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ACID XPress - Music freeware

Download and install ACID Xpress, then get loops from Loops and Samples or from ACIDplanet.com to create your own music. Easy to use at any age and any level of experience.

Audacity

Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. There is a 'How-to' Word document relating to editing audio with Audacity on the Ferl website at: Workshop: Editing audio with Audacity http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=3D16394

Band Music Online (mp3s)

This site is a portal for free downloads by various, mainly unknown, bands who have submitted music as mp3s for free downloading. The genres include Alternative, Blues, Classical, Country, Electronic, Jazz, Metal, Pop Rock, Rap, Hip-Hop, Urban, and World Folk.

Digital Music Notebook

You can download this free software for PC and learn new skills with interactive music books, play and print interactive digital sheet music, record and assess your performance, perform karaoke with each digital sheet music title, and record and assess your performance.

Drums Online

Play drums with a mouse or keyboard. Virtual Drum Machine - an online drum machine that you can program. Includes drum note learning, drum set games, and drum sheet music.

Drumsteps

Drumsteps, which has been made available on the BBC website, is a screen-based virtual environment which allows the user to build sets of steps and produce percussion sounds by dropping balls down the steps. It enables all students, including those without traditional note reading and writing skills, to engage in musical composition and to learn about basic composition skills through exploration and experimentation.

Free and Legal Music Downloads

Freeplay Music is the biggest and the fastest growing "free" broadcast music production library in the world. The site has an extensive search facility for production music, recording artists, and sound effects. Freeplay's first product, the Freeplay Music Library, is a comprehensive collection of High End Broadcast production music spanning all the popular musical genres, available for download either on-line or via Portable Hard Drive.

Free Audio and Video Software

Free Audio and Video Software suitable for arts teaching and learning.

Freebyte

This site contains free music notation software, blank music paper, online music lessons, educational music software, software synthesizers, sequencers, music players, Karaoke players, sound recorders and editors, music-related utilities, MP3 files online, sounds and effects, Midi files, and more. These are available through a range of music systems, languages, formats, and music and audio search engines.

GarageBand

GarageBand lets you easily perform, record, and create your own music whether you are an experienced or aspiring musician.

HammerHead Freeware

HammerHead is a simple TR-909-like drum computer program aiming at the dance-scene. You can use it to create perfect Techno loops, Jungle patterns, or House beats, but it's also suitable for Hip Hop, Triphop, Rap, Industrial, and almost any other music you can think of. HammerHead has six separate channels, 29 built-in drum sounds, six complete breakbeats, and the possibility to import six samples of your own. You can save your patterns to completely noise-free CD-quality wave files to use them with your sampler, tracker, or sequencer program. It is PC based software.

iDrum Freeware

iDrum turns your computer into a slamming beatbox ready to lay down your grooves, your way. From ambient downtempo to bangin' hip hop to frenetic drum and bass, iDrum has got your back (beat). iDrum runs as both a standalone native OS X application and as a plug-in for Pro Tools, GarageBand, Logic, and Ableton Live. This means you can use iDrum to create beats from right within your favourite music software environment, perfectly synced with your arrangement and always right where you left it when you return to your project. You can download this demo version for 14 days.

Acid Pro 7

Sony ACID Pro 7 software is a DAW powerhouse that combines multitrack recording and mixing, MIDI sequencing, and legendary loop manipulation for seamless music creation and post production. Includes over 3,000 loops and 1,000 MIDI files for music creation, as well as bundled software and effects from Garritan, iZotope, Native Instruments, and Submersible Music.

Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional - Software for Learning information

Digital-imaging software for creating motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, DVD, the web, and mobile devices. Students can use them to create 2 and 3-dimensional compositions, animations, and visual effects. This Software for Learning page contains information and resources to support teaching and learning using Adobe After Effects software.

Adobe Audition

Adobe Audition provides a multi-track recording studio for producing audio effects of a professional standard. Students can record their own music, voice, or other audio; edit it; and mix it with other audio or musical parts. Audio and video can also be integrated using Adobe video applications.

Adobe Encore DVD

Adobe Encore DVD supports learners to create sophisticated, multi-language DVDs. They can edit a video, create menus, and then use a rewritable DVD drive to burn the video onto a DVD disc. Video and audio files can be imported and converted to MPEG video and Dolby Digital audio files, and learners can choose to work with pre-designed menu styles or build their own.

Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 - Software for Learning information

Video editing tools for transferring footage and adding special effects. This Software for Learning page contains information and resources to support teaching and learning using Adobe Premiere Elements software.

Ars Nova Music Education and Composition Software

Ars Nova hosts links to music education and composition software such as Practica Musica, Counterpointer, and Songworks II. Software, manuals, demonstrations and sharing of ideas online are useful additions on this site.

ArtRage

From this web page you can download ArtRage, a paint package designed to look and feel like real paint, and which is easy to use with a simple but modern interface. Students can play around with tools such as oils, chalks, pencils, and felt pens. 'Image tracing' allows you to create great images from your own photographs. This Software for Learning page contains information and resources to support teaching and learning using ArtRage software.

