MUSIC – ANNOTATED LIST OF MUSIC RESOURCESartspop.org.au/.../userfiles/files/Music/Music-Annotated_list_of_music_resources.pdfMUSIC – ANNOTATED LIST OF MUSIC RESOURCES Yr. LEVEL

MUSIC – ANNOTATED LIST OF MUSIC RESOURCES

Yr. LEVEL WEBSITE URL and SHORT ANNOTATION

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Music Teacher's Resource Site

This site offers ready-made instructional PowerPoint resources and

worksheets, flashcards, lesson starters, games, and posters. The site

includes a popular Top Tips for Teachers page, and instructional

guides for Propellerhead's Reason software.

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Music Theory

Music Theory provides the user with an animated music theory

tutor covering staves and scales to intervals and chords. The site

includes basic modifiable visual and aural exercises, and tools such

as staff sheet creator, interval and chord calculator, and popup

keyboard. The material is downloadable for iPhone, iPod, and iPad.

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San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

The user can see and hear the instruments of the orchestra, be

introduced to the concepts of music in The Music Lab, or create

music with the Performalator or Composerizer.

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Mozart

Mozart contains all of Mozart's works online in digital score format,

many with audio recordings. The collection can be searched by KV,

category, key, and editor.

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Simplifying Music Technology

This is a site that trains teachers to use music technology either

face-to-face or online. The site covers Sibelius, Audacity, and iPads

in the classroom with free Music Technology resources e-book.

Sheet Music

Sheet Music offers an affordable and comprehensive selection of

quality sheet music publications. Orders need to be placed the term

before they are required.

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Pattern Creator

This site allows drag-and-drop style remixing fun, working with

concepts of music. It takes a minute to load and compositions can

be recorded.




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Sydney Improvised Music Association (SIMA)

This is a collection of contemporary jazz promotional material and

events, including Education Young Women's Workshop (Annual -

held in September) and Cool for School (a jazz education program).

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Ten Thousand Hours

This site contains creative improvised music, with a monthly

podcast hosted by bassist and composer James Ilgenfritz. Each

monthly instalment features an interview and performance with a

special guest.

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Audio Tool

Audio Tool is an electronic music composition tool with a 16 x 16

matrix. The user can click to add or subtract a tone, or spacebar to

stop all tones. Clicking on the Audiotool logo gives access to a more

comprehensive sample manipulation product consisting of drag-

and-drop modules with moveable controls.

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Audio Mulch

Audio Mulch provides an advanced digital, electronic, and electro-

acoustic composition tool for the serious composition student, with

a free trial version for PC or Mac.




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Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House site provides teaching resources that are

mapped to the NSW curriculum about the building and its purpose.

Program-specific support materials available can be adapted for

local use with any musical or theatrical performance.

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Sydney Symphony Orchestra

This site gives access to upcoming program information and

background material about the SSO. Educational resource packs

are available for purchase, including musical scores, recordings, and

analysis questions.

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Scootle

Scootle is a digital classroom and teacher resource for all subjects

and all levels, including cross-disciplinary learning resources. The

user can search by Year level, topic, Australian Curriculum, media

type, or category. The site also groups resources into learning paths

for courses or classes to access online.




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TES

This is a teaching resource for teachers to share and download

lesson plans, classroom resources, music activities, revision guides,

and curriculum worksheets. All subjects from early years and

primary to secondary are catalogued into topics and sub-topics.

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Jon Rose

Jon Rose is an Australian violinist and innovator in new, improvised,

and experimental music and media. This site is an example of the

resources available on artist-specific websites.

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ABC

The ABC site is a rich menagerie of both the esoteric and everyday

in Australian music making, from schoolyard chants and folk music

to the most extreme experimental sonic landscape artists.

RealPlayer required.

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Australian Music Centre (AMC) Users can access a catalogue of

Australian contemporary classical, improvisatory, and experimental

music composers and their work. The site's additional sections

include a timeline of Australian music and its influences, and

category headings to information grouped according to instrument,

genre, or orchestration.




