Music & Instruments
PIANO Play the piano by pressing the correct keys on the keyboard or by using your mouse to click on the pictured keys. |
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VIRTUAL KEYBOARD Choose from a variety of 9 settings for the keyboard including the saxophone. Select a drum beat and start creating music. |
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MAKE YOUR OWN MUSIC GAME Drag the instruments onto the stage, adjust their volume and record your music. |
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ORCHESTRA GAME Control the sections; brass, woods, strings, and percussion to create your own music. |
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RECORDING STUDIO Learn a song or create your own music. |
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NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Go the the composers' gallery, musicians' lounge, game room, instrument storage room, composition workshop and much more. |
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GUESS THE INSTRUMENT An orchestra game that plays an instrument and you guess which one it was. |
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DSO KIDS Listen by instrument or by Composer and learn all about music. |
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PERFECT PITCH Once you get to know the instruments or the orchestra, you'll have a field day making music. |
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SAN FRANSISCO SYMPHONY Visit the music lab or learn about the instruments of the symphony. |
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SPHINX KIDS! ORCHESTRATION STATION Explore the ways a piece of music can sound when played by different instruments. |
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SOUNGLE Royalty free sound effects you can download for your projects. |
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JAM STUDIO - CREATE MUSIC BEATS You set the score, mixer, chords, and sounds to make your own creations. |
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THE SOUND FACTORY This is a fun interactive tool where you use factory sounds to make music. Very Cool! |
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STRING THING Make your own string instrument. Write a song, add a beat, and play it back. |
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BBC 6 MIXER Use the samples to make your very own music track. |
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TONE MATRIX Drag your mouse across the matrix and make music instantly. Press the space bar to stop the sound and start over. |
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COMPOSE MUSIC Try out your composing skills on the ArtsAlive music staff. Click and drag the musical notes onto the staff and play back your musical masterpiece. |
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MUSICAL SKETCH PAD Here one can ‘draw’ at the level of finger painting and get musical feedback. The participant can choose instrumental color and edit as a composer might, by changing pitches, making things go forward or backward, or inverting and duplicating. |
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SCIENCE OF MUSIC - KITCHEN SINK Explore the sounds of the kitchen by rolling over the objects to find the instruments hidden in them. |
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SCIENCE OF MUSIC - DOT MIXER You can produce some pretty mixed-up music with the Dot Mixer, partly because the sound samples are from different types of music. |
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WILD MUSIC Engage students in the scientific study of sound while exploring the music of the natural world. This site accompanies the traveling exhibit “Wild Music.” It demonstrates how the sound of wildlife and nature inspires the creation of music. Students can compose music from the sounds of nature, compare their own hearing to other animals, and closely examine the sounds of songbirds. |