| Music Sites for Kids
SFS Kids
http://www.sfskids.org/templates/home.asp?pageid=1
This is the San Francisco Symphony kid’s website. The site includes
a Music Lab, which teaches kids to listen to the basic components of music,
from tempo to harmony. There is also a section in the lab called the Performalator
which is an online tool that enables kids to compose and play music.
New York Philharmonic Kidzone
http://www.NYPhilkids.org/main.phtml?
Students “can go” backstage, visit a dressing room or try out an instrument.
Hop Pop Town
http://www.kids-space.org/HPT/
Hop Pop Town (aimed at three to ten year olds) "encourages children
to improvise and to create musical sequences, the vital factors for them
to enjoy and learn music." It does this with the aid of interactive Shockwave
files that allow your child to create music (scales, sounds of animals,
and orchestra instrument sounds, among others). Need Shockwave and LiveAudio
Plug-in
Come Play With Us
http://www.playmusic.org/
This site, from the American Symphony Orchestra League allows one to
learn all about classical music and the instruments that make it.
With the shockwave plug-in one can also play the percussion instruments.
Back Stage has links to other music sites.
General Music Resources [top]
Worldwide Internet Music Resources
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
This site is offered as a service of the William and Gayle Cook Music
Library, Indiana University. This site contains many links including
ones to Individual Musicians (All Genres) and Popular Groups, Composers
and Compositions, and Genres and Types of Music.
Music Education Resource Links (MERL)
http://www.soundpiper.com/cpiper/merlmenu.htm
Carla Piper from the University of the Pacific School of Education
has put together this music education homepage. The site is organized
to provide links to curriculum resources for each of the nine national
content standards as presented by the National Standards for Art Education.
The Genre Sampler
http://datadragon.com/education/genres/
The genre sampler will take you on a tour of some of the more popular
musical genres by first giving a general overview and then by listing well-known
musicians and a sound sample.
Instruments
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Multimedia Instrument Encyclopedia
http://www.Lehigh.EDU/zoellner/encyclopedia.html
This site is a student project that has a collection of instruments
with sound clips. There is also a link to Guess the Instrument game.
A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/instrumt.html
Here one can find descriptions of each instrument from the 12th to
17th century including the history, construction, and how they are played.
In addition, most sections include a short bibliography on the instrument
and a sound file so one can hear the sounds the instruments makes.
Instrument Encyclopedia!
http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
This site from the University of Michigan contains pictures, history,
and descriptions of many common and uncommon instruments.
Learn about instruments
http://datadragon.com/education/instruments/
Learn about the different families and different types of instruments.
Violin Making
http://www.centrum.is/hansi/
This site contains samples of sound and pictures of violins and a sequential
description of the construction of a violin from A-Z.
America’s Shrine to Music Museum & Center for Study of the History
of Musical Instruments
http://www.usd.edu/smm/
This site is part of an academic support unit of The University of
South Dakota. The University’s renowned collections, which include more
than 6,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually
all cultures and historical periods, are among the most comprehensive anywhere.
The Virtual tours take you through some of the galleries.
Lesson Plans on Sounds
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Physical Science Lessons on Sounds Like Science
http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/physicalsciences.html
This site has several links to sites on music, science and vibrations:
Sound
http://www.iit.edu/~smile/ph9727.html
This is a classroom teacher’s notes on demonstrating different ways
to produce sound. The notes are on showing students how sound is produce
on a string instrument and a percussion instrument.
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