A music theory and performance site for beginning through advanced musicians. It is filled with articles to help teachers and students as well as downloadable and printable sheet music, a bookstore, and customizable lessons for students. There is a free subscription to this site on the homepage.
A website with resources for teaching and learning in a modern band ensemble. There are resources for teachers including lessons, professional development, videos, and songs. There are also resources for students including songs, practice videos, and lessons. Popular music is the main focus as well as song writing.
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
Orchestra Game–listen and identify the instrument played
BBC Seaside Activity—match sounds with descriptions
BBC Mood Music—listen to music selections and match with a mood
BBC Instrument Matchup—match sounds with instrument
BBC Quiz—review of aural rhythm, style, and instrument recognition
Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” –Interactive Listening Map
PBS Toopy and Binoo Bubbles—musical memory game
DJ Games Music Matching–imitate melodies played on a solfege ladder
Sousa Palooza–an interactive music map of a famous Sousa march turned into an asteroid-like game
Note Pair–aural concentration game
Theta Music Trainer–many aural training games for everything from scales, intervals, chord progressions, rhythms, and more
Music Memory–aural solfege training
Music Teacher Games–many games for staff, piano key, rhythm, and aural recognition
Melody Mayhem 1–recognize a melody
Storm Chasers–recognize melodic direction
Catch the Coconut–aural interval recognition
Good Ear–ear training exercises for intervals, chords, scales, cadences and more
Echo Time with Annie–aural concentration game
Music Prodigy Core makes practice and assessments easier. Instant red note/green note evaluation as students play
A comprehensive solution for all voices, strings, percussion, winds, guitar, piano (patented polyphonic pitch recognition system)
All student levels, general music through university
No external microphone required
Includes thousands of music titles
No training required
Teacher classroom dashboard with pre-formatted student progress reports
iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Windows PCs, Mac OS X, and Amazon Kindle Fire
A program that is built from the teacher's perspective, Music Prodigy provides students with an area to practice, using a built-in metronome. Assessment is also available in this program. As its name implies, you will build musical prodigies.
This is a companion website to a series on improvisation for students, ranging from beginner to advanced. Has anyone ever used this series? I'm considering buying it to see what it has to offer.
This website has a wide variety of resources such as sheet music, lesson plans, composer biographies written with elementary level vocabulary, music theory worksheets, and much more. This website is geared toward elementary music but could also be useful in some middle school applications.
Making Music Fun is a great website for resources for music educators. There are tons of theory worksheets (some more appropriate for elementary school students), lessons, composer biographies and worksheets, and activities for the music classroom. There is also a library of piano music that is well-written for beginners and available in a variety of levels. Some features over the years now require purchase, but there are still tons of resources available for free.
This website offers various music resources for download, such as sheet music, theory worksheets, composer biographies, and music award certificates. It is mainly for younger aged children, but can also be used for middle schoolers.
A fabulous resource for eye-catching, student-engaging music worksheets that ask students to think critically about music concepts. A variety of topics are covered.
I use this game with my students to help with note names. This makes naming notes a game and competitive. It also includes the alto clef and while many worksheets leave out the alto clef.
I use this game with my students to help with note names. This makes naming notes a game and competitive. It also includes the alto clef and while many worksheets leave out the alto clef.
Music Racer is a music game students can use make learning note names, fingerings, and music terms fun! Students can pick the instrument they play or choose another instrument if learning and secondary instrument.
Online game that helps students practice note identification, drill basic music terms and fingerings. One of the great features is that it can be set for a wide variety of instruments - each using appropriate clef.
This is a website aimed at younger students where they can test their knowledge of instrument fingerings and techniques through a game. It is especially helpful for entry level instruments, such as beginning band and recorder classes.
This is a website aimed at younger students where they can test their knowledge of instrument fingerings and techniques through a game. It is especially helpful for entry level instruments, such as beginning band and recorder classes.
Purpose of this resource: This website can be used for practicing note identification, fingering recognition and music terminology. Students are given a score for each of their practice sessions (races) and results are posted on a worldwide leader board.
Musical Content: This website generates quizzes on note names and fingerings based on instrument. There is also a quiz dedicated to identifying the meaning of musical terminology.
Other information: This resource has instrument selections for band and orchestra instruments, piano and recorder. Vocalists and other instrumentalists should select the instrument that is closest to theirs.
Music Racer is a website that uses games to help reinforce music reading concepts. The purpose of the website is to reinforce musical terms, note names, and fingerings through the use of speed based games. There are multiple levels of difficulty and students can choose their instrument to personalize their game. The games are not customizable and students with at least a half year of experience would benefit most from this website. There is a top 50 leader board for each level of the different games that is based on the speed in which the game is completed. Teachers can use this website as a fun way to continue to reinforce fundamental music reading concepts.
This website is an excellent tool for reinforcing note reading and fluency. Students can progress through three levels of identifying notes on a staff specific to their instrument. They can work to get faster times and eventually reach the top 50 list.
This site has 3 reinforcement games in it for band students. In order to start the games students select their instrument, it then takes them to the appropriate exercise for the students. The reinforcement games are note identification, fingering reinforcement and music terms.
Great source for a wide range of quizzes. There are a lot of options ranging from learning different instruments, note identification, rhythm practice, musician quizzes and more. There are lots of fun games that kids really enjoy.