MusEd Resources

Music Australia is an online service developed by the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive and other Australian cultural institutions. Music Australia includes many different types of resources, such as music scores, sound recordings, websites and a range of other music-related material held by a large number of Australia's cultural institutions or described by specialist music services. Music Australia covers both, heritage and contemporary music, and includes all formats, styles and genres.

Jazz Improvisation Advisor. Free Open-Source Software from Harvey Mudd College Computer Science Department.

Site for practicing jazz solos and standards.

If you're a music teacher and you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, here are some apps that you may find useful.

Author: P Kirkman (Jan 2009). An Approach for the New Music National Curriculum (PDF) Excellent paper and collection of resources.

The Ping Music Project is a pilot remote music education project in Victoria, Australia. It is happening during February and March 2009. Students from four schools in the Wimmera region of Victoria will be participating. Together we will be composing short compositions/sound stories and uploading them to this website. Ping is the result of the collaboration between the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, The Song Room, and Country Education Project. Generous support has been provided by the Helen MacPherson Smith Trust

Contrapunctus is an interactive music making project conceived by the Third Angle Ensemble. This project allows visitors to generate their own musical contribution, which may be part of a live performance from the Third Angle Ensemble.

Drag and drop different music loops ontot the stage and then record.

Compose an "animal sound song" by selecting loops.

Online Music Factory - mix composer.

Use the samples to make your very own track, then save it and play again later.

Make a nutty sounding Christmas Carol (complete with elves!) or play a pre-loaded carol and then send it to your friends. Just a bit of fun.

VJ Masher lets you edit, mix and blend other young people's art and film to music. Choose a sound track, then add stills and videos, effects and transitions to make your unique VJ Movie.

The Japanese Federation of Construction Contractors have created Build Up!, a site which lets you "build" a skyscraper of music made by construction tools. Most of the site is in Japanese but it is pretty easy to work out what is going on.

BBC - Sequencer, mixer and online music making games

ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

creative commons sounds