Links/Music

http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/Resources/page11.html
Ict and Music links and ideas

http://www.tuned-in.org/
good creative ideas and projects mainly linked to compose world – subscription required for some areas.

http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/music/orchestra/contents.htm
Another excellent contribution from the Northumberland. Allows children to explore the different instruments that make up an orchestra. Ideal for use with the whiteboard – clear large images of the instruments. Select an instrument and listen to the sound it makes. Feeling brave – try the quiz!

http://www.playmusic.org/stage.html
Another virtual orchestra – this time from America. The American Symphony Orchestra website allows children to explore and learn about the different instruments. Worth a visit.

http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/music/index2.htm
From Northumberland again! An interactive resource musical activity aimed at young children. The software can be downloaded free for use in school. There are 4 activities:
• Listen to and learn the names and sounds of four percussion instruments
• Hear a sound and match it to an instrument
• Listen to a rhythm and copy it on the onscreen drum
• Hear a piece of music which uses three of four instruments and find the instrument which doesn't play

http://www.tuned-in.org/sample/alice/alldone.html
‘ Jabberwocky! develops children’s opportunities to extend their sound vocabulary through the discriminative use of ICT. This is achieved through the composition of a class soundscape based on Lewis Carroll’s famous nonsense ballad. Children use ICT to capture, recall, change and combine sounds
Where the Unit fits in:
The unit consolidates and extends QCA Unit 18: Journey into Space, reinforcing the creative use of ICT in changing, organising and controlling sounds. It also builds on children’s previous experiences of composing soundscapes in the tuned-in unit Rocket Journey.’

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pattern/pattern.html
Use the keys to make a pattern. And then press play!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/makingtracks/sequenza.shtml
Drag and drop different sounds on to a grid to create a tune. Similar to make a pattern but for older children

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/makingtracks/discover.shtml
more interactive music activities from radio 3. Check out Peer Gynt.

http://www.creatingmusic.com/
‘ Creatingmusic.com is a children's online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles. Come discover fun and easy ways to make music!’

http://forum.ngfl.gov.uk/WebX?13@23.EJFiakVlb9o.6@.eee3f1a
‘ The teaching activities included in this site are intended for key stage 2 and 3 teachers of music with limited experience of using computers. The activities are in the form of lesson plans, which are linked to the QCA schemes of work for music, and which are stand alone lessons with ideas of how to extend the work if so desired.’

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/eng/multilinks/music_astrong/interactive.htm
‘ A series of flash animations taking you through counting beats, clapping beats to the introduction of musical notation.’

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/music/piano/index.htm