This website details and provides examples of the Cranbrook Composers' Workshop, a student composition project.

This is an interactive website for us to share share our tips and suggestions for refining and expressing our musical ideas. As you compose and find things that work for you, please post them here.

In the ClassroomClassical music can be an exciting tool. The Classics for Kids® lesson plans and teaching resources give teachers practical, effective plans and activities that use classical music to help children learn, and meet national and state stan

he SoundJunction website’s all about music. You can take music apart and find out how it works, create music yourself, find out how other people make music and how they perform it, you can find out about musical instruments, and look at the backgrounds to

Exchanging Notes was an exchange of ideas between teachers and composers in 2002, designed to strengthen and investigate new strategies for the teaching of composition across the secondary music curriculum. The Exchanging Notes resource can be downloaded

Mario Paint Composer is a remake of the music system from the original Mario Paint for the Super NES. It is made by unFun Games. The game is completely free.

You are a worker in a tire factory. To break the monotony you and your co-workers start making music using the found item in the factory. The game lets you layer the instrument timbres and make musical choices to create new music.

Use your audio recorder to collect environmental sounds from the neighborhood, then create a piece of music from these sounds. Next, go to the studio and use the multitrack editor to combine the sounds into a new piece of music.

Explore the science of music through these online exhibits, movies, and questions. Along the way, you can compose, mix, dance, drum, experiment, and above all…listen.

HighC is a graphical music creation tool. It is a synthesizer, a sequencer and a mixer. Its goal is to make music composition as simple and direct as sketching.

Mixcraft 4 is an affordable multi-track audio and MIDI recording studio that enables you to compose original music, record your band, create a podcast, or remix a song. Use it as a multi-track recorder or as a music loop remix program

The envl.net system provides a collection of free, web-based tools for generating a wide range of musical structures. Interfaces use simple web-based forms and selectors. Output is provided as standard, GM MIDI files. These files can easily be imported in

Toy Symphony is an international music performance and education project led by composer and inventorTod Machover at the MIT Media Lab and Media Lab Europe. It strives primarily to introduce children to the creative music-making process in bold, new ways

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.

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

Music educators need a variety of resources when it comes to evaluating the performance of their students. They also need resources that will help them teach their students things like choral music, how to use an acoustic guitar, genres of music, the hist

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