Music

[|http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/gameboard.htm]go down the left side to "The Arts Games" and you find music instrument lingo and music what's my name?

Music Centre - Grades 1 - 12 - permalink The sections include "Listening Room," "Sound Library," "Downloads," "Links," "Virtual Keyboard," "Ask an Expert," and "Mixing Studio." Students can listen to music, submit music mixes, play the virtual keyboard and even ask questions of a music expert. Be prepared for British spelling differences. In the Classroom: First, plug in speakers or headphones and turn up the sound! Share the virtual keyboard to teach basic music concepts on an interactive whiteboard without any REAL instruments. Assign students to create music mixes on laptops or lab computers using the downloadable software they offer (requires the ability to install software). For a less-technological challenge, use the Sound Library for students to hear specific types of instruments. For your 15 minutes of fame, record your school group playing copyright-free, original compositions for upload and sharing in the Listening Room.

http://www.magicbubblemusic.com/Songs4Kids.htm' R. Chartand's Pedagonet site offers this music researchportal. There is a long list of resources here for music studies from lists of composers to today's recording artists and bands.

http://www.musiclopedia.com/ http://www.educationworld.com/awards/2006/r1006-09.shtml

http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/musictheory/index.html [|http://www.mrvansclass.com/]' http://www.songsforteaching.com/' http://www.knowitall.org/artopia/music/artcritic/closerlook/index.html'

Musical Mysteries is another good site from BBC Schools. It has a variety of games and activities to help learn music and sounds. It doesn't actually have audio of how to say the simple words that describe the sounds, but there's no shortage of sounds to describe. I've placed it at the bottom of the Music and Art category of the my English Themes for Beginners and Early Intermediate page. While you're there, you might want to check out quite a few other neat links to English language development activities related to the arts.

http://mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=84 The New York Philharmonic for Kids is a wonderful interact website. Here is the link: http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml

http://www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us/schools/locke.es/favoritesites.htm http://www.dsokids.com/2001/rooms/musicroom.asp -- Dallas Symphony http://www.sfskids.org/templates/splash.asp' -- San Francisco Symphony http://www.exploratorium.edu/music/exhibits/dotmixer/index.html');|http://www.exploratorium.edu/music/exhibits/dotmixer/index.html]] -- science of music http://www.findsounds.com/types.html -- sounds

http://www.shambles.net/music/

http://www.childrensmusic.org/ http://www.perry.k12.ia.us/SCIBA/Links/Education.HTM http://www.gamequarium.com/music.htm http://library.thinkquest.org/C001468F/home.htm http://www.sfskids.org/templates/home.asp?pageid=1 http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/music/k-12music/

http://pbskids.org/africa/piano/piano.html

http://www.kidsbookshelf.com/gsfk/instruments.asp