Other Music Programs

On doing my research to find out what was being offered in the way of music curriculum, I found some other great resources for teaching music to kids: more music manipulatives!

• Bag O’ Blocks
• Lisa’s Music Box
• E-Z Notes – Giant Floor Staff, Giant Floor Keyboard, Plastic Silent Piano, Scale Blocks, Rhythm Blocks, Magnetic Music Board, etc.
• Suzuki Educational Instruments – Bigfoot – Giant Keyboard
• Asaph Music Co. – Music Manipulatives – handheld wooden music notes
• Musique Savante – Toss-a-Tune Tunic
• Whirligig Music Games
• Tons of Printable Music Education Materials
• Sing a New Song
• Music Note Puppet

No discussion about music manipulatives would be complete without making reference to the Fletcher Music Method.

• What is the Fletcher Music Method?
• The Fletcher Music Method Teacher’s Handbook

I have done some preliminary research concerning what other types of music education resources are currently available to homeschool families.

It makes for an interesting search. The homeschool market is certainly not saturated with interesting, high quality music education products. The offering of the larger publishers would probably be more suited to large classrooms than to individual homeschool students.

Here is a list of web sites that offer music education resources to home educators:

Music Curriculum

• ACE – 6 Pace Music Elective
• Pfeiffer House Music
• A Beka – Music Curriculum
• BJU Press – Elementary Music Curriculum
• The Gift of Music – Elements of Music
• Knauss Music Curriculum
• Theory Time
• Spotlight on Music
• Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music
• Alfred’s Essentials of Music Theory
• Alfred’s Interactive Musician
• Praise Hymn, Inc. – God Made Music
• Harmonic Vision – Music Ace/Piano Ace
• MusIQ Homeschool
• Living Music from the Heart – Waldorf Method
• Calvert School – Discoveries in Music
• Reading Music Notes with Ease
• Music Theory Course and Workshop

Piano Courses

• Learn to Play Gospel Piano
• Alfred’s Teach Yourself to Play the Piano
• The Gift of Music – Music For Our Maker Piano Course
• Learn and Master – Piano Course
• Praise Hymn, Inc. – Hymnplayer Series (piano)
• Piano for Life (3 DVDs)
• Davidsons Music – Piano Course for Christians
• Piano Wizard Academy
• Piano Mother – Yoke Wong
• Children’s Music Journey (ages 4-10) & Piano Suite (ages 10+)
• Rocket Piano
• Free Online Piano Lessons – Google

Violin Courses

• The Violin Book
• Violin Master Pro
• Online Suzuki Violin, Book 1
• Violin Tutor Pro

Guitar Courses

• Play Worship Guitar
• Alfred’s Music Made Easy! for Guitar
• Tone Note Music Method for Guitar
• Learn and Master – Guitar Course

Other Interesting Sites

• Music Educators Marketplace
• Homeschool Curriculum and Support
• Plank Road Publishing
• Music in Motion
• Friendship House
• GIA Music Education
• Waldorf Materials

My first thought upon perusing the web sites above is that the web sites themselves are fairly arcane, difficult to find, do not come up on a web search for homeschool music curriculum, and are generally non-intuitive. If you are aware of any other homeschool music resources that I have not listed here, I would love to know about them.

Thanks!