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Drum Sleep Aid / Relaxation Tool
http://www.soundsleeping.com/
Drum Sleep Aid / Relaxation Tool

5 Superb Social Media Tools for Musicians
http://bit.ly/5W8eFp
5 Superb Social Media Tools for Musicians
As we roll in to 2010, the selection of band-friendly social media tools is growing. Say goodbye to sporadic MySpace updates and incomplete tour information on Facebook. There are now more options for sharing your music with fans and empowering them to share it with others.

Stanford iPhone Orchestra
http://bit.ly/4nhRPZ
Stanford iPhone Orchestra Is Redefining Music’s Limits
While most of society thinks of music in terms of voices, pianos and woodwinds, perhaps the world should get ready for the rise of a new instrument: the iPhone

WolframTones
http://tones.wolfram.com/about/
WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram's computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music.
Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story--and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition.

Expresslabs
http://www.myexpresslabs.com/
Express Labs was started to help companies avoid hiring individuals who abuse drugs and alcohol. Having a Drug Free Workplace can significantly decrease safety and health hazards.

Musicians on Twitter: 100+ Artists That Tweet
http://mashable.com/2009/07/08/twitter-musicians/
Musicians on Twitter: 100+ Artists That Tweet
As the industry changes, so have the methods by which music is promoted.
Traditional marketing is being replaced by artists and bands using social media sites like Twitter to engage fans, promote their work, and connect with others.
The modern web and the future of the music industry seem almost inextricably intertwined in terms of marketing, listening, communicating, and purchasing.
Twitter is one of the many ways for people to instantly and quickly communicate, and artists are taking advantage of its vast potential.

Smule
http://www.smule.com/
SMULE
iPhone Apps to turn the iPhone into a musical instrument ... absolutely amazing
Ocarina : The most startlingly original app is iPhone Ocarina, which turns the phone into an uncanny simulation of the musical instrument beloved of small children.
Zephyr: Throw Your Creativity To The Wind The beauty of Smule’s iPhone applications is the simplicity of interacting with them, and the whimsy they bring out in the user. Zephyr is yet another perfect embodiment of this.

Technology Review online video documentaries
http://www.techreview.com/video/
Technology Review online video documentaries
Composer Tod Machover's work on easy-to-use instruments and software for composing is helping not only musicians but also those with disabilities. (4min 45sec)
From advances in stem-cell research and developments in nanotechnology to potential solutions for global warming, Technology Review brings the impact of emerging technologies to life with an original mini-documentary series. These unique videos allow you to actually see how the technologies work and hear from the innovators who are creating them.
One Laptop per Child | Music-Making For All | Evolutionary Design | Global Warming | Smarter Prosthetics | Stem Cell Research | High-Throughput Drug Discovery | Artificial Muscle | Nanogates | Sociometrics |

Finale (computer program) for Music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finale_(computer_program)
Finale (computer program)
Finale is the flagship program of a series of scorewriters created by MakeMusic! for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
Several less expensive versions of Finale, with subsets of the main program's features, are made. These include Finale NotePad, Finale NotePad Plus, Printmusic!, and Allegro. Two more such versions, Finale Guitar and Finale Songwriter, have feature sets tailored to different musicians' needs.

The Music Educators Web Authoring Tools
http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/music/mcgregor/webbuilding.html
The Music Educator's Web Authoring Tools
This site is designed for music educators, offering key tutorials in various graphic, sound, and website-buidling applications.
Since we are not technology faculty, our language and design is intended for the beginning website builder.
We assume you are comfortable with using a computer and have little or no experience building a website. Many of the applications we discuss have their own detailed tutorials which are much more thorough than ours, but we have found that by just knowing a few basic steps, you can create education, interactive, and fun websites for your students.

BlackCat Compose
http://www.blackcatsoftware.com/
BlackCat Compose
Musical composition for the whole class. This is a music exploration program that allows children to develop their musical ideas using ICT.

