Music Videos

“Why can’t we use youtube?” a student asks.

 

There are lots of music resources available to music teachers on youtube, google video and yahoo video. However, due to school filtering systems, students are normally unable to access these resources. With this in mind, the video resources recently added to TANBUR come from other sources.

 

Why not try some of the providers listed and let everyone know if the links work in your school with a student login. You can also SUGGEST A MUSIC VIDEO LINK. Please note that link suggestions may not be published.

 

Visit the main site: TANBUR MUSIC EDUCATION LINKS

 

 

 

 

PAGE	PROVIDER	ARTIST	DESCRIPTION
LISTEN 1	NATALIE CLEIN	Natalie Clein	Cello Elgar Sospiri
	HARPIST4 MUSIC	Jolanta Trofimova-Cole	Harp Sonata for harp by J.K.Krumpholtz.
	BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN	Peter Moore	Trombone Various composers
LISTEN 2	NPR MUSIC	Ma XiouHui	Erhu Traditional Chinese
	PURE DROP	Linsey Pollack	Bagpipes Traditional
	PURE DROP	Linsey Pollack	Gaida Traditional Macedonian
	PURE DROP	Trouble in the Kitchen	Irish Jigs
	SOUND JUNCTION	Wali Cham Jobarteh and Tunde Jegede	Kora
	SMITHSONIAN GLOBAL SOUND	Nati Cano	Mariachi music from Mexico
	AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION	Animations	Dust Echoes Aboriginal
	BBC SCOTLAND	Phil Cunningham and others	Various performers Scotland
	YOU TUBE	Lew Dite	Mountain Dulcimer Simple Gifts Tuning: DAdd
	YOU TUBE	Drum Corp International	Simple Gifts: Blast excerpt
	ARTISTS HOUSE MUSIC	Warren Vache	Trumpets and Rhythm section Jazz blues
LISTEN 3	PBS	English National Opera	soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone and bass Extracts from ‘Rigoletto’
	ARTISTS HOUSE MUSIC	Drew Malamud	Microphones for drum kit Commentary
NELSON MANDELA BIRTHDAY	NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC	The Special Aka	Protest Song Free Nelson Mandela
	DAILY MOTION	Amy Winehouse and Jerry Dammers.	Protest Song Free Nelson Mandela
GET UP STAND UP	NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC	Bob Marley	Reggae Get up, stand up
	LINK TV	Ojus de Brujo with Faada Freddy	Song arrangement Get up, stand up
SONGS FROM INDIA	PLANET READ	Various	Indian songs with subtitles and translations Gujarati and Telugu folk songs
	GOOGLE VIDEO	Various	Indian songs with subtitles and translations Gujarati and Telugu folk songs
BLUES MASTER CLASS	ARTISTS HOUSE MUSIC	Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown	Blues song My Time is Expensive
SONGS 2	THE PURE DROP	Waterson: Carthy	Song from Northumberland Fisher Boy
	THE PURE DROP	Jussi Huovinen	Folk music from Karelia
	THE PURE DROP	Stiff Gins	Song in Wiradjuri language.

Computer Singing

Do secondary school students enjoy singing?  Class singing can be viewed as an activity that is popular with the primary age range but becomes more difficult with secondary students.  An idea tested in my classroom is to have one PC available as a singing resource.  

The ideal location for a computer with ‘bouncy ball lyrics’ is a small room adjacent to the main classroom.  This allows a small group to rehearse and then perform their songs to the class.  A computer can be used in the main classroom with headphones used for rehearsal, but this is not ideal as it will distract others and also cause problems with intonation.  Students will not be used to standing at the computer screen and they will need to be reminded of essential breath control and singing techniques.

‘Divtune’ is an example of the ’scrolling lyric’ software resource. The program plays MIDI files that have embedded lyrics and KARAOKE files with the *.kar extension. It can also display lyrics that have been prepared for CD tracks. The MP3 format is also supported.  Full instructions, program, MIDI and example CD lyrics are available from Bill Basham at http://www.divtune.com/  The small shareware charge allows educational establishments unlimited use of the program.  