Audio, MIDI & Music on Mac - Mac Music

Using macintosh software and hardware to make music: Daily news, large forums, software downloads, 3000+ reviewed sites, classifieds, freeware, software updates... MacMusic.org is made by and for musicians, producers, sound enginneers, protools users etc.

Auralia

A comprehensive, engaging and easy to use ear training program. With 41 topics, the aural training exercises are perfect for everyone, from beginners to advanced students, and the easy to use interface makes it the perfect way to introduce music ear training to people of all ages. Auralia is suitable for both classical and contemporary musicians of any age and ability.

Band in a Box

Well used in secondary schools. Type in the chords to any song using standard chord symbols like C or Fm7b5; and Band-in-a-Box does the rest, automatically generating a complete professional-quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, strings and more. Plus, add REAL accompaniment to your song with RealTracks and Real Drums- actual recordings of professional studio musicians.

Cakewalk

Cakewalk is the world’s leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording. These products include award-winning digital audio workstations and sequencers, fully-integrated music software and hardware solutions, and innovative virtual instruments. Millions of musicians worldwide - including Grammy® and Emmy®-winning producers, composers, sound designers, and engineers - use Cakewalk products daily to produce audio for the professional music, film, broadcast, and video game industries.

Computer Access NZ Trust: Music Software DVD

This DVD was distributed free of charge to all schools in 2006. It is only able to be used on Windows. As well as a direct link to the CANZ website this DVD features a range of software which can be accessed, in most cases, free of charge. Of most interest to music educators is the music software which includes music theory programmes, a guitar tuning programme, simple composition tools and even a karaoke programme to sing along to. Highlights of the music software are the Best Practice programme and the Breakdance machine. Copies are available free from info@canz.org.nz

Computer Music Limited

Computer Music Limited are specialists in notation and educational music software providing a 'one stop' shopping service for musicians, music educators and music hobbyists who wish to purchase high quality Music Software and associated MIDI Hardware.

Corel Painter 1X

"Art software mimics real paint" - Corel's new Painter lX is the closest software has yet come to reproducing the effects of paints and brushes with a digital palette, the company claims. New features include a revamped oil-painting system in which colours behave very much like the real thing; enhanced brush controls; snap-to-path painting; and water colours that stay 'wet' between sessions, allowing you to resume painting where you left off.

Creating a Virtual Medieval Scene - ICT Learning Experience

This ICT Learning Experience describes how students created a virtual scene to communicate and present what they found out about medieval society during a social sciences unit. Students used KidPix to draw scenes and stitched these together using QuickTime VR Authoring software to create a 360-degree panorama. Developed by Lower Hutt Cluster as part of the ICT Professional Development Clusters Project.

Creative Suite 5 Design Premium (Adobe)

The Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium provides multimedia software and resources for teaching and learning. This comprehensive solution covers image creation and editing, graphic manipulation, flash publishing and web publishing.

Dance Pack

Techno and Electronica is the message transmitted by this superb bundle of libraries. New York Dance supplies the basic materials needed to create music that spans House, Electro, Jungle and more. Futurist Drum 'n' Bass gives you even more fine beats and synth elements. Techno Club Grooves 1: Funky xtreams I and Vintage Analog Synths: Vortexual Amplitude add character by giving you access to rare and vintage gear. Processed Drumkits: Zero-Gravity Beats adds something completely unique and original - acoustic drum performances by former Sugarcube Siggi Baldursson, tweaked and processed into pulverizing grooves, made to order for intense dance music.

Director 11.5 (Adobe)

Director supports learners in using audio, video, and graphics multimedia. Students can use tools for web developing that incorporate photo-quality images, full-screen or long-form digital video, sounds, animation, 3D models, text, hypertext, bitmap, images, games, e-learning courses, and Adobe Flash content on CD, DVDs, video, or web pages.

Dreamweaver CS4 (Adobe)

Website design and development software that combines visual layout tools and HTML code editing. Dreamweaver CS4 supports learners supports learners in building professional websites, through a design environment that uses cascading style sheets (CSS), application development features, and the option of viewing the HTML code.

Essential Tools for iLife

Essential Tools for iLife is part of the Curriculum Expansion Series™, containing an iMovie plug-in and resources to enhance the use of Apple's iMovie and iDVD applications in the classroom. Features of iLife include the use of green screen background imaging, and importing PDF files to create watermarks in your movies. The expansion pack comes with a collection of curriculum themes for iDVD and music files to add interest to your applications. iLife can be used with other applications such as 'I Can Animate' to create further video and DVD effects.

Fantastic Feathers - ICT Learning Experience

This ICT Learning Experience describes how students visited Mt Bruce National Wildlife Centre to observe New Zealand native birds and develop their existing knowledge of them. They used a digital camera to record images of birds and Microsoft Word to write and present their information. They also used KidPix to help them to draw birds and design their birdfeeders. Developed by Masterton Cluster as part of the ICT Professional Development Clusters Project.

Finale

Finale offers the power, flexibility, and freedom to create any music you can imagine, from lyrics and staff layout to Garritan sounds and new fonts. Finale provides tools to compose, arrange, play, and print music. Software available includes: Finale Allegro, Print Music, Song Writer, Notepad.