Develop your Music teaching practice using ICT
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/supportpack/
Develop your Music teaching practice using ICT using the "ICT Support Pack" (UK 2006) Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14)
Here are all the materials you will need to teach Music using ICT, from planning and preparation to evaluation.
The Practical Support Pack is an online collection of high quality lesson content, lesson plans, multimedia resources and ICT support materials designed to help teachers develop their teaching practice using ICT.
Step-by-step it gives teaching professionals the opportunity to try out new ideas and new ways of teaching familiar topics in their subject. It also shows the role that ICT can play in achieving learning and teaching objectives.
Includes video case studies
These music modules show how ICT can be used as an inclusive tool in music.
They encourage and enable all pupils - even those without instrumental or technical skills - to take part fully in lessons, experience what it feels like to compose and perform music and appraise music in a meaningful way.

IMS
http://www.interactive-multimedia-systems.net/idea/index.htm
IMS
The basic idea is to design software that interacts with your keyboard-playing in order to provide adaptive and intelligent accompaniment.
Some great online video clips ... useful for teaching.

Finale NotePad (free download software)
http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/
Finale NotePad is your invitation to the world of music notation software! Find out how fun and easy it is to transform your musical ideas into beautifully printed music
For Windows and Apple
Setup Wizard lets you select the instruments or voices you need, then sets up your score automatically.

vanBasco's Karaoke Player (free)
http://www.vanbasco.com/
Free Sing-a-long Karaoke music software : vanBasco's Karaoke Player
vanBasco's Karaoke Player plays MIDI Karaoke files. Lyrics can be displayed in full-screen. You can change and recall tempo, volume, and key of a song, and mute or solo instruments. Best of all: our player is totally ad-free freeware. Download it now!
Additional Language Packs for vanBasco's Karaoke Player are available for
| Catalan | (Simplified) Chinese | Croatian | Dutch | Finnish | French | Hungarian | Polish | Portuguese | Russian | Serbian | Swedish |

Click MusicalKEYS
http://www.bapuli.co.nr/
Click MusicalKEYS will change your computer into a virtual music lab. With 128 musical instruments, you can play the best music of your choice.
You can also save your favorites in the MIDI file format for free using the MIDI Converter utility.

Music to Our Ears (article)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr404.shtml
Music to Our Ears (article)
In the past, because written music requires basic music literacy, the songs that children created on the spur of the moment were difficult to record, replicate, or edit.
Technology has solved that problem by providing a number of inexpensive ways in which children can write and record their own music.
Discover how fifth graders at California's Village School composed original rondos and created their own CD

iBegin Interactive Tutorial Software for Beginning Instrumentalists
http://www.original-works.co.uk/ibegin/index.html
iBegin is an interactive software package containing 43 illustrated, interactive lessons, with 155 scores and parts, which enables beginning wind instrumentalists to learn to play their instrument and to read music in a step-by-step learning style, right from the time that they open the case.

GarageBand
http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/
GarageBand lets you easily perform, record and create your own music. Whether you?e an experienced or aspiring musician. Or just want to feel ?and sound ?like a rock star. With the new version of GarageBand, you can even record multiple tracks at the same time. Sing as you play the guitar, harmonize with your best singing bud or jam with the band, and GarageBand will record every note. And when your tracks are in place, you can view software instruments in music notation and take advantage of new GarageBand features to enhance the tuning and timing of your recordings.

Ask an expert: ICT in music (UK)
http://www.ictadvice.org.uk/index.php?section=ae&theme=89
Ask an expert: ICT in music
National Music Management Group (NMMG) has identified a range of key issues for embedding ICT in music. Young people engage with music in a variety of ways ?both informal and formal. Use May's Ask an Expert theme to explore ways to make sure that experiences gained in one area will foster enthusiasm and progress in the others.
How can I combine music technology with traditional music-making in my lessons?
How can I use ICT to enable my students to extend working outside of lesson times?
How can I combine work with music and other curriculum areas?

Using web-based resources in Primary Music
http://tinyurl.com/4ak9g
Using web-based resources in Primary Music
Using web-based resources is one of a number ways to contribute to a pupil? entitlement to ICT in music lessons. (Using ICT in music lessons is not statutory at Key Stage 1, but the National Curriculum Order for music does encourage worthwhile use of ICT. There is a statutory requirement to use ICT in music at Key Stage 2 and it should be used to ?recall), capture, change and combine sounds? The examples given here describe a number of lessons in which web-based materials were used to help Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils to develop their musical knowledge and understanding.

