Variety

These websites could not be limited to one particular musical focus but have several online music education games covering a wide-variety of musical instruments and elements.

=         SFS Kids

=         The New York Philharmonic Kids Zone

=         PBS Kids Music Games

=         Music Theory.Net—lessons, tools, and customizable exercises for note, key, interval, choral, and keyboard note recognition both on the staff and aurally

=         Quia Music Review—Jeopardy-like game to review music elements, notation, instruments, rhythm and more

=         Quia Shared Music Games—full list of over 200 Quia shared music games

=         Creative Kids Education Foundation Projects–learn about opera, composers, musical styles and more

=         PBS Jazz Kids–learn about jazz music, musical elements and improvisation

=         eMusic Theory Practice–exercises to practice note names, piano keys, string instrument fingerings, rhythms, intervals, chords, scales, and more

=         Music Tech Teacher–over 130 elementary quizzes, puzzles, and games on music notes, rhythms, instruments, composers, and more

=         Teoria–Music theory and aural training tutorials and exercises

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http://www.sphinxkids.org/index.html

Notation

=         SFS Kids Performalator—play simple melodies via color coded music

=         Musicards Note Names—treble clef flash cards

=         Musicards Intervals—treble and bass clef interval flash cards

=         Musicards Triads—treble clef triad flash cards for chord and inversion recognition

=         Musical Notes–treble clef and piano key recognition

=         Whack-a-Note–like whack-a-mole only with staff notes

=         Music Press Distress–collect the notes for the desired value

=         Eek!  Shark!–treble and bass clef staff recognition

Composers

=         Quia Composer Fun Concentration–match composer with a famous work

=         Quia Composer Fun Word Search–find composers in this word search and learn which which famous works they wrote

=         Quia Composer Fun Matching–match composers with a famous work

=         Quia Composer Fun Flash Cards–Flip the flashcards to memorize composers and their famous works

=         Fun Brain Word Scramble–given a clue, unscramble the word to name the composer

=         Fun Brain Composers Stay Afloat–play hangman to name the composer

=         DSO Kids Beethoven’s Baseball–multiple choice questions about composers

=         Sphinx Kids Composer Gallery–learn about composers by birthday, country, style or name

=         Carnegie Hall: A History of African American Music—timeline with listening examples of notable composers/performers and a short history

=         Classics for Kids Composer Time Machine—learn about composers of each time period and listen to their compositions

=         Arts Alive Name the Composer—multiple choice composer quiz

=         Hansel and Gretel:  Design Your Own Opera–customize this musical experience to learn about opera in the process

=         Rhythms in the House–find objects to play rhythms on in the house with the idea that “music is everywhere”

Musical Instruments

=         Flying Instruments—a Tetris-like game with three levels–matching by instrument family, by instrument, and by sound

=         Orchestra Game–listen and identify the instrument played

=         Fun Brain Musical Instruments Word Scramble–given a clue, unscramble the word to reveal the instrument

=         Fun Brain Instruments Stay Afloat–play hangman to name the instrument

=         Quia Instrument Quiz–a 21 question quiz on the orchestra instrument families

=         Quia Rags to Riches–like “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” with questions limited to the orchestral instruments.

=         Sphinx Kids Instruments Gallery—learn about the 4 orchestral string instruments, their history, and their instrument parts

=         Sphinx Kids Instrument Storage Room—learn about the different instruments in the orchestra, how they sound, their history, and their instrument parts

=         Sphinx Kids Concert Stage—listen to performances and view personal interviews of famous instrumentalists

=         Sphinx Kids Practice Room—select a student to hear them describe and play his/her string instrument

=         SFS Kids Instrument of the Orchestra—learn about the instruments of the orchestra, where they are located on stage, what family they belong too, and what they sound like

=         BBC Instrument Match Up—match sounds with instrument

=         Carnegie Hall’s Listening Adventures:  The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra—learn about the different instruments and families

=         Funschool Music Match ‘em—match the instrument with the sound

=         Melody Street—watch cartoon videos about instruments, play games, listen to the instruments and more

=         NSO Kids—listen to instrumentalists, learn where they are located on stage, and understand the affect of acoustics

=         Arts Alive Guess the Instrument—multiple choice choose instrument played

=         Arts Alive Instrument Lab—learn about the instruments and instrument families, view virtual instruments from all directions, and listen to the instruments being played

Composition

=         BBC Cave Sounds—create a cave-sound mix with drag and drop sounds

=         Arts Alive Compose Music—compose a 9 note melody

=         PBS Martha Speaks Make the Band—choose the instruments, vocalists, rhythm and tempo for the band to play

=         SFS Kids Composerizer—drag and drop measures in the order you choose to compose a piece

=         Do Le Me–play and record your own melody on this tone ladder (note: the syllable “le” is used in place of “re” and “si” in place of “ti” which can be confusing for those trained in traditional solfege)

=         Online Piano Machine–play a melody on an octave keyboard, record it, and see it written on a staff

=         Boomthang–play and record your own mix

=         Science on Music–compose music in a virtual kitchen, learn about accoustics, and create a remix

=         PBS Cyberchase Pattern Player–create visual and melodic musical patterns

Symbols and Vocabulary

=         Quia Musical Elements Matching–match musical elements and their definitions

=         Quia Musical Elements Flash Cards— Flip the flashcards to memorize musical elements and their definitions

=         Quia Music Vocabulary Flash Cards–Flip the flashcards to memorize music vocabulary and their definition

=         Quia Music Vocabulary Matching–match vocabulary and definitions

=         Quia Music Vocabulary Concentration–match vocabulary and definitions

=         Quia Vocabulary Word Search–find vocabulary in a word search

=         SFS Kids What’s Tempo?–select a tempo marking and listen to how it changes the speed of the music

=         SFS Kids What’s that Symbol? — select a symbol and listen to how it changes the way the music is played

=         Musicards Key Signatures—key signature flash cards

=         DSO Kids Music Match–match the music symbols

=         Music Darts 1–recognize music symbols