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Uncovering the Best Music C Ds for Children
Fred Koch, the music columnist for "Chicago Parents" magazine, points parents to the best music available on CDs for children. He segments recommendations into several categories--holiday music, orchestral music, jazz, music for older...
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Children's Music Web
Although you'll have to hunt around a little, you'll find some great resources to integrate music into your classroom. Click on "Resources for teachers," to find some fun classroom management ideas. Or find sound effect ideas in...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Every Day Gems: A Collection of New Music by R. B. Mahaffey
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Every Day Gems: A Collection of New Music by R. B. Mahaffey (c1885), a collection of music for public schools.
Music Theory
Music theory.net: The Major Scale
A terrific reference for music students and teachers! Explains the fundamentals of the major scale, provides diagrams, and audio clips to help children recognize this piece of music theory.
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Children's Music Workshop: Twelve Benefits of Music Education
The benefits of music education are revealed in many studies. This article briefly lists 12 benefits of the value of music education, some of which relate to 21st century skills. In addition, users have access to a list of other music...
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: Art, Music and Popular Culture
Discover the music, art, and popular culture that shook the world in the 20th century.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Bringing Mothers in Prison Closer to Their Children
Article reports on the Lullaby Project, an effort which is helping mothers in prison form bonds with their children by writing their own lullabies. Includes and audio version of the story and a playlist of lullabies created by project...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: A Trip to Music Land
A scanned copy of the 1875 publication of A Trip to Music-land by Emma L. Shedlock, a fiction book for children.
PBS
Pbs: American Roots Music: Episode Summaries
This site provides summaries for each of the four episodes: Episode One: When First Unto This Country, Episode Two: This Land is Your Land, Episode Three: The Times They are A-Changin', and Episode Four: All My Children of the Sun.
PBS
Pbs: American Roots Music: Historical Background
What is American roots music? The term "American roots music" may not be a familiar one, and requires some explanation. At the beginning of the 20th Century, the term "folk music" was used by scholars to describe music made by whites of...
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Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
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Soundpiper Music: Music for Children, Teachers and Parents
Song lyrics and sound files (in Real Audio format) along with resources for teachers and parents to help incorporate music into classrooms and homes to aid learning. CDs of the songs are available for purchase.
National Institutes of Health
Paediatrics & Child Health: Impact of Media Use on Children and Youth
This article from Paediatrics & Child Health provides research about how television, radio, music, video games and the Internet impact media on children and youth.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Reading Music in Elementary School
A description on how to teach elementary music to children.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Musical Families
Learn about the different groups of musical instruments. Book includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
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Christian Aid: Games and Children's Stories
Explore the links to find our Global Gang games. Help villagers in Nicaragua survive floods, get on board the Citizen Ship, or just try to beat the high scores. There are also stories from around the world that show how children are...
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Bringing History Home: Children Long Ago
This Kindergarten unit introduces students to the concept of change over time by examining the historic counterparts of objects in children's daily lives, e.g., toys, food, cars, music, telephones, and toothbrushes. This develops an...
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Take Me There Greece
Fall in love with the bright colors, rhythmic music, delicious food, and fascinating people of Greece as you begin to discover another culture. Studying other cultures cultivates a sense of respect and pride for self and others and...
BBC
Bbc: Musical Mysteries
This resource will help young children get acquainted with sound and rhythm. It offers interactive activities that build an understanding of the basics of music.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: From the Top
This NPR show focuses on young, aspiring classical musicians. Listen to performers, read interviews with kids about music and read fun facts about music.
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El Rincon Musical Peruano (Music of Peru)
Excellent Peruvian music resource. You'll listen to different melodies from Peru, presented with their lyrics and scores. The information is in English, French and Spanish. Includes ballads, carols, classics, cumbias, huaylas, huaynos,...
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Morton Subotnick's Creating Music
This site is an effective and fun way to help children understand music better. There are several online interactive games to play to better understand rhythm, pitch, scales and much more.
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Music, Film, Tv and the Internet
While the internet plays home to a fantastic range of content, not all of this content is accessed legally. It can be challenging to encourage children and young people to change the source of their content, particularly if they are not...
New York Times
New York Times: "The Sound of Music"
An audio slideshow about one of the most popular films of all time, "The Sound of Music," which was based on the stage musical of the same name. The film, which debuted on Memorial Day weekend in 1965, was not popular with the critics...
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