Here are popular online royalty-free music resources for presentations, classwork, and projects (click here for updates):
- Audio Archive–millions of varied musical selections
- Bensound–royalty free
- dig.ccMixter--free for commercial too
- Fesliyan
- Free Music Archive
- Free Stock Music
- MusOpen–royalty-free music
- Pixabay Music
- Videvo–royalty-free music
Looking for general music sites? Check these out:
- Math Science Music
- Music Games
- Sing Sharp (app)
- SFKids–from the San Francisco Symphony
- Sparky’s Magic Piano–from 1987, but a good story.
…and then a few in these categories:
Free sound effects
- Sound Bible–free sound bites
- Type “animal sounds” into the Google search bar and get a large variety
Listening to and Learning about Music
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra for Kid
- How Brass Instruments Work
- Junkyard orchestra–amazing video
- National Jukebox
Make Music
Writing Music
- Finale–for writing music, from free to fee (depending upon program); download
- Flat.io–write your music scores online
- Sibelius–music writing software
- SmartMusic–industry standard for elementary grades; PCs, Macs, iPads
- Soundation–write music online
Chromebook add-ons
- Twisted Wave–record, edit, and share as an MP3 or other options
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
Hi Jacqui, this is great. I’m always looking for free music for my book trailers.
Canva and Pixabay are some of my favorites for my trailers, but this list has a lot of options.
I use PowerPoint just because I already know how to use it 😂