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There are four music games on Classics for Kids, and each of them are based on solid musical theory. The Rockin' Rhythm Master encourages children to listen to and repeat drum beat rhythms, while the Note Name game is all about naming notes on a staff. The composer time machine offers musical samples from great musicians, and a simple composer lets students create music as long as they keep four beats to every bar. The games open in a small window, so if you use Firefox, I would recommend the Flash Game Maximizer plugin in order to make them full screen.

The emphasis here is more on games than music, but it was created by MTV so you can be sure that there is still a strong musical element. The Sound Factory starts as you join our hero on his way to work at the tire factory, but it soon develops into a cacophony of industrial sounds that combine effortlessly into a foot stomping melody. Sounds can be turned on and off as required, especially when the boss checks up on you, but it is your job to entertain the workers, so you need to try to please everyone with your musical prowess.

Although they are grouped with the art games, Learning Games for Kids definitely has some worthwhile elementary music games. Many link out to other sites, but they are all student friendly and have content that is school appropriate. Music Match 'em, for instance, has students match the sound of an instrument with a picture of what they think made that sound. Boom Thang is a fun and easy to use composer game, while Music Memory is a tone matching game based on the doh ray me scale. All in all, there is a good mix of education and fun, but that is exactly what we have come to expect from LearningGamesforKids.com.

"Karajan Beginner is the free version of Karajan, an easy to use music and ear training application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It provides lessons for learning to recognize intervals, chords, scales, pitch and tempo (bpm) with detailed statistics. Karajan is a great tool for music theory students, whether they are in junior high, high school, or college. It is also very useful for every hobb..."

Abstract: This paper describes a multimodality approach that helps primary-school students improve their learning performance during music instruction. Multimedia instruction is an effective way to help learners create meaningful knowledge and to make referential connections between mental representations. This paper proposes a multimodal, dual-channel, multimedia learning (DML) system that provides efficient control over several multimedia objects such as Word files, PowerPoint files, web pages, images, films, and real-time videos. The multimodal DML system was applied in an experiment in which 32 fourth-grade students were assigned to the experimental group, where they received twelve 40-minute music lessons using multimodal presentation over a period of eight weeks. The control group consisted of 32 fourth-grade students who received the same twelve 40-minute lessons, but with musical notations. The results reveal that students in the experimental group showed a higher level of learning achievement and motivation than those in the conventional group. The conclusion was that multimodal presentations are helpful to scaffold learning.

The music assessment web site is provided as a service to the music education and arts community by Edward P. Asmus, Ph.D. at the University of Miami.

Catalog of various free and low fee music apps for ipad and iphone.

MuseScore is a free cross-platform WYSIWYG music notation program that offers a cost-effective alternative to commercial programs such as Sibelius and Finale. You can print beautifully engraved sheet music or save it as PDF or MIDI file.

Welcome to The Music Interactive web site, a place for music games, activities, and Computer Aided Instruction software for your students. Many of our downloads are designed to be used with an interactive whiteboard allowing teacher and student to exper

With the help of a music studio, laboratory, time-traveling phone box, and a cast of hilarious characters, Quaver introduces young people to a marvelous world of music like they've never seen it before!

Maestro - music games for music students. Students get their hand at being a conductor in the game.

A listing of various interactive music websites for elementary students.

Podcast on the Arts with Carol Broos. Specifically, this podcast is about combining music with technology in the elementary classroom.

This symphony site has many music resources to choose from - dictation exercises, instrument samples and music guides are just a few.

The Classical MIDI Connection is an endeavor to provide the classical music enthusiast with an easy method of accessing MIDI sequences of classical music. You can browse the site and listen to any of the sequences available. While visiting you might also

Free music for education

Chapter 6.5 from McPherson, G., & Welch, G. (Eds.). (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Volume 2. Oxford University Press, USA.

A few links to additional music resources for whiteboards etc.