Sites (18)

Arts Alive Music Games
Interactive games based on composers, instruments and musical theory.

Carnegie Hall Adventures in Listening
Listen, learn and play games about classical music.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Learn all about the orchestra.

Four Part Harmony Fun
Have fun learning how to combine voices to create harmonies. Click on the mouth of each horse and listen.

Gullah Music
Discover hidden messages in the work songs enslaved Africans sang in the fields, and learn how enslaved Africans created music for their worship experience.

Interactive Guide To The Symphony
Information on music history, composers, and links to classical music web sites.

Jazz Kids
Timeline, history, information on improvisation and listen to each of the instruments in a jazz band.

Music from Across America
In this unit, students listen to a variety of popular, traditional and ethnic American music, from the evocative sounds of Native American drumming to the lively sounds of zydeco music from Louisiana.

Music from Around the World
Select a continent and learn more about the music of the continent. Then select a country to learn more about it.

New York Philharmonic Kidzone
Listen to a guided tour of Information about the orchestra, how instruments are made and games.

NPR: Present At the Creation
Information, sound files and associated links for topics like, Surf Music, The Grinch, Twighlight Zone and Star Trek.

Odd Music
All about unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments. Includes links to many sites related to unusual instruments.

PlayMusic: Interactive Orchestra
Learn about the instruments of the orchestra at the interactive site.

The Instrument Lab
View and listen to instruments of the orchestra.

The Music of Sound
Information on music in nature.

The Music of Sound - Neanderthal Jam
Information on ancient fossilised flutes made from bones.

The Wanderer
Learn about and listen to popular music from 1950-70.

Viva Zone
Compose music online, download images, read about musicians and engage in Music projects.

Lessons (6)

Discover The Nightingale
Students explore The Nightingale using the Theory of Multiple Intelligences developed by education theorist Howard Gardner.

Learning the Blues
Introduces students to the blues.Students take a virtual trip to Memphis, Tennessee and explore the history of the blues in the work of W. C. Handy and a variety of country blues singers.

Music as a Storyteller
Students learn about the ability of music to convey elements of storytelling, such as plot, tone, and characterization.

Spirituals
The students will listen to and sing some spirituals. They will identify these characteristics of spirituals: religious meaning, syncopated rhythm.

Twelve-Bar Blues
Students learn about the history of blues music and compose a melody, using a 12-bar blues chord progression.

Webquest: Time Capsule
In order to preserve this wealth of musical and cultural knowledge, you have been asked to research one decade of the twentieth-century for music, concert venues, fashions, and technology.

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Teacher Reference (5)

Classic Cat
Classic Cat is a directory with links to over 1500 free to download classical performances on the internet, sorted by composer and work.

Classical Music in the Classroom
Collection of ideas for integrating the use of classical music across the curriculum.

Drum Dojo
Drumdojo is a website dedicated to providing percussionists with free, detailed advice and information. The information is written by percussionists for percussionists.

Drum Journey
This site is dedicated to the promotion and support of community drum circles, world percussion, and the spirit and healing of drumming.

Understanding Jazz
Range of resources about Jazz and teaching ideas.

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