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Music links

Note: Inclusion of a site on this Music links page does not constitute endorsement of the site by Sint Sink Music; it is included for information purposes only. Sint Sink is also not responsible for information that may be found on other sites.

Organizations

Oregon Music Teachers Association (OMTA)
Affiliated with the Music Teachers' National Association. OMTA's Web Site is designed to assist teachers, students, and parents with information about our organization and our members. You'll find announcements of OMTA's upcoming activities including competitions, festivals, conventions, evaluations, and meetings for teachers and students. Parents in the Portland Area needing assistance in finding a teacher can call the Hot Line number listed in Portland District Notes.

Music Teachers National Association (MTNA)

Since 1876, Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) has existed to support music teaching and the art of music. Founded by Theodore Presser and sixty-two colleagues, MTNA is America's oldest professional music association. Today, MTNA is a nonprofit organization of 24,000 independent and collegiate music teachers committed to furthering the art of music through programs that encourage and support teaching, performance, composition and scholarly research.

Society of Composers, Inc

The Society of Composers, Inc. is a professional society dedicated to the promotion of composition, performance, understanding and dissemination of new and contemporary music. Members include composers and performers both in and outside of academia interested in addressing concerns for national and regional support of compositional activities. The organizational body of the Society is comprised of a National Council, co-chairs who represent regional activities, and the Executive Committee.

The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)

ASCAP is the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, a membership association of over 100,000 composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers. ASCAP's function is to protect the rights of its members by licensing and paying royalties for the public performances of their copyrighted works.

Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers

The Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers seeks to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and help build His kingdom by encouraging the work and witness of Christian composers of symphonic and chamber music, opera, and other serious concert works. We pray that believers will embrace our musical integrity because of our Christian witness, and that our commitment to musical excellence will allow us to bring our Christian witness to the serious art music world.

Piano and music education

The Piano Education Page
The Piano Education Page is a one-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano with over 600 pages of free information, upgraded biweekly.

The Piano Page

You can access nearly every imaginable kind of technical information about the piano, its construction, repair and maintenance, as well as links to other related information from this page.

Piano Home Page

Thoughts on piano pedagogy, business practices for teaching studios, copyrights, consumer information for parents and students, music links, and even a bit of humor.

Play a Piano: An interactive Musical Java Activity

This virtual reality Java piano lets you play the piano and have a little fun while learning the relationship between the sounds, music theory, musical scales, and the underlying math and physics of how sounds are produced and perceived. Combined with the piano is an oscilloscope and sound generator so you can create, view, and hear sounds and you can learn how the amplitude and period of the wave relates the volume and pitch of the sounds.

Music stores and publishers

Portland Music Company

Day Music Company

Sherman Clay

Sheet Music Service


Music groups

Encore
Encore is a women's vocal ensemble dedicated to bringing joy and harmony to the community through a wide variety of distinctive choral music.
Cantabile Arts Voice Studio
Singing is much more than making beautiful sound with the voice. It is sound carried on breath, and breath is the essence of life. Singing comes from within to touch our world, and in singing we connect with places deep inside ourselves.

Let's Begin with Music

Portland Kindermusik teacher Anne Clark offers classes in music and movement for children ages birth through age seven using the internationally recognized Kindermusik curriculum.

Hunk-Ta-Bunk-Ta Music, Katherine Dines

Katherine Dines is a songwriter, recording and teaching artist and a keynote presenter, who performs throughout the United States and abroad.


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