Open Academy - Listening to music lecturesThis web-based drum machine toy creates drum loop and provides musical accompaniment for musicians. Your students will learn about creating steady drum beats playing with the Monkey Machine.
The music racer website, recommended by numerous music teachers, challenges students to test their knowledge of basic music skills, note names, and fingerings on wind instruments. This drill and practice game is strangely addicting, and will have your students practicing their note-reading skills in no time!
The music tech teacher website hosts literally dozens of fun games covering many topics of music including note reading skills, composers, music technology, music history, keyboarding, and more. It is an amazing, award-winning resource.
Jazz Hall of Fame - The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame was founded in 1978, and opened a museum on September 18, 1993 with a mission "to foster, encourage, educate, and cultivate a general appreciation of the medium of jazz music as a legitimate, original and distinctive art form indigenous to America.
Country Music Hall of Fame - the Museum presents the crown jewels of its vast collection to illustrate country music's story as told through the turns of two centuries.
Hip Hop Hall of Fame and Museum - music, lifestyle, culture, and graffiti art
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MFA Music - View musical instruments from around the world, ranging from ancient times to the late twentieth century. The Museum is home to over 1,100 instruments, including many European and American examples, as well as numerous pieces from Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Museum visitors can enjoy and learn about the instrument collection not only through exhibitions, but also by way of talks, live demonstrations, concerts, publications, and recorded audio samples.
IncrediboxDownloadable Desktop Theremin
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Musical Language
The Science, Language, and Art of Music
In this hour of Radiolab, we examine the line between language and music.
What is music? Why does it move us? How does the brain process sound, and why are some people better at it than others?
We re-imagine the disastrous debut of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in 1913 through the lens of modern neurology, and we meet a composer who uses computers to capture the musical DNA of dead composers in order to create new work.
http://www.radiolab.org/2007/sep/24/
What is music? Why does it move us? How does the brain process sound, and why are some people better at it than others?
We re-imagine the disastrous debut of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in 1913 through the lens of modern neurology, and we meet a composer who uses computers to capture the musical DNA of dead composers in order to create new work.
http://www.radiolab.org/2007/sep/24/