MUSIC LISTENING
KIDSMOZART
♫♪ Follow the                MOZART 1  
 MOZART TRAIL ♫♪        Kids Mozart player with extracts from famous pieces.
PATRICIAGRAY
MOZART 2
 Listen to an audio recording of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' and follow the score.
♫♪  MOZART TRAIL ♫♪
ABC
HANDEL
 Features the second movement from Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No. 5 in D major.
                                                                                                                Try the quiz
            CONCERTO GROSSO  
ANOPENSPACE
J.S. BACH
 Try ‘Jukebox’ listening and a music quiz about the French Suites.
MUSICSCORES
GREIG                   
 Listen to MIDI arrangement of 'Wedding Day at Troldhalgen'
KEEPINGSCORE
BEETHOVEN
 Michael Tilson Thomas presents this interactive guide to the ‘Eroica’ symphony.
CITEDE
 LAMUSIQUE
BEETHOVEN’S 5TH
 Famous opening section of this symphony conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.
FEATURE ORCHESTRA VIDEOS
CREATIVEKIDS
 CENTRAL
WATER MUSIC
 Listen to music by Benjamin Britten, Smetana, Ravel and other famous composers.
CLASSICS
 FORKIDS
HEAR THE MUSIC
Another good link from ‘Classics for Kids’ with pieces by many composers.
MUSICOVERY
MUSICOVERY
 Interactive web radio.
RADIO NOSTALGIA
RADIO NOSTALGIA
 Listen to amazing 78 RPM recordings from bygone days.
CARNEGIEHALL
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
 Explore Symphony No. 9 by Antonin Dvořák with this Listening Adventure.
DUKE ELLINGTON
DUKE ELLINGTON MULTIMEDIA
 Take the A Train, It Don’t Mean a Thing, Mood Indigo and many more.
QUIZZES and VIDEOS
Listen to Rockin’ in Rhythm as performed by the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Listen to the sound of steel pans with The Samaroo Jets from Trinidad.
Trumpeter Warren Vache presents this jazz blues performance.
Listen and perform ‘So What’ by Miles Davis.
Listen and perform ‘Clocks’, the song with a repeating piano riff.
‘Variations on a Shaker Tune’ by Copland and a setting by John Williams.
Easy quiz  featuring Mozart’s ‘Eine Kleine Nachtmusik’.
Now try a more difficult level challenge with hidden answers!
Listen to Robert Schumann’s ‘Scenes from Childhood’ then try this quiz!
PUREDROP
IRISH JIGS
 Video performance of two jigs: The ‘Road to Skye’ and ‘Elaine Jeffreys’.
WORLD SONGS: SONGS 2
SOUND
 JUNCTION
KORA
Bottom of page video features a musical conversation for two koras.
ABC
DUST ECHOES
 Aboriginal custom, ancient law, new stories, from Central Arnem Land in Australia.
BBCSCOTLAND
SCOTLAND’S MUSIC
 Explore Music from Scotland with Phil Cunningham (videos only available in the UK).
HOMEWORK
 HELPER
JAPANESE INSTRUMENTS
 Shakuhachi, shamisen, taiko, koto - traditional musical instruments from Japan.
MORE FROM JAPAN
BBCLEARNING
 ZONE
EXPLORING INDIAN MUSIC
 Key words include sitar, tablas, sarode, raga, khatak, drone, improvisation.
CANADIAN
 MUSICCENTRE
TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS
 Listen to the sound of the Tanbur and other instruments from around the world.
CEAIH
TANBUR
 Listen to the tanbur and read a brief history of this ancient instrument.
SMITHSONIAN
MÚSICA DEL PUEBLO
 A virtual exhibition of ‘Música Latina’.
GULLAHMUSIC
THE JOURNEY
 Basic introduction to the evolution of blues, jazz, reggae & hip-hop from African roots.
AFRICAN - AMERICAN TIMELINES

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OUTPOST


CHINESE MUSIC

A Traditional Music Box from China.


MORE WORLD MUSIC: PLAY 1

NPRMUSIC


ERHU VIDEO

Ma XiouHui is a virtuoso performer of the Erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument.



HONGKONG

GOVERNMENT


CHINESE INSTRUMENTS

A pictorial, information, video and audio guide to the many instruments of China.


JASMINE FLOWER SONG & CHINESE ORCHESTRA

VISUALGUI


MUSIC FROM VIETNAM

Chim Da Da, a music arrangement.




PUREDROP


BAGPIPES – FIRST GET A GOAT

Examples of some weird and exotic world music instruments.



PUREDROP


MACEDONIAN DANCE PIECE

An unusual performance for solo gaida.



LYRAVLOS


LYRAVLOS

Exploring instruments, lyrics and sounds from ancient Greece.



BBCRADIO2


FOLK AND ACOUSTIC SESSION

Audio notebook featuring traditional UK music from Ireland, Scotland and England.

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