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Music Tech Teacher, Music Quizzes, Games, Pianos, Worksheets - 3 views

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    This site is stocked full of useful features for students in the form of games, quizzes, and a great flash keyboard with music to match. Using the number keys, students can practice even if they don't have a piano keyboard. There are also lessons and resources for teachers, too.
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    This page is a collection of Computer games and quizzes geared towards instrument identification, music theory, keyboard note identification, and music history. There are also games associated with music technology, scales, and music careers. These games could aid in refreshing the memory of older students, and help reinforce taught material to younger students. Karen Garrett (the creator of the page and games) also provides links to the programs in which she designed the games for future game creators.
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    This page is a collection of Computer games and quizzes geared towards instrument identification, music theory, keyboard note identification, and music history. There are also games associated with music technology, scales, and music careers. These games could aid in refreshing the memory of older students, and help reinforce taught material to younger students. Karen Garrett (the creator of the page and games) also provides links to the programs in which she designed the games for future game creators.
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    This is a great website for games and quizzes that can be used as a class or individually. There are also lesson and teacher resources available on the site
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    This website has great interactive games that students can play to support learning done in the classroom. This can also be a great website to leave for subs if there is access to a computer lab
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    This website provides a number of resources for music educators in the k-12 platform. The sight includes workshops, games and quizzes easily accessible to music educators.
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    This site provides quizzes, games, worksheets, and music theory content related activities.
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    This website is a great resource for teachers to review by means of games. It helps to engage the students while at the same time allowing them to learn basic musical concepts and elements.
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    This website is a compilation of music activities, games, puzzles, worksheets, and quizzes. It is a resource designed to make music learning more interesting for students in an interactive way. Some content includes note-naming, instrument identification, basic music theory, piano methods, rhythm formation, and music history. Most activities on this website are for students at the elementary and middle school levels.
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    The Music Tech Teacher website is a collection of lesson plans, worksheets, interactive games and activities. These resources help promote instrument identification, note reading, rhythm reading, scales and piano skills. It is a great place to motivate student learning and understanding using fun games and activities.
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    Music Tech Teacher has elementary and middle school level quizzes reviewing a variety of musical concepts, lessons, and student worksheets that are printable for teachers.
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    This website incorporates a ton of games, quizzes, and worksheets for students to utilize when learning about different concepts. The website has activities related to interval, chords, triads, music technology, composers, instruments families, and piano. The games allow for students to work together as a team while the worksheets and word scrambles serve as great resources for students to complete when they are an early finisher.
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    This website is suitable for teachers who give students free time to work on music games. Many different music topics are taught by the music teachers and a better way for students to retain the information would include turning some of their assignments into competition. One thing i have learned, elementary students love to be competitive, so if the students are able to get high scores on music games, then they are retaining and getting the information.
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    The creator of this site, Karen Garrett, has compiled different games and quizzes to make her music class more interactive. Students can access games about different instruments, note naming, rhythm, and even composers. There are also theory quizzes and worksheets that anyone can access.
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Music Games | PBS KIDS - 2 views

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    PBS Kids has a ton of music games great for use with the early elementary level. These games are great to reinforce concepts being taught in the general elementary classroom.
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    This site has a wide variety of music games for young children. Children can learn about different instruments, create their own digital instrument and play music with and sing along with popular cartoon characters.
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    Several games that relate to elementary music learning that kids will love to play. These games are perfect as a time filler, or as part of a lesson. These games are best for young (K5-1) students.
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Jazz | Music 101 | Ken Burns - 0 views

  • "Composition is slowed down improvisation," and both disciplines deal with the same challenge — how to organize and present ideas in a coherent fashion.
  • One of the most common misconceptions about jazz is that it is spun out of the air in a totally impromptu manner. This notion exists because many small jazz groups do not read music when they play. The truth of the matter is that what those musicians are actually doing is spontaneously creating a very sophisticated form of theme and variations
  • The framework is flexible so that the soloists may shorten or lengthen their improvisations depending on the inspiration of the moment. The other players, then, have a responsibility to react to what has preceded them
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      Creativity in music research offers a great deal of insight on this idea in improvisation that can be applied to more idioms than jazz.
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  • To many, composed music and improvised music seem to be opposites, but in jazz, they merge in a unique fashion.
  • But improvisation is not the be all and end all of jazz. Composers such as Duke Ellington and Eddie Sauter wrote, on occasion, jazz compositions practically devoid of improvisation. But the real challenge comes when a composer integrates improvisation into a
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