Finale (computer software) for Music

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. This site gives information about the software.

Freebyte

This site contains free music notation software, blank music paper, online music lessons, educational music software, software synthesizers, sequencers, music players, Karaoke players, sound recorders and editors, music-related utilities, MP3 files online, sounds and effects, Midi files, and more. These are available through a range of music systems, languages, formats, and music and audio search engines.

Fretplay

This site has a wide variety of popular tabs as well as good online video lessons. It includes a section on playing and reading tabs and unpacking chords.

GarageBand

GarageBand lets you easily perform, record, and create your own music whether you are an experienced or aspiring musician.

GNU Solfege

An aural software program for ear training, harmonic progressions, scales, chord singing, rhythm interval singing, and identifying intervals.

Goldwave - Audio Software

Goldwave is a professional digital audio editing tool available as a free trial. Using this tool users can, for example, record and edit audio for podcasting, apply special effects such as fade and echo, and edit music for dance and drama activities.

Groovy Music

Sibelius Groovy Music is a series of three programmes which make teaching music to primary students easy and fun. Generalist teachers are supported with clear and well-written materials to help students create their own music as well as carry out directed learning activities. Each programme has its own theme: Groovy Music Shapes (ages 5 - 7); Groovy Music Jungle (ages 7 - 9); and Groovy Music Future City (ages 9 - 11).

Harmonic Vision

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

Harmony Assistant

Harmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing. Its harmonizing capabilities enable the composer to quickly and efficiently build tunes that include accompaniment, multiple instruments, and drum patterns. Its full page edit and engraver modes will ease editing and page set-up of your scores. Harmony Assistant runs on Macintosh (Mac OS 8.6 to Mac OS X) and Windows (95, 98, ME, 2000, NT4 or XP).

iBegin Interactive Tutorial Software for Beginning Instrumentalists

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.

iLife

iLife is Apple's suite of digital applications including iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, and GarageBand, plus an innovative new application called iWeb for creating stunning web pages, blogs, and podcasts.

Jam Trax

A fun way to create your own pop, rock, and hip-hop songs using music samples called loops. Jam Trax software includes over 600 loops using instruments such as drums, keyboards, horns, guitars, bass, and sound effects that you can combine any way you want. To make a song, simply pick the instruments and effects you want to use, "paint" the sounds into tracks using the Paintbrush tool, and click Play to listen. Jam Trax software automatically adjusts the pitch and tempo of every loop to match your song so you can compose with confidence.

Acid House - Definitions

Find out about Acid House music, which sits under the umbrella of electronic music, and the subsequent smaller grouping of House music.

Amplifier

Amplifier.co.nz is the home of New Zealand music. The site provides information about NZ music, and New Zealand music news. You can listen to kiwi musicians, watch NZ music videos and purchase CDs and legal MP3 music downloads by kiwi artists. Amplifier is the longest running legal music download site in New Zealand.

Arts and Technology Advancing Education

This Texas site reviews the considerations of a symposium to develop a Digital Arts Task Force in recognition that the promises and demands of the 21st century require today's students to live and work in a rapidly changing technological society. The paper asserts that through comprehensive arts education, students are better educated and more prepared to succeed in this challenging environment.

Blogging in the Arts: Online Workshop

Blogging in the Arts was an Arts Online Workshop facilitated over two weeks in November 2007 by Chris Burcin, HOD Music/Performing Arts, Waimea College. This summary highlights the processes outlined by Chris on setting up, changing, and administering blogs. It shares examples of effective New Zealand school blogsites which feature student work.

Digital Literacy Across The Curriculum

This handbook is aimed at educational practitioners and school leaders in both primary and secondary schools who are interested in creative and critical uses of technology in the classroom.

Dramatising Greedy Cat with iMovie - ICT Learning Experience

This ICT Learning Experience describes how a junior class dramatised their favourite story and recorded it using a digital video camera and iMovie software. Students recorded their dramatisation to create a movie to use as a reading resource. Developed by STAR Cluster as part of the ICT Professional Development Cluster Project.

Drum and Bass – The Wikipedia Guide

Drum and Bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b, DnB, dnb, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. The guide provides rich information about this style of music.

Four Seasons Music Composition - ICT Learning Experience

This ICT Learning Experience describes how students created electronic music to represent the four seasons. The class explored Vivaldi's Four Seasons, then created their own modern versions using HammerHead Rhythm Station software. Examples of students work and helpsheets are included. Developed by Glen Eden Intermediate Cluster as part of the ICT Professional Development Clusters Project.

120 Years of Electronic Music - Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 - 1990

This site charts the development of electronic musical instruments from 1870 to 1990. Each entry provides an overview of the instrument and audio and video files are included. The project is an ongoing one and the site is updated on a regular basis.

13 Lessons to Teach Your Child About Digital Photography

This website provides 13 easy lessons to teach digital photography. Click on the some of the highlighted words and it leads you to another page about the words, as well as giving many links and a range of tips and tutorials.

