Beginning+ELLs+and+Music+resources

The Best Online Sites For Creating Music: [|The Minuet Mixer] comes from the wonderful New York Philharmonic [|Game Room]. Students can create and play their own minuets. The url for their compositions can be emailed and posted on a blog or online journal.

With the [|Carol-Maker] you can compose a never-heard-before mashup of strange grunts with classic Christmas songs, and email it to a friend (or enemy). [|The Make Your Own Music Game]. Email your creation for posting on a website or blog.

[|Jam Studio] and seems pretty easy to use. English Language Learners can very quickly compose a song, email and post the url. Online video game called [|Sound Factory].

[|A Break In The Road] students can again create their own musical composition.

The BBC has a nice tool to make music online — [|6 Mixer].

<span style="color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #009bc2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Glitchscape] is it lets you make boxes and then turns them into music. You then get the url address of your creation for posting on a blog or website. No registration is required.

<span style="color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #009bc2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Isle Of Tune], you create music by creating a city. Yes, that’s right, you “drag-and-drop” different parts of a city — homes, cars, trees, etc. — and each one has a musical tone.

<span style="color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #009bc2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Ujam] recently became public. It seems pretty neat. Here’s how <span style="color: #009bc2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|TechCrunch describes it:]

<span style="color: #777777; font-family: 'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you’ve ever tried <span style="color: #009bc2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Incredibox], you know why I call it the easiest and most fun tool to create music on the Web.