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Expressive Arts
Songs from Around the World 
By Susie MacIntyre

Have you forgotten the lyrics to some of the songs you learned at school and nursery? Use this site to find the lyrics to children’s songs from around the world in English and in their original languages. Some songs also have sheet music, MP3 and Midi music files.

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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.

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.

Are you looking for sounds to enhance your PowerPoint slideshows?  The Free Sound project offers a huge range of free sounds for use on websites and in PowerPoint presentations. Download anything from a ticking grandfather clock to a nightingale singing.  Sound files are saved in either mp3 of wav format and can be edited in Audacity. 

If you do use any of the files you need to attribute the creator on your website or presentation.

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

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?

Children in the Primary 4 classes at Newtongrange Primary have organised an art exhibition as part of their Enterprise project. 

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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.

Commissioned by the Culture Online Initiative, ArtisanCam is an interactive site that gives an insight into the lives of contemporary visual artists. Watch artists live from their studios, browse the gallery or even experiment with your own designs.

Visit thomsonresources.co.uk for links which will help you with Music and Art in the 5-14 Expressive Arts Curriculum.