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Yousician | Learn to Play | Your Personal Music Teacher - 0 views
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Yousician is a great software resource that teaches students to play a number of instruments including: piano, guitar, bass, ukulele, and voice. The software is set-up in a creative, game-like structure that tracks student progress and ability level through playing assessments. It's a great tool to use during general music units that focus on performance practice of these different instruments. The free version is open to all for a full 20 minutes a day. Great tool for students of all ages.
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Yousician is another tool to build independent learners and musicians. Students with access to a computer or other device at home can build their instrumental playing skills on ukulele, guitar, bass, or piano with this self-guided program. Additionally, this resource can be used in the general music classroom to teach interval training, intonation, and rhythmic accuracy.
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Yousician is an app for Android and iOS devices that can aid you and your students in learning how to play guitar, bass, ukulele, and piano, while also providing guidance with voice development. The app includes a free and premium version. There are videos and lessons that you and your students can follow along to.
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musictheory.net - 4 views
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Offers a good variety of lessons, for both beginners and advanced students, from notes' duration to Neapolitan chords. Also tools such as chord calculator, metronome, pop up piano window etc., are available for free.
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This is a free website that has music theory lessons as well as exercises. It covers the basics of music and more. Teachers are able to customize exercises and have students print out a progress report
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This is a free website that has music theory lessons as well as exercises. It covers the basics of music and more. Teachers are able to customize exercises and have students print out a progress report
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This site provides lessons and exercises in music theory for students. The lessons are not interactive, but the exercises are with quizes.
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This site provides lessons and exercises in music theory for students. The lessons are not interactive, but the exercises are with quizes.
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This is a great website to further music theory knowledge. This site helps students with ear training and music reading. There are many games, lessons, and activities to improve one's musical knowledge.
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Musicthory.net is a free resource for music theory students. You can select from lessons, notation and aural exercises, and much more.
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The purpose of this site is to provide a program that teaches music theory. This program has lessons and exercises to facilitate the learning of music theory and ear training.
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The purpose of this site is to provide a program that teaches music theory. This program has lessons and exercises to facilitate the learning of music theory and ear training.
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Musictheory.net contains free online music content. Students and teachers can explore the fundamentals of music through animated lessons. You can also create custom exercises to improve your musical recognition and use interactive tools to calculate notes, intervals, and chords for specific keys.
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A great site to direct any music student to! I used it a lot when I was struggling in Aural Skills in college, so great for any age.
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This is a fantastic resource that I have been using for many years. There are many options for lessons among the music elements, which are customizable for different levels of difficulty. My favorite to use this site for is identifying pitches. I can customize the lesson to only include specific pitches and ranges, and even with sharps and flats.
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This is one of the most useful music education resources I have ever found. I use it with all of my students, from beginners all the way to AP Music Theory. The webpage is completely downloadable and can be accessed offline.
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This website assists all musicians of levels from middle school and beyond with understanding basic to advanced music theory. There are lessons, tutorials, and exercises for ear training, intervals, and chords.
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This website assists all musicians of levels from middle school and beyond with understanding basic to advanced music theory. There are lessons, tutorials, and exercises for ear training, intervals, and chords.
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A free website with music theory lessons and exercises. From the very basic (note identification) to more advanced topics (chord structure, modes, 7th chords), this would work well for students in grades 5 and up.
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This is a music theory site that emphasizes beginning music fundamentals. This site is available for download in a free offline edition.
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This music theory website contains both exercises and lessons that are very useful to teachers and students. The website includes a wide variety of categories including but not limited to key signatures, scales, note identification, and rhythms. This would be very useful if ever teaching a high school theory course or even for an instructor to brush up on their own music theory skills.
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Teachers can assign ready made lessons in music theory. Easy to use and comprehensive covering note identification to ear training.
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This interactive site offers lessons in different musical concepts and exercises to build knowledge. All exercises are customizable to fit different skill levels and work with interactive white boards. A list of tools features handy applications like an interval finder and a metronome. Users who enjoy the site can purchase the app, Tenuto, for their smart phones and tables.