60 Second Shakespeare

This page from the BBC website was developed to support a UK competition, but there are also guidelines, resources, and information for studying and producing Shakespeare plays, and for learning film production skills. Includes teachers' notes and lesson plans for different steps in the production process, and examples of student videos from the UK hosted on the site.

8notes.com

A large library of free sheet music, riffs, lessons and tools. There is a midi converter, tab converter, groove generator, drum riffs, metronome, music theory, tests and games, music glossary, biographies, image gallery and musical jokes.

After Fa‘alupega (Headless State)

This is an oil painting by the Sāmoan / Mäori artist Lily Laita (1969–), created in New Zealand in 2001. The painting is called After Fa‘alupega (Headless State) and is a brightly coloured, complex work. To the left stands Nafanua, a Sāmoan goddess figure, here adorned with a pigeon’s head. To the right are four figures making ava (kava). A motif of stars obscures their heads. Rays of light from the stars transform as the four clubs of Nafanua. The words ‘Headless State’, in capitals, are written backwards and left to right in the bottom left foreground. The painting measures 140 centimetres high by 207 centimetres wide and is from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

All About Art

This webpage was created by young students for students. It has information on European arts, artists and movements, and includes some student work. It links to other sites, particularly key galleries and museums.

All My Faves

This website presents a colourful page of editors' picks for the top sites for educators. Included in this are selected sites for art, health, history, languages, literature, writing skills, maths, music, science and technology.

Ancient Theatre

Didaskalia is an interesting site for ancient theatre focused on Greek and Roman theatre. The site operates under the auspices of the University of Warwick and material is well researched and authoritative. The study area is of most use including detailed material on Greek and Roman stagecraft, visual resources with virtual reconstructions of a number of ancient Greek and Roman theatres, and useful links to other sites.

Art Cyclopedia

Here you can search great art on the internet by browsing artists by name, artworks by title, and art museums by name or location.

Art History Database

The art history index of famous artists leads to imagery and in-depth information such as biographies of over 22,000 artists, with links to over 200,000 images from museums.

Art History Resources on the Web

This site provides in-depth hyperlinked lists divided by period. It is well organised and readily usable by art history teachers. Lots of useful resources and links for teachers of Levels 2 and 3.

Art Museum Image Consortium

A huge catalogue of thumbnail images of over 100,000 digitized works of art, text, and multimedia provided by a consortium of over 35 art museums around the world. Search by creator, creation date, and other key access points. Includes art forms from different cultures ranging from prehistoric to contemporary time periods. Provides extensive rights information for each image, reproduction request forms, links to publications, and institutional membership agreements.

Art Project

A unique collaboration by Google with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail

The Art Studio Chalkboard

A resource University of Evansville Indianna for artists and art students that focuses on the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting.

The Artchive

Virtual gallery of classic and contemporary painting, sculpture, as well as art critique, reviews, and links. The theory and criticism section contains good resources for handouts as does the artchive link where over 200 artists are represented by over 2000 clear scans.

Artcyclopedia

The Artcyclopedia is an index of online museums and image archives. You can search by artist, title or museum for artists’ work. The site also makes searching for artists easier by creating a number of sub-headings, including women artists.

ArtEdventures: From Cave Art to Your Art – 30,000 Years of New Media

Encourage your students to explore how artists, including themselves, use art media, with this interactive site from Sanford ArtEdventures. Students  can create their own video, by selecting  from a range of clips related to using oil paint, acrylics, watercolours, markers, and coloured pencils. They upload images of their own, and add text and music to complete their video.

Articulation

This blog demonstrates one school sharing their student work and advocating for art at the same time.

Artists of Brucke: Themes in German Expressionist Prints

This Museum of Modern Art exhibition fosters interactive study of the Expressionist movement illustrating over 120 works in more than 50 comparative groupings.

Arts at Rocky Mountain School for the Gifted and Creative

A place to see what is happening in Fine Arts at Rocky Mountain School for the Gifted and Creative.

ArtsAlive: English Theatre

ArtsAlive English Theatre is designed to uncover the behind-the-scenes world of professional English Canadian Theatre.

ArtsConnectEd

Explore the combined collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center through hundreds of new features in ArtsConnectEd. Search over 100,000 resources in the Art Finder, including works of art, texts, audio, video, and interactive resources. Save and customize items in the redesigned Art Collector.

Artslynx Intensive: Theatre Design

This website provides resources on theatre, set and costume design, and more.

Artsonia

The Artsonia website is popular in the United States for displaying student art work and for generating some funding.

Artsonia Student Gallery

An online student gallery for the purposes of sharing student work in the arts.

Aussie Music Teacher

This site offers free and purchasable resources for music teachers for all curriculum levels.

BBC Arts and Culture

This BBC site has many resources of interest across the curriculum. Includes audio clips of famous people. Teachers of English will find useful resources contained in the following sections: Arts, Music and Entertainment, Learning English, English Language, Arts and Society.

Berklee Shares

Online music lessons from the faculty and alumni of Berklee: Production and Technology, Songwriting and Arranging, Music Business and Careers, Music Education, Music Improvisation. Free lessons for Bass, Brass, DJ and Turntable, Drums and Percussion, Guitar, Keyboards, Voice, Winds. A library of MP3 audio, QuickTime movie, and PDF files.

