Invent a Mix and Match Music Quiz

Invent questions and answers for a music quiz on Listen 3: Mix and Match. Questions and answers should be based on one or more of the Listen 3 links. They need to fit the boxes easily, so only use a few words for each one!

How many mix match pairs do you need? This is up to you to decide and may depend on the topic for your quiz. For example, Listen 1: Mix and Match has 70 questions; Mix Match Mozart 1 has 14 questions; Mix Match Mozart 2 has 16 questions.

When your quiz is ready please POST YOUR QUIZ HERE, or in COMMENTS below. Please note that all posts will be reviewed and will not appear on this space unless approved for publication.

Good luck with your music quiz!

Interactive Jazz Listening

The Kennedy Center ArtsEdge interactive presentation JAZZ IN TIME provides an excellent introduction to the eras and styles of jazz. Listening samples include:

“Black Bottom Stomp” by Jelly Roll Morton

“St. Louis Blues” by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong

“Ballin’ The Jack” by James Reese Europe

“Canal Street Blues” by King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band

“Wild Man Blues” by Johnny Dodds and his Chicago Boys

“You’ve Got to Be Modernistic” by James P. Johnson

“Heebie Jeebies” by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Fives

“Lester Leaps In” by Lester Young

“It Don’t mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” by Duke Ellington

“Bebop” by Dizzy Gillespie

“Moanin’” by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

“Boplicity” by Miles Davis

“Eventually” by Ornette Coleman

“A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane

“I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel To Be Free” by Billy Taylor

“Sly” by Herbie Hancock

“Cantaloupe (Flip Fantasia)” by Us3

Singing the Spiritual

The scrolling lyric idea for COMPUTER SINGING seems to be catching on! MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE is a well known African-American spiritual song. Eric Bibb and Putumayo Kids invite you to follow the ball and singalong!

Would you like to find out more about the spiritual genre? In addition to WIKIPEDIA there is a very well prepared resource from Carnegie Hall. The historical significance of the venue becomes clear with excellent sound clips, archive photos and genre definitions. AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC is presented as a musical timeline. It is a musical journey from field songs, folk spirituals and syncopated dance through to neo soul, modern gospel and new jazz swing.

Fireflies and tropical music mix.

Here are the latest updates for TANBUR MUSIC EDUCATION LINKS:

FIREFLIES

SillyBooks.net present this delightful song by Sarah Goslee Reed.

BAHIANESE LE MIX

A fun and simple music mixer in a tropical beach setting.

Music Education Blog Carnival, 1st March 2009

Welcome to the March 2009 edition of Music Education Blog Carnival.

There are some compelling and varied articles for you this month and I am delighted to be your host.  

                                                                 

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Music Performance

What better way to begin than with some music! I look forward to the reaction of my 12 year old school students to these inspirational performances by Sungha Jung!!  Tony Huynh presents A Real Guitar Hero – Sungha Jung 12 Year Old Prodigy Fingerstyle Guitarist posted at LimitlessUnits.com.

Continuing the theme of guitar performance, Lorna Findlay presents Play the Guitar-Fast, Easy and Efficiently | Learn Guitar    …it may take all of your endearing overflowing patience and precious, precious time to create one piece of melody and make it whole. This is one predicament most beginners have when learning to play something. Posted at Learn Guitar.

Music Pedagogy

Steve Engel includes one post in a series related to his action plans following a disappointing Winter Concert.  Steve Engel presents Rethinking My Approach, Part 2: Rhythm/Pulse posted at Music Ed Lounge.

Discover five tried and true music games that students love!  Natalie Wickham presents Large Group Games for the Music Class posted at Music Matters Blog.

Twenty Questions for Educators, with lots of highlights and lowlights from a career as a music teacher.  Nancy Flanagan presents Twenty Questions (about Education Me) posted at Teacher in a Strange Land.

Explore the endless possibilities of sound and music students can create with their voices when supported with various music tech devices. Evan Tobias presents Expanding the voice… From T-Pain to Tuvan Throat Singing posted at Catalysts & Connections.

Music Technology

How do you as a music educator determine whether or not utilizing a “technology” in a classroom setting will be both a good-fit and worthwhile endeavor?  J. Pisano presents Should We Utilize Technology in the Music Classrooms? Questions to Ask First. posted at Music, Technology and Education: Mustech.net.

If you’re creating some MIDI drum tracks  “…drums matter. They matter a lot. Spend as much time fussing over your drum tracks as you do your solos. Maybe more.”  Spence presents Find Your Inner Vinnie Colaiuta: 12 Ways to Make Better MIDI Drum Tracks posted at Guitarbalooga.

