Cool Stuff!!!

This page is to share cool stuff.  Ideas for teaching Music Memory, for team preparation, workshops, and anything else having to do with Music Memory.  If you would like to contribute, please contact Kay.

Video Links are at the bottom of the page. How to download from YouTube instructions are here as well,
Need ideas on what to do for your First Day of Music Memory?  Try these steps to start your year off right.  And I always end the year with Music Memory Centers.  Check them out too.  You can printout Treble Trivia Game boards in color here, too.

Music Memory Discussion Group.  Go to this bulletin board to ask questions or post ideas about Music Memory.  

 Read about Mollie Tower and the way Music Memory was started!

 Read about the Riverside Symphony and New York City School's Music Memory Contest.


 Read about the San Diego Chamber Orchestra and Music Memory in California.

FLASH CARDS !!  
Here are some Cool Flash Cards to Study the Composers.  You have to log in but you can get a free account and study online.

Inspiring Essay about Music Memory.

On Facebook  Yes, there is a Music Memory Contest Groupies group on Facebook.  Search Music Memory.

Video Clips of Music Memory Selections
My school has YouTube blocked but I can still get Google Video.  Here are instructions on what to do to download videos from home and take them to school. How does this help if YouTube is blocked?  Well, you'll have to download on your home computer.  Then burn to a DVD or move to a thumb drive to take to school.  I hope you can use these.  As always, be sure to preview!

William Tell Overture Video, Played on the "hands"
Enter the Lone Ranger,  The original TV show
A Whole Lotta Momsense!  Contributed by Cathy H. (Thanks Cathy)
Summertime by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Video
 Billie Holiday Video Summertime
Gymnopedie Video
Gymnopedie  Guitar Video
Hall of the Zoid King (Warning, lots of explosions! Animated)
Toccata in d min.  Animation Machine....way cool.  I promise I did not see this before I made the listening map for this year!
Confutatis from Amadeus  Spanish subtitles....
Wohin? Beautiful pictures and nice singing.
Seventeen Come Sunday  this is a British folk singing group   Kinda fun..

Treble Trivia Game Boards:
Treble Trivia 4-part game board in color (from the Music Memory Teacher Resource Binder).  This is a zip file that will print out four pages which you can trim and paste onto a poster board for Centers or Game time.
Treble Trivia Transparency in color.  (from the Music Memory Teacher Resource Binder).  Use this to play with the whole class.