The SoundJunction archive
SoundJunction was the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music's interactive music-education site. It ran from 2005 until it was retired, and it is still cited by Wikipedia in seven languages, by university and school libraries, and by the BBC, the New York Times and HuffPost. This is an independent archive of that material.
Sections
Explore music
Music in its social and historical context — slavery and the blues, griots, the French Revolution, music as protest.
How music works
Rhythm, harmony, melody and texture, explained by interacting with the sound itself.
About musicians
Interviews and profiles: jazz players, composers, kora masters and orchestral principals.
Instruments and voices
How instruments are built, tuned and played, from the oboe reed to the double bass bow.
Composing and remixing
Writing, arranging and remixing — the craft behind the finished piece.
Create music yourself
The site's interactive tools for making music in the browser.
Most-cited pages
- What is a griot?
- Profile: tuned percussion
- What are the sounds in SoundJunction?
- All about Anna Pyne
- All about Tunde Jegede
- Using a rhythmic seed in Moving Away
- About Musicians
- Jazz: understanding syncopation
- All about David Horne
- All about Seb Rochford
- All about Larry Bartley
- The music of the French Revolution
- Explore music
- All about the kora
- All about the oboe
- Being a woman in a male tradition
- Renaissance music
- The viola: a brief history
- Tuning the violin
- How music works
- How the slave trade affected music: an introduction
- Note Canvas tool
- Profile: the bassoon
- A closer look at the violin bow