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JamStudio is an online, Web 2.0 music sequencer where you can compose and publish your own tunes. It has similarities to programs such as GarageBand and Band-in-a-Box. There are free and paid versions available, but they offer free full featured accoun

I began Experiments in Musical Intelligence in 1981 as the result of a composer's block. My initial idea involved creating a computer program which would have a sense of my overall musical style and the ability to track the ideas of a current work such th

Noteflight doesn't merely improve on other music notation software: it lets written music take advantage of the full power of the web as we know it today. Noteflight is a powerful full-featured application to edit, display and play back music notation in

What is Songsmith?Songsmith generates musical accompaniment to match a singer’s voice. Just choose a musical style, sing into your PC’s microphone, and Songsmith will create backing music for you. Then share your songs with your friends and family, post

Solfege is free music education software.Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. Solfege - Smarten your ears!FeaturesRecognise melodic and harmonic intervalsCompare interval sizesSing the intervals the computer asks forIdentif

GarageBand frequently asked questions.

The National Arts Centre (NAC) presents ArtsAlive.ca Music, a great place to discover the excitement of the performing arts! Learn all about orchestral music, the NAC Orchestra, its musicians and friends, great composers, conductors and much more!

DrumStepsDrumSteps is a great way to compose music. You don't need to know notation, you just need an imagination and best of all it's FREE.

Felix Mendelssohn was a musical jack-of-all trades and he was renowned in his lifetime as an exquisite pianist, conductor, and of course, composer. To mark the bicentennial of his birth in 1809, the Library of Congress's Music Division has created this co

jam2jam is an application that generates music that you can control while it plays. Even better, you can connect via a network with your friends who have jam2jam to jointly control the music. Jam just like a band, but without the need for complex instrume

Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16-step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute.Based on the AudioTool engine.

Impromptu has been designed as a teaching tool to help you interrogate and develop your own musical intuitions. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the text Developing Musical Intuitions, and the accompanying music audio CD. Please remember that

EVERYONE CAN CREATE MUSICSelect 1 of 8 different Sound Patterns from the small Matrixes icons on the right.Use your mouse to draw notes on each 16 Step Matrix.For each Pattern, adjust Volume, Mute, Clear, or set Audio Pan from Left to Right.Click on the

Karen Garrett was named teacher of the year by TI:ME and she has created an amazing resource on how to encorporate MIDI technology into the classroom. She has been director of instrumental music at Central Park School in Birmingham, AL since 1992, and in

This site is a directory of many other music and music education resources, providing links and content about performing artists, genres, musical instruments, orchestras, composers, composer forums, composition tools, music videos, and music publishing co

Type-in a Web site URL and it scans the words, removes all the non musical letters, and makes "music" out of whatever's left

The SCAMPER technique uses a set of directed questions that can be used to help students develop creative compositional ideas.

An Introduction to the Elements of Music with Supporting Multimedia Content

This is an educational website, but you don't have to be in a school or university to use it. It takes as its model Kutiman's brilliant thru-you.com site, where he made seven new songs by remixing bits of video shared on YouTube. Included here for free are video tutorials which will show you how to create a basic remix just with the software that comes free on a Mac, or is available free on the internet. Windows users may be able to get the same results with Acid by Sony.

How Music Works is a comprehensive suite of multimedia tutorials which explain music in clear, simple language you can relate to.Packed with 115 topics in nine tutorials, and illustrated with 360 diagrams and 750 demonstration sounds, the tutorials start with the very basics of music and advance to topics which are valuable even for professional musicians.Whatever musical instrument or style you are interested in, these tutorials will be an essential source of information and guidance for years to come.

Composer biographies on PBS's Great Performances web site.

Composer biographies.

Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's the site for basic information about classical music. Created in cooperation with W.W. Norton & Company, it's built around Essential Classics, the series specially designed to introduce you to the best music of every period. All through the site you'll find almost 200 excerpts from Essential Classics. You'll also find: (a) Eras: Overviews of the six main periods in music history -- Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century, (b) Composers: Brief biographies of nearly 70 composers, which will...