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Applying Maker Education to Music. Bharti, P. (2014, November 1).

Applying Maker Education to Music

Why is the maker movement important? [Web page]. Retrieved from Bransford, J.D., Brown , A.L., & Cocking, R.R. (Eds.). (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Audio Sauna - Online Audio Workstation. BandLab: Music Starts Here. BBC Sound Effects - Research & Education Space. Beatlab - make music together. ‘Melody’ Continue reading the main story Video For more than two decades, my home country of has had a stable democracy, as well as a thriving economy.

‘Melody’

At the same time, Chile has one of the largest wealth disparities in the world, reinforced by high tuition rates for secondary and college education. This means Chile has practically no social mobility, for how do you build a better future for yourself without education? This was a question I asked myself while making this short film, in which I explore music’s power to inspire children to escape poverty. Curanilahue is a small former coal-mining town that until recently was one of the poorest in Chile. Nearly all of the Curanilahue Orchestra’s children have pursued higher education, and most of them are the first generation in their families to graduate from a university. As this Op-Doc shows, Melody became a conductor for the new Children’s Orchestra in Chonchi, a small town on the distant southern island of Chiloé. ButtonBeats Virtual Guitar. Beatles - Here comes the sun [#U@c]Un$U$nU[bvcPE]U[bn]U[bv!

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Flat.io. Free Children's Music. Free Guitar Chords, Guitar Scales & more. GuitaristsReference.com. Free MP3 song downloads for children! Free Music Archive. The best music library on the planet!

Free Sound Effects, Royalty Free Sound Effects, Nature Sounds. Glossary of Musical Instruments by Hobgoblin Music. This list is based on information originally compiled by ARC music, and has been extensively revised, extended and developed for the internet by Pete McClelland at Hobgoblin Music.

Glossary of Musical Instruments by Hobgoblin Music

Please E-mail me if you know of instruments not listed, so I can add them. There is now a Basque language translation of this page by Jennifer Indurayne. A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | Back to Top Accordion: Free reed instrument with a keyboard originating in Saxony and Bohemia, now common throughout the world in folk music.

Various types include piano and button keyboards, and chromatic and diatonic tunings.Agogo: Two wooden or metal tubes or blocks on a wooden or metal frame, one larger and lower pitched than the other. hit with sticks.Alboka: A double clarinet of Basque Country. High Quality Royalty-Free Music & Sound Effects. História da Música (Historia de la Música - Lecciones Ilustradas) (History of Music) HitRECord.

KUSC - Creative Kids Central Home. Landfill Harmonic Amazing and Inspirational. Make music together. Let's get started making music... 1draw on the grid with your mouse to make a beatshow me2 save your track and share it with friends. show me3 out of ideas?

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Roll the dice and start remixing. show me4 explore the beatlab community show me For more tips, tutorials vidoes, and FAQs, check out our community wiki. You can use the following keyboard shortcuts while composing a track. spacebar Press to start or stop playback. commandcontrol key Hold down the commandcontrol key while drawing notes to create "loud" notes. optionalt key Hold down the optionalt key while drawing notes to create "soft" notes.

MathScienceMusic.org. Monkey Machine - online drum machine. Music and Audio Resources. Music Notation Training. National Film and Sound Archive, Australia. Home Page for the National Music Museum. Neil Young Archives. Neil Young’s online music archive is here, and it’s fucking incredible. If ever there was a time to listen to Neil Young, it’s today.

Neil Young’s online music archive is here, and it’s fucking incredible

The musician’s entire catalog is available to stream for free on his newly launched archival website. “We developed [the archive] to provide fans and historians with unprecedented access to all of my music and my entire archive in one convenient location,” writes Young in an open letter introducing the archive. The songs are organized chronologically spanning more than 50 years. Included are all of Young’s released solo titles, as well as his records made with Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, and Crazy Horse. Additionally, there are ten unreleased albums and a few unreleased films. Read more:— Neil Young’s Top 10 Songs— The 25 Best Neil Young Covers— The Very Best of Neil Young Most of the music is available in a high-resolution audio format via Young’s Xstream streaming platform.