Blogging in the Arts: Online Workshop

Blogging in the Arts was an Arts Online Workshop facilitated over two weeks in November 2007 by Chris Burcin, HOD Music/Performing Arts, Waimea College. This summary highlights the processes outlined by Chris on setting up, changing, and administering blogs. It shares examples of effective New Zealand school blogsites which feature student work.

Bollywood

This multi-media Bollywood unit is one of an extensive number on units that have been developed by Australian educators to support their Studies of Asia scope and sequence documents of English, SOSE and The Arts.

Bravenet

Explore the free websites and web tools provided through Bravenet.

Capital E

Capital E is a centre for Creative Technology and Live performance for Children. Located in Wellington’s civic square it houses ONTV and Soundhouse as well being the home of the National Theatre for Children, a professional company that tours New Zealand theatres annually with a programme of works for children aged 2-7 and 8-12. All programmes offer free teachers resource enabling teachers to extend the experiences back into the classroom.

Cartoonist and Animator Doug Allen

Doug Allen is a cartoonist and illustrator whose work has featured in a variety of American magazines, books and newspapers. The novel animated web design reflects his work, with caricatures leading the viewer along walk-through exhibitions of his work.

Cartoonist and Illustrator Jim Goodring

On Jim Woodring’s site you can view his illustrations and cartoons. Much of the work is computer-generated but he also includes samples of black and white sketches which would be useful to students. The list of links will connect you with a variety of American, European and Asian cartoon-related sites.

Cartoonists

Gary Panter is an American cartoonist, illustrator and painter. His linear style derived from pen and ink could be useful for students working on woodcuts, portraiture or figurative work, cartooning, animations or graphic painting styles.

Cézanne's Astonishing Apples

This art feature allows you to explore and learn about Cezanne and his work, and to interact online through a range of activities and written tasks. You can also hear a story about Cezanne - An Apple a Day - inspired by his paintings.

Characterisation in Drama - An Introduction

This wikipedia page provides a liberally linked introduction to characterisation in drama.

Christmas Sheet Music

This site has free Christmas sheet music and guitar tabs. Most of these sites listed on the two web pages do not exclusively feature Christmas sheet music. In other words, they have Christmas sheet music, but others as well, so you have to navigate to the Christmas section of the site.

Circus Arts

This Australian education site contains links to a range of interesting historical and practical sites about performing arts related to the circus.

Classics for Kids

Classical music's great composers come to life through music and stories. Listen to classical music, find out more about the great composers, discover the instruments of the orchestra and play interactive games such as 'Composer Time Machine'.

Collect Art

Collect Art is a site where you can create collections of Whitney images, slide shows, and catalogues, and email them to students, family, and friends.

Comic Art: Drawn and Quarterly

Drawn and Quaterly are publishers of comics. The site includes samples of works by a wide array of artists, brief biographies and previews of books. From this site you can view different graphic styles for further research of individual artists.

Comics on the Verge

Comics on the Verge provides access to an array of comic illustrations, exhibitions, samples of student work and background information on the development of comics. It also provides links to sites of individual cartoonists.

Commedia Costumes

This is an amusing but potentially useful and educational site when you follow the links at the bottom of the page for Commedia character costumes presented as paper cut-out dolls.

Commedia Stock Characters and Canovacci

This site has good outlines of stock characters – personality, mask, movement, costume - and an example of a basic canovacci (plot outline).

Cool Kiwi - Philip Patston

This page from the wickED site provides an interview with Philip Patston, a comedian and actor who is disabled. Includes Philip's responses to questions from students about his life and his experiences in a wheelchair.

Costumes, Makeup and Actors - The History of American Theatre

This site has a comprehensive range of resources on the history of American Theatre.

Costuming for the Theatre

This large and comprehensive site seems to cover all periods and a wide range of aspects of costuming for the theatre including the design and making of costumes and accessories.

Craft – Search: The International Craft Search Engine

This is a key international search engine for Art and Craft (UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and is particularly useful for searching galleries.

Cultural Symbols and Art

This site links to other sites on symbols under a wide range of categories, countries, culture and civilisations.

Dance Videos

A site that gives links to a variety of instructional dance videos, from which some basic movement vocabulary in a variety of dance genres can be learned. Suitable for teachers of Year 9-13 classes.

Dancer's Journal

This interactive site has a collection of dance lessons about the life and work of Martha Graham. Martha created her modern dance company many years ago. There is a section for teachers and music and video clips.

Delta Blues Museum

The Museum houses thousands of books, recordings, tapes, CDs, videos, rare photographs and memorabilia tracing the roots of this unique American phenomenon.

Downloading YouTube Videos (Word 52KB)

This document summarises how to download and save videos sourced from YouTube with tried and true links and instructions.

Dramatising Greedy Cat with iMovie - ICT Learning Experience

This ICT Learning Experience describes how a junior class dramatised their favourite story and recorded it using a digital video camera and iMovie software. Students recorded their dramatisation to create a movie to use as a reading resource. Developed by STAR Cluster as part of the ICT Professional Development Cluster Project.

