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Activities to show how music can affect/set mood – Primary Level |
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Touch the reindeer noses to play Christmas Carols |
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Play a virtual keyboard - Primary/Intermediate Level |
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Play a solo or accompany a CD |
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Click on the birds to make your own tune |
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Try your composing skills on the interactive musical staff |
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Can you guess the composer from the given clues? |
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Listen to the music and guess the mystery instrument |
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Learn all about an orchestra, the music and instruments |
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The Arts presented by The Kennedy Center |
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Many podcasts, audio files and video files related to music and music performances |
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Learn about the different families and types of instruments |
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From PBS – Includes multimedia lessons including mood & music, world beat, elements of music, music imagery and more (grades 3-8) |
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Multimedia archives |
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Fantastic site that teaches and quizzes music theory from the basics on up! |
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interactive webpages where you can click on a musical instrument and here the sounds it makes. Excellent! |
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Great site by San Francisco Symphony – music education for kids |
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Site presents interactive games, an introduction to instruments, and kids can meet the musicians.
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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's magical doorway to a world of musical fun and learning for students, parents and teachers! |
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A radio show that features outstanding young classical musicians ages five to nineteen. |
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Site from the Memphis Symphony introduces kids to instruments, composers, and musicians. |
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A fun, educational guide for children to music theory, history, instruments, and composers. Features quizs, forums, and sounds. |
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Introduces children to music theory and history in a fun, entertaining way. |
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Listen and click on the instrument you hear |
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An introduction to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, |
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BBC fun guide to ‘Hall of the Mountain King’ by Edvard Greig. ‘Peer Gynt’ the hero needs your help to knock out the trolls and recognize some of the instruments. |
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Kids site all about music including activities on sound, rhythm, mood, orchestra, quizzes, etc. |
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Video resource featuring lute and archlute, treble tenor and bass viols, |
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These exhibits will let you mess around with music in ways you probably haven’t before. |
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Examples of some weird and exotic world music instruments. |
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Music, video, instruments and quiz. |
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Shakuhachi, shamisen, taiko, koto - traditional Japanese musical instruments. |
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Kids Mozart player that includes extracts from |
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Online keyboard instrument with sounds, drum rhythms and chords. |
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Use your qwerty keyboard or mouse to play this invention by Harry Partch. |
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play with rhythm |
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Click on the buttons and radio to hear the blues man sing and play. |
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Experiment with songs featuring mouth percussion, |