Music+Interactive+Sites

If you would like to work through some SmartBoard

tutorials, click on my TEACHER RESOURCE page.

[|Interactive Music Lesson plans coordinated with South Dakota Music Standards]

MUCHO SmartBoard files

For a Pinterest board devoted specifically to interactive SmartBoard files and websites click below!



=And even MORE Music Interactive Sites for SmartBoard Use =
 * [|Mood] || Activities to show how music can affect/set mood – Primary Level ||
 * [|Reindeer Orchestra] || Touch the reindeer noses to play Christmas Carols ||
 * [| Virtual Keyboard] || Play a virtual keyboard - Primary/Intermediate Level ||
 * [|Electronic Drum Set] || Play a solo or accompany a CD ||
 * [|Early Bird Singers] || Click on the birds to make your own tune ||
 * [|Compose Music] || Try your composing skills on the interactive musical staff ||
 * [|Name the Composer] || Can you guess the composer from the given clues? ||
 * [|Name the Instrument] || Listen to the music and guess the mystery instrument ||
 * [|San Francisco Symphony for Kids] || Learn all about an orchestra, the music and instruments ||
 * [|Look, Listen and Learn] || The Arts presented by The Kennedy Center ||
 * [|ChoralNet] || Many podcasts, audio files and video files related to music and music performances ||
 * [|Musical Instruments] || Learn about the different families and types of instruments ||
 * [|Continental Harmony Web] || From PBS – Includes multimedia lessons including mood & music, world beat, elements of music, music imagery and more (grades 3-8) ||
 * [|Great Performances] || Multimedia archives ||
 * [|Music Theory] || Fantastic site that teaches and quizzes music theory from the basics on up! ||
 * [|Play Music] || interactive webpages where you can click on a musical instrument and here the sounds it makes. Excellent! ||
 * [|Fun With Music] || Great site by San Francisco Symphony – music education for kids ||
 * [|Boston Symphony Orchestra Kids] || Site presents interactive games, an introduction to instruments, and kids can meet the musicians. ||
 * [|Dallas Symphony for Kids] || The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's magical doorway to a world of musical fun and learning for students, parents and teachers! ||
 * [|From the Top] || A radio show that features outstanding young classical musicians ages five to nineteen. ||
 * [|Memphis Symphony Orchestra] || Site from the Memphis Symphony introduces kids to instruments, composers, and musicians. ||
 * [|Music Notes] || A fun, educational guide for children to music theory, history, instruments, and composers. Features quizs, forums, and sounds. ||
 * [|The Music Room] || Introduces children to music theory and history in a fun, entertaining way. ||
 * [|Guess the Instrument] || Listen and click on the instrument you hear ||
 * __[|SCHEHERAZADE]__ || An introduction to Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade,

the story of the thousand and one Arabian Nights. ||
 * [|Peer Gynt] || BBC fun guide to ‘Hall of the Mountain King’ by Edvard Greig. ‘Peer Gynt’ the hero needs your help to knock out the trolls and recognize some of the instruments. ||
 * [|Musical Mysteries] || Kids site all about music including activities on sound, rhythm, mood, orchestra, quizzes, etc. ||
 * [|Early Musical Instruments] || Video resource featuring lute and archlute, treble tenor and bass viols,

flute, sub contra bass recorder, dulcian, sackbutt and cornett. ||
 * [|Exploratorium] || These exhibits will let you mess around with music in ways you probably haven’t before. ||
 * [|Bagpipes: First Get a Goat] || Examples of some weird and exotic world music instruments. ||
 * [|Meet the Mariachi] || Music, video, instruments and quiz.

Explore the captivating rhythms and instruments of Mariachi music from Mexico. ||
 * [|Traditional Japanese Musical Instruments] || Shakuhachi, shamisen, taiko, koto - traditional Japanese musical instruments. ||
 * [|Kid’s Mozart] || Kids Mozart player that includes extracts from

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Clarinet Concerto,

Variations ‘Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman’ and Symphony 40 ||
 * [|Virtual Keyboard] || Online keyboard instrument with sounds, drum rhythms and chords.

Can be played with qwerty keys or mouse. ||
 * [|Gourd Tree] || Use your qwerty keyboard or mouse to play this invention by Harry Partch. ||
 * [|Sheep Beats] || play with rhythm ||
 * [|The Blues Man] || Click on the buttons and radio to hear the blues man sing and play. ||
 * [|Sing and Play] || Experiment with songs featuring mouth percussion,

harmonies, riffs and rhythms: ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy!’ and ‘Just Enough’. ||
 * [|Freaky Frank's Music Machine] || Interactive games, music machines and more! ||