The Ultimate List of Online Music Education Activities

Classics for Kids Rhythm

• Creating Music Block Game–create a 3-note pattern and then listen to a variety of patterns to choose the one you created
• Creating Music Comparing Game–listen to two melodies and determine if they are the same or different
• Creating Music Block Game with Rhythm–list the block game above only with an 8-note melodic and rhythmic pattern
• Creating Music About Pitch–listen to classical music excerpts demonstrating rising and lowering pitch
• 12 Steps–Select the sound heard to help Alice (in Wonderland) up the stairs
• Orchestra Game–listen and identify the instrument played
• BBC Seaside Activity—match sounds with descriