Web Resources
for Teachers & Students
‘A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.’
– Henry Adams
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Resources for Primary
Teachers • Students
| WEBSITE | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Carnegie Hall Music Musical Explorers | Includes a range of online programmes, each with a number of resources that explore music from around the world. |
| childrensmusic.co.uk | A UK site with activities and games, stories and songs to develop children’s musical and listening skills. |
| freekidsmusic.com | A US site offering a wide range of free downloadable children’s music and songs, including lyrics, chords and mp3 files. |
| Mama Lisa’s World | A US site with an A-Z collection (by country) of children’s songs and rhymes from around the world. |
| Primary School Curriculum – Music | The Primary School Music Curriculum in pdf format. |
| Scoilnet Music Resources | Part of the Scoilnet portal for Irish education website, this page provides interesting resources and activities to supplement primary school music teaching. |
| Songs for Teaching | A US site that offers numerous practical ideas for using music to teach content across the curriculum, including maths, reading and language skills, and science. |
| The Sound Factory | This rhythmic website tells the story of a factory worker who is bored with his job. The activity challenges students to create various rhythms using the tools and equipment in the factory, to keep the factory workers entertained. |
Resources for Post-Primary
Teachers • Students
| WEBSITE | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| Ceolas | Houses the largest online collection of information on Irish and Celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites. |
| Downbeat’s Jazz 101 | Available on Downbeat magazine’s website, this is a brief but comprehensive history and guide to jazz. |
| FindSounds | A free site where you can search the web for thousands of sound effects and musical instrument samples. |
| MusicAtSchool | A UK-based site that provides resources, links and over 170 free worksheets for teachers and students. |
| Naxos Education | The website of Naxos, the budget classical record label, has an excellent education section, which includes, among other things, an A-Z glossary of musical terms and brief composer biographies. |
| Online Resources for Leaving Cert. Music Students | This page in the Leaving Cert. Music section of our website provides the complete Prescribed Works on YouTube, web resources for students and links to third-level music programmes in the Republic and Northern Ireland. |
| Study Music Ireland | A great resource for anyone wishing to study music at third level in Ireland. It includes information and links for all undergraduate and postgraduate music courses in Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as lots of information about applying to study music, including entry requirements and auditions/tests. |
| World Music Central | An excellent general-interest world music site, it includes up-to-date information on musicians, recordings and festivals, as well as useful glossaries of world music genres and instruments. |
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