Musical
Elements

Composition
and Notation

Welcome to the Music pages.
Look at the 'Instruments and Listening' ideas and resources listed below.
You can also browse around the other Music pages using the links on the bar above.

Instruments:

• Introducing Instruments - An interesting way of introducing instruments to children in a structured way.
• Everyday Instruments - Use everyday classroom objects as instruments and get your children to use them to perform various rhythms.
• Visual Cues to Stop Playing! - When introducing instruments, use visual cues to get children to stop playing and to save your voice!

Listening to Music:

• Words, Instruments, Pictures - Use these sheets to get children to REALLY listen to music. Ask them to write 3 words in the top section that describe the music (scary, happy etc), the names of 3 instruments they could hear in the piece in the next section, and in the bottom row they can draw three relevant pictures. ENJOY! Contributed by Gary Hughes.
• Musical Words and Pictures - Children listen to a chosen piece of music and respond in words and pictures. Contributed by Catherine Mitri.
• Rain Dance - Make the sounds of a rainstorm in your classroom.
• Egyptian Soundtracks - Explore the soundtrack to an Egyptian film... where you decide what is happening.
• Mood Music! - Listen to a variety of types of music, and discuss the mood they suggest.
• Face and Place - Encourage children to think about the music they are listening to, using this simple technique.

Music Room Resources:

• Music Resources - A selection of fantastic music resources which can be used to support your current music teaching.
• Music Resources for Teachers - Another list of excellent Music resources to support teachers.
• Music Room Education Bestsellers - A list of the best-selling products from the Education range at Musicroom.com

A selection of the Teaching Ideas Bestsellers...
I Can Read Music (see also I Can Write Music)	Music Activity Book	Musical Instruments Colouring Book	Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Achievement Stickers	Hedger: Allygaloo! Teacher's Book And CD

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Submit your own Music Idea!

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You can also submit ideas and resources via email, or using this form.

Links to other sites:

• One More Time! - Musical plays and collections of songs for children in primary schools, choirs and youth groups.
• Children's Music - This site has a very useful online song book and instrument guide.
• A Child Sings - Free songs to use in the classroom.
• MusiqTrader - Provides online classified advertising for parents, musicians, music teachers, schools and local music shops from the UK to buy and sell second hand, old, used and new musical instruments.
• DanMagic - A totally free initiative provided by the Royal College of Organists to introduce young children to the organ, using a fantastic animated story,
• Spiderweb Musicals - High-quality, fun and user-friendly junior school musicals for Key Stage 2.
• MES Direct - Suppliers of lots of useful musical equipment for schools.
• Music Lessons Online - MusicLessonsOnline contains over 80 articles, all written by a team of experts who have entensive experience in this area.
• Meadows Music - They produce and sell arrangements of popular music to school music departments and other organisations involving youth music players.
• School Guitar - Free lessons for learning the guitar.

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