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NATS


The official website of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Puget Sound NATS
The website of the Puget Sound Chapter of NATS.
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Music and Recordings

Ward Music/Long & McQuade
Western Canada's largest retailer of sheet music and music reference books.

Tom Lee Music
A local chain of music stores carrying a large selection of popular music.

Canadian Music Centre
The place for information on Canadian music and musicians.

CD Sheet Music
Huge collections of sheet music on CDROM that can be printed out at home.

Classical Vocal Repertoire
A massive collection of reprints, and difficult-to-find music from Glendower Jones.

Sikora's Classical Records
Located right next door to Long & McQuade on Hastings Street and offering one of the most extensive collections of classical music recordings anywhere.

Sheet Music Plus
An outstanding source for ordering print music. By registering, teachers can earn cash-back rewards from all orders placed by themselves and their students.

CBC
The website of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with links to its various programs.

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Texts Translations and Diction

The Rec Music Foundation
A collection of classical midi files and an extensive list of song texts and translations.

The Diction Domain
Everything you want to know about diction in languages from Catalan to Klingon!

Phonetics
A multi-media site showing how the sounds of English, German and Spanish are produced.

IPA
The IPA page of Eric Armstrong's Voice and Speech Source containing audio clips of all of the sounds of the IPA.

The Lied and Art Song Text Page
An archive of nearly 18,000 texts used in classical art song, many translated into other languages.
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Vocal Health and Pedagogy

National Center for Voice and Speech
A huge site with lots of information on theTutorials and Information pages for singers.

Singers Health
Karen Wicklund's site on health issues related specifically to singers.

Voice and Speech Source
A fascinating web site from York University including animations and illustrations explaining how the voice works.

Voice Performance
Shirlee Emmons' (The Art of the Song Recital and Power Performance for Singers) site with articles on technique and performance.

Earplane
A site for practicing ear training - intervals, rhythms and chords.

MIDI-based eartraining
Another programmable site for practicing ear training - intervals, chords and scales.

Conservatory Canada
Based in London Ontario, CC has been helping people of all ages develop their proficiency, understanding and love of music since 1891.

Royal Conservatory of Music
Based in Toronto Ontario, the RCM has been a leader in Music and Arts education in Canada and around the world since 1886.

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Cool Stuff

Music Teacher's Helper
A web-based program that really is the easiest way to manage your studio!

Practicespot
Resources for music teachers and students.

Spectrograms
Easy to use spectrograms for real time voice analysis.

Bach
A musicological font that can be used in your word processing program.
Finale
The family of music notation soft ware ranging from basic free ware to fully professional music publishing and producing programs.

Music Clip Art
An extensive collection of music graphics that you can download.

Vocal Vowels
A fascinating look at how vowels can be produced with a duck call!