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INSTRUMENT BOOK
A fun listening book with poems and instruments.
KIDS ORCHESTRA 
Guess the instrument playing.
QUIZZES and VIDEOS
A mystery instrument, with video performance by Rafael Sotomayor.
Traditional drumming from Japan with this video from Musical Futures.
Bobby McFerrin at the World Science Festival of 2009.
The importance of hooks in all styles of music.
Trombone Shorty with Jools Holland.
Peter Moore’s performance in the brass category final of 2008.
Three Mix and Match games based on the composers, music,
theory, instruments and websites found on this page.
LISTEN and PLAY
An introduction to Rimsky-
the story of the thousand and one Arabian Nights.
MIDI version with score for you to listen and play (requires ‘Scorch’).
This recording features the
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Can you find you’re way through the beautiful Ituri Forest?
Take advice from local people and the animals
and you may find a most important secret.......
THE ORCHESTRA 1
Open the door, from BBC schools, Northern Ireland.
Features the ‘Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’ by Benjamin Britten.
Select an instrument, read the information and listen.
HARP
Jolanta Trofimova-
( 2nd and 3rd movements ) by J.K.Krumpholtz.
EARLY MUSIC
Video resource featuring lute and archlute, treble tenor and bass viols,
flute, sub contra bass recorder, dulcian, sackbutt and cornett.
CIMBALON
The Cimbalon is a folk instrument found in many parts of the world.
Hungarian musician Balogh Kálmán performs using many instrumental timbres.
MUSIC LESSONS
Over 1600 free sheet music pieces, lessons and riffs for every instrument and style.
This is a good site for music theory.
Includes note finding for keyboard, guitar and brass, with listening included as ‘ear training’.
MUSIC LAB
Explore the Music Lab
EXPLORE
dot mixer, kitchen sink-
are just some of the sound experiments to explore.
Hear sound clips from schools around the world. ‘Click to Enter’ bottom of screen.
LISTEN and IMPROVISE
Listen to 'chopsticks' then improvise your own versions.
CHOPSTICKS 1 CHOPSTICKS
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SOUND EFFECTS
Sound effects organized in categories: Animals, Unreal, Industrial, Human.....
Please use the blogspot to add your comments!
25 tracks by the composer of ‘Pink Panther Theme’ and ‘Moon River’.
To hear the tracks point your mouse at HIS MUSIC, then click MUSIC SAMPLES.
W. A. MOZART
Listen to the first movement of Piano Sonata No.11 in A.
Discover winter wonderland fun with the ACTIVITY SHEET
CELLO
Natalie Clein plays Bach’s Prelude in G Major.
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