Chris Rigby's useful links for Music Teachers in Sefton

Sefton Music Service Website Syjo Bootle High Intranet Microsite
The Standards Site: Music at key stage 3 Music Secondary Resources
Standards Site- music at key stage 3 QCA | Curriculum Online - Music
Nat Curr in Action - Music Home Page Music Teachers UK AQA GCSE Music Specification
Cover Lessons in Music Chalkface About Music Welcome to the Edition Peters website

Chalkface Project

Broadoak School: Music: Home Page

Friends School Music Dept

Rounds for voices or instruments

Lesson Tutor : Index of Music lesson plans, worksheets, puzzles ...

Musical Instrument Posters - Music Poster, Picture, Print, Decor

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San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Interactive Kids site is fantastic – take a class into an ICT suite for a lesson, or send them with a cover teacher for a lesson, giving them the links below:

Instruments of the orchestra     

Basics of reading, particularly length of notes

Speed (tempo)

Rhythm

Pitch

Harmony

Symbols

Instrumentation

The site is well presented and interactive and quick.

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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra site has more detail but is not as easy to use as it is technically more advanced and there are more slips twixt cup and lip.

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A simple, if quickly boring, interactive test on the sounds of some orchestral instruments.

More interactive tests on orchestral instruments.

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Reference on Orchestral instruments:

http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~iben/home.htm

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Useful sites:

http://www.musicatschool.co.uk/ is an excellent site for resources, not yet comprehensive because they are being uploaded as developed, but they are growing all the time.

http://www.classicsforkids.com/ has a dictionary, and a hear the music page.

http://www.edselect.com/music.htm

http://www.playmusic.org/