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WORLD MUSIC
DISCOVER WORLD MUSIC
Your global guide to instruments and music styles.
CHINESE MUSIC
A Traditional Music Box.
ERHU VIDEO
Ma XiouHui is a virtuoso performer of the Erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument.
MUSIC FROM VIETNAM
Chim Da Da, a music arrangement.
BAGPIPES – FIRST GET A GOAT
Examples of some weird and exotic world music instruments.
MACEDONIAN DANCE PIECE
An unusual performance for solo gaida
LYRAVLOS
Centre of Greek Musical Tradition: Κέντρο Ελληνικής Μουσικής Κληρονομιάς
- exploring instruments, lyrics and sounds from ancient Greece.
FOLK AND ACOUSTIC SESSION
Virtual session featuring reels, jigs,hornpipes, polkas, waltzes
- audio recordings with notation.
IRISH JIGS
The ‘Road to Skye’ and ‘Elaine Jeffreys’
Video performance of two jigs from Australia’s Pure Drop.
UGANDA
Nomad Roots promotion for Kinobe, a young singer, songwriter, musician and instrument maker from Uganda. Instruments played include Kora, Adungu, Akogo (thumb piano) and Endongo.
KORA
Lots more about the Kora with links to other pages.
Bottom of page video features a musical conversation for two koras.
CUBA, SENEGAL, MALI, INDIA
Explore music that has links with a number of different cultural styles.
MEET THE MARIACHI
Music, video, instruments and quiz.
Explore the captivating rhythms and instruments of Mariachi music from Mexico.
WORLD ON YOUR STREET
BBC site that connects you to styles of world music available in UK localities.
DUST ECHOES
Ancient stories, new voices.... Aboriginal custom and law from Central Arnem Land
BELLS FROM THAILAND
Listen to the bells at Wat Phrathat, Doi Suthep. Photographer Martin Phelps has captured this unique bell ceremony taking place at the Buddhist temple.
HEARTBEAT REGGAE PODCAST
Podcasts from Heartbeat Records featuring
some of the finest recordings of Jamaican music.
SCOTLAND’S MUSIC
Explore Scotland’s Music with Phil Cunningham.
50 videos from the BBC (only available in the UK).
MUSIC LISTENING
MOZART 1
Kids Mozart player that includes extracts from
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Clarinet Concerto,
Variations ‘Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman’ and Symphony 40.
MOZART 2 
Listen to MIDI version of 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'
MOZART 3
Listen to an audio recording of 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' and follow the score.
C.P.E. BACH
Listen to a MIDI version of 'Solfeggietto’
HANDEL
Listen while you follow the score of the second movement from
Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No. 5 in D major.
STANLEY
Voluntary in D Minor by the English composer John Stanley.
The stately adagio introduction is followed by a surprisingly swinging allegro.
Performance and notes by Jeffery Hall.
J.S. BACH
Read biographical and musical information.
Try ‘Jukebox’ listening and a music quiz about the French Suites.
GREIG
Listen to MIDI arrangement of 'Wedding Day at Troldhalgen'
BEETHOVEN
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony,
presents this interactive guide to the ‘Eroica’ symphony.
WATER MUSIC
Questions
1. Name the composer of "Four Sea Interludes"
2. Name the instrument(s) playing the main melody
when you listen to the extract from "Ma Vlast".
3. Which famous river was Smetana thinking about when he composed "Ma Vlast"?
4. Which instrument was used by Ravel for the piece called "Jeux d'eau"?
HEAR THE MUSIC
Another good link from ‘Classics for Kids’
with pieces by many composers.
MUSICOVERY
Interactive web radio.
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
Explore Symphony No. 9 by Antonin Dvořák
with this Listening Adventure from Carnegie Hall.
MUSIC FOR PIECES OF WOOD
Explore Steve Reich’s composition of 1973 with this interactive demonstration.
This is part of a detailed presentation from Carnegie Hall.
DISCOVER WORLD MUSIC
Your global guide to instruments and music styles.
CHINESE MUSIC
A Traditional Music Box.
ERHU VIDEO
Ma XiouHui is a virtuoso performer of the Erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument.
MUSIC FROM VIETNAM
Chim Da Da, a music arrangement.
BAGPIPES – FIRST GET A GOAT
Examples of some weird and exotic world music instruments.
MACEDONIAN DANCE PIECE
An unusual performance for solo gaida
LYRAVLOS
Centre of Greek Musical Tradition: Κέντρο Ελληνικής Μουσικής Κληρονομιάς
-
FOLK AND ACOUSTIC SESSION
Virtual session featuring reels, jigs,hornpipes, polkas, waltzes
-
IRISH JIGS
The ‘Road to Skye’ and ‘Elaine Jeffreys’
Video performance of two jigs from Australia’s Pure Drop.
UGANDA
Nomad Roots promotion for Kinobe, a young singer, songwriter, musician and instrument maker from Uganda. Instruments played include Kora, Adungu, Akogo (thumb piano) and Endongo.
KORA
Lots more about the Kora with links to other pages.
Bottom of page video features a musical conversation for two koras.
CUBA, SENEGAL, MALI, INDIA
Explore music that has links with a number of different cultural styles.
MEET THE MARIACHI
Music, video, instruments and quiz.
Explore the captivating rhythms and instruments of Mariachi music from Mexico.
WORLD ON YOUR STREET
BBC site that connects you to styles of world music available in UK localities.
DUST ECHOES
Ancient stories, new voices.... Aboriginal custom and law from Central Arnem Land
BELLS FROM THAILAND
Listen to the bells at Wat Phrathat, Doi Suthep. Photographer Martin Phelps has captured this unique bell ceremony taking place at the Buddhist temple.
HEARTBEAT REGGAE PODCAST
Podcasts from Heartbeat Records featuring
some of the finest recordings of Jamaican music.
SCOTLAND’S MUSIC
Explore Scotland’s Music with Phil Cunningham.
50 videos from the BBC (only available in the UK).
MUSIC LISTENING
MOZART 1Kids Mozart player that includes extracts from
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Clarinet Concerto,
Variations ‘Ah, vous dirai-
Listen to MIDI version of 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'
MOZART 3
Listen to an audio recording of 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' and follow the score.
C.P.E. BACH
Listen to a MIDI version of 'Solfeggietto’
HANDEL
Listen while you follow the score of the second movement from
Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No. 5 in D major.
STANLEY
Voluntary in D Minor by the English composer John Stanley.
The stately adagio introduction is followed by a surprisingly swinging allegro.
Performance and notes by Jeffery Hall.
J.S. BACH
Read biographical and musical information.
Try ‘Jukebox’ listening and a music quiz about the French Suites.
GREIG
Listen to MIDI arrangement of 'Wedding Day at Troldhalgen'
BEETHOVEN
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony,
presents this interactive guide to the ‘Eroica’ symphony.
WATER MUSIC
Questions
1. Name the composer of "Four Sea Interludes"
2. Name the instrument(s) playing the main melody
when you listen to the extract from "Ma Vlast".
3. Which famous river was Smetana thinking about when he composed "Ma Vlast"?
4. Which instrument was used by Ravel for the piece called "Jeux d'eau"?
HEAR THE MUSIC
Another good link from ‘Classics for Kids’
with pieces by many composers.
MUSICOVERY
Interactive web radio.
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
Explore Symphony No. 9 by Antonin Dvořák
with this Listening Adventure from Carnegie Hall.
MUSIC FOR PIECES OF WOOD
Explore Steve Reich’s composition of 1973 with this interactive demonstration.
This is part of a detailed presentation from Carnegie Hall.
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