A Web Site Consisting Mostly of Downloadable
Children's
Songs
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Welcome
to my children's music
download
site.
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Click here
for the ABC's of Using MIDI Files
Note: If you come across any link
with
"Athens/Olympus/8075" try substituting "d_saphra" and it may work,
Let Me Entertain Me:
- Actor/Actress: Frances McDermond
- Band: Vartinaa
- Movie: Lone Star
- TV Show: The Simpsons
- Book: Mark Salzman's biography about his adolescence, LOST IN
PLACE
- Another Book: NEUROMANCER by William Gibson
Online Favorites:
Deborah
Jeter's
Indispensible Music Education Web Empire - recently
re-vamped. A veritable roller coaster ride!
The
Digital Tradition Songlist - a
database
available with over 8,000 songs, many with sheet music and sound
files.
Most importantly, however, you can download it for free and use it
offline.
This is version ( a 6.1 MB stuffed download ) is for Macs only. I use
it
all the time.
My
Own Messy but Massive Music Trade Book List - Lots and lots
of references to picture books. Now all we need is for somebedy
to
clean it up (please??!)
Vitaly Blokhin's Homepage
Now featuring a great, great new Keyboard
Remapper at uconv.com that
converts a standard QWERTY keyboard DVORAK and vice
versa. No, this has almost nothing to do with music, but I,
personally, use a DVORAK typewriter
layout and maybe so should you.
If you're searching for a
particular
MIDI file, try clicking HERE!
My other
website - a GEOCITIES site set up by Deborah Jeter. It's
much
fancier (although slower to load, of course) than this one, so be sure
to visit it. Deborah has included all sorts of interesting links and
sites
for obtaining software, etc.
Lyra
Viol's Alive (My other, other web
site)-
a
site that describes and discusses a type of viola da gamba that was
popular
in 17th Century Great Britain and that can be played in over 50
different
tunings - akin to the modern "bottleneck" guitar.
cs57.com
(Yet another of my own web sites)-
the
official site of the school in the Bronx where I now serve as a
Technology
Instructional Specialist.
Gazillions
of pictures that I'll probably get around to throwing out
one of these days.
What's it all about?
Music Education Freeware:
I am setting up this site as a convenience for other music
educators.
I am especially interested in promoting the free exchange of instantly
useable musical material. Most songs are available in MIDI format and
can
also be seen with a GIF picture of the score. The songs that I, myself,
have written are available free of charge, and can be used however you
like, so long as you don't attempt to become rich and famous pretending
that you are me. Music presented at this site is taken (to the best of
my knowledge) from either traditional or original sources and thus not
subject to the usual copyright restrictions. Anyone wishing to
contribute
additional music for sharing is encouraged to send me a MIDI file
and/or
score.
Song List:
Songs Available for Sharing, by David Saphra
HELLO
SONGS AND NAME GAMES - 18 pages of collected activities culled from
discussions on music education lists and bulletin boards.
INTRODUCING
ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS - Over 30 pages of amazing ideas contributed
by my e-mail list buddies.
SAY SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT AMERICA - Patriotic song that goes
especially
well when presented in conjunction with GO OUT AND VOTE, listed below
A
GREAT, CRAZY SAILOR - A South American-sounding Orff arrangement
(score
available here
celebrating Christopher Columbus's remarkable feat
GEE,
IT'S A WONDERFUL GAME - originally published in 1911, a fantastic,
attractive song for the month of October. Lyrics by Ring Lardner manage
to tie together Christopher Columbus, Napoleon Bonaparte, and (of
course)
baseball.
FIVE
PENNIES IN A NICKEL - Learn the relative value of U.S. coins.
SONGSCRAMBLES
- Try to find all the lyrics to songs in various in a Word Find
puzzle
I
AM A PUMPKIN - Short, doable Halloween song -- get yourself a
pumpkin,
a candle and a flashlight to shine out through the holes. You can
act out the song with the lights turned off and they'll eat it right
up.
FIVE
LITTLE GHOSTS - a finger play or jazz march
THE
GHOST OF JOHN - traditional round
ASSORTED
OTHER IDEAS FOR HALLOWEEN - from a 1997 Goals 2000 workshop held at
my school in the Bronx
GO
OUT AND VOTE - Ragtime reminder to parents - great art/literacy
lesson.
Make and take your own election day party hats while learning the song.
BLACK
SHEEP, BLACK SHEEP -Lovely Appalachian lullaby
African-American
History Month - page with pictures from C.S.134's assembly
programs
& useful links.
DRAW
ME A BUCKET OF WATER - Traditional play-party with a quodlibet
style
accompaniment using Happy Birthday and London Bridge while rhythm
intruments
play the opening phrase in canon. If you don't know what I'm talking
about
just make a tape and let your students hug and rock along with the
music.
They'll have a blast. View
the melody, read a description
of the play-party
Presidents'
Birthday Song:
WHOSE HEAD'S ON A PENNY? - An early effort but it's got lots of
info so teachers have always liked it