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Music Looper
http://www.musiclooper.com/
Super Duper Music Looper is an amazing new program that allows you to create music on your PC. Using a paintbrush, an erase tool and a mouse, it's a fun and easy way to make songs come alive. How does it work? Just grab a few instruments or musical building blocks called loops, paint them on the screen and before long you'll have a complete song. It's that easy. Best of all, you don't need to know anything about music. All you need is Super Duper Music

Compose World Junior
http://www.espmusic.co.uk/cwjr.htm
Compose World Junior is a music exploration program designed for all ages. Phrases of music are represented as pictures and/or words. These phrases can be any length and can contain both melody and harmony.
The phrases are used as building blocks and can be sequenced in any order or combination. Compositions are produced by listening to your phrases and experimenting with different orders and combinations in the "Sequencer".

Music Editing area on Shambles
http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/music/
Music Editing area on Shambles ... if you are looking for computer software to help with music ... also try this area on Shambles

Composing with Computers Spring 2003
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Music-and-Theater-Arts/index.htm
MIT's OpenCourseWare - Composing with Computers Spring 2003
In this course we will use computers and computer-aided technology as compositional tools, that is, as a means to music-making and an avenue to approach musical and acoustic concepts. Each unit of study will consist of a series of short composition projects using specific types of hardware and software in clearly delineated ways. This will involve (in broad order) live recording and digital editing, digital processing, analog sound synthesis (real and virtual), MIDI sequencing, and building interactive environments. The course will culminate in a large, final composition and a public concert during the last week.

Music Box from Topologika
http://www.topologika.co.uk/
Music Box from Topologika
It's just like painting on the screen, except that instead of creating a work of visual art, your pupils will in no time at all be exploring sounds, pitch, rhythm, and composition.
Music is a demon for some teachers. If you're not a confident musician it can be difficult to get things going, and even if you are, you need to incorporate ICT. Music Box 2 tackles these frustrations head-on, while encouraging pupils to THINK, create and explore?
MusicBox 2 is the definitive pre-notation music software in thousands of schools in the UK. The enjoyment and learning young musicians get from it is limited only by imagination.

Music ICT Resources at Kent NGfL (UK)
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/music/index.htm
Music ICT Resources at Kent NGfL ... a very useful collection for any music teacher.
Using ICT in music lessons is not statutory at Key Stage 1, but the National Curriculum Order for music does encourage worthwhile use of ICT.
There is a statutory requirement to use ICT in music at Key Stage 2 and it should be used to ?recall), capture, change and combine sounds?

Music Factory from Logotron
http://www.logo.com/cat/view/musicfactory.html
Music Factory from Logotron
Play music in realtime - Play in 'live' mode to explore the different sounds and combinations before building up a composition to save.
Music factory gives an ideal foundation to computer-based music making, introducing concepts and processes found in more advanced sequencing packages. Music Factory allows all non-musicians to produce compositions quickly and easily, by building patterns and sequences. All the sounds within each style have been selected so that they 'fit together'.

Audacity is a free audio editor.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
Audacity is being developed by a team of volunteers under the open-source model.
SOftware versions for Windows | Mac OS 9/X | Linux / Unix |

Steinberg Education
http://www.steinberg.net/
Steinberg supports education professionals with a special service. We offer a wide range of teaching materials, school projects, an education newsletter and school versions of our software.
We also offer you the knowledge of experienced teachers and academics in the field of music.
Fundamentals | Cubase VST/Cubasis VST | WaveLab/WaveLab LITE | Education Magazine | The complete recording studio | Basic Composing and Arranging | Cubase VST In Music Education | Basic Composing and Arranging | Notation and Scoring | Music and Videos | Computers in music education |

Sibelius
http://www.sibelius.com/
Sibelius Starclass is the new software to help you teach music at elementary and primary school.
Auralia is the world's most comprehensive ear training program, suitable for students at all levels.
Musition is the complete music theory training and testing software, suitable for students of all ages.
G7 is the ultimate software for writing songs and playing better guitar.

Using ICT to record and explore...
http://vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/docserver.php?docid=999
Using ICT to record and explore...
will help pupils to:
- use and investigate sounds and structures
- refine and enhance performance and composition
- extend their knowledge of different styles of music

Pupil Entitlement to ICT in Music
http://vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/docserver.php?docid=996
The statutory requirements of the National Curriculum Order form the basis of a pupil's entitlement to ICT in music.
Many forms of technology can be used, such as CD-ROM, electronic keyboards and synthesisers, sound processors, computer software, editing facilities, the Internet, MIDI sequencers, word-processing and graphics packages.
Much can be achieved through the skilful use by pupils of good quality portable tape recorders. However, more extensive use of ICT, when available, can further support and enhance musical learning.
Specially designed hardware and software is available, for example, to enable those with limited physical control or sensory impairment to participate.

Music Technology in Action
http://vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/docserver.php?docid=1109
Music Technology in Action - A pack including classroom activities and INSET materials for using MIDI sequencing, electronic keyboards, CD-ROM and sound processing.

The Music IT pack
http://vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/docserver.php?temid=305
The Music IT pack
A copy of this was sent to all maintained secondary schools in England in 1997. Comprising a set of guides, it was designed to help teachers improve their understanding of the capabilities of music technology and of ways in which it can be used to enhance teaching and learning at Key Stage 3. ?This pack is now available to download from here as a series of PDF files.?
Introducing the Music IT Pack | Guide 1 - IT in the music classroom | Guide 2 - A computer system for the music classroom | Guide 3 - Recording and listening equipment for the music classroom | Guide 4 - MIDI hardware and software for music education | Guide 5 - Electronic keyboards in the music classroom | Guide 6 - Music CD-ROM resources for the classroom | Guide 7 - Synthesisers and sound processors in music education | Guide 8 - Glossary of terms used |

Enhancing Music with ICT
http://vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/docserver.php?temid=91
Enhancing Music with ICT
The purpose of this site is to promote and support the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) within music. The site is managed by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta).
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