| Music and Sounds
Sounds and music found through the resources listed
below can usually be used in your classroom under the Fair Use provision,
but not necessarily for wider publication (like posting on the Web). Be
sure to check the use restrictions at each of these Web sites and/or to
the sites they link to. If you
use any sounds from these sources, be sure to provide credit.
Sound Search Engines
Lycos Multimedia
Search Engine
http://multimedia.lycos.com/
Click on "Sounds" and type in the sound you want to find (e.g.,
thunder).
Find Sounds
http://findsounds.com/
FindSounds.com lets you search the Web for sound effects and sample sounds.
AltaVista
Audio Search Engine
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?cn=med
Click the radial
button next to "MP3/Audio." Note: MP3 files can not be imported
into PowerPoint.
Lycos Multimedia
Search
http://multimedia.lycos.com/
Click on the Sounds radial button.
Go.com
Image Search
http://www.go.com/
Click the audio/video radial button before clicking search to search.
Sound Archives
Free Music:
Free Music and Songs
http://freeplaymusic.com/
Site with royalty free music and songs
Looney Toon Gallery
http://www.nonstick.com/sounds.html
Warner Brothers Looney Toon sound archive.
CSS Music
http://www.cssmusic.com
Your ONE-STOP Source for ROYALTY FREE MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS.
Web Places:
Sound Clips
http://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm
Sites with sounds to download, listed by category and type of sound files
available.
Fine Art &
Multimedia
http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/multimed/
A collection of images, sounds, and animations.
Classical
Midi Archives
http://www.prs.net/midi.html
Midi files categorized by classical composers
Digital Audio
Files
http://www.weblust.com/sounds/SoundTop.html
Sound files in the following categories: historical sound bytes (Neil Armstrong
first steps on the moon, etc.), sound FX (a smattering of smashes, crashes,
buzzes, rings, and other effects), and music bytes.
Acadia Sound
Archive
http://plato.acadiau.ca/sandbox/ppt/sounds/sound.htm
Midi World
http://www.midiworld.com
Lots of resources and links for midi files.
Microsoft
Sound Downloads
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/c-frame.htm#/downloads/sounds/default.asp
Free sound downloads from Microsoft (wav and midi).
Annie's Place
http://www.buffnet.net/%7eambrosia/home.htm?
Specializing in music wav clips from the 50's and 60's
The Daily
WAV
www.dailywav.com
Music and sound clips. Not organized by category so may be difficult to
use unless you know specifically what you're looking for, but has some
very funny sound clips. Has both wav files and good quality midi files.
The WAV Place
http://www.wavplace.com/
TV, Movie, music, computer voices & sounds, military, and cartoon sound
files.
The Looney
Tunes Sound Source
http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/
Name says it all.
Jim's Midi
Links
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/6356/frame.html
Organized by artist. Be forewarned: many really awful renditions. .But
what they lack in quality, they make up for in quantity.
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