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Hang

Posted by David French on November 15, 2009

Hang‘ is a mystery instrument! The video from Link TV has just been posted.

Your comments on this instrument here.

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Internet Video in Music Education

Posted by David French on November 15, 2009

“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.

Are you able to access Internet music videos in your school? Can you access popular music videos from MTV? Should sources such as GOOGLE VIDEO, YAHOO VIDEO, MTV and YOUTUBE be available for student use?  

You can also SUGGEST A MUSIC VIDEO LINK. Please note that link suggestions may not be published.

Please post your comments on video links here.

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.
  CLEO Various Early music
  CLEO Balogh Kálmán Cimbalon
  BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN Peter Moore Trombone Various composers
  Link TV Rafael Sotomayor Hang Drum
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
  CNN Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Anthony McGill and Gabriela Montero Air and Simple Gifts by John Williams
  MY PLAY 5 Browns Aaron Copland ‘Appalachian Spring’
  PITCHFORK TV Coldplay Clocks
  RHYTHMS DEL MUNDO Rhythms del Mundo Clocks with Cuban rhythms
  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’
  ROYAL OPERA HOUSE Royal Opera Mozart ‘Don Giovanni’
  STEINBERG USERS Screen shots from Cubase Cubase tutorial
  ARTISTS HOUSE MUSIC Drew Malamud Microphones for drum kit Commentary
SONGS 1 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC The Special Aka Protest Song Free Nelson Mandela
  DAILY MOTION Amy Winehouse and Jerry Dammers. Protest Song Free Nelson Mandela
  NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Bob Marley Reggae Get up, stand up
  LINK TV Ojus de Brujo with Faada Freddy Song arrangement Get up, stand up
  NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Jimmy Cliff I Can See Clearly Now
  BBC BLAST Various school students Slam Poetry: Top Tips
  BBC BLAST Akala Songwriting Tips
SONGS 2 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
  ARTISTS HOUSE MUSIC Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Blues song My Time is Expensive
  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.
  PutuMayo Various World Music
QUIZ BBC BLAST Akala Hip Hop or Shakespeare?

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Time Machine

Posted by David French on November 1, 2009

Time Machine is a fun interactive music quiz from dsokids. Your task is to return each of 42 composers to the correct period in time.

Pull the lever on the time machine to eject the name and picture of a famous composer, read the clues, then decide if your composer belongs to the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic or Modern period.

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Robert Schumann Music Quiz

Posted by David French on November 1, 2009

Mix Match Schumann is a fun interactive music quiz. The instructions are simple: 

  • Visit the Ravinia website and explore the Robert Schumann interactive presentation.  

  • Listen to ‘Scenes of Childhood’.

  • Follow the links to Robert Schumann Life and Times, Timeline, the Piano and ‘Carnaval’. 

  • Now try the quiz!

Why not try the quiz in a team or with some friends? Each ‘team’ can load a new set of questions. 

There’s lots more fun with other Mix and Match quizzes on Tanbur. You could also Invent a Mix Match Music Quiz.

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Interactive Music Website

Posted by David French on September 15, 2009

Many more interactive music education website links have been posted. 

CIMBALON VIDEOS

The Cimbalon is a folk instrument found in many parts of the world.

TONEWHEELS

Chance music especially designed for the Internet.

TONAL MUSIC THEORY

Musical extracts with scores for the study of harmony.  

PERCY GRAINGER

Listen to ‘Random Round’ then create your own version.

HIP HOP OR SHAKESPEARE?

Video quiz from BBC Blast, presented by Hip Hop artist Akala (note that BBC videos will not display outside the UK).

 HICKORY DICKORY DOCK

 A song for very young children, with climbing mouse!

 SONGWRITING TIPS

 Top tips on songwriting with Hip Hop artist Akala.

 SLAM POETRY

 Top tips on slam poetry, with video performances from BBC Blast.

 UKULELE BEATLES FUN

 Songs by the Beatles, with chord symbols for ukulele.

 I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW

 Listen, compare and perform versions of the famous song by Johnny Nash.

Did you find a useful link?  It’s easy to post your comment below!

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Chance Music

Posted by David French on August 16, 2009

Jeff Hall’s recorded realization of  TERRY RILEY IN C  provides an excellent introduction to ‘chance’ or aleatoric music; the accompanying text explains the terminology with reference to MINIMALIST composers of the 20th Century, including Philip Glass and Terry Riley.

So you found the track and clicked play. Did you continue listening for the full 50 minutes and 10 seconds? I must confess that on my first visit to the site I pressed stop after only a minute or so. Perhaps it was the tug on my arm from my two year old boy asking to be taken to ’slide’. We needed to go, be involved and active!

Next day, and the two year old is out with mum. I’ve clicked play again. Now this time it’s different. I’m listening in minute two, and, yes.. that’s definitely an organ holding me in there. The music changes, and changes, and changes again. I’m still here in minute nine, the music slows, repeated sounds, single notes, bassoon, woodwind, repetitive, but changing, slowing, changing to strings…

It’s minute eleven.. twelve.. and I want to take part.. interact with the group, the recording. Something is tugging at me again, but this time it is different. I’m involved.. really listening. Seventeen minutes..

The word ‘interactive’ invites participation and, with this in mind, several interactive versions of CHANCE MUSIC are presented on the Tanbur website. Some of these are specially devised for the Internet, such as those by Robert White at SPNM PLAYGROUND.  Some inventions require you to participate as listener, others demand that you respond.  Tilt the three dimensional cube and thereby control and adjust according to Rob White’s rules of play.  

There is another category that uses sampled sounds on a website to imitate real instruments. What would Gamelan musicians from Bali make of websites that produce the sound of the Gender with the click of a mouse? The Internet computer cannot attempt to replace the ‘hands on’ physical experience of a real instrument played with mallets and having individual bamboo resonators for each bar, but we can interact and control a piece that follows very precise rules using authentic tunings and derived structures: PLAY1.   

Others are modern interactive presentations of historical models. Here are three of them, listed in chronological order: 

MINUET MIXER    An online version of dice games from the 18th century, pioneered by W.A. Mozart and others.

RANDOM ROUND composed 1912, Percy Grainger. As an online participant you will be the conductor, making decisions regarding timbre, the playing of melodies and counter melodies within defined sections of the piece.

MUSIC FOR PIECES OF WOOD composed 1973, Steve Reich.  Complex sounds and phase shifting are created from simple patterns. See LUNANOVA for detailed sound samples and score analysis.

32 minutes.. I hear a new section. . organ.. imitation.. new ideas.. changing. Can you find other categories of chance music on Tanbur Music Education Links, or elsewhere on the Internet? Did you listen for 50 minutes and 10 seconds? Was this a real orchestra with a conductor? Does ’chance art’ exist?

Terry Riley IN C  score download.

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Updates – July 2009

Posted by David French on July 8, 2009

COMPOSERS’ GALLERY

Enter your selected gallery of composers and choose a portrait. 

PAKISTAN CONNECTION 

Listen to the National Anthem of Pakistan and singing in praise of the prophet Muhammad as part of this interactive presentation.  

LABUAT

‘Soye de aire’ –  pintando una canción.

CRAY MACHINE

An experiment that allows you to combine animations with sound effects.

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Invent a Mix and Match Music Quiz

Posted by David French on May 23, 2009

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!

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Interactive Jazz Listening

Posted by David French on May 9, 2009

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

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Singing the Spiritual

Posted by David French on April 24, 2009

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.

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