Drum and Bass – The Wikipedia Guide

Drum and Bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b, DnB, dnb, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. The guide provides rich information about this style of music.

Drum and Bass in the UK

Information about drum and bass in the UK, with top 10 mp3 downloads, podcasts, news, event listings forum and chat room.

Drum Lessons Database

This online resource for percussion players and music educators contains free lessons, drum tips, drum websites, industry news and information on contests and products.

Drums Online

Play drums with a mouse or keyboard. Virtual Drum Machine - an online drum machine that you can program. Includes drum note learning, drum set games, and drum sheet music.

E-Flux Visual Arts Network

Established in January 1999 in New York, e-flux is an international network which reaches more then 50,000 visual art professionals on daily bases through its website, e-mail list and special projects. Its news digest – e-flux announcements – distributes information on some of the world's most important contemporary art exhibitions, publications and symposia.

Elite Dance Broadcast Network

This provides a list of many sites that contain dance video clips. Each listing provides some useful technology notes.

Encyclopedia of African Music

Includes alphabetised artist list, related African links and African music sources.

Energy In The Air: Sounds From The Orchestra

On this site, you can explore the unique sounds of the symphony orchestra created by the brass, strings, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Over 20 instruments are defined and pictured, and their special locations in the orchestra are identified.

Essentials of Music

If you are studying music, find information on classical music featuring musical eras, composer biographies and musical terminology.

Europeana: Think Culture

Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 2 million digital items. Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects; Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers; Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts; Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts. Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe's museums and galleries, archives, libraries, and audio-visual collections.

Explore the World Around You with OOKL

With OOKL you can learn more about cultural spaces and exhibitions, create personal memories and share knowledge and stories.

Film and Television Music

This site is dedicated to the art (and business) of film and television music. It links to a range of film scores to pop music that show up on soundtrack CD and LPs. There are reviews, features information about composers and other resources including a listing of trailer and teaser music for a number of films, a list of scores that are available on DVD as a special feature or isolated audio track and links to other great websites that specialize in anything from printed magazines, composing software, and media events.

Film Soundtracks

Wikipedia contains information about the creative process and contains historical notes on a vast number of film soundtracks. There are a huge number of links to scores that feature no songs, only music. This is usually orchestral and sometimes other non-traditional instruments are used.

Format for Radio Play Scripts

This web page, from the 'Bow Down Shadrach' radio drama resource, provides a format for creating a radio play script. Includes a link to a template based on extracts from the play, 'Bow Down Shadrach', and a suggestion for finding modern and old-time radio scripts on the internet.

Four Seasons Music Composition - ICT Learning Experience

This ICT Learning Experience describes how students created electronic music to represent the four seasons. The class explored Vivaldi's Four Seasons, then created their own modern versions using HammerHead Rhythm Station software. Examples of students work and helpsheets are included. Developed by Glen Eden Intermediate Cluster as part of the ICT Professional Development Clusters Project.

Free and Legal Music Downloads

Freeplay Music is the biggest and the fastest growing "free" broadcast music production library in the world. The site has an extensive search facility for production music, recording artists, and sound effects. Freeplay's first product, the Freeplay Music Library, is a comprehensive collection of High End Broadcast production music spanning all the popular musical genres, available for download either on-line or via Portable Hard Drive.

Fretplay

This site has a wide variety of popular tabs as well as good online video lessons. It includes a section on playing and reading tabs and unpacking chords.

GarageBand - Getting Started (PDF)

This is a downloadable PDF Getting Started manual for GarageBand and is suitable for use by students.

Gene Fama: Samples and Tutorials for Comic Illustration

Gene Fama is a comic artist whose site includes not only samples of his comics and illustrations, and a sketch book with pages of preliminary studies, but also an extensive section on the ‘process'. This includes chapters that document the process of developing ideas and producing a comic, how computers and new technology have impacted on the process, and techniques and processes using computers, scanners, tips on colour etc.

The Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Trust offers a vast array of services. For instance, the Getty Research Institute provides access to a range of online research tools. The Research Library is accessible to remote users and provides access to the Library Catalogue. The Explore Art section allows you to browse many of the works of art on display at the Getty by name, object, theme, or topic. You can also view current or past exhibitions. There are also lesson plans and ideas for discussion on many aspects of art and art history.

Guitar Chords

An online guitar chords finder where users can find, hear chords and see chord positions on a realistic virtual guitar. Includes chords for left or right handed players, the use of a capo, and users can also save the chords that they construct.

Guitar Jam Session

A collection of online chords and riff loops that users can play along with. Users can turn the loops on and off and adjust the volume level. Would be useful for users who wish to develop music soloing techniques.

Guitar Scales

An online guitar scale finder where users can find scales and see and hear them performed on a realistic virtual guitar. Includes a range of major, minor, harmonic, melodic, blues, and whole tone scales as well as arpeggios, diminished and dominant 7ths.

Guitar Tuner

An online guitar tuner finder where users can find common alternative tunings for guitar. Selection is made through a drop-down box and users can virtually strum the guitar to hear what a particular tuning will sound.