Claire Burns absolutely loves folk dancing!  With direct links to an MP3 download of Sasha and other resources for dance and singing, Claire presents Using Audacity to Have Fun With Folk Dances posted at Learn Me Music.

Other

Tupac uses the arts to explain his views on society. He also presents us with ideas on how we can better ourselves and our society. Through music Tupac lives on. Ryan Taft presents Tupac: Changes for Society posted at Society is Deaf.   

Mountain Battles is “…experimental, interesting, and strangely cool. Highly recommended for all you nostalgic hipsters.” Jason Hennings presents The Breeders – Mountain Battles [4AD 2008] posted at Dynamic CDs.

Read all about Barrie Lapins, Memorabilia Acquisitions Manager for the Hard Rock Cafe. Khan presents Making a Career on Rock n’ roll Memorabilia posted at Higher Education and Career Blog.

Gary Mullen presents An Introduction to Various African Instruments posted at African Instruments.  The article covers various African instruments, their uses and origins.

Chris Foley presents Classical Music’s Encounter with Twitter posted at The Collaborative Piano Blog.

To conclude this edition, don’t forget to bookmark this interactive links music education website…..

Tanbur Music Education Links

Internet links for Primary and Secondary Music.
Click on LISTEN, PLAY, SONGS and QUIZ to discover a wide range of Internet sites with instruments, composers and musical styles from around the world.

Next Month

Be sure to submit your blog article to the April 2009 Music Education Blog Carnival using the Carnival Submission Form. Past and future hosts can be found at Dr Joseph Pisano’s Music Education Carnival Homepage. Thanks for visiting!

Blocked and Filtered

From a conversation with three 12 year old students today:

‘So you’ve logged on to the Internet – what’s your plan?’

‘Remember that Tanbur site you showed us when we went to the computer room? We’re going to try some of those links…’

‘Ok, that’s good!’

…..three minutes later…

‘Mr French, come and look, the Tanbur website is blocked!’

Sure enough Tanbur Music Education Links was not available to those three students this morning, using the one and only computer in my room with Internet access. The conversation continued:

‘Can we go the computer room and try the Tanbur website there?…’

Two minutes later:

‘Mr French, it’s ok, we’ve found music videos on the MTV site, and they’re not blocked.’

Musical Instruments Research Task

Design a MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TRAIL that could be published on Tanbur Music Education Links

Example format for the trail

             Tanbur Page Title                                        Link Title

1. Quiz                                          INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA

2. Listen 1

3.                              

4.                         

5.                       

6.                         

7.                           

8.                                    

9.                                    

10.                                                       

As an example, refer to the ‘Mozart trail’

Now add a sentence or two about your musical instrument trail.

Post your MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TRAIL  here!

Orchestra and Opera

THE ORCHESTRA is a new Listen 1 link featuring the ‘Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’ by Benjamin Britten. The Animated Science website provides this interactive resource, beginning with a screen shot of the orchestra that is designed to lead you on a voyage of discovery…

 

Over on Listen 3 the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA have updated their site. They provide lots more about the orchestra, with excellent listening tracks, pictures and information for all the instruments.    

 

FAMOUS OPERA COMPOSERS from Dallas Opera is another addition to Listen 3, with information and listening excerpts for twelve famous composers of opera.

March 2009 Music Education Blog Carnival

In three weeks time I will be hosting the March 2009 Music Education Blog Carnival. If you would like an article, essay, or blog post featured in the carnival, please submit using the March 2009 Music Education Blog Carnival Submission Form

The Collaborative Piano is hosting the February 2009 Music Education Carnival with links to a wide variety of articles from over two dozen bloggers.

Coldplay and Mozart

Five new pages have been added this month. I hope you all have some fun testing them out. If you’d like to add some ideas or quiz suggestions, simply add a comment here.

MIX MATCH MOZART 1

Try this easy level Mozart Trail quiz challenge

featuring a musical extract from Kids Mozart and Classics for Kids. 

 

MIX MATCH MOZART 2

Follow the Mozart Trail links on Listen 2, then try this quiz!

 

COLDPLAY: CLOCKS

Listen and perform the song that is famous for its repeating piano riff.

 

MOZART’S PIANO SONATA IN C (K.545)

The Mozart Trail gets longer!!

 

MOZART’S OPERA ‘DON GIOVANNI’

Royal Opera House video.