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Music Resources
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Contains useful information for parents and students
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Music Skills
- A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments -
- Backstage - (from The American Symphony Orchestra League) - Learn about the different instruments and play a musical game with the four different types of instruments.
- Build your own instruments - (from WannaLearn) - Directions on how to build numerous instruments.
- Children's Music Web has resources for Kids, Parents, and Teachers, and they also have a list of performers who may be available.
- Children's Music Portal - Teacher Resources, Classical songs , Early Childhood collections .
- Classics for Kids - Many activities for students
- Creating Music - Many activities to choose from!
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra - excellent resource
- Dictionary of Music - Encyclopedia With Over 30,000 Music Terms!
- Digital Composer - Making digital music can be a matter of putting to use some basic programming skills (knowing the computer's "language") and then writing a series of commands for the computer to follow.
- Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine - This site is devoted to vintage music from the early decades of the 20th Century. All recordings have been transcribed into streaming Real Audio from the original 78 rpm discs.
- Encounter - From Silence to Symphony - Fantastic interactive site that shares information about the creation of a symphony from the instruments, to the conductor to the symphony! Listen to what each instrument sounds like.
- Essentials Of Music - Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's a site for basic information about classical music.
- Finale NotePad® 2006 - free music notation software; There is other software to download , some are free and some are fee-based.
- Finding your Singing Voice - lesson plan online
- Glossary of Musical Terms
- Good Ear - Free ear training on the net!
- K-12 Resources for Music Educators - Web Sites For Classroom Music Teachers
- Kididdle's Musical Mouseum - a place where you can find the lyrics to your favorite kids' songs, send out a request for a long lost song, or maybe help somebody else find the one they're looking for. If you know the title of the song you're looking for, the Alpha Index is the place to go.
- Indiana University School of Music Worldwide Internet Music Resources
- Instrument Encyclopedia - Resources for teachers and more. The purpose of this site is to allow you to explore the diversity and creativity of musical traditions as you browse our gallery or search for a favorite instrument.
- Instructional Materials in Music - Web sites to enhance your lessons.
- Jazz Age - Welcome to the Jazz Age Page. Listen to sound clips from the past together with people and historical events in the Jazz Age!
- Learn about instruments - Click on each instrument and hear what it sounds like!
- Marian Anderson: A Life in Song - This exhibition celebrates the artistic development and musical career of Marian Anderson. Renowned throughout the world for her extraordinary contralto voice, she is also remembered for her dignity and grace under pressure.
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- Metronimo has educational musical games such as identifying composers, instruments and musical notes.
- Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel - A Musical Dice Game for Composing a Minuet. This is cool! Give it a try.
- Music Chamber - This site was created so that people could gain an understanding and appreciation for chamber music. (aThinkQuest site)
- Music Education Online: Music Education Resource Links Page
- Music Hotlist posted by the Franklin Institute
- Music Education Center - multilinks; music appreciation to folk instrument instructions to choral and more
- Music Education - lesson plans
- Music Education Online - Main Links Directory Page [ Note: This page opens in a new window. Close the window to return to this list of Arts resources ]
- Music Lesson Plans and Webquests
- Music K-8 Magazine - online magazine
- Music Notes - An interactive online Musical Experience! - a ThinkQuest site
- Music Maker - Click on the Start button or select a song. Ignore the registration screen that pops up, select Maybe Late r to go directly to the activity. You can change instruments and add notes to the score by selecting keys on the piano keyboard.
- Music Sheet Templates - Print these off and create your own music! Bass Clef ; Bass Clef Staff ; Drum Sheet Music ; Generic Music Staff ; Large bass clef staff for young musicians ; Large generic staff for young musicians ; Large treble clef staff for young musicians ;
- MusicTheory - great site for learning theory; resources for instruction, trainers, and music utilities.
- Music Teachers Chatboard - share your ideas and learn new ones!
- New York Philharmonic Kidzone features several interesting areas; Instrument Storage Room , Composition Workshop , Composers Gallery , and the Instrument Lab
- National Association for Music Education - technology resources
- Opera Plots - Two hundred opera plots, listed by composer
- PianoMouse - Can your young students recognize the sound of specific piano notes or read music? Here is a site to try with your young students on auditory recognition along with note reading.
- PlayMusic
- Renaissance Instruments - Elizabethan instruments
- Renaissance Music - a collection of links from the About network
- Resouces in Music Technology - for music educators interested in the instructional applications of technology.
- Romantic Era A.D. 1825-1900
- Romantic Music - Romanticism is a more radical kind of expression, it seeks out the new, the curious, and the adventurous.
- San Francisco Symphony KidSite - Go to Instruments of the Orchestra to hear what any of the instruments sound like. Then stop by their Music Lab to see what you can learn.
- Sibelius Academy Music - The Sibelius Academy, a conservatory in Helsinki, provides a list of music sites that would rival a Vienna guidebook. It not only links you to jazz, blues, rock, and pop pages but covers famous composers, gospel, instruments, research, theory, and opera as well.
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