Hauraki Plains School Records

HPC Records is a high school record label focused on recording, releasing and promoting students’ original music. Based at Hauraki Plains College in Ngatea and formed in 2003, the school has released a series of school wide albums of original music, as well as a host of individual and community projects. All music is composed and produced by students in a recording studio at the College.

Home of Poi

A website which has some interesting information about poi, to supplement what might be gained from other resources. Check out the links as well. Suitable for primary and/or secondary programmes.

Icons of Imaging

This website is dedicated to showcasing samples of high quality imagery with the hope that these Icons of Imaging will provide inspiration to other digital photographers to create the best photographic images possible.

Illustrator Renee French

Renee French is an illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist. Mostly black and white, her illustrations include highly detailed pen and ink, and graphite works. In contrast, her cartoons are bold and graphic. Much of her work is figurative with her own distinctive deformed characters that can be simultaneously disturbing and engaging.

IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library

A virtual library containing all public domain music scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world, without charge.

Instructional Dance Videos

A site that gives links to a variety of instructional dance videos, from which some basic movement vocabulary in a variety of dance genres can be learned. Suitable for teachers of Year 9-13 classes.

Intel Education Initiative

The Intel site offers an interesting range of tools, ideas, research and more for ICT in education. From this education page you can access a range of learning stories. Of particular interest to arts educators is the Creative Arts section.

Into Music 3 MIDI Files

This web page has two downloadable MIDI files intended to support the "Twelve-bar Blues" unit in "Into Music 3" chapter 3: Playing. Into Music 3, for teachers of students in years 7–10, is the third book and CD set in a series designed to support the music discipline of The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum. The book has four main chapters – Listening, Singing, Playing, and Creating and Representing – and each chapter includes three teaching units. NB: The download versions require Winzip which can be found on the TKI download tools section.http://www.tki.org.nz/e/tki/help/plugins.php

8notes.com

A large library of free sheet music, riffs, lessons and tools. There is a midi converter, tab converter, groove generator, drum riffs, metronome, music theory, tests and games, music glossary, biographies, image gallery and musical jokes.

Art Criticism Tour

This webquest gives students an opportunity to search the web, in a guided way, and to work through a range of art analysis tasks. The main gallery link is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Students are encouraged to work in groups and to focus on description, analysis, interpretation and judgement skills. This site webquest would be suitable for junior secondary students.

Art Project

A unique collaboration by Google with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail

Art Zone

NGA Kids from the National Gallery of Art (USA) provides several tools that allow kids to create art interactively. The site includes: a Collage Machine; Pixel Face, an interactive portrait maker and drawing board; Cubits, a geometric sculpture maker; 3-d Twirler, for designing and texturising three-dimensional shapes; Diamonds; and RiverRun where 'young children orchestrate a flowing array of colourful shapes and patterns'.

ArtEdventures: From Cave Art to Your Art – 30,000 Years of New Media

Encourage your students to explore how artists, including themselves, use art media, with this interactive site from Sanford ArtEdventures. Students  can create their own video, by selecting  from a range of clips related to using oil paint, acrylics, watercolours, markers, and coloured pencils. They upload images of their own, and add text and music to complete their video.

Artifact Interactive Tutorials

This website comprises of some excellent flash game making turorials. The instructions are well laid out and are complemented with free downloads of flash files that support the tutorials.

Artists of Brucke: Themes in German Expressionist Prints

This Museum of Modern Art exhibition fosters interactive study of the Expressionist movement illustrating over 120 works in more than 50 comparative groupings.

Arts Connected

Dedicated to Arts teachers Art Connected is part of the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis Institute of Arts website. Available are a range of visual arts lessons for all levels including some interactive activities mostly based around elements, composition and galleries. Activities are linked to samples of artists' works.You can also link back to the Walker Art Centre to view art works and related material.

ArtsAlive: Dance National Arts Centre

Aimed at dance lovers, students and teachers, the site provides engaging and interactive educational resources, videos, games, learning tools and a wealth of information designed to build your understanding of and appreciation for dance. Sections include an introduction to dance, choreographic advice, the history of dance, information on dance careers, a virtual dance studio and online quizzes.

ArtsConnectEd

Explore the combined collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center through hundreds of new features in ArtsConnectEd. Search over 100,000 resources in the Art Finder, including works of art, texts, audio, video, and interactive resources. Save and customize items in the redesigned Art Collector.

BBC Maestro

See if you have what it takes to become a music conductor with this online music game.

The C & T Network

'C&T stands for more than theatre'. The site includes case studies and work recently undertaken by the British theatre company in its work mixing drama, learning and digital media.

The Case of the Missing Object

Promote interest in sculpture, by using this interactive website from Tate Online. Students take on the role of an art detective, and solve clues about the meaning, making, and context of Henry Moore’s Recumbent Figure.

Cézanne's Astonishing Apples

This art feature allows you to explore and learn about Cezanne and his work, and to interact online through a range of activities and written tasks. You can also hear a story about Cezanne - An Apple a Day - inspired by his paintings.

Classics for Kids

Classical music's great composers come to life through music and stories. Listen to classical music, find out more about the great composers, discover the instruments of the orchestra and play interactive games such as 'Composer Time Machine'.

