Music Resources
Software
KS 1/2
Blackcat Compose www.granada-learning.com Compose clone
Compose (various versions) www.espmusic.co.uk/ Arrange sound phrases
eKeys www.dreamdirect.co.uk Software and mini keyboard
Music Ace2 www.harmonicvision.com Various music activities
Music KS1&2 (Europress) www.valuecdroms.com Tobin Musicolour activities
Music Factory www.logo.com/ Sequencer
Music Box2 www.topologika.co.uk/ Various music activities
Musical Leaps and Bounds www.granada-learning.com Music activities for Early Years
Musical Minibeasts www.granada-learning.com Rhythms are taken from minibeast names (3/4; 4/4; and 6/8 time) and children can either accept in-built pitch patterns or edit their own.
MusicMaker www.resourcekt.co.uk Various music activities to develop pre-notation skills.
Imagine www.logo.com/cat/view/imagine-primary.html
Multi-functional Logo package
Ejay (various versions) www.ejay.co.uk
Dance eJay - is popular, but you need to check out some of the tracks included before you use them! The full versions have to be paid for, but the downloadable demo versions contain enough sound samples for getting started in the classroom.
Junior Sibelius www.sibelius.com Specialist composition, cut down version of Sibelius3
KS 3+
Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Cubasis (Steinberg)
Download a free 8.6Mb version of Cubasis at www.computeractive.co.uk/download/1140543
Sibelius3 www.sibeilus.com Specialist composition, free downloadable demo available
Magix www.magix.net Various
Cakewalk Club Tracks www.etcetera.co.uk Sequencer - Special offer £9.95
Music Studio Generation MM and Music Maker Generator MM www.focusmm.co.uk
Sequencers, originally from Magix £9.99 each. Focus have other music software / resources also at £9.99 per single user CD. www.focusmm.co.uk/store/productpages/musicvideo.html
Websites
www.sfskids.org San Francisco Symphony Orchestra’s children’s interactive music pages.
www.dsokids.com Dallas version of above
www.kidsdomain.com/games/music.html Music games and activities
www.creatingmusic.com/ More music games and activities
www.kids-space.org/HPT Hop Pop Town – Early Years listening skills
www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/games/index.shtml Radio 3's music games
www.onlineclassicseducation.com eLC approved music education site
On-line Sequencers.
http://www.gridclub.com/have_a_go/music/spinngroove/
Key Stage Two pupils can work individually or in small groups to build their own compositions by placing sounds, rhythms and riffs onto the tracks of a wheel. They can make their compositions in different musical styles by entering each of five musical zones: Megamix, Classical, Chillout, Vocal and World. They can listen to and refine their compositions as they play and mix them by altering volume and panning left and right. Compositions can be saved in the Groove Gallery or Favourites menu of their browser. The game could be used within the QCA Music Units: Play it Again and Rhythmic Cycles
Other sequencer sites include:
www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/ibiza2001/fatboy_game.shtml
www.scholastic.com/animorphs/games/index.htm
www.cokemusic.com
www.musiclooper.com/
http://diannetwork.com/con/pianographique/pianographique.html
www.pianographique.com/datas/inter_uk.php
www.looplabs.com
www.force-esc.com/looplabs/looplabsv3/main.htm
www.blobprod.com/mixers/beatbox/beatboxmain.asp
Acid Express – Download – 30Mb
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/download/Step2.asp?DID=155
Other Links
www.shambles.net/playmusic/ Excellent range of links
http://users.argonet.co.uk/oundlesch/music.html from Douglas Butler
Becta's Music Inset day: http://forum.ngfl.gov.uk/
Scroll down the page to find TOP Music Inset. The 'MIDI and vocal work'
section is especially good. You'll need to download the free VanBasco
Karaoke player: www.vanbasco.com
The 'Teaching activities' section has songs for KS1 and 2 , linked to Music units. The Karaoke window highlights the words in time with the melody (click to make full screen), and a separate window displays MIDI tracks. As the children learn the song, you can turn off the instruments
playing the melody, so that just the accompaniment is playing.
Listings from another compilation - not all checked out yet
· CHICO Musical Heritage Network - multicultural resources designed primarily for K-12 curriculum development. Features lesson plans, an instrument encyclopedia, and more.· Composers in Electronic Residence - links students using MIDI to compose music in their classrooms with professional composers.
· Education at the Met - offers an innovative network of programs designed to help further music and arts education in schools and communities.
· Eyeneer Music Archives - educational archival site with information about music. Includes biographies, discographies, new releases, quick time video, and sound samples.
· Instrumental Music Resource Page - for students, parents, and teachers of instrumental music.
· Interactive Music Emporium - includes sections on how instruments work, MIDI composition, and music on the internet.
· Marlboro Music School and Festival - focuses on training musical leaders and promoting chamber music, under the direction of Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida.
· Metronome Home - resources for parents, students, and teachers in classical piano education.
· Metronome Online - features a virtual metronome students taking music lessons.
· Minnesota Orchestra European Virtual Tour - virtual tour of Europe with the Minnesota Orchestra
· Music Education Launch Site - lesson plans, games, curriculum, discussions, jokes, links etc
· Music Education Online - Music education page for bands, orchestras, choirs, general music etc
· Music is...and the value of music in education - the benefits of music in schools and community.
· Music Technology Learning Center - chat rooms and information about computers and music.
· MusicNet - includes tips from inside the music profession, and exciting games.
· Piano Education Page, The - For piano teachers, students, parents, and fans of the piano. Learn how to choose a teacher, buy and maintain a piano, practice more effectively.
· Royal Academy of Music
· Save the Music – non profit initiative intended to restore music education programs in America’s public schools; to raise awareness of the positive impact music participation has on students.
· SupportMusic.com - a public service of the Music Education Coalition supporting music education in schools and the community.
· Toward A Musical America - traces the history of music education in America in the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes bibliography.
· Tuscany Project: Voice & Song - unique international vocal workshop in Italy exploring voice and song with faculty representing the vocal, theatre and movement arts.
· VH1 Music Studio - airs commercial-free, educational programming for use in the music and cross-curricular classroom each month. Companion lesson plans can be downloaded as well.
· Voices Foundation - music education charity providing innovative singing-based training and support programmes for teachers, children and parents throughout the UK and overseas.
· WholeARTS Online Music Conservatory - online courses in music.
· Woodwind Fingering Guide - resource of fingerings for flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, saxophone, recorder, and bassoon.
· World Rhythm Training - guides to polyrhythms with MIDI soundfiles.
· Youth Music Youth Culture
Compiled by JK – DCS Dec 2003