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Virtual Instruments

Xylophone (7-pitch)  

Virtual Piano  

Virtual Boomwhackers


Metronomes

Metronome 80 BPM

Online metronome  Practice at home with a steady beat!  Do you know your tempo terms?  Are you presto or largo?


Performances

STOMP - performances energized by invigorating beats using brooms, trash cans, bags, even paper!  Bet you can't sit still!

Bags           Basketballs           Breath Mints            Brooms            Donuts   

 Just Clap Your Hands          Pancakes 1                Pancakes 2

 Stuff on the Fence


Perpetuum Jazzile - Africa  YouTube video with body percussion rain sounds!


Line Rider Videos

Beethoven - Beethoven's 5th

Debussy - Claire de Lune

Miranda - We Don't Talk About Bruno

Offenbach - Can Can

Vivaldi - Summer (Storm)

Williams - Harry Potter


Interviews

What Does a Conductor Do? Interview with Sarah Hicks  Classical MPR

What's It Like to Be a Conductor? (with JoAnn Falletta)  Audio interview with acclaimed conductor Joann Falletta.


Interactive Music Websites

PBS Kids  Create your own music in various styles...hip hop, jazz, reggae! Can you make music with String Thing?

Freddie the Frog

Music Fraction Pie (**Adobe Flash required)  Add fractions to make rhythms.

Classics for Kids  (website under construction Summer 2023) Music games, instrument information and more.  Check out Composers by Country - an interactive map to learn about composers of the world! 

DSO Kids - Games and Learning  Dallas Symphony Orchestra interactive website for kids.  Can you beat Beethoven at baseball?  Answer questions about composers to score!

New York Philharmonic Kidzone (website under construction Summer 2023)  Composers' gallery, instrument storage room, composition workshop and more.  Meet the musicians of the Philharmonic in the Musicians' Lounge! 

SFS Kids  San Francisco Symphony interactive website for kids...Discover, Listen, Play, Perform, Conduct, Compose!  

Music Theory  Learn the staff, clefs and ledger lines, note duration, rest duration, measures and time signature, dots and ties, steps and accidentals.

YOUR North Carolina Symphony

North Carolina Symphony Musical Meditations  The North Carolina Symphony has partnered with North Carolina State Parks and North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources to develop a meditation tool—a series of brief musical excerpts, combined with breathtaking visuals from North Carolina landscapes. 

North Carolina Symphony Orchestra  Your North Carolina Symphony! Check out concert schedules, purchase tickets, read conductor and musician bios.