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

Create your own music station for free. Blip.fm is, essentially, a social network for sharing music. A little like Pandora, a little like Facebook, Blip.fm provides a way to explore music and share what you're listening to with friends.

The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these sa

The Library's Music and the Brain events offer lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music. Project chair Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers

Exploring the Digital Vaults is easy. You can browse through the hundreds of photographs, documents, and film clips and discover the connection between some of the National Archives' most treasured records.

This website has been set up specifically for the Teachers Guide to Music, Media & Copyright Law by Dr. James Frankel and published by Hal Leonard. It is meant to serve as an extension for the book, especially because copyright law is changing all the ti

A web app drum machine controlled from the computer keyboard.

Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and

Challenge Based Learning applies what is known about the emerging learning styles of high school students and leverages the powerful new technologies that provide new opportunities to learn to provide an authentic learning process that challenges students

This site contains full score analyses, teacher and student guides, and webquests for band, choral, orchestral, and elementary/secondary general music classes.

To ensure the future of music education in Ohio, The Ohio Foundation for Music Education was formed in support of the efforts of the Ohio Music Education Association and to assist the needs of Ohio’s 2 million school children.

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

We publish in-depth Software and Hardware reviews of interest to musicians, especially those using computers to make music, although in the modern environment that's virtually everyone.In The Studio, you will also find practical hands-on tutorials, Hint

This web site is the home of the Open Hymnal Project to create a free, public domain, downloadable database of Christian hymns, spiritual songs, and prelude/postlude music. I am doing my best to create a final product that is "Hymnal-quality", and could f

A great new tutorial for beginners, including a free instructional video…“It’s easier than you think to get your groove on with GarageBand. While recording and mixing music on a computer has been possible for years, many audio recording and editing tech

A virtual tour of Groovy Music Jungle.

jam2jam is a new instrument for collaborative media performanceNetwork Jamming allows people to play music and do video remixing together over the internet. The project explores ways to enhance learning and community by designing interactive creative act

VoceVista is a simple-to-use software application for the PC. While it can be used to analyze vocal signals for a variety of applications, such as research and vocal pathology, it was developed primarily for singing teachers to anaylze the singing voice,

GarageBand frequently asked questions.

A search engine for copyright free music loops.

A collection of hundreds of live concert recordings from the legendary concert promoter Bill Graham. They're free to listen to, and very inexpensive to buy and download

t’s a Virtual keyboard that can simulate nine different instruments and can even play back chords. It’s a perfect companion for the SMART Board. The piano keyboard goes from ‘Middle C’ to ‘Upper F’ – one and a half octaves (18 different notes). The doubl

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!

Music education apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, reviewed by MacWorld.

Rondo - the unique MIDI player for Mac OS X! Unlike other MIDI players Rondo has been designed to help you follow the music as it plays. Innovative features such as a vertical piano roll with horizontal live playing keyboard and visual track filtering hel

EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way.Teaching Copyright provides lessons and ideas for opening your classroom up to discussion, letting your students express their

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.

A web site for music theory and ear training. Can be used online or downloaded.

Project Gutenberg volunteers have been engaging in digitizing public domain sheet music, using a variety of techniques, to enable study and performance. For the most part, the musical pieces created have been chamber music, with composers such as Brahms a

LilyPond is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files. It is Free Software (‘open source’).