Using web-based resources in Secondary Music
http://tinyurl.com/4p6ox
Using web-based resources in Secondary Music
Using web-based resources is one of a number ways to contribute to pupils?entitlement to ICT in music lessons at Key Stage 3. ICT in music is statutory at this key stage and it should be used to ?ecall, capture, change, combine, create, manipulate and refine sounds? Examples given here describe a number of activities where ICT is used effectively to support Secondary Music.

Harmonic Vision
http://www.harmonicvision.com/
Harmonic Vision, Inc. is a leading music education software developer founded in 1991 and located in Chicago, Illinois. Our mission is to apply computer technology to significantly enhance the effectiveness of music education in the home, the school, and the studio.

Let's make music with computers
http://www.xtec.es/rtee/eng/fem/index.htm
Let's make music with computers : Lesson plan for secondary education

Music education by computer
http://www.xtec.es/rtee/eng/tutorial/index.htm
Music education by computer

Finale Notepad 2005 software (free)
http://edcompass.smarttech.com/en/learning/softResources/finale.aspx
Finale Notepad 2005 software from MakeMusic! Inc. is a fun and easy way to compose, print and play back your musical ideas.
Select musical notations, arrange them on music sheets, then select instruments or voices for your score. Click Play to hear and see your music as it plays! Easy lyric entry allows you to fit text under the notes. You can even print your music or publish it on the Web.
Also works well on an Interactive Whiteboard IWB

Stringed Instruments Software
http://www.educational-software-directory.net/music/stringed-instruments.html
Stringed Instruments Software : a Guide to Stringed Instrument Learning Software on the Web

Early Music and ICT
http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/foundation/creative/earlymusic.htm
Early Music and ICT
Why use ICT to support Music in the Foundation curriculum | Example ideas in using Music & ICT in the Early years | Early Years Music & ICT reviews | Using a dancemat video clip |

Sample Music and ICT medium term plans
http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/ictmusic/medium_term_plans.htm
Sample Music and ICT medium term plans at Sir Robert Hitcham's Primary School

Using ICT in Music
http://www.ncaction.org.uk/subjects/music/ict-lrn.htm
ICT helps pupils learn in music by supporting the development of musical skills, knowledge and understanding. ICT acts as a tool and a distinctive medium of musical expression, for example pupils can use ICT for recording or listening to music and for creating electronic sounds. ICT strongly influences the creative process and enables pupils to compose in a variety of different ways.

ICT in Music Education
http://www.lle.mdx.ac.uk/hub/musictech/
ICT in Music Education : A resource to support trainees, pupils and teachers with a focus on music technology
(Middlesex University Music PGCE course)

ESP Music
http://www.ESPmusic.co.uk
ESP specialises in Music Software. Our aim is to make music more accessible using technology as a tool.
Compose World | Rhythm Maker | Music Time Machine | Compose World Junior |
ESP have produced information on how Music can be linked to the QCA Scheme of work for ICT .. which can be downloaded as a pdf file.

ICT in UK schools 2004: secondary music
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/publications/index.cfm?fuseaction=pubs.summary&id=3643
ICT in English schools 2004: the impact of government initiatives: secondary music

Finale NotePad 2004 FREE notation software
http://www.finalemusic.com/
Finale NotePad 2004 is FREE introductory notation software that lets you create, play, print and post your music.
Mac and Windows

Free Audio and Video Software
http://download.com.com/2001-2025-0.html?tag=share.dir
Free Audio and Video Software

ICT in Music: Subject Guidance from Cambridgeshire
http://tinyurl.com/2keuv
ICT in Music - Subject Guidance developed by the ICT Service and CAS
The table has columes labeled "Curriculum examples/QCA", "What ICT Equipment is needed", "Enabling Features" and "ICT Capability"
In the form of a booklet ... (Word Document) .. a practical document

List of music software and websites (word doc)
http://www.shambles.net/music/Muappendix/MusicResources_jkenny.doc
A list of music software and websites compiled by Jo Kenny JKenny@devon.gov.uk
music | software | key stage | On-line Sequencers |

ICT Advice Music Online Inset (archived)
http://forum.ngfl.gov.uk/
ICT Advice online Inset: Using ICT to support the teaching and learning of music
Welcome to this online Inset, provided by Becta's ICT Advice in partnership with NAME. It will focus on five strands for Key Stage 2 and 3 teachers using technology to teach music. Classroom materials and opportunities for online discussions relevant to each strand will be available.