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Purpose of this resource: MusicTheory.net is a website that contains many lessons on music theory as well as drills for practicing each concept. Musical Content: This website covers basic music notation elements (staff, bar lines, ledger lines etc.), key signatures, major/minor scales, intervals, note identification and interval identification (with note names, moveable do solfege, fixed do solfege, or piano keyboard), Chord building, and chord progressions. Other information: This website is great as a supplement to basic music theory lessons. It also has great possibility for reinforcing and practicing concepts. Each exercise is graded and can be submitted to instructors electronically. Teachers can also make custom exercises. There is a paid app available for iOS devices
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This is a great resource to learn and practice ear training. You can easily practice various aspects of ear training and adjust the difficulty or the specific things you are working on. It is also fairly easy to track your progress and see what still needs work.
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A fantastic free online interactive software that offers lessons, exercises and ear training. It is a great tool for assessment as it offers immediate feedback in every exercise with a built-in timer.
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This website offers lessons and exercises on numerous topics such as keyboard notes, reading the music staff, and even ear training exercises intervals and chords. Each exercise is also customizable to make it as easy or difficult as you see fit.
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This website offers lessons and exercises on numerous topics such as keyboard notes, reading the music staff, and even ear training exercises intervals and chords. Each exercise is also customizable to make it as easy or difficult as you see fit.
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The best site for free Music Theory training exercises. Note reading and aural skills.
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This is a website that offers free lessons, exercises, and tools for music theory. This could be used by any music student to reinforce theory concepts taught in the classroom or the private studio.
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Musictheory.net is an amazing resource for providing teachers and students with lessons, quizzes as well as assessments in all aspects of music theory. The program online allows teachers to set up practice sessions, tutorials, as well as assessment on basic and advanced theory concepts. Students are able to access the online program from home or through tablet/laptop at school.
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musictheory.net offers a wonderful music theory training exercises. It offers free lessons, exercises, and tools for learners of any age to partake of. The site also offers two mobile (paid) apps that allow users to take their learning with them. Great for anyone, especially those involved with music theory or aural skills training.
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musictheory.net offers a wonderful music theory training exercises. It offers free lessons, exercises, and tools for learners of any age to partake of. The site also offers two mobile (paid) apps that allow users to take their learning with them. Great for anyone, especially those involved with music theory or aural skills training.
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Musictheory.net is a great resource, not just specifically for music theory students, but for all students of music. The "lessons" section is great for introducing new concepts of theory, and the "exercises" section is a fun way to quiz and practice these concepts.
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This is a free online interactive resource that is an alternative to traditional paper and pencil of learning music theory. I recommend for late elementary on up.
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The Musictheory.net website is a comprehensive platform focused on teaching music theory. The purpose of the website is to teach or reinforce music theory concepts at all levels of experience. There are numerous free lessons available that cover many aspects of music theory. There are also numerous customizable exercises to help reinforce the concepts learned in the lessons. Teachers can utilize this website at all levels of performing arts. I have found success with using the note name identification exercise as I can choose exactly what notes the students are practicing.
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An excellent app for any musician wanting to sharpen their theory skills. Users have a wide range of theoretical topics to study, with lessons and assessment built in.
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Interactive music theory website with virtual lessons and activities. Lessons include: reading notes on various staffs, the musical alphabet, chords, and more. There is a free mobile app available, and lessons are well sequenced.
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Offers Music Theory Lessons over a wide variety of Topics and Exercises for Students. Lessons may be completed individually by students or as a class at an IWB (Interactive WhiteBoard). Additional tools are provided, as well as the ability to complete exercises online or offline.
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This website is a great resource for a high amount of theory information. A great feature is the separation of lessons (learning) then exercises to quiz you. The customization for exercises is perfect to test something specific or a wider range.
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This is a free website that offers lessons, exercises, and tools for music theory. The site is geared towards an older student and can be self pace
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This website has good music theory exercises and videos. Students uses the lessons and practice on the exercises. Has other products available for a price.
