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The Scottish Music Centre
By Susie MacIntyre
The Scottish Music Centre is a one-stop shop for information for anyone interested in music. It is home to an enormous archive of nearly 30,000 items, ranging from copies of 18th Century song-sheets and Scottish contemporary classical scores to the latest CD releases from traditional, rock, jazz and indie bands
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Art Junction
By Susie MacIntyre
Art Junction is a collaborative art space for teachers and students. It includes advice for teaching drawing and painting to children, suggestions for appropriate themes, activities for art making and an art gallery.
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Explore the Orchestra
By Susie MacIntyre
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's magical doorway provides a world of musical fun and learning for students, parents and teachers. Explore the instrument encyclopedia, the orchestra, make your own instruments or learn about some very famous composers.
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Anvil Studio
By David Lines
Anvil Studio is a free Windows program for multi-track recording, composing, and editing of music using audio,
MIDI, and sampled percussion sounds. Audio effects include delay, pitch change, volume change, filtering, and reverse. Import sound files, edit them, and combine them with other files or new recordings. Export your recordings in several common file formats.
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WavePad
By David Lines
WavePad audio editing software is a sound editor program for Windows, similar to Audacity. This audio editing software lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad is a wav editor and MP3 editor, and supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.
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Creating Music
By David Lines
Creatingmusic.com is a children's online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for children to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles. Come discover fun and easy ways to make music!
Click here to visit the site
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Science of Music [more]
By David Lines
What is music? Is birdsong music? How about the tap-tap-tap of a hammer, or the wail of a creaking door? Is playing a garbage can different than playing a drum?
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BFI Screenonline Education Zone [more]
By The Editor
Screenonline is the BFI's unparalleled online guide to British film and television, where you can discover nearly 3,000 titles, with over 450 hours of extracts and full-length films and television programmes from the vast collections of the BFI National Archives, supported by authoritative contextual analysis by expert writers, and thousands of stills, posters, production designs and contemporary reviews.
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ICT Resources for Expressive Arts
By A D Thomson
Visit thomsonresources.co.uk for links which will help you with Music and Art in the 5-14 Expressive Arts Curriculum.
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San Francisco Symphony [more]
By A D Thomson
This is a great site for exploring the orchestra.
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