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YouTube to MP3 Converter - Fast, Free - ListenToYouTube.com. Free sheet music. All of these sheets were made by me. You can learn how I make them here. I am still learning to sight-read sheet music, so I know how helpful it can be to have the notes labeled. I make a classic and labeled version of each sheet, and each sheet is rated for difficulty. There is a high quality mp3 audio version of each sheet as well; find out how I render them from midi here. There is also a midi version to edit for your own purposes. Making Music with Clay: How to Make a Ceramic Ocarina. After the mouthpiece is attached, pick up the body and smooth away the seam. Complete this step thoroughly to minimize the risk of cracking later. Carefully insert the popsicle stick into the mouthpiece to create the windway. Care must be taken to ensure that the stick passes through the mouthpiece parallel to the top and bottom surfaces and squarely with the sides.

Slow even pressure is best. With the stick used to create the windway still in place, use another beveled-edge stick to cut the aperture, or window, on the underside of the ocarina. Next, with the beveled edge of the stick facing down, make a square cut at a 45° angle, moving toward the mouthpiece, as shown in the illustration. Withdraw the windway stick, being careful to keep the stick flat. You can fire and finish your ocarina in almost any way imaginable. This project makes a great lesson plan for K-12 teachers as it combines not only visual art and music, but also history. Welcome to Green Verdugo Pottery! Ceramic pots and clay ocarinas... A bit of information about ocarinas... An ocarina is basically large whistle that can play up to eleven notes. They are usually made of clay, as mine are. Ocarinas have been around for thousands of years, mainly in Central and South America. The Pre-Columbian peoples made clay ocarinas, whistles and flute-like instruments in many shapes such as human and animal forms with sophisticated acoustical systems.

In 1853 in Budrio, Italy, a man named Giuseppe Donati developed a ten fingerhole version which played an octave plus three notes (eleven notes). His ocarinas were shaped like an elongated egg, and he had several sizes that were played in ocarina orchestras. Ocarinas Page Two >> Page Three >> Ocarina. The ocarina /ɒkəˈriːnə/ is a wind musical instrument—a type of vessel flute.[1] Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body. It is traditionally made from clay or ceramic, but other materials are also used—such as plastic, wood, glass, metal, or bone. An example of an ocarina made of an animal horn is the medieval German gemshorn.

History[edit] Giuseppe Donati, Italian inventor of the modern ocarina, with his work. In 1998, the ocarina featured in the Nintendo 64 video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time,[4] attracting a marked increase in interest and a dramatic rise in sales.[5] It also featured later in other games in the The Legend of Zelda series.[1] Musical performance[edit] Tone production/acoustics[edit] Diagram corresponding to the steps listed How an ocarina works: These double and triple ocarinas can also play chords.

Musical notation/tabulature[edit] Types[edit] Gallery[edit] Zelda Ocarina of Time Sheet Music. Zelda Capital - Zelda Sheet Music. The following is sheet music based on The Legend of Zelda series. They were found various places, but some of them were converted by our staff member, 56k_Warning, so please email before using these elsewhere. The majority of them are in Adobe's PDF format. However, some of them are .NOT files. .NOT files are from a program called Noteworthy Composer, and you can go to this link to download a trail program that will allow you to open these thypes of files.

Click the title to view the sheet music, and right-click and choose Save Target As... to save them to your computer. You can also click the "Listen" link to listen to the sheet music played on the listed instrument. NEW! A very talented fan of Zelda Capital has taken some of our sheet music and composed a medly of Zelda, Mario, and Mega Man music. Drinkify.