Kidlink Song

Do you want to listen to the Kidlink Song? Click on the juke-box!
Music is by composer Claudio Annibali, digitized by Guido Belletti and the text can be YOURS. Ask your music teacher to help you.
If you want to see the score, click here.

The Project:

1. Theme: enter the contest for Kidlink's Song. Listen to the music and write the words. As for all our contests you will not get a prize but your name or your class will be on-line as its author.
2. How to join:
   Send these data to the moderator of the project
   Topic: KIDLINK SONG
   Name and address of school
   Contact teacher's name
   E-mail address
   Age of students
3. A web page showing the work of the students will be created by project coordinator
4. But first, answer Kidlink four questions!
5. Resources for the project can be found on this homepage
6. Connections to music curriculum:
• Create short musical compositions using electronic media
• Create pieces in a range of styles for voices and electronic instruments
• Improvise within pieces by varying melody, rhythm, timbre, phrasing, dynamics, articulation or text
• demonstrate the ability to read an instrumental or vocal score

Hi, my name is Guido and I am KidMusic italiano coordinator.
I hope you will amuse yourself with Kidlink music and ... I am waiting for your musical files.
If you need my help, please,
write me!

Compose your Music

For the teachers:

• save a version of the samples on a floppy-disk or in a protected area of your hard disk, so that you can always have the original file (your students can work with copies)
• the melody is usually written in track no. 4
• if you use Cakewalk software, you will find further information in song info (menu file - info...)
• the selected samples are real songs (some are well known songs) which have been cut, shortened, simplified for teaching purposes (develop a sensitivity to the aesthetic qualities of music performed or heard, understand a suggested form, key and/or scale, improvise within simple harmonic patterns, etc.)
• if you do not have a sequencing software for MIDI files, you can download, after free registration, the program Quartz AudioMaster (®Digital Sound Planet) in freeware version
• you also need to download the musical font file and install it in Windows in the folder Fonts following this procedure:
  • Copy the file MusicalSymbols (MUSICAL.TTF) in a Temp folder in your hard disk
  • Go to Start, Settings, Control Panel, and open the Fonts folder
  • Click File menu and choose Install new font
  • Choose the Temp folder where you saved the file MUSICAL.TTF
  • Select the font (tick the box "Copy fonts in font folder" then OK
  • Now it is better to restart the system.

If using Quartz AudioMaster software you get an error message about the musical fonts you just installed, do not worry... it will work!

To listen to midi files you only need a Sound Blaster or a musical module (in this case the quality is better).
In "Samples" section, you can download samples of songs to compose your own music.
See the program change numbers for general midi instruments.
To help your students in their music compositions, print the minor and major scales.

How to send music to KidMusic

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