Downing Middle School Diamondback Band - Flower Mound, Texas
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Band Related Links

Texas Music Educators Association - TMEA

Begun in 1920 as the Texas Band Teachers Association, the Texas Music Educators
Association is an organization of over 9,000 school music educators 
united by common goals.

University Interscholastic League - UIL

The University Interscholastic League was created by The University of Texas at Austin to provide leadership and guidance to the public school debate and athletic teachers. The purpose of the UIL is to organize and properly supervise contests that assist in preparing students for citizenship. It aims to provide healthy, character building, educational activities carried out under rules providing for good sportsmanship and fair play for all participants.

Texas Bandmasters Association - TBA

For the last half-century the members of Texas Bandmasters Association (TBA) have worked diligently to further the cause of instrumental music education in communities throughout the Lone Star State. As a professional service organization, TBA reaches out through its membership to constantly improve the quality of music education in Texas' elementary, middle and high schools, colleges and universities.

The Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic

Exists for educational purposes exclusively; to raise the standards of music education; ...to develop new teaching techniques; to disseminate to school music teachers, directors, supervisors, and others interested in music education information to assist in their professional work; ... to hold clinics, lectures, and demonstrations for the betterment of music education; and in general, to assist teachers and others interested in music education in better pursuing their profession.