Resources for Music Integration

Sorry for the delay. I had some difficulty last Wednesday getting access write my own post on this blog.  
The following are not arts-integration web-sites, but are a few resources I think would be useful to use to integrate with music.  

http://www.sfskids.org
I spent a lot of time exploring everything I could in this San Francisco Symphony web site for kids. Although not an arts integrated web site, it has lots of interactivity resources for engaging students in classical music rather than merely listening to it. It is divided into five sections:
(1) Discover – Allows student to gather lots of information about composers, instruments, and specific classical music. Con: Not interactive, but present a huge amount of pieces in the music section. This would not be engaging for an entire class to view.
(2) Listen – Great sampling of good quality music, but again not very interactive.
(3) *Play – One of the best parts program, allows student to play one of two games: Star Catcher or Mood Journey. Mood Journey has the student actually select verbal descriptions about how the music makes them feel and the scenery changes accordingly. Star Catcher involves the student moving the rabbit to catch stars while listening to quality classical music. I think Star Catcher could work in the elementary grades as a whole group activity where one student leads the rabbit, as the visual stimulation is very engaging. Some movement good be added as the rest of the class waves arms up and down.
(4) *Perform – It’s called an Instrument Garden, which allows students to choose from a vast variety of orchestra instruments and not only virtually play them but also zoom in on them in detail.
(5) *Conductor – Students follow the star on the screen with their right hand to perform music in 2/4, ¾, or 4/4 time, depending upon the selection chosen.
They also see an eagle conductor the music as they follow (they can also lead the conducting).
(6) **Composer – What an amazing tool for teaching students to compose
music! It allows student to select from some famous tunes such as Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Ode to Joy, and Copland’s Simple Gifts. This immerses the student in musical notation as they instantly can hear the music as they see the note being played flashes. A whole class could first take turns composing by gradually changing one of these preset tunes, one note at a time. I like this portion the most because allows students to be creative while gradually learning the written language of music simultaneously. (And unlike Finale, it is more user-friendly and engaging for kids.)

http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/tone/dtmf.html
You can download a flash touch-tone keypad simulator here. Used in the Melodies and Math lesson from the Arts Edge web site. (Note: Sue and I agree does not offer sufficient mathematical content to be considered an arts-integrated lesson. Perhaps with some tweaking though, it could work, and then you could have lots of student engagement from this keypad simulator. )

http://www.mightybook.com
Again not an arts-integrated site, but it does have a large number of story songs, such as Woodpecker Knocking, and songs to teach letters to children (“Big Letters are Marching Along,” using the tune from “The Caissons Go Rollin’ Along”.) I like how it promotes reading fluency. It does have an “Art and Music” section that juxtaposes a famous painter’s artwork with a famous classical composer’s music in a slideshow format. But the best part is probably that each song has engaging animation to go with it. I see it as assisting with integrating ELA and Music, especially with K-2.