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!

An incredible resource for teaching young students! Students can choose to play games that are extremely fun including composer baseball, composer time machine, music matching, and a painting game. Players actually create a baseball team of composers in t

Program Notes is a free, volunteer-powered, collaborative database for program notes. Anyone is welcome to contribute or use the program notes found here for any purpose.

ArtsAlive.ca is the Canadian National Arts Centre's web site dedicated to arts education for young people. Visitors to ArtsAlive.ca can hear the wonderful sounds of Canada's National Artts Centre Orchestra, "try out" instruments themselves, and perhaps answer the age old question, "What's the difference between a violin and a viola?"

Stanton's Jukebox allows you to create customized playlists from our Listening Library to:- Easily compare titles that you are considering- Arrange your concert program order to vary styles and tempi- Build playlists for each ensemble to assist with rehearsal planning & score study- Generate & email personalized URLs to students to enhance at-home practice- Forward playlists to your school administrator or booster group to requisition funding

Game produced by the Kennedy Center's Arts Edge. Perfect Pitch teaches students about the instruments in an orchestra through a baseball game setting. The game introduces students to four eras of orchestral music and the instruments used in each. Students can create their own small orchestras and virtually play each instrument to hear how it sounds. After building an orchestra students then test their knowledge in short quizzes about the instruments and their sounds.