New Hampshire State Song Information
World Instrument Gallery
The Science of Music
Counting Music allows you to type in a rhythm and listen to it be played back to you.
Classics for kids has great classical music for kids to listen to.
Recorder Fingerings Click on German if you are using a school recorder, and Baroque if you bought the recorder somewhere else.
Computer Programs
Free download of Finale Notepad This is the notation software we use at the school. “Finale” is the program real composers
use to publish their own music. You can download “Note Pad” for free. This program allows you to enter music notes, and then listen to your composition! Fun for everyone, but kids will probably require some help from adults at first.
Midiworld This link has lots of music software for students and professionals.
Click on #7 “Learning and Practicing Tools.” Harmonic Vision This Company has a program called “Music Ace.”
You can download a free demo through this site.Real Rhapsody This is the music source I use in my classroom. It gives me access to nearly every song I can think of for a monthly or yearly fee.
Acid Xpress is a free program that uses “loops” to create compositions. It is not un-like “Garage Band.”
Interesting stuff for parents
Children's Music Workshop This is a terrific site. Click on “Music Advocacy” for various articles on music. This site also has great links to various online music stores.
Mozart Effect quick info Good quick facts on the Mozart effect.
Mozart Effect “Music makes you smarter!” This site has links that can begin to explain the Mozart Effect.
National Standards in Music Our school music curriculum is based on the National Standardsand State Frameworks.
State Music Frameworks
Ways parents can enhance Childs musical experiences
Talk to your kids about music
Listen to different radio stations
in the car. Ask them what instruments they hear, if they like it or
dislike it, what they imaging the music is about.
Allow your child to build a music
collection
Start a CD or record
collection. You can always find an old turntable at a yard sale (or in
your basement or attic). Records are affordable for kids to buy at yard
sales. NHPR always hosts a record sale at Concord's Old Fashioned Bargain Days during
the summer. For the cost of one CD a child can choose 1-20 different
records. Your child can choose records from the pop sections, folk,
country, classical, jazz, children's or even the comedy section!
See live music or go to the
theater with your child
NH
Arts Calendar
The Music Hall in Portsmouth
Seacoast Repertory Theater
The Leddy Center in Epping
Make up songs
They don't have to rhyme or be perfectly in tune. Just start singing about anything
(walking the dog, for example) and see if your child sings along!
Sing
Sing at bedtime
Sing in the car on long and short trips
Sing while doing chores
Sing for the sake of singing!
Music Lessons
Nottingham School offers music lessons (excluding piano, guitar and violin) to beginner fourth through eighth
grade students. These lessons are only once a week and sometimes shared with other students.
The summer is a terrific time for students to improve significantly on an instrument. There are alsomany kindergarten through third graders that are very interested in playing an instrument right now.
Piano and violin lessons are appropriate for children of this age group. A recorder is also a good
instrument for younger children. Click HERE for information about music teachers in the area.
Summer Music Camp - here are a few
links to music summer camps:
Camp Encore/Coda
The Walden School
Camp Walt Whitman - dance campThe UNH Summer Youth Music School (SYMS)