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American Choral Directors Association - ACDA
Grade 1-Grade 12
ACDA "is a nonprofit music-education organization whose central purpose is to promote excellence in choral music through performance, composition, publication, research, and teaching. In addition, ACDA strives through arts advocacy to elevate choral music's...
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American Guild of English Handbell Ringers - AGEHR
Grade 9-Lifelong
This nonprofit organization is dedicated to advancing the musical art of handbells & handchimes ringing through education, community and communication. This includes the selection, arrangement, and composition of handbell music, techniques of handbell...
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American Orff-Schulwerk Association - AOSA
Preschool-Lifelong
Schulwerk, as envisioned by composer and music education visionary Carl Orff, is a way to teach and learn music and movement. The organization offers professional development, participation in a community of talented arts educators, and joyful discovery through...
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Choristers Guild
Kindergarten-Lifelong
Christian organization of directors of children's and youth choirs, Choristers Guild also publishes music and other teacher resource materials. The organization's purpose is to assist leaders in nurturing the spiritual and musical growth of children and youth,...
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Dalcroze Society of America
Kindergarten-Lifelong
The Dalcroze Society of America is a nonprofit educational organization that welcomes musicians and artist-educators who wish to study and promote the Dalcroze approach to music learning through rhythmic movement, aural training, and improvisation. Teacher...
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International Adventist Musicians Association - IAMA
Grade 9-Lifelong
A forum where music-related issues and ideas can be discussed and presented, and a source for news about what is happening in music in the Seventh-day Adventist church. This website includes links to Adventist musicians, job opportunities, music resources,...
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Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation
Kindergarten-Grade 12
The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation supports music education and its many benefits through the donation and repair of musical instruments to underserved schools, community music programs and individual students nationwide (US).
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Music Educators National Conference
Kindergarten-Lifelong
The Music Educators National Conference (MENC) is the official parent organization for music educators. Through MENC teachers have access to resources such as lesson plans for band, orchestra, choral, and general music settings, early childhood music resources,...
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Organization of American Kodaly Educators
Preschool-Lifelong
OAKE was founded in 1973 to promote Kodaly's concept of Music for Everyone through the improvement of music education in schools. The organization publishes and distributes a variety of material including collections of music for children, bibliographies,...
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School Music Matters
Preschool-Grade 12
A Music Education Advocacy Resource Center: "We believe that children can and do benefit immensely from exposure to music instruction in schools. Statistics bear that out: Music students score better on the SAT, perform better in math, and miss fewer...
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The National Association of Music Education - MENC
Grade 1-Grade 12
MENC serves to advance music education by encouraging the study and making of music by all. The MENC website includes excellent published, online and materials resources for US music educators, including band, chorus, collegiate, general music, orchestra,...
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The National Association of Teachers of Singing
Tertiary-Lifelong
This is the official website for The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) online, a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging the highest standards of singing through excellence in teaching and the promotion of vocal education and research....
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Zoltan Kodaly Pedagogical Institute of Music
Tertiary-Lifelong
The Zoltan Kodaly Institute in Kecskemet, Hungary, provides training for musicians according to Kodaly's music pedagogical concept both in theory and in practice. Since 1975 the Kodaly Institute has offered in-depth summer courses for music pedagogues and...