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Tanbur Music Education Links

Tanbur has a comprehensive index of links to useful flash-based and

streamed musicianship resources, from printing staff paper and

guitar tuners to a range of selected listening examples. Also

available is a quiz-creating tool that covers a variety of genres,

including traditional music of non-western cultures.

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Deborah Smith Music

The site offers a comprehensive collection of music theory support

materials, including well-constructed worksheets with key

knowledge headers, and rhythm and co-ordination games with

notated songs. The material is based around the VCE syllabus with

links to VCE resources, but is useful for all state curricula.

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Arts Law Centre

The Arts Law Centre is the go-to website for music business legal

information in Australia. The site's contents include sample band

partnership agreements, copyright notices, and music studio

recording agreements, as well as useful checklists for organising

festivals, and music managing and publishing.




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Australia Council

The Australia Council site is a source of excellent information for

research projects at senior level. Go to the Music section under the

Resources link for recent research reports about funded arts

programs.

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ArtsMMADD

In the music section of this site, users can access resources for

younger learners. These range from elements of music posters,

graphic scores, and PDF sets of flash cards to sheet music with mp3

recordings. A free short registration and login process is required to

access free resources.

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Play for Life

Play for Life is a hub for promoting community participation in

music-making. The site is run by the Music Council of Australia,

whose campaigns include the Flame awards, music count us in,

music in communities awards, making music being well, more music

toolkit, and music in communities network.




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Australasian Computer Music Association

This is a useful site for the serious study of electronic music and

sound design research in an Australian context. This site operates

as a portal to many different artists and projects throughout

Australia.

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Australian Children's Music Foundation

The Foundation supplies information about music programs for

Indigenous and isolated schools, including music therapy, music for

hope, and a national song-writing competition.

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Association of Music Educators (Vic) Inc

Users can find links to VELS support documents and sample units of

work that are relevant across systems, and links to education, arts,

and professional associations within Australia.




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Music Education

This site allows the user to find a range of material, from online

libraries to venues and equipment. Users can browse curricula and

resources by age range, media type, and category.

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Musica Viva Australia

Musica Viva has a useful library of music samples, video footage of

performances, and documentary material about classical and

contemporary composers and their music.

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Musicological Society of Australia (MSA)

This site is for the support of senior musicology students studying

for formal examinations. The site is a subscription service for the

newsletter and the Journal of the Musicological Society of

Australia.

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Opera for Everyone

The site offers four operas with free audio recordings and teaching

manuals to download. The operas are La Traviata, Carmen, The

Barber of Seville, and Madame Butterfly.




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Orff Australian Music and Movement Education (ANCOS)

Users here can access lesson free plans to go with the CD

Australian Ways with Orff. Users can order the CD and access state

association contact details.

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Dalcroze Council of Australia

The site provides information for the user to learn about the

philosophy of music through movement in the Eurhythmics section.

Course information and publications are also available.

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John Madin's Marimbas

This site outlines a hands-on approach to school music-making

using uniquely designed instruments. Free sample music is

available.

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Kodaly Music Education Institute of Australia

Here, the user can find downloadable resources (in the Publications

section) for use in the Kodaly classroom. Teaching tips, lesson plans,

and teaching aids, plus visual reference guides for common Kodaly

teaching tools, are also provided.




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World Music Institute

Based in New York, this site is a springboard to get to know

contemporary World Music artists and to find where to access their

music.

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The Victorian Music Library

The Victorian Music Library makes available low-cost access to

sheet music loans for individuals and groups. The card catalogue

can be viewed online.

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African Drumming

The site gives for free a list of different rhythms that are briefly

notated to allow users to get started on a variety of African

rhythms. The full resource is available at cost.

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Music Education Web Portal (The University of Melbourne)

The portal here catalogues highlights of music education resources

on the web. Links to new sites are posted every month.




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Musical Futures

Musical Futures contains a rich resources section to support

teaching music informally, including the Teacher Resource Pack to

facilitate the co-construction of curriculum with students. The site

offers many resources for teachers designed by teachers, including

easy rock band charts for popular songs.

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Texas School Music Project

The site provides a list of tips and tricks to assist music teachers to

master any difficulties that arise in most music teaching contexts.

Videos of model lessons and checklists for different kinds of

rehearsals and content teaching are also available.




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