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This simple app is great for reading notation and having students identify notes on the staff. Difficulty levels range from three notes in one clef to over 20 notes using a grand staff with accidentals. Exercises can be done in as little as 30 seconds. I think any middle or high school musician would benefit from the use of this app as a simple reminder of how to recognize pitches notated on the staff.

Auralia5 and Musition5 are very good soft wares for a music classroom. Auralia is for ear training, while Musition is for music theory. These softwares enhance a student's musicianship through very interesting activities of listening, composing, notating music, and sight reading/playing. A school has to purchase the software, though it is cloud based. The teacher adds students to different classes in the groups so that when assignments are set, they are easily submitted to the class where they belong. Teachers can create and assign worksheets, tests, and courses, and grade his/her students online as well. Tracking allows the teachers to run exams with high quality content that students love. Reports are also created in the software and parents can access their children's performance. Auralia and Musition are perfect for students of all ages and abilities. Auralia has a clean, easy to use interface designed to keep students focused on their essential ear training task.

A fun and interactive source or beat mixing and music making. No account needed. Free options. Allows students to create, record, and download their compositions.

Incredibox is an online and free music technology resource that has the user drag and drop icons to create different arrangements using various loops. The website also creates a game where the user must find the right combination of loops to make creative decisions that the program has pre-determined. This resource is a great tool to introduce students to the world of music technology while also teaching about form, the recording process, sharing of music, and how/why musicians makes creative decisions.

This composition website allows the composer to experiment with form, texture, harmony, and other elements of music without having to read standard notation. Instead of music notes, the music is represented by a cartoon boy in different outfits.

This software can be used to build musical and aural skills. The software helps with ear training by playing intervals. It helps with notation and line staff recognition. It can also record you singing pitches and tells you if is correct.

The Rhythm Trainer is a simple flash-based game that reinforces rhythm concepts. Students can either enter the rhythm that they hear, or choose the correct audio that matches the rhythm they see. Each example is four beats long, and there are a limited number of rhythms available. Students can select any or all of the 8 rhythms available to practice. Results can be emailed to the student's teacher.

The Rhythm trainer is another great source for helping students learn the principles of ear training. Teachers can load listening examples of varying rhythmic figures which students can respond to picking the examples they think best fit. Students can choose two modes of rhythm training which either provide them with choices for answers or require them build their answers based on the specific rhythms they are being trained on. The Rhythm Trainer does require the use Adobe Flash Player in order to play the examples but can be great for anyone teaching or learning the very basics developing good ear training skills.

This is a great tool to have to teach students rhythm. I use this to teach my private students to strengthen their ability to read rhythm. They find this website quite fun, and they enjoy all of the practices in which assign.

Garritan is a virtual instrument provider often bundled with Finale Notation Software. The virtual instrument player is called Aria, and various sound collections are available for purchase. In my experience, the VST works well with Finale, however, does not work well by itself or with other DAWs. This may be due to the low memory and processing speed of my computer.

This Ted Talk, given by Alan Harvey, explains the many ways that music affects the human body and brain. Harvey explained the history and use of music within our lives. In this lecture, Alan Harvey explained the ways in which music triggers signals in our brain. He demonstrated the impact of music on the brain through images of the brain, showing the alpha waves notated by an EEG, and by giving examples of a video with peaceful music and then again with a faster and darker melody. He spoke about how music impacts our viewpoint upon images.

Auralia is a comprehensive LMS of 43 topics for ages beginners to advanced in music aural theory. Instruction and testing is sequential and logical with a nonthreatening, easy to use interface. The student and/or educator set the pace of learning. Feedback is formative and immediate with questions that keep the student focused on the concept and aware of progress. Learning reinforced through repeated emphasis on hearing, seeing and notating the aural theory concept, e.g., intervals, chords, progressions.

It can be cumbersome to put together worksheets with divergent notation, text, and the like. This website has a number of basic worksheets that can be easily incorporated into theory-based curricula.

This is Jen Bailey's TPT store, and it is loaded with amazing material for Music Learning Theory teachers, as well as teachers who follow other methodologies. She has many resources for use with a projector or smart board, and other things that are printable. There are resources for assessment, audiation enhancement, movement, literature, holidays, rhythm games, notation resources, songs, recorder, ukulele, and so much more!

This website lists a large assortment of music education games that cover aural training, composers, compositions, instruments, notation, and symbols/vocabulary. "Ultimate List" is an accurate title! This looks like a compilation of several games from several websites all pulled into one. This is fantastic.

The Ultimate List of Online Music Education Games is a website filled with numerous resources available in aural training, composers, composition, instruments, notation, symbols/vocabulary and variety. These are free and students could even use them while at home and teachers can use to reinforce any lesson.

Comprehensive list and links to music education games. The list is sorted by what the games focus on (aural training, composers, etc.)

EduTech wiki is a music technology wiki featuring resources like music notation software suggestions, computer-based learning software, online interactive music learning services, and piano lesson software. It is a fairly new wiki, so information while good is limited.

This website is an experiment in sound production. The different sounds are made to look like organisms swimming around. The composer creates music with their ear, not notation.

This is a website on using a Smart board in a band/ music class.

The purpose of this page is to provide a Whiteboard resource with 10 excellent ways to incorporate the IWB into music lessons. Several of these ideas were new to me and I look forward to exploring them in my classroom.

This article describes ways to use an interactive whiteboard for music learning. Many of the ideas may be best suited for a general music classroom but can also be incorporated into rehearsal settings. IWBs can be used to teaching the reading and writing of music notation. They can also be used to teach music form and history, and interactive lessons with video, power points, and games. IWBs help engage many learning styles at once and keep students engaged.  

Sibelius is the world's best- selling music notation software, offering sophisticated, yet easy- to- use tools that are proven and trusted by composers, arrangers, publishers, educators, and students alike.

Ear-training exercises using piano keyboard instead of notation

Free Improvisation software tool for beginning to intermediate jazz musicians.

The software has its occasional glitches (it is free after all) and does not allow for audio input like many paid doppelgangers, but this allows students to understand chord progressions, work out solo lines (and notate them using colorized notes for feedback), play along with auto-accompaniment and utilizes the brick chord layout for easy form understanding.

There are interactive lessons that would be great for centers work or to engage students in learning more about a specific music theory concept. It could be useful if students are working in with a music notation software, for instance, and forget a concept.

An easy-to-use and simple online music theory instructional website. The site would be best suited for supplemental material for students to review after having been taught the information through a teacher.

Music curriculum and interactive lessons in music theory. Appropriate for ages 6-12. Website is also equipped with music theory games and worksheets.

The purpose of this website is to provide information on some of the newest technology programs being created for music educators and musicians. The content ranges from new apps to create music, to new notation software, to discussions on the new music education standards that include technology. It also features useful tips for individual instruments.

This site contains blogs of reviews of music education based technology, as well as discussions of topics relevant to music education and technology.

Details Written by Chad Criswell In the same vein as other music note ID training apps NinGenius goes the extra mile to make the tedious task of learning to read music a whole lot more fun.

Groovy Jungle is a Sibelius software specifically for teaching music to small children.  It is available through musicians friend.com website.