Music - Resources
Teachers' TV
This excellent website has a rich source of useful videos and resources. If you type “music” into the search engine you will see a really useful list including music technology and designing the perfect Music room. Try this one for example:-
Top 10 on the Web - Secondary Music
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Welsh Joint Education Committee| National Curriculum in Action | Potentially the most useful aspect of this site is the examples of students’ work and the relationship to NC Levels. Getting at them turned out to be a bit of a long-drawn out process and you need QuickTime installed, but once there it’s interesting to see and hear what expectations are in this notoriously difficult area of evaluating students’ work against the level descriptors. Keywords:Teaching, resources, music, primary, secondary Useful to: Teachers |
| ABC Music Notes | Website designed to help and support students studying music at GCSE and AS, and A Levels |
| All Music Guide | Biography notes on popular music genres. A good source of information for musical styles and genres |
| BBC Blast | If you'd like a career in the music industry this site has some essential advice on how to get started |
| Hofnote | Hofnote are dedicated to working with music teachers to help students practice and progress in their skills |
| Music At School | Resources, worksheets and schemes of work for teachers and students |
| Music Notes | A fantastic source for sheet music |
| Naxos | A guide to the meanings of different musical terms from adagio to woodwind |
| Sheet Music Direct | A good site for downloading particular sheet music of various genres |
| KENT NGFL Music | Resources for all levels |
| The Music Land | Free music material for Key Stage 3 through to A-Level |
| The DCSF Standards Site for Music | Important reference for Music teachers, and there is no doubt that the 15 units of work on offer here could form the solid basis of any music teachers’ scheme of work. Exhaustive reference to levels and progression make it required reading. Other links answer a lot of questions too - most notably in the attention paid to links with other subjects, including the over-arching concerns with Music’s contribution to PHSE and Citizenship. |
| Classical Net | A huge resource and links site with a formidable library of information on composers and their works easily accessible. Keywords:Teaching, resources, music, primary, secondary Useful to: KS3, GCSE, Teachers |
| Music Teachers’ Resource Site | One of the longest-established sites on the web, this has lots of decent stuff to get teachers started – but it’s £79 to subscribe for the real goodies. Keywords: Teaching, resources, music, primary, secondary Useful to: Teachers |
| Music at School | Mrs Field, of Soham Village College, Cambridgeshire, has set up a site here with an astonishing amount of resource material on it, including some lovely, new, all-singing, all-dancing, witty, general-knowledge quiz games to get students absorbed - you can either fling a teacher or make him walk the plank. There are also over 170 worksheets for you to download. In short, lots of easy, accessible, useful stuff. Keywords: Teaching, resources, music, primary, secondary Useful to: Teachers |
| Music Education Online | This is the home page for the Canadian Music Educators Association. Most of it is front-page banner stuff, but some bits are good PR: Music in Motion is a good set of 10 slides (albeit American-orientated) which are designed to persuade everyone that musicians are smarter than everyone else. Download these now… Informative links for Parents poses - and answers - the question ‘Why Music?’ quite effectively. |
| ThinkQuest | A rather more unusual portal site, this one linking to thousands of websites designed and built by students for students. The link above takes you to the ‘library’, from which you can select any of the categories – Arts and Entertainment being the first, from where you can get at 36 music sites. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the site is its encouragement to students to create their own - information on how to join the ThinkQuest challenge is readily available at the foot of the page, or on the ThinkQuest homepage. |
| Teoria – a Music Theory Website | A rather serious website attempting to teach theory with the help of Flash presentations and audio samples where appropriate. Keywords:Teaching, resources, music, primary, secondary Useful to: KS3, GCSE, Teachers |
| Kevin’s Playroom | Another portal site, this one produced and maintained by children. Keywords:Teaching, resources, music, primary, secondary Useful to: KS3, GCSE, Teachers |
| Bulletin Boards for the Music Classroom | You get the distinct feeling that the contributions to this site were made by a group of people who should get out a little more, but if you want some ideas for a few different displays, there is no shortage here. Keywords:Teaching, resources, music, primary, secondary Useful to: Teachers |
| How Music Makes You Smarter | A page that condenses an awful lot of the material about how music helps students achieve better results. This sort of thing has the quality of an urban myth about it, doesn’t it - no one is quite sure who came up with all this stuff or how true it is. This page gives it all some credibility; definitely worth a look. |
| Rounds to Sing | Rounds available free, lyrics and music available |
| Music Teachers.co.uk | Aims to support musicians in every aspect of education and performance |
| Associated Board Royal Schools of Music | A brilliant site for music teachers |
| Youth Music | Youth Music works alongside the formal and community-based sectors to support music-making and training |