Minuet Mixer: Aleatoric and Interactive Music

The Mozart trail gets longer with aleatoric music from the 18th Century!!
MINUET MIXER
With music by Mozart, Kirnberger and Francesco Ricci, New York Philharmonic Kidzone have created this interactive version of dice games from the 18th century.

Cool!!

Mix and Match

Listen 1: Mix and Match is a game that will test your knowledge of composers, music, theory, instruments and websites.

To prepare for the game, read Listen 1 and visit some of the websites ..then will you be ready to try Mix and Match

How did you get on? Did you find the puzzle easy or difficult? You could try playing the game with a friend, loading a new set of questions for each round!

When you have completed the current set of 70 questions, why not devise your own MIX AND MATCH for ‘Listen 1′ or other pages of TANBUR MUSIC EDUCATION LINKS? Post your ideas here!

September 2008 updates

Listen 1 update…
CLEO RESOURCE
Video resource featuring lute and archlute, treble tenor and bass viols,
flute, sub contra bass recorder, dulcian, sackbutt and cornett.

Play 2 update…
PIPES AND SWITCHES
The title of this conveyor belt collection of pipes and switches is Pâte à Son. Control the pitch, tempo and volume of short melodic patterns.

Quiz update…
INSTRUMENT QUIZ
Which instrument can you hear?

Mozart trail

Post updated June 2009.

 

 Have your footprints followed the ‘Mozart trail’?

 

 

The Mozart trail starts with some nice Kid’s Mozart links that are suitable for Primary School children. Further resources are available from the Kid’s Mozart home page

 

Teachers intending to use the links in class will need to check that the school’s Internet filter allows the links. My school’s ‘websense’ filter is a ‘nonsense’ because Kids Mozart and the following Creative Kids Central link to Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Scheherezade’ are blocked on the ‘games’ filter. If you find the same problem, don’t despair!! The Local Education Authority or the filter company provider should be able to unblock educational links on request.

 

 

The ‘Secondary’ Mozart trail features ‘Eine Kleine Nachtmusik’ and a fun listening quiz from the BBC. 2009 additions include Mix Match Mozart quizzes. The trail also features an interactive score of Piano Sonata in C (K.545) and ends with the entire opera ‘Don Giovanni’.

 

Do you need some more Mozart links? Try the excellent listening activites available from Classics for Kids – Mozart  with pdf files for download. Anyone with further activity ideas for the ‘Mozart trail’ please add your comments here or submit a link   

 

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

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