TANBUR SONGS 2 provides examples of MIDI and MP3 files that have been converted to flash format.  I have also used ’scrolling lyric’ resources to gain initial interest for a school musical production.  Small groups of students used backing tracks with displayed lyrics, transposing and adjusting the tempo of songs as required.  When main rehearsals were held the students were confident in performance, requiring less rehearsal time than would otherwise have been the case. 

Do you have experience of resources that can be used to promote singing and the voice in the music classroom? Comments please!

 

 

 

100 Music Education Bloggers

 

The blogspot for Tanbur Music Education Links is number 55 of the Campaign for 100 Music Education Bloggers by January 2009.

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Updates: June 08

Listen 1 update…
TROMBONE VIDEO
BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008.

Listen 2 update…
SCOTLAND’S MUSIC
Explore Scotland’s Music with Phil Cunningham.

HENRY MANCINI
25 tracks by the composer of ‘Pink Panther Theme’ and ‘Moon River’.

Songs 1 update…
MONICA MANCINI
16 track samples from the grammy award nominated singer.

Play 1 update…
DOT MIXER
A musical experiment with dots.

Play 2 update…
DIGGER AND THE GANG
A challenge for the DJ mixer with beats, scratching, sound effects and disco lights.

ROOM 108
A simple mixer with drum loops, bass loops and effects.

Play 3 update…
SPNM EXPERIMENTS

Soundsnap

Soundsnap is for sound effects and loops.  The site has been created by people from all over the world. They believe that pro quality sounds and samples should be made available to everyone as a free resource.  The site is supported by some big names in the Music Industry that include Focuswrite, Novation, Propellerhead, Ableton and Digidesign. 

Podcast links

A proposed link just added to the Tanbur Update Page features ‘Heartbeat Reggae Podcast’ from Heartbeat Records.  Titles of recent podcasts include (10) Cleveland “Clevie” Browne, (9) Niney the Observer and Dennis Brown Tribute, (7) vocal groups to highlight Heartbeat’s Wailers, Abyssinians, and Gladiators albums.  

Would you like to see podcasts included on Tanbur Music Education Links? Please add your comments!

Submit a link

Suggestions for new links are welcome! As a guideline, content for link submissions should be:

1. interactive
2. excellent quality
3. appropriate for one of the page categories: LISTEN / PLAY / SONGS / QUIZ

Thank you for your suggestions!  Regarding publication of comments, please refer to the Welcome message. 

Gamelan Mecanique

Google translate doesn’t work with Flash. Can you speak French? Please leave your comments and translations for Gamelan Mecanique!

Gamelan Mecanique has been created by Cité de la Musique in Paris. The entry page with credits and contact details can be found here:
http://www.cite-musique.fr/gamelan/index.htm
Another page of interest has been entered here with Google translate:
http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cite-musique.fr%2Fgamelan%2Fplan.html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

The link to Gamelan Mecanique is on PLAY 3

Soundbeam

I finally tried the SOUNDBEAM!

Drake Music Scotland aim “…..to equip our nation with the skills and resources to support our disabled community in realising the same musical aspirations as their non-disabled peers”.

The exciting thing is that Drake Music Scotland visited my school last week! The workshops made use of piezo switches and ‘Soundbeam’ to control sounds from the computer. One student was completely transfixed as she discovered that her hand and arm movements produced lovely harp arpeggios. Another student joined in with a melody ‘playing’ the cor anglais. Others used the switches to add pedal notes from the brass and a variety of percussion sounds.

‘Soundbeam’ has been around for quite some time. I remember seeing the EMS video way back in 1992, as part of a study course at Reading University. At that time we visited a special school where the students produced MIDI sounds with piezo switches and sang instrumental sounds using a MIDI microphone.

April 2008, the equipment is very much the same. But the sampled instrumental sounds are a great improvement on the General Midi sounds available back in 1992.

More details about SOUNDBEAM can be found at Drake Music Scotland. The link can be found on LISTEN 1 near the bottom of the page.