www.musicteachers.co.uk/resources/
(great site with lots of resources; analysis of famous works)

https://musicweb.koncon.nl/overview/
(excellent learning site on theory and analysis methods)

https://www.musique.umontreal.ca/personnel/Belkin/bk.C/
(Alan Belkin four books on composition: Counterpoint, harmony,. Orchestration and guide to composition).

https://www-student.furman.edu/users/r/rkelley/16thcent.htm
(Study guide to 16th century counterpoint)

https://humanities.uchicago.edu/classes/zbikowski/species.html#cantus
(guidelines to species counterpoint)

https://www.listeningarts.com/music/general_theory/species/menu.htm
(Book : An introduction to species counterpoint- most excellent book with many exercises)

https://www.schenkerguide.com/species1.html
(schenkerian analyis of counterpoint)

https://www.tonalityguide.com/
(Tom Pankhurst excellent site on music theory).

https://www.omifacsimiles.com/silbiger.html
(thought provoking article in defense of facsimiles)

https://www.smu.edu/totw/toc.htm
(very good theory site with midi)

https://www.utexas.edu/courses/mus612b/fmain/fdocs/notes/augsixth.html
(augmented sixth chords – German, Italian. Neapolitan, etc. – excellent article explaining it all).

https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~krr2/musan_linx.html
(excellent site on the several kinds of analysis: melodic, harmonic, motif, etc.)

https://solomonsmusic.net/theory.htm
(Solomon´s site on theory and analysis: most excellent – several examples of analysis, including Invention no. 1)

Best wishes
Bernhard.
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Offline bernhard

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Re: Web sites
Reply #2 on: August 27, 2006, 01:32:16 PM
Teaching

https://www.musicalfossils.com/
(teaching adult students articles)

https://www.unconservatory.org/index.html
(site with lots of articles)

https://www3.telus.net/Garry_McKevitt/nervous.htm
(although primarily a flute site, there are many good articles on practice and so on, and a particularly good article on stage fright).

https://www.pianoforkids.com/PianoInstruction/lessonpage.asp?lessonnumber=1
(Dan Delaney online piano course with videos and articles)

https://www.musicforpianos.com/childrenspage.htm
(midifiles with graded music for children)

https://www.pianopedia.com/index.aspx
(piano related stuff encyclopedia)

https://www.classicsforkids.com/teachers/lessonplans/beethoven/beethoven23O.asp
(amazing site with lesson plans of the highest quality)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. (Hunter Thompson)

Offline quantum

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Re: Web sites
Reply #3 on: September 05, 2006, 08:05:56 AM
The business of piano teaching:
https://www.serve.com/marbeth/business.html

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Re: Web sites
Reply #4 on: December 18, 2006, 10:26:32 PM
keyboardcompanion.com
\for teaching
They also have a printed magazine.

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Re: Web sites
Reply #5 on: March 12, 2007, 06:17:57 AM
About the body, body movements, and injuries in piano playing:
https://www.pianomap.com
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Offline icanpiano

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Re: Web sites
Reply #6 on: October 20, 2008, 08:17:58 AM
A different way to piano music.
Instead of changing the working habbites this site is about changing the notes so it makes reading much easer forpiano student.

www.PrimaVistaNotes.com
 

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Re: Web sites
Reply #7 on: October 21, 2008, 04:19:53 AM

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Re: Web sites
Reply #8 on: April 09, 2009, 07:21:30 PM
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