Chris Rigby's useful links for Music Teachers in Sefton
Broadoak School: Music: Home Page
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:
Basics of reading, particularly length of notes
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