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Music Teacher's Resource Site
This site offers ready-made instructional PowerPoint resources and worksheets, flashcards, lesson starters, games, and posters. The site includes a popular Top Tips for Teachers page, and instructional guides for Propellerhead's Reason software.
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Music Theory
Music Theory provides the user with an animated music theory tutor covering staves and scales to intervals and chords. The site includes basic modifiable visual and aural exercises, and tools such as staff sheet creator, interval and chord calculator, and popup keyboard. The material is downloadable for iPhone, iPod, and iPad.
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San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
The user can see and hear the instruments of the orchestra, be introduced to the concepts of music in The Music Lab, or create music with the Performalator or Composerizer.
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Mozart
Mozart contains all of Mozart's works online in digital score format, many with audio recordings. The collection can be searched by KV, category, key, and editor.
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Simplifying Music Technology
This is a site that trains teachers to use music technology either face-to-face or online. The site covers Sibelius, Audacity, and iPads in the classroom with free Music Technology resources e-book.
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Sheet Music
Sheet Music offers an affordable and comprehensive selection of quality sheet music publications. Orders need to be placed the term before they are required.
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Pattern Creator
This site allows drag-and-drop style remixing fun, working with concepts of music. It takes a minute to load and compositions can be recorded.
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Sydney Improvised Music Association (SIMA)
This is a collection of contemporary jazz promotional material and events, including Education Young Women's Workshop (Annual - held in September) and Cool for School (a jazz education program).
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Ten Thousand Hours
This site contains creative improvised music, with a monthly podcast hosted by bassist and composer James Ilgenfritz. Each monthly instalment features an interview and performance with a special guest.
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Audio Tool
Audio Tool is an electronic music composition tool with a 16 x 16 matrix. The user can click to add or subtract a tone, or spacebar to stop all tones. Clicking on the Audiotool logo gives access to a more comprehensive sample manipulation product consisting of drag-and-drop modules with moveable controls.
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Audio Mulch
Audio Mulch provides an advanced digital, electronic, and electro-acoustic composition tool for the serious composition student, with a free trial version for PC or Mac.
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Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House site provides teaching resources that are mapped to the NSW curriculum about the building and its purpose. Program-specific support materials available can be adapted for local use with any musical or theatrical performance.
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Sydney Symphony Orchestra
This site gives access to upcoming program information and background material about the SSO. Educational resource packs are available for purchase, including musical scores, recordings, and analysis questions.
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Scootle
Scootle is a digital classroom and teacher resource for all subjects and all levels, including cross-disciplinary learning resources. The user can search by Year level, topic, Australian Curriculum, media type, or category. The site also groups resources into learning paths for courses or classes to access online.
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TES
This is a teaching resource for teachers to share and download lesson plans, classroom resources, music activities, revision guides, and curriculum worksheets. All subjects from early years and primary to secondary are catalogued into topics and sub-topics.
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Jon Rose
Jon Rose is an Australian violinist and innovator in new, improvised, and experimental music and media. This site is an example of the resources available on artist-specific websites.
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ABC
The ABC site is a rich menagerie of both the esoteric and everyday in Australian music making, from schoolyard chants and folk music to the most extreme experimental sonic landscape artists. RealPlayer required.
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Australian Music Centre (AMC) Users can access a catalogue of Australian contemporary classical, improvisatory, and experimental music composers and their work. The site's additional sections include a timeline of Australian music and its influences, and category headings to information grouped according to instrument, genre, or orchestration.
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Tanbur Music Education Links
Tanbur has a comprehensive index of links to useful flash-based and streamed musicianship resources, from printing staff paper and guitar tuners to a range of selected listening examples. Also available is a quiz-creating tool that covers a variety of genres, including traditional music of non-western cultures.
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Deborah Smith Music
The site offers a comprehensive collection of music theory support materials, including well-constructed worksheets with key knowledge headers, and rhythm and co-ordination games with notated songs. The material is based around the VCE syllabus with links to VCE resources, but is useful for all state curricula.
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Arts Law Centre
The Arts Law Centre is the go-to website for music business legal information in Australia. The site's contents include sample band partnership agreements, copyright notices, and music studio recording agreements, as well as useful checklists for organising festivals, and music managing and publishing.
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Australia Council
The Australia Council site is a source of excellent information for research projects at senior level. Go to the Music section under the Resources link for recent research reports about funded arts programs.
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ArtsMMADD
In the music section of this site, users can access resources for younger learners. These range from elements of music posters, graphic scores, and PDF sets of flash cards to sheet music with mp3 recordings. A free short registration and login process is required to access free resources.
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Play for Life
Play for Life is a hub for promoting community participation in music-making. The site is run by the Music Council of Australia, whose campaigns include the Flame awards, music count us in, music in communities awards, making music being well, more music toolkit, and music in communities network.
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Australasian Computer Music Association
This is a useful site for the serious study of electronic music and sound design research in an Australian context. This site operates as a portal to many different artists and projects throughout Australia.
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Australian Children's Music Foundation
The Foundation supplies information about music programs for Indigenous and isolated schools, including music therapy, music for hope, and a national song-writing competition.
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Association of Music Educators (Vic) Inc
Users can find links to VELS support documents and sample units of work that are relevant across systems, and links to education, arts, and professional associations within Australia.
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Music Education
This site allows the user to find a range of material, from online libraries to venues and equipment. Users can browse curricula and resources by age range, media type, and category.
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Musica Viva Australia
Musica Viva has a useful library of music samples, video footage of performances, and documentary material about classical and contemporary composers and their music.
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Musicological Society of Australia (MSA)
This site is for the support of senior musicology students studying for formal examinations. The site is a subscription service for the newsletter and the Journal of the Musicological Society of Australia.
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Opera for Everyone
The site offers four operas with free audio recordings and teaching manuals to download. The operas are La Traviata, Carmen, The Barber of Seville, and Madame Butterfly.
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Orff Australian Music and Movement Education (ANCOS)
Users here can access lesson free plans to go with the CD Australian Ways with Orff. Users can order the CD and access state association contact details.
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Dalcroze Council of Australia
The site provides information for the user to learn about the philosophy of music through movement in the Eurhythmics section. Course information and publications are also available.
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John Madin's Marimbas
This site outlines a hands-on approach to school music-making using uniquely designed instruments. Free sample music is available.
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Kodaly Music Education Institute of Australia
Here, the user can find downloadable resources (in the Publications section) for use in the Kodaly classroom. Teaching tips, lesson plans, and teaching aids, plus visual reference guides for common Kodaly teaching tools, are also provided.
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World Music Institute
Based in New York, this site is a springboard to get to know contemporary World Music artists and to find where to access their music.
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The Victorian Music Library
The Victorian Music Library makes available low-cost access to sheet music loans for individuals and groups. The card catalogue can be viewed online.
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African Drumming
The site gives for free a list of different rhythms that are briefly notated to allow users to get started on a variety of African rhythms. The full resource is available at cost.
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Music Education Web Portal (The University of Melbourne)
The portal here catalogues highlights of music education resources on the web. Links to new sites are posted every month.
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Musical Futures
Musical Futures contains a rich resources section to support teaching music informally, including the Teacher Resource Pack to facilitate the co-construction of curriculum with students. The site offers many resources for teachers designed by teachers, including easy rock band charts for popular songs.
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Texas School Music Project
The site provides a list of tips and tricks to assist music teachers to master any difficulties that arise in most music teaching contexts. Videos of model lessons and checklists for different kinds of rehearsals and content teaching are also available.
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