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Dear Colleague:

We at the Institute for Music Research are pleased to announce our newest free online research service, the TDML ejournal. Acting on requests from our TDML conference attendees over the past several years, we have created this web site to serve as a forum for the rapid dissemination of ideas related to the application of current technologies to all facets of music learning.

The site opens with a base of nearly 150 articles and research reports taken from all seven Technological Directions in Music Learning conferences. Categories currently relate aspects of technology to:

• - General Music Education
• - Multimedia
• - Theory and Composition
• - Research
• - Distance Learning
• - Teacher Training
• - Application Development
• - Keyboard Instruction
• - Vocal Music
• - Instrumental Music
• - Technology Curricula
• - National Standards

In future months we will be adding similar scholarly contributions as they are submitted and pass through a peer review process. Although these articles will be cataloged in biannual "issues" of the journal, they will be made available immediately on the site. Subscribers will be notified within days of each new addition via brief email messages. It is our intention to significantly reduce the publication turnaround time usually associated with the traditional journals in our field.

It is also our intention to keep this site on the cutting edge of new media publication techniques. All articles currently online include both text and graphics as originally published in the hard-copy version of the conference Proceedings. However, future additions may contain other types of media as well: color graphics, animations, photographs, video, and sound. The site¹s search engine is capable of finding any word or combination of words in every article and returning relevance-weighted results within seconds.

The site already includes articles from many of the most outstanding names in our field. It is our hope that you will find these articles useful in your own research, that you will subscribe to the notification list-serve, and that you will share your work with others by contributing articles.

For the IMR,

Dave Sebald

dsebald@lonestar.utsa.edu