16 Great Websites for Teaching and Learning Music

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Radiooooo

 

If you are looking for a musical time machine to take your students on then Radiooooo is for you.  Just pick your country off the map.  Pick the decade and presto you have music.  If you click in the bottom left corner you will get information about the artist and the song.  To see the website click here.

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On This Day

 

Do you need to know of an important historical event that happened on this day, or a famous birthday or death?  Maybe what happened in entertainment or sports or music.  If so try here.  For example today in 1724 Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne.  On TV in 1952 "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV.  Did you know that on this day in 1794 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom, Virginia, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation in the US on his wife?  Famous birthdays today are Mark Antony, Benedict Arnold and Faye Dunaway.  Also the site tells that  famous birthdays for tomorrow were Joan of Arc and Dr Martin Luther King Jr.  On this day in 1984 Ray Kroc died.  If you are not sure who he is maybe ask Ronald.

Pixabay - Images, Videos & Music free to share

 

If you are teaching your students to cite their work properly and are picky about this then you should be just as conscientious about the images they use.  If they are just googled and right clicked then the pictures are not necessarily for public use.  There are a couple ways around this as I posted here and here.  Another source of free and royalty free images, videos and music can be found by clicking here to go to Pixabay.

As far as citing goes you should do is teach your students where to find images that are not copyright protected.  I know most students just use Google Images and copy and paste but if you pick Google Advanced Images, and go to the bottom left and select  USAGE RIGHTS and pick FREE TO USE OR SHARE then your images will be copyright free and then you can right click and save.  If you have any question please come and ask me in the Learning Commons.

Song Maker

Song Maker by Google is a new tool that you can make....wait for it....music. with just a few clicks.
Click here to visit the webpage.

Math, Science, Music

Maybe the site should be labelled Music Math Science but it is worth looking at.  From their site, "For Herbie Hancock, the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and Chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, inspiring young people to learn about math and science through music has been a life-long dream. For him, there is a profound connection across the disciplines and a way to ignite passion for challenging concepts through music. This was the foundation of the project of Math, Science and Music."  To see the site click here.

Organized Chaos

If you are teaching middle school music or maybe even junior high school music this site might have some things in here for you under the Music Education tab.  She also has many other items that teachers might like under Planner Tips and Tricks.  I noticed a nice her blog on Drum Circle Lesson Ideas. Take a look by clicking here.

ArtsEdge

According to the AASL, "Looking for digital teaching resources in and through the arts? Then take a look at The Kennedy Center’s ArtsEdge. Lesson plans, how to guides, and so much more. This is the go to location when it comes to art, theater, music, and dance. Use the lesson finder to seek out ideas in the library, classroom, or after school for grades K-12. Look into materials for English Language Learners and for students who are differently abled. ArtsEdge has all students in mind. Find out how books illustrations are created on the ArtsEdge site and then have students create their own. "

To see their website, click here.

Radio Garden - An Interactive Map of Radio Stations

This interactive map of the world shows green dots where they have radio stations you can click on to hear.  It could be great in a French or Spanish language class to click on a station in Paris or Barcelona or Quebec City or, well you get the idea. You might want to use this in your Music class or in an Current Events class to tune into a station near a location of interest you are discussing in class.  Enjoy.   To see the website click here.

Soundation

Soundation is a free service that is similar to Apple's Garage Band.  According to their website "Soundation is a powerful online music studio with professional features like recording, effects, virtual  instruments and over 700 free loops and sounds."  To see the website click here.

Band Lab

According to their website, "BandLab is the easy-to-use, all-in-one, social music creation platform."

You can check it out by clicking here. 

Europeana - an online resource of cultural heritage

Europeana is a place to explore millions of items from a range of Europe's leading galleries libraries, archives and museums, all online.  To check it out, click here.

Music by Soundtrap

Soundtrap is a website that lets you collaborate with others to create music either using the computers mic or an external mic for voice and using Soundtraps virtual instruments or your own externally connected instruments or midi devices.  If your students have to do a group project the collaborate option would work perfect with each person doing their own thing.  If they want to use a sound track for a project they can make up their own and avoid copyright infringement.  This might be used in your music class room to experiment to see how certain rhythms combine together.

Music Career Finder

Would you like to become a music teacher or a recording engineer  or perhaps a conductor.  This site lets you check out what education you would need, what you would get paid, what experience and skills you would need, just to name a few things.  It also lists the top 20 most popular music career searches.  To see the website, click here.

Google Docs and Writting Music

Do you use Google Docs?  Do you write music?  Well put them together and you have a free add-on.  

The add-on is called VexTab and the add-on can be found by clicking here.   If you would like more information or a tutorial on how to use it click here.

Music Tech Teacher

If you are a music teacher you might want to check out this website.  There looks to be many resources that you could use in your elementary and middle school music classroom.  To see the website click here.

Perfect Pitch

This game is produced by the Kennedy Center's Arts Edge.    It uses a baseball setting to teach students about different instruments and different eras of orchestral music.  Click here to see the website.

Art, Music and Spinning Discs

From

The Japanese band Sour made a stunning animated video in the old school manner using 1800s technology with a modern day twist.  Take a look at the video below.

They also have a short video of how the discs where filmed. 

You can then read the article from Visual News by clicking here.

What does John Locke say?

Do you teach Civics or a government class?  You or your students might want to watch Mr. Betts parody of "What does the Fox say?", which I posted on Friday January 17 2013. Click here to see that post.  Hey maybe your class can do a group FSE on a topic and pick a song and do  something like this.

 If you like this video for teaching, see my post on "History and Literature for Music Lovers" by clicking here.  Below is an example of Mrs B work to Lady Gaga, "Poker Face" about Catherine the Great.

On that note, if you are in St. Petersburg, you have to visit The Hermitage.  We visited two summers ago and it was FANTASTIC.

I also love that many of Mrs B and Mr J's music selection is early 80s.  See below.

Like a Rolling Stone

On November 20 2013, to celebrate Bob Dylan's 47 CD set called "The Complete Album Collection, Volume 1"  has released a promotional video on his website.

It is a video of a TV which has 16 different channels that you can flip through which all lip sync to the song track.  You can see ESPN, BBC, Pawn Stars, Property Brothers among others singing along.  To see the video click here.  To see Bob's web site click here.  

The video was produced by Interlude, interactive video company. You can go to their site and create personal videos like this for free.  To see their website click here.