“Full resolution is attained with no compression, unlike any other streaming service to date,” Young explains. Philharmonia Orchestra. Here, the Philharmonia's expert players guide you through the intricacies of the instruments they play.

Philharmonia Orchestra

Choose an instrument from one of the sections. The string section is the basis of the orchestra and the one consistent component of orchestras down the ages. The range of expression available and the great stamina of strings makes them a powerful tool. The Principal of the First Violin section is also the Leader of the orchestra. The wind section is traditionally known as the woodwind section even though not all the instruments are made of wood (for example the saxophone is made of metal). The traditional line-up of the brasses is: Horns, Trumpets, Trombones, Tubas. The percussion section includes any number of instruments from timpani to tubular bells and from castanettes to congas.

Purple Planet Royalty Free Music. Royalty Free Music. Royalty Free Sound Effects (FX) Library for Download. Welcome To SFSKIDS. Soundation — Make music online. About Sound Infusion. Sound Infusion is a unique learning tool that incorporates music and culture from all over the world.

About Sound Infusion

It is a free, online, interactive learning experience that blends music making and cultural awareness. Students can create their own songs from hundreds of different samples, save, share and discuss their work online with their classmates as well as students from other schools. Register as a teacher now… Sound Infusion in Action Sound Infusion runs in the user’s browser, requiring no downloads or installed software. For Education. Soundzabound - Royalty Free Music for Schools.

StaffWars. Ten of the best music apps for kids. From hammering saucepans to bellowing Justin Bieber in the bath, many children love to make a musical racket.

Ten of the best music apps for kids

Inevitably, there are apps for that too. A range of developers have been finding inventive ways for children to explore creative music-making – or the world of music more generally – on tablets and smartphones. Ten of the best examples for Android and iOS are below. Prices are correct at the time of writing, and if you tap or click on the platform names, you’ll be taken directly to their app store listings.

Toca DanceiOS (£2.49) Fresh out in March, this is the best app yet from children’s developer Toca Boca. Easy MusicAndroid / iOS (£2.99 - £3.59) Aimed at five-year-olds and up, Easy Music is an accessible introduction to music theory for children, with animated characters teaching them to recognise notes, pitch, melody and rhythm. LoopimaliOS (£2.49) Crayola DJAndroid / iOS (£2.44 - £3.99) Could your child be the next superstar DJ? Toc and RollAndroid / iOS (£1.42 - £1.49) Tinkertunes. This page is currently under construction, but you can see video of all of our instruments on our YouTube Channel .

Tinkertunes

Kinderbells the Musical Flower Garden, was an entry in the 2013 ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The eight brightly colored bells, tuned to a G Major diatonic scale, are made from the tops of condemned oxygen tanks, and are played by shaking rope handles which are attached to golf balls. The Garden Club of Cadillac, Michigan has received a grant to purchase this piece, and it will be installed this spring in that city’s sound garden In 2012, our first ArtPrize entry, The JunkYard Music Box finished in the top 50 of over 1500 art works. This human powered, automated musical sculpture was made entirely of recycled material, and attracted huge crowds.

One of our most popular instruments has been our lithophones, which are made from granite countertop. Tiny Orchestra. Tools for Teaching. A preview of Smithsonian Folkways on iTunes U. Click the image to launch iTunes on your computer. Smithsonian Folkways is committed to offering educational materials to complement the music on our site. Tools for Teaching from Smithsonian Folkways provides ideas and resources for educators to inspire their use of Folkways music from around the world.

Information about these sounds and the cultures that create them are a valuable resource to courses in history, geography, language arts, social studies, visual arts-and of course music and dance. Curricular experience, activities, streaming videos, liner notes, music samples, and other features are available for free. TwistedWave, an Audio Editor. Vienna's Vegetable Orchestra.

Super Simple Songs. Clothing Song for Kids. The Water Cycle. Over in the Meadow. The Animal Boogie. The Water Cycle Song.