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A Traditional Music Box from China.
ERHU VIDEO
Ma XiouHui is a virtuoso performer of the Erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument.
A pictorial, information, video and audio guide to the many instruments of China.
Chim Da Da, a music arrangement. 
Examples of some weird and exotic world music instruments.
An unusual performance for solo gaida.
All about bagpipes with polymers, featuring bagpipe care and accessories.
You can also listen to the sound of drone pipes and the scale played on the chanter.
Centre of Greek Musical Tradition: Κέντρο Ελληνικής Μουσικής Κληρονομιάς
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Virtual session featuring the reel, jig, hornpipe, polka and waltz. Audio recordings
with notation featuring traditional UK music from Ireland, Scotland and England.
IRISH
JIGS
The ‘Road to Skye’ and ‘Elaine Jeffreys’. 
Video performance of two jigs from Pure Drop of Australia.
Lots more about the Kora with links to other pages.
Bottom of page video features a musical conversation for two koras.
Aboriginal custom, ancient law, new stories, from Central Arnem Land in Australia.
Explore Music from Scotland with Phil Cunningham.
50 videos from the BBC (only available in the UK).
Shakuhachi, shamisen, taiko, koto -
Key words for videos include sitar, tablas, sarode, raga, khatak, drone, improvisation.
Mbira, Ruan, Koto, Balafon, Erhu, Accordian, Taiko, Karnay, Shvi, Balalaika, Clarsach, Santur, Berimbau, Kayagum, Aulos, Vihuela, Ney, Bandoneon, Tanbur, Balinese Gamelan, Didjeridu, Kantele, Pipa, Guqin, Domra.
A virtual exhibition of ‘Música Latina’ with the invitation for you to
‘explore the locations of various musicians in their communities’.
MUSIC LISTENING
Kids Mozart player that includes extracts from
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Clarinet Concerto in A Major,
Variations ‘Ah, vous dirai-
Listen to an audio recording of 
'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' and follow the score.
Listen while you follow the score of the second movement from
Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No. 5 in D major.
Voluntary in D Minor by the English composer John Stanley.
The stately adagio introduction is followed by a surprisingly swinging allegro.
Performance and notes by Jeffery Hall. 
Read biographical and musical information.
Try ‘Jukebox’ listening and a music quiz about the French Suites.
Listen to MIDI arrangement of 'Wedding Day at Troldhalgen'
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony,
presents this interactive guide to the ‘Eroica’ symphony.
WATER MUSIC
Questions for Homework
1. Name the composer of "Four Sea Interludes"
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Name the instrument(s) playing the main melody
when you listen to the extract from "Ma Vlast".
3. Which famous river was Smetana
thinking about when he composed "Ma Vlast"?
4. Which instrument was used by Ravel
for the piece called "Jeux d'eau"?
Another good link from ‘Classics for Kids’
with pieces by many composers.
Interactive web radio.
Listen to the amazing 78 RPM Record Warehouse of Jan Hovers
from the days when compact disks, iPods and MP3 players did not exist.
Explore Symphony No. 9 by Antonin Dvořák
with this Listening Adventure from Carnegie Hall.
Take the A Train, The Mooche, Cabin in the Sky, It Don’t Mean a Thing, Mood Indigo,
Blow by Blow, Symphony in Black, Satin Doll and Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder.
QUIZZES and VIDEOS
Listen to Satin Doll as performed by Duke Ellington and his orchestra.
Listen to the sound of steel pans with The Samaroo Jets from Trinidad.
Warren Vache, jazz trumpeter and charter member of the Juilliard School Program for Jazz Studies, presents this jazz blues performance.
Listen and perform So What by Miles Davis.
Listen and perform Clocks by Coldplay,
the song that is well known for its repeating piano riff.
Compare versions of this tune for homework! Includes ‘Variations on a Shaker Tune’ from ‘Appalachian Spring’ by Copland and a setting by John Williams.
Mozart and Schumann are featured for these three Mix and Match games.
