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WORLD MUSIC
DISCOVER WORLD MUSIC
Your global guide to instruments and music styles.
CHINESE MUSIC
A Traditional Music Box from China.
ERHU VIDEO
Ma XiouHui is a virtuoso performer of the Erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument.
CHINESE INSTRUMENTS
A pictorial, information, video and audio guide to the many instruments of China.
MUSIC FROM VIETNAM
Chim Da Da, a music arrangement.
BAGPIPES – FIRST GET A GOAT
Examples of some weird and exotic world music instruments.
MACEDONIAN DANCE PIECE
An unusual performance for solo gaida.
INTERACTIVE BAGPIPES
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.
LYRAVLOS
Centre of Greek Musical Tradition: Κέντρο Ελληνικής Μουσικής Κληρονομιάς
- exploring instruments, lyrics and sounds from ancient Greece.
FOLK AND ACOUSTIC SESSION
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.
KORA
Lots more about the Kora with links to other pages.
Bottom of page video features a musical conversation for two koras.
MEET THE MARIACHI
Music, video, instruments and quiz.
Explore the captivating rhythms and instruments of Mariachi music from Mexico.
DUST ECHOES
Aboriginal custom, ancient law, new stories, from Central Arnem Land in Australia.
SCOTLAND’S MUSIC
Explore Music from Scotland with Phil Cunningham.
50 videos from the BBC (only available in the UK).
JAPANESE INSTRUMENTS
Shakuhachi, shamisen, taiko, koto - traditional musical instruments from Japan.
EXPLORING INDIAN MUSIC
Key words for videos include sitar, tablas, sarode, raga, khatak, drone, improvisation.
MUSIC LISTENING
MOZART 1
Kids Mozart player that includes extracts from
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Clarinet Concerto in A Major,
Variations ‘Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman’ and Symphony 40 in G Minor.
MOZART 2
Listen to an audio recording of
'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' and follow the score.
HANDEL
Listen while you follow the score of the second movement from
Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No. 5 in D major.
STANLEY
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.
J.S. BACH
Read biographical and musical information.
Try ‘Jukebox’ listening and a music quiz about the French Suites.
GREIG
Listen to MIDI arrangement of 'Wedding Day at Troldhalgen'
BEETHOVEN
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"
2. 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"?
HEAR THE MUSIC
Another good link from ‘Classics for Kids’
with pieces by many composers.
MUSICOVERY
Interactive web radio.
RADIO NOSTALGIA
Listen to the amazing 78 RPM Record Warehouse of Jan Hovers
from the days when compact disks, ipods and MP3 players did not exist.
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
Explore Symphony No. 9 by Antonin Dvořák
with this Listening Adventure from Carnegie Hall.
MUSIC FOR PIECES OF WOOD
Explore Steve Reich’s composition of 1973 with this interactive demonstration.
This is part of a detailed presentation from Carnegie Hall.
DISCOVER WORLD MUSIC
Your global guide to instruments and music styles.
CHINESE MUSIC
A Traditional Music Box from China.
ERHU VIDEO
Ma XiouHui is a virtuoso performer of the Erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument.
CHINESE INSTRUMENTS
A pictorial, information, video and audio guide to the many instruments of China.
MUSIC FROM VIETNAM
Chim Da Da, a music arrangement.
BAGPIPES – FIRST GET A GOAT
Examples of some weird and exotic world music instruments.
MACEDONIAN DANCE PIECE
An unusual performance for solo gaida.
INTERACTIVE BAGPIPES
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.
LYRAVLOS
Centre of Greek Musical Tradition: Κέντρο Ελληνικής Μουσικής Κληρονομιάς
-
FOLK AND ACOUSTIC SESSION
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.
KORA
Lots more about the Kora with links to other pages.
Bottom of page video features a musical conversation for two koras.
MEET THE MARIACHI
Music, video, instruments and quiz.
Explore the captivating rhythms and instruments of Mariachi music from Mexico.
DUST ECHOES
Aboriginal custom, ancient law, new stories, from Central Arnem Land in Australia.
SCOTLAND’S MUSIC
Explore Music from Scotland with Phil Cunningham.
50 videos from the BBC (only available in the UK).
JAPANESE INSTRUMENTS
Shakuhachi, shamisen, taiko, koto -
EXPLORING INDIAN MUSIC
Key words for videos include sitar, tablas, sarode, raga, khatak, drone, improvisation.
MUSIC LISTENING
MOZART 1Kids Mozart player that includes extracts from
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Clarinet Concerto in A Major,
Variations ‘Ah, vous dirai-
MOZART 2
Listen to an audio recording of
'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' and follow the score.
HANDEL
Listen while you follow the score of the second movement from
Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No. 5 in D major.
STANLEY
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.
J.S. BACH
Read biographical and musical information.
Try ‘Jukebox’ listening and a music quiz about the French Suites.
GREIG
Listen to MIDI arrangement of 'Wedding Day at Troldhalgen'
BEETHOVEN
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"
2. 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"?
HEAR THE MUSIC
Another good link from ‘Classics for Kids’
with pieces by many composers.
MUSICOVERY
Interactive web radio.
RADIO NOSTALGIA
Listen to the amazing 78 RPM Record Warehouse of Jan Hovers
from the days when compact disks, ipods and MP3 players did not exist.
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
Explore Symphony No. 9 by Antonin Dvořák
with this Listening Adventure from Carnegie Hall.
MUSIC FOR PIECES OF WOOD
Explore Steve Reich’s composition of 1973 with this interactive demonstration.
This is part of a detailed presentation from Carnegie Hall.
Compare versions of this tune for homework! Includes ‘Variations on a Shaker Tune’ from ‘Appalachian Spring’ by Copland and a setting by John Williams.
Warren Vache, jazz trumpeter and charter member of the Juilliard School Program for Jazz Studies, presents this jazz blues performance.
Listen and perform Clocks by Coldplay,
the song that is well known for its repeating piano riff.
Follow the Mozart Trail links on Listen 2, then try this quiz!
Warren Vache, jazz trumpeter and charter member of the Juilliard School Program for Jazz Studies, presents this jazz blues performance.
Listen and perform Clocks by Coldplay,
the song that is well known for its repeating piano riff.
Follow the Mozart Trail links on Listen 2, then try this quiz!
