Software currently available in the 
Shelburne Community School
K-5 Music Program

A Little Kidmusic-sing-along or play melody w/piano accompaniment. Learn basic music theory skills. Write tunes of your own, and/or have the program create accompaniments.

Art and Music-Impressionism-Multimedia connecting art and music.

Beethoven Lives Upstairs-Learn about music and musical instruments; study, through reading, listening, and watching interactive activities. Write about Beethoven in your journal.

Finale-notation

Hyperstudio-create multimedia reports.

Juilliard Music Adventure-introduction to rhythm, melody, orchestration, and musical styles, through play, discovery, and creativity.

Kid Pix-create art and animation projects. (I like to use this to have students create presentations about composers)

Making Music-Morton Subotnick-a variety of activities, including a place for students to ‘paint’ their music.

Making More Music-Morton Subotnick-more advanced program than above.

Mastertracks Pro-sequencing.

Microsoft Musical Instruments-explore sights and sounds of over 200 instruments from around the world.

MiDisaurus-includes songs, games, activities and concepts to let children study the joy of music. 
     Composers-musical forms, and information/sound files on the Great Composers.
    Instruments-Instrument families, World Musical Instruments
    Notation-Dynamics, Articulation, Notation
    Rhythm-Note and rest values, Tempo, Time Signatures

Music Ace-teaches fundamentals of music from introduction of the staff through introduction of key signatures and major scales.

Music Ace ll-more advanced version of above.

Music Time-notation/sequencing.

Peter and the Wolf (Chuck Jones)-classic tale w/animation, and interactive discovery of instruments used in the orchestra.

PianoScan-scans piano, solo and duet scores into Standard MIDI files.

Sibelius-notation

Sitting on the Farm-Listen, read, sing or write along with this story filled with music and interactive animation-in English and French.

Songworks-notation/sequencing.

Sophia's Dreams-Same/different melodic exercises.

The Musical World of Professor Piccolo-introduces the basics of music theory.

Thinkin' Things-Musical and visual exploration and creativity, auditory/visual discrimination.

With Open Eyes-includes over 200 works of art from The Art Institute of Chicago. An excellent way to introduce art to the class.-includes over 200 works of art from The Art Institute of Chicago. An excellent way to introduce art to the class.

We have 10 MIDI centers (piano keyboards connected to computers) in the K-2 music room,  in addition to 10 independent work stations. We use both Macintosh and Pentium computers. We also recovered several older computers, including Apple llGS machines, and several LC 550, and LC 580.  If you have any computers looking for a new home, please contact me. (Mac LCII or later machines, or PC's running at least Windows 95)  Thank you!

Software for older computers include:

Early Music Skills-students are asked to identify whether notes are on lines or in spaces. Different levels ask students the number of the line/space, identify ascending and descending notes, as well as whether notes are moving up or down by steps or skips. I use the first part of this program with my kindergarten students.

Students in first and second grade are learning how to use the Internet for research, and for listening. We have bookmarked some of our favorite sights, and include a link each month on our home page to one of these. Please visit the Shelburne Community School’s K-5 Music Homepage.

Please feel free to contact me at:
dburritt@cssu.org

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Last updated: May 13, 2005