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Music |
| Virtual Orchestra | Northumberland's Virtual Orchestra. Hear over 60 instruments play. |
| The Music House | The Music House is an activity which helps young children learn the names of four percussion instruments, listen and copy a rhythm and guess the instrument that is not playing. |
| New York Philarmonic | The New York Philharmonic Orchestra childrens site with activities and guides to musical instruments. |
| Wolly's Songs | A collection of songs composed to help young children become familiar with both language and music. |
| MIDI and vocal work | This is a Becta online area with several suggestions and resources for using MIDI material to support class singing from KS1 to KS3.The chosen example supports the title song of unit 20 of the QCA scheme. |
| Keyboards in Context | This Becta online area has several suggestions and resources for using music keyboards from KS2 to KS3 The chosen example supports unit 12 (Dragon Scales) of the QCA scheme, which concerns pentatonic music. |
| Soundwalk in Queen Elizabeth Park | The screen shows a sketch map of a public park in Vancouver.You can hear natural soundscapes recorded in any of the areas by clicking the named link beneath the map (MP3 format sound files). |
| Cyclic patterns | This Becta web page contains a lesson plan for a 60-minute module on cyclic polyrhythms in African and Indian music, in which children develop understanding and performing skills concerning rhythm, pulse, stress and syncopation. It contains links to other websites. |
| Jabberwocky! | This is sample online material from Cumbria’s Learning Support Service for music. Children use the computer’s sound recorder to manipulate their recordings of words and other sounds inspired by Lewis Carroll’s nonsensepoem ‘Jabberwocky!’. |
| BBC Radio 3 on-line software | There are currently 15 different interactive sound activities available in the Radio 3 online software collection.Only the first is shown separately.The remainder take a similar fun approach, but address different areas of musical learning across both key stages. Teachers page. |
| Sequenza | This page is the first drag-and-drop soundmaking activity taken from the Radio 3 collection (see above).Up to 10 pictograms, representing different sounds, can be selected from a very large pool.The user drags pictograms from the store on the left into the central grid and the corresponding sounds will then be played in grid order. |
| BBC Audio on demand | Some popular radio broadcasts (but not schools programmes) are available on demand during the week immediately following their broadcast. For copyright reasons, you can’t locate particular items in the programmes (but you can skip forward in five-minute chunks). |
| Playing
with Tempo and Dynamics |
The on-screen standard music notation makes this application look more complex than it is.This is actually a very simple tool for exploring dynamics (soft and loud) and tempo (slow and fast).The top left button starts and stops the music.The bottom right sliders affect the dynamics and tempo as you move the mouse over them. |
| Sketch Pad | Using a pencil tool, users can sketch a graphic (pianola roll type) score for up to four preset timbres. Sections of the score can then be selected and moved, copied, inverted, reversed or erased. Slow, medium or fast tempo can be chosen before playing the score.This program uses the computer’s MIDI sounds. |
| Pattern Builder | You start with an empty grid. Clicking on the keyboard adds a symbol representing that note to the next vacant grid cell.You can then play the pattern of cells (they lift slightly when they sound).You can also click on a cell to erase the sound in it.There is a choice between bell, dog and frog soundsets. |
| Alfy Music Mania | This American site has several areas.You access the sing-along feature by clicking the beat-box in the centre bottom of the first screen in the Music Mania area.There is a list of about 50 songs for younger children, many of which are familiar in Britain. Choose a song title and the words are then shown on the screen, synchronised to a musical backing as in karaoke. |
| Playmusic orchestra | This American site is designed for children who are interested in playing an orchestral instrument, or who have perhaps just started learning.There is basic information about the instruments and a jukebox of relevant short orchestral excerpts. |
| Audio Network | Download free music clips if you are at school connected to the SEGfL network. |