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LISTEN 3
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY
Learn how to mike up a drum kit and then play it using the QWERTY keyboard.
This very useful program is presented by the Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Wolverhampton.
Drew Malamud gives some sound advice regarding choice of
microphones and placement techniques when recording the drum kit.
MAKE A QUIZ
Invent a Mix and Match quiz for Listen 3!
ORCHESTRA 2
Concert feature video of the month and excerpts from the BBC Proms 2011.
More about the orchestra from the BBC.
YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA
Interactive guide to Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece.
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Lots more
about the orchestra, 
with excellent listening tracks,
pictures and information.
Main page for all SQA revision (students in Scotland).
BBC SITE FOR GCSE MUSIC
Useful for GCSE (England and Wales) and SQA (Scotland) homework revision.
The website of the Baroque Learning Centre. Includes lots of audio clips featuring famous composers and instruments of the Baroque period.
There's also a glossary of musical terms and download resource materials.
MUSIC LESSONS
MUSIC TUTORIALS
Online music tutorials in reading music, intervals, scales, chords, harmony, musical forms. Includes listening and quiz activities. [requires 'Scorch']
Musical extracts with scores for the study of harmony. 
Holst’s Planet Suite and Schubert’s Symphony no. 9 are among the many extracts featured here as online exercises in melodic and rhythmic dictation.
MUSIC TIMELINES
House, trance, techno, breakbeat, jungle, hip-
Each category has lots of sub-
A musical journey from field songs, folk spirituals and syncopated dance
through to neo soul, modern gospel and new jazz swing.
From the ragtime era of ‘Black Bottom Stomp’ by Jelly Roll Morton to the contemporary style of Herbie Hancock’s ‘Cantaloupe Island’ this interactive timeline illustrates the styles of each period through music, text and images.
ADVANCED LISTENING
Use your computer keyboard to play unusual instruments.
Pick an instrument and click 'Play Instrument'.
A brilliant website by Patricia Gray. Featured composers include:
George Crumb, Steve Reich, Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy,
James Romig, W.A. Mozart.
Analysis of the Sonata for Cello and Piano (1915) by Claude Debussy. This is an excellent teaching resource from Luna Nova, a group of musicians devoted to contemporary music. Project design is by Patricia Gray.
Klavierstűck X: history, description,
notation, modes de jeu, excerpts, structures.
Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne. Audio and commentary by Jeff Hall.
Barcarolla Op. 202, Mallorca. The guitarist is Thomas Sheeley.
BACH: DAS WOHLTEMPERIERTE KLAVIER
Well-
David Korevaar and Tim Smith have produced this extensive study guide to the entire collection of 48 Preludes and Fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach.
This fascinating project allows you to listen to ‘Random Round’ (composed 1912), then create your own version. As is typical with chance music there are many possible interpretations.
Listen and analyze the first movement, sonata form structure of Mozart’s Piano Concerto
in G major K.453