Music Looper
http://www.musiclooper.com/
Super Duper Music Looper is an amazing new program that allows you to create music on your PC. Using a paintbrush, an erase tool and a mouse, it's a fun and easy way to make songs come alive. How does it work? Just grab a few instruments or musical building blocks called loops, paint them on the screen and before long you'll have a complete song. It's that easy. Best of all, you don't need to know anything about music. All you need is Super Duper Music

Compose World Junior
http://www.espmusic.co.uk/cwjr.htm
Compose World Junior is a music exploration program designed for all ages. Phrases of music are represented as pictures and/or words. These phrases can be any length and can contain both melody and harmony.
The phrases are used as building blocks and can be sequenced in any order or combination. Compositions are produced by listening to your phrases and experimenting with different orders and combinations in the "Sequencer".

Music Editing area on Shambles
http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/music/
Music Editing area on Shambles ... if you are looking for computer software to help with music ... also try this area on Shambles

Composing with Computers Spring 2003
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Music-and-Theater-Arts/index.htm
MIT's OpenCourseWare - Composing with Computers Spring 2003
In this course we will use computers and computer-aided technology as compositional tools, that is, as a means to music-making and an avenue to approach musical and acoustic concepts. Each unit of study will consist of a series of short composition projects using specific types of hardware and software in clearly delineated ways. This will involve (in broad order) live recording and digital editing, digital processing, analog sound synthesis (real and virtual), MIDI sequencing, and building interactive environments. The course will culminate in a large, final composition and a public concert during the last week.

Music Box from Topologika
http://www.topologika.co.uk/
Music Box from Topologika
It's just like painting on the screen, except that instead of creating a work of visual art, your pupils will in no time at all be exploring sounds, pitch, rhythm, and composition.
Music is a demon for some teachers. If you're not a confident musician it can be difficult to get things going, and even if you are, you need to incorporate ICT. Music Box 2 tackles these frustrations head-on, while encouraging pupils to THINK, create and explore?
MusicBox 2 is the definitive pre-notation music software in thousands of schools in the UK. The enjoyment and learning young musicians get from it is limited only by imagination.

Music ICT Resources at Kent NGfL (UK)
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/music/index.htm
Music ICT Resources at Kent NGfL ... a very useful collection for any music teacher.
Using ICT in music lessons is not statutory at Key Stage 1, but the National Curriculum Order for music does encourage worthwhile use of ICT.
There is a statutory requirement to use ICT in music at Key Stage 2 and it should be used to ?recall), capture, change and combine sounds?

Music Factory from Logotron
http://www.logo.com/cat/view/musicfactory.html
Music Factory from Logotron
Play music in realtime - Play in 'live' mode to explore the different sounds and combinations before building up a composition to save.
Music factory gives an ideal foundation to computer-based music making, introducing concepts and processes found in more advanced sequencing packages. Music Factory allows all non-musicians to produce compositions quickly and easily, by building patterns and sequences. All the sounds within each style have been selected so that they 'fit together'.

Audacity is a free audio editor.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
Audacity is being developed by a team of volunteers under the open-source model.
SOftware versions for Windows | Mac OS 9/X | Linux / Unix |

Steinberg Education
http://www.steinberg.net/
Steinberg supports education professionals with a special service. We offer a wide range of teaching materials, school projects, an education newsletter and school versions of our software.
We also offer you the knowledge of experienced teachers and academics in the field of music.
Fundamentals | Cubase VST/Cubasis VST | WaveLab/WaveLab LITE | Education Magazine | The complete recording studio | Basic Composing and Arranging | Cubase VST In Music Education | Basic Composing and Arranging | Notation and Scoring | Music and Videos | Computers in music education |

Sibelius
http://www.sibelius.com/
Sibelius Starclass is the new software to help you teach music at elementary and primary school.
Auralia is the world's most comprehensive ear training program, suitable for students at all levels.
Musition is the complete music theory training and testing software, suitable for students of all ages.
G7 is the ultimate software for writing songs and playing better guitar.

Using ICT to record and explore...
http://vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/docserver.php?docid=999
Using ICT to record and explore...
will help pupils to:
- use and investigate sounds and structures
- refine and enhance performance and composition
- extend their knowledge of different styles of music

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