Institutional Links

Southern Methodist University SMU offers excellent undergraduate and graduate programs through Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Cox School of Business, Meadows School of the Arts, and the School of Engineering. It offers professional studies through Dedman School of Law and Perkins School of Theology. In addition, the Division of Education and Lifelong Learning provides credit and noncredit programs for students of all ages.

Meadows School of the Arts In classrooms, on stages and in studios, the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU is committed to leading tomorrow's visual, performing and communications professionals of by emphasizing excellence in the arts today. Performing Arts at Meadows include Music, Theatre, and Dance. The Visual Arts include the Art and the Art History. The Communication Arts include Journalism, Advertising, Cinema-Television, Arts Administration and Corporate Communications/Public Affairs.

Choral Music Links

	American Choral Directors Association Founded. Founded in 1959, the American Choral Directors Association (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 position in American society.
	ChoralNet ChoralNet provides a central portal to online resources and communications for the global choral music community.
	Chorus America Chorus America serves the spectrum of professional, volunteer, children/youth, and symphony/opera choruses. To accomplish its mission, Chorus America provides information, publications, conferences, consulting, training programs, surveys, networking, and awards to support choruses in North America.
	International Federation for Choral Music The International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) was founded in 1982 for the purpose of facilitating communication and exchange between choral musicians throughout the world. Through its world and regional symposia, conducting master classes, World Youth Choir, Choral Music Database (Musica), ChoralNet website, World Choral Census, International Choral Bulletin, World Day of Choral Singing and many other projects, IFCM is fulfilling its purpose.
	Musica Virtual Choral Library A non-profit making association, Musica International, created on February 6th, 1998, is devoted to developing and propagating the use of Musica database and to transforming it progressively into a virtual multimedia library. Its founding members are the International Federation of Choral Music (IFCM) and the Centre d'Art Polyphonique d'Alsace (CAPA).

Other Music Links

	College Music Society The College Music Society is a consortium of college, conservatory, university and independent musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines of music. Its mission is to promote music teaching and learning, musical creativity and expression, research and dialogue, and diversity and interdisciplinary interaction.
	National Association for Music Education Founded in 1907 with 64 members, today's membership has grown to more than 100,000 including active music teachers, university faculty and researchers, college students preparing to be teachers, high school honor society members and MusicFriends. Formerly Music Educators National Conference, the association's name was changed in 1998 to MENC: The National Association for Music Education to better reflect its mission.
	National Association of Teachers of Singing The National Association of Teachers of Singing is the largest association of teachers of singing in the world. We have over 5,000 members, all of whom have pledged to uphold our professional Code of Ethics. We continue to encourage the highest standards of singing through excellence in teaching and the promotion of vocal education and research. Our goals include the professional advancement of the talented and the enrichment of the general public.
	Texas Music Educators Association Begun in 1920 as the Texas Band Teachers Association, the Texas Music Educators Association is an organization of nearly 9,000 school music educators united by common goals: to provide professional growth opportunities, to encourage interaction among music education professionals, to foster public support for music in schools, to offer quality musical experiences for students, to cultivate universal appreciation and lifetime involvement in music, and to develop and maintain productive working relationships with other professional organization.