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This website provides numerous resources for learning, studying, and practicing music theory. Users can explore the lessons section to learn about various topics in music theory. Users can also practice various elements of both written and aural theory. This website focuses specifically on music theory.
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This is a wonderful, free music theory website for a general music, band, choral, or music theory class. This website gives sample lessons and has exercises that students can take. There are also available apps to make it easy on-the-go.
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The purpose of this site is to provide free online content and resources for music theory lessons. Students can access theory lessons with assessment in every aspect of music theory for the beginner to advanced student.
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This website is an interactive resource for students to use to learn basic note reading, theory, and ear training. This could be used in a music technology class or general music class with access to devices. In a performance ensemble setting, this could be used as a warm up for the whole class with the aid of an interactive whiteboard or projector.
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This resource is focused on teaching elements of music theory through slideshow presentations and exercises. This could be used to supplement instruction, be used in stations in a music classroom, or as an enrichment tool for gifted music students.
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Online music theory site that helps to learn and practice various theory topics from beginner to advanced levels. Downloadable app for mobile devices is also available for a small nominal fee.
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This is a great website that provides theory lessons and exercises for all levels and abilities. It also allows students to print and submit progress reports to track progress.
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Wild Music - 0 views
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This website provides information and interactive activities that focus on the study of sound. Activities include building a soundscape, exploring sound from around the world using an interactive map, and creating using a computer-generated sound mixer. The production of animal sounds and frequencies are also explored. A study of how animal sounds have influenced music and musicians is investigated.
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Free Music Writing, Music Notation Software - Finale Notepad - 0 views
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This site is something that most music educators today are familiar with; Finale. it provides a free download of Finale as well as blogs and training tutorials about how to use the program. The purpose of Finale is to all teachers (and students!) to create their own music. It can be anything from an original composition to an arrangement of a familiar song to a replica of something that has already been created. Not only does finale help build musical creativity, but it also teaches students about the basics of music notation. This site is a great source because it takes you step-by-step through downloading Finale, making it more user-friendly, especially for those that might not have as much experience with more recent music software.
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North Carolina Music Educators Association - 0 views
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North Carolina Music Educators Association. MISSION: To advance music education by promoting the understanding and making of music by all. VISION: Leading North Carolina in music education, empowering generations to create, perform and respond to music. VALUES: INCLUSION and EQUITY - Building strength and promoting diversity in a profession representing a wide and changing spectrum of people and culture, abilities, economic backgrounds and gender identities while continuing to carry out the association's letter of intent. COMMUNITY - Collaborating with our members and partners to carry out our mission STEWARDSHIP - Empowering volunteerism and strategically developing leadership, fostering a spirit of accountability and a culture of giving of our time, talents, and resources COMPREHENSIVENESS - Uplifting the human spirit and providing opportunities for all students to create, perform, respond, and connect to all styles of music INNOVATION - Enhancing music teaching through combining effective and dynamic new practices with proven strategies in the context of a changing global community.
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Music for everyone - Spotify - 0 views
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This site provides a software that allows one to listen to any song they would like by various artists for free.
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This site provides a software that allows one to listen to any song they would like by various artists for free.
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This is a great website for finding music and creating a playlist. This website has a large cache of music. Sharing feature is great to share with students.
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There are millions of songs on Spotify. Play your favorites, discover new tracks, and build the perfect collection. You'll find readymade playlists to match your mood, put together by music fans and experts.
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Use PBL to Innovate the Music Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views
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music educators deal with the same concerns as core teachers, including student engagement, assessment and standards. Utilize PBL to address these concerns and embrace new possibilities for the music classroom.