Contrapunctus Variations

Contrapunctus Variations allows you to create your own musical composition using strings. Your composition may become part of a live performance from the Third Angle New Music Ensemble. You can select instruments, and once you get the hang of it, use the mouse to create music.

Crank it Up!

Let your young students create and record music by dragging objects into four frying pans, and adding sound effects by pressing keyboard letters.

Creating Music

This is an online creative music environment for children of all ages. It is a place to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles. It includes a musical sketch pad, games and puzzles, a rhythm band section where students create and listen to their own compositions, cartoon conductor, and a section on melodic contours.

Dancer's Journal

This interactive site has a collection of dance lessons about the life and work of Martha Graham. Martha created her modern dance company many years ago. There is a section for teachers and music and video clips.

December Celebrations Around the World - Online Project

A place to share information and link to useful resources about December celebrations around the world.

The Dinner Party

This excellent interactive site enables students to move around the Dinner Party (now permanently installed at the Brooklyn Museum), click on settings for further information and listen to audio commentaries on the settings. The site has been created by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the museum. Be aware that some sections of the general site are recommended to be age-restricted.

The Dinner Party

This excellent interactive site enables students to move around the Dinner Party (now permanently installed at the Brooklyn Museum. Click on settings for further information and listen to audio commentaries on the settings. The site has been created by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the museum. Be aware that some sections of the general site are recommended to be age-restricted.

Drum and Bass in the UK

Information about drum and bass in the UK, with top 10 mp3 downloads, podcasts, news, event listings forum and chat room.

Drum Lessons Database

This online resource for percussion players and music educators contains free lessons, drum tips, drum websites, industry news and information on contests and products.

Energy In The Air: Sounds From The Orchestra

On this site, you can explore the unique sounds of the symphony orchestra created by the brass, strings, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Over 20 instruments are defined and pictured, and their special locations in the orchestra are identified.

Exploring Leonardo

A web site with a science basis prepared by the Science Learning Network Staff at the Museum of Science, Boston. Interactive elements include size and distance linear perspective, aerial perspective and the anatomy of gadgets. Go to the Multimedia Zone for aerial perspective, sfumato, vanishing point, and perspective.

Face It!

This interactive website explores four portraits from the National Portrait Gallery's collection. Students can read about the paintings, explore their visual elements, create digital portraits, write and print out gallery labels and stories and print out line drawings of each portrait.

Globe Theatre

This interactive site allows you to take a virtual tour of the re-constructed Globe Theatre.

GNU Solfege

An aural software program for ear training, harmonic progressions, scales, chord singing, rhythm interval singing, and identifying intervals.

GraphicsDEN

GraphicsDEN will teach you how to use a computer graphics program to create unique digital art. Each lesson takes you from start to finish of a digital project. You can follow our step-by-step instructions to complete a similar project. Or, you can create your own project.

GrooveLab Drum Machine

Build your own drum loops online. GrooveLab uses forty seven different drum samples, three separate effects and volumeon all tracks and true loop option.

Guide to Electronic Music

Everything you always wanted to know about electronic music, including news, reviews, interviews, party reports, artist profiles, label profiles, diaries, tutorials and links. There is an interactive forum and chat site and a FAQ area.

Guitar Chords

An online guitar chords finder where users can find, hear chords and see chord positions on a realistic virtual guitar. Includes chords for left or right handed players, the use of a capo, and users can also save the chords that they construct.

Guitar Jam Session

A collection of online chords and riff loops that users can play along with. Users can turn the loops on and off and adjust the volume level. Would be useful for users who wish to develop music soloing techniques.

Guitar Scales

An online guitar scale finder where users can find scales and see and hear them performed on a realistic virtual guitar. Includes a range of major, minor, harmonic, melodic, blues, and whole tone scales as well as arpeggios, diminished and dominant 7ths.

Guitar Tuner

An online guitar tuner finder where users can find common alternative tunings for guitar. Selection is made through a drop-down box and users can virtually strum the guitar to hear what a particular tuning will sound.

Historical Costumes Game

An interactive site from the BBC in which learn about Victorian or Tudor costumes as they dress a mannequin.

Hop Pop Town

Hop Pop Town is an interactive music site for younger children that focuses on specific elements of learning music and presents game styles in three stage settings. The music elements include recognising differences in intervals and tone-quality, remembering phrases and improvising.

iDance

A website that shows clips of some dance moves from a variety of genres including Charleston, Cakewalk, Tap, Lindy Hop. The information provided may be useful for secondary research projects.

Interact with Jackson Pollock

At this site you can be a digital Pollock. By moving the mouse ink or paint blots move and dance around the screen, click the space bar to change colour. It's simple clear and engaging, but also mark-making, layering, line, shape, space and composition.

Interactive art lessons and activities - Illinois State Museum

This site has a variety of lessons including interactive lessons experimenting with composition and colour, and activities using a variety of media, and approaches to engage students in the discovery and analysis of artworks. Innovative ideas such as the use of text messaging could be adapted to a variety of different contexts.

Interactive Music Sites

This Australian education site contains an extensive range of links and resources for music teaching and learning at all educational levels.