Resources & Favorite Links

The Links below are mostly for students in Grades 9-12. However, students in Grades 5-8 may find some of the sites to be beneficial as well. Primary and Elementary students will have specific resource links posted to their curriculum pages.

*NOTE* Some student sites have advertisements. Not every site has been verified by me. Parental guidance is recommended.

This site has recently been converted from the old one, so if you discover any broken links, please email me!

Listening

Airos - Listening

BBC Music - Listening

BBC World Archive — World Music archive, recording the life and musical traditions of countries ranging from Brazil to North Korea and Cuba to Turkmenistan.

Classical Archives - Listening

Historical listening list — Look these artist up in youtube or other listening sites

Naxos - Listening — Will only work if your school has a subscription

Smithsonian Folkways - Listening

Games

Create Music Games — These are a variety of games that allow you to compose and create music

Make Music Games — A series of games for kids to create music

Seaquence — Seaquence is an experiment in musical composition. Adopting a biological metaphor, you can create and combine musical lifeforms resulting in an organic, dynamic composition.

Theory and Composition

Basic Concepts of Music theory U of Wisconsin-Madison — Podcast series in itunes

Connexions - Basic Music Theory

Easy Music Theory

E Music Theory

E Music Theory drills

G Major music Theory site

Harmonic Series — Physics and Music and Math. Oh my!

Harmony

How to count music

Leonard Bernstein on Melody

Melody — What is melody?

Musical Fraction Bars — A bit more about melody

Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis Files — These go with the second edition of "The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis" by Clendinning and Marvin

Music Modes - Theory

Rhythm

Ricci Adams Music Theory

Romantic to 20th Century Modernism

Teoria - Music Theory

Theory flash cards

Unifix Drum Machine — All about Rhythm!