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Music educators, please continue to do what you do, but consider taking it up a notch from time to time with a PBL project
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PBL can help focus your instruction, build authenticity and create purpose and relevance for reluctant students in your classroom
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Kodály Center :: About - 1 views
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Provided by Holy Names University in conjunction with their Kodály Center, "American Folk Song Collection" is a valuable resource for music teachers, parents, choral conductors and composers.Exploring the collection of repertoire allows a music teacher of any grade level the opportunity to obtain musical scores, lyrics, song analyses and background information. All applicable to constructing curriculum, selecting repertoire for a performance ensemble or building a personal database of favorite songs. Recordings provided by the Library of Congress and other resources and short films on the history and work of Zoltán Kodály, make this a strong resource for instructional planning and classroom implementation.
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HNU is a site in which students, teachers, parents could utilize to find songs, lyrics, scores, song analysis, background information, and deeper insight into the works and methodologies of Zoltan Kodaly.
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DonorsChoose.org: Support a classroom. Build a future. - 0 views
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DonorsChoose is a way for any teachers to request materials for their classrooms through specified vendors. Many celebrities participate in flash funding of certain projects and Title I schools are given top billing when the projects are listed. The smaller the projects, the easier is it to get them funded. I got $6,700 funded in one project by Stephen Colbert and countless other projects funded through the generosity of others.
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Music Learning Community is a site for music educators and music students that includes a great deal of information on computer-based learning. Included are games and activities that teach theory and build aural skills. There is a free trial but the site requires a membership fee.
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Free website that provides games and reinforcement activities for music theory, ear training, and other concepts.
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This website offers hundreds of interactive games to teach students music theory, rhythms, ear-training, sight-reading, and notation analysis. Designed to make learning musical concepts and take-home assignments more fun and engaging, these games are broken down into various levels for students. Lower levels can be effective for early elementary students, and higher levels can be effective for students in high school. Games are colorful and entertaining, and they list certain scores that students should strive to achieve. Most games have a lesson version, a practice version, and a quiz version. Teachers can track scores and data of individual students to see strengths and weaknesses.
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This website has many games that can be used to learn various musical concepts. Some games are free, but there are more games with the paid subscription. You can pay monthly or yearly and it can be used for 5 to 50 people.
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On and Off the Podium - 0 views
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This website includes teaching materials, blogs, and more to support band directors. Some of the materials include seating chart, 'rehearsal detective' forms, and more practical forms for band directors.
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This website is a collection of various resources by Wendy Higdon to assist band directors in their classrooms. Her website offers a podcast about band related topics such as recruitment and inventory. Her blog includes articles on building fundamentals and stocking the right reeds for your woodwinds. Finally she has many resources available to download such as seating chart generators, recruiting materials, and self-assessments.
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This blog is written by Wendy Hart Higdon, a middle school band director who has wrote tons of articles on directing middle school bands, and has an awesome recruitment checklist on here!
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New York Philharmonic Kidzone - 0 views
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The Kidzone by the New York Philharmonic is an interactive website for children to use to learn primarily about instruments, composers, and famous musicians. It includes games, videos, audio recordings, and text. Students can interact with games that allow them to match rhythms, sort instruments into families, build an instrument, create a graphic-based composition, and match instruments and composers. There is also information about children's concerts.
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This website has many fun games for students. They are introductory level. Students can be introduced to instrument families.
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This is an awesome resource that's student-friendly and focuses on instruments of the orchestra, as well as composers. It creates a strong connection between concept and real-world scenarios. The website is designed around the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. There are engaging and interactive games and lessons for students to learn about the orchestra and test their knowledge.
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Very engaging and visually appealing website from the New York Philharmonic. Unfortunately many of the links would not work; however, one really cool feature is that there are recordings of symphony performances that can be viewed in a classroom. Much better quality of video than many available videos on YouTube.
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teoria : Music Theory Web - 1 views
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This is an online music theory and aural site that has lessons and exercises to help students learn basic theory information.
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This is an online music theory and aural site that has lessons and exercises to help students learn basic theory information.
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This site has a lot of great ear training exercises. It inlcudes scale and mode identification, interval identification, and dictation exercises. There are non-flash versions of everything.
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This site has a lot of great ear training exercises. It inlcudes scale and mode identification, interval identification, and dictation exercises. There are non-flash versions of everything.
