Explore a wide variety of hands-on curriculum guides for K–12 teachers and students, sheet music, worksheets, and in-class resources like audio and video.
"How can Music Represent the Spirit of a Community?" Children become Musical Explorers, meeting professional musicians and learning songs from different cultures as they reflect on their own communities and develop listening, singing, and composing skills.
Musical Explorers includes three yearlong curricula that classroom teachers and music teachers can use in any order. Lessons are aligned with the National Music Standards and New York City Blueprint Strands for music education.
Each semester ends with an interactive concert at Carnegie Hall. Sign up here.
Students in grades 3–5 explore, construct, and deconstruct
melodies from a range of colorful orchestral repertoire incorporating skills-based and creative work. Students learn about composers' musical choices and make their own while
preparing to perform in a culminating concert.
How does African American song unite people? Explore African American
song and its connections to history and current events in social studies and
Bring the music of Mexico, India, and Turkey into your classroom. Students explore freedom and structure in the work of a particular artist, and in their own lives. Each curriculum lasts one semester and works with English, social studies, and music courses.