Links and Resources

Aural Training

• Creating Music Block Game–create a 3-note pattern and then listen to a variety of patterns to choose the one you created

• Creating Music Comparing Game–listen to two melodies and determine if they are the same or different

• Creating Music Block Game with Rhythm–list the block game above only with an 8-note melodic and rhythmic pattern

• Creating Music About Pitch–listen to classical music excerpts demonstrating rising and lowering pitch

• 12 Steps–Select the sound heard to help Alice (in Wonderland) up the stairs

Composers

• Quia Composer Fun Concentration–match composer with a famous work

• Quia Composer Fun Word Search–find composers in this word search and learn which which famous works they wrote

• Quia Composer Fun Matching–match composers with a famous work

• Quia Composer Fun Flash Cards–Flip the flashcards to memorize composers and their famous works

• Fun Brain Word Scramble–given a clue, unscramble the word to name the composer

• Fun Brain Composers Stay Afloat–play hangman to name the composer

• DSO Kids Time Machine–place composers in the appropriate time period

Composition

• Global Groovin’–create a world-music mix with drag and drop instruments, beats, and sounds

• BBC Cave Sounds—create a cave-sound mix with drag and drop sounds

• Classics for Kids Compose Your Very Own Music—compose 4 measures of music in 4/4 time

• Arts Alive Compose Music—compose a 9 note melody

Musical Instruments

• Flying Instruments—a Tetris-like game with three levels–matching by instrument family, by instrument, and by sound

• Orchestra Game–listen and identify the instrument played

• Fun Brain Musical Instruments Word Scramble–given a clue, unscramble the word to reveal the instrument

• Fun Brain Instruments Stay Afloat–play hangman to name the instrument

• Quia Instrument Quiz–a 21 question quiz on the orchestra instrument families

• Quia Rags to Riches–like “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” with questions limited to the orchestral instruments.

Notation

• Funbrain The Piano Player–staff and piano keys recognition

• SFS Kids Performalator—play simple melodies via color coded music

• Musicards Note Names—treble clef flash cards

• Musicards Intervals—treble and bass clef interval flash cards

• Musicards Triads—treble clef triad flash cards for chord and inversion recognition

• Classics for Kids Note Names—name sets of treble clef notes

• Music Match–match the note on the piano keys with the note on the staff

• Online Piano Game–listen and name the note on the treble staff

• Musical Notes–treble clef and piano key recognition

Symbols and Vocabulary

• Quia Musical Elements Matching–match musical elements and their definitions

• Quia Musical Elements Flash Cards— Flip the flashcards to memorize musical elements and their definitions

• Quia Music Vocabulary Flash Cards–Flip the flashcards to memorize music vocabulary and their definition

• Quia Music Vocabulary Matching–match vocabulary and definitions

• Quia Music Vocabulary Concentration–match vocabulary and definitions

Variety

These websites could not be limited to one particular musical focus but have several online music education games covering a wide-variety of musical instruments and elements.

• SFS Kids

• The New York Philharmonic Kids Zone

• PBS Kids Music Games

• Music Theory.Net—lessons, tools, and customizable exercises for note, key, interval, choral, and keyboard note recognition both on the staff and aurally

• Quia Music Review—Jeopardy-like game to review music elements, notation, instruments, rhythm and more

• Quia Shared Music Games—full list of over 200 Quia shared music games

• Creative Kids Education Foundation Projects–learn about opera, composers, musical styles and more

• PBS Jazz Kids–learn about jazz music, musical elements and improvisation

• eMusic Theory Practice–exercises to practice note names, piano keys, string instrument fingerings, rhythms, intervals, chords, scales, and more

• Music Tech Teacher–over 130 elementary quizzes, puzzles, and games on music notes, rhythms, instruments, composers, and more