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This site includes music theory, ear training, musical terms glossary, articles of form and analysis and information about musical instruments. I plan to reference this site with my students after reading about it in chapter 5 this week.
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An online site for learning Music Theory. It can also be used on mobil devices.
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This site is a deep resource for students and instructors looking for knowledge in music theory. It also has cross-platform access to mobile phone devices and tablets through the use of games and exercises to help with ear training, chord identification, interval identification and dictation, and more.
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This site is a deep resource for students and instructors looking for knowledge in music theory. It also has cross-platform access to mobile phone devices and tablets through the use of games and exercises to help with ear training, chord identification, interval identification and dictation, and more.
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This is a free site($20 fee to access offline) that contains tutorials and exercises that focus on intermediate music theory concepts. The site is available in English and Spanish dialect.
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This website contains tutorials and online exercises for basic music theory concepts including harmonic function, form, intervals, chords, and note identification. Also includes a music dictionary and section of scholarly music articles.
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This website contains tutorials and online exercises for basic music theory concepts including harmonic function, form, intervals, chords, and note identification. Also includes a music dictionary and section of scholarly music articles.
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Teoria provides tutorials, theory and ear training exercises, articles, and theory references to fortify knowledge on the above skills. It also highlights events which took place historically with renowned composers, compositions, and artists.
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This website provides tutorials and exercises in music theory. There are also articles and other references for student and teacher use. This is perfect for students continuing and practicing their theory at home.
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This website is great for music theory. It has theory videos and customizable exercises. The website has a bonus reference section and articles of analysis.
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Use this site to practice music theory skills. Ear training and notation tutorials are available. Access the articles for music research.
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Music theory website which offers resources on: tutorials, references, exercises, and articles. Divided into ear training and music theory. Multiple levels are provided for each type of exercise. Great for group learning, or for students who want to discover more about music theory on their own.
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This website helps students build their music theory skills. It offers tutorials, articles, and exercises for both ear training and written theory
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This is one of the useful music theory website available for educators to use in class to assist in teaching basic music theory. The site includes articles, tutorials, and references for teaching music theory.
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Music Teacher Resources for (Grades K-12) - TeacherVision - 0 views
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This website provides a multitude of tools for music teachers, among other subjects. The website contains lesson plans and teaching strategies for grades K-12. There are lessons on world music, on instruments (such as building instruments), as well as the history of musical genres. The free version is limited, but the premium version is fairly inexpensive.
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Resource for UF Masters of Music Education. This site is helpful in planning lessons for application of new ideas. I love that it has something to offer every teacher from grades K-12.
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I use this website sometimes to help out with some of my lesson plans if I'm in need of worksheets to help back up the topic that is chosen for that particular week. This is good for any teacher because it provides a variety of different worksheets for many topics.
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The Rhythm Trainer - 0 views
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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.
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Great source for training rhythmic sight-reading! Various patterns will test students' capabilities to hear complex rhythmic structures.
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A fun game for students to practice rhythms independently . Different combinations of rhtyhms can be played at different tempos.
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Website where students can practice reading rhythms. In one mode a rhythm is played and then the student must use the available notes to write that rhythm. In the second mode a rhythm is written and students need to select which of four audio examples sounds like what is written. This is a great resource for quick check-ins of student understanding of rhythmic notation.
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This game allows the player to work on reading rhythms and rhythmic notation. There are two ways to play the game: listen to a rhythm and spell it out with provided rhythmic blocks or view a whole rhythm and choose the correct recording.
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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.
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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.
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Isle of Tune - 2 views
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Isle of Tune is music sequencer where users build compositions visually using houses, roads, plants and cars. Can be used to reinforce a range of musical concepts.
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Isle of Tune is a website (and app for iOS) that allows students to create an island with sound producing plants, houses, and other objects. As cars drive on the island, a melody or beat is produced based on where the objects are located and what these objects are. Isle of Tune allows users to compose in a non-traditional manner using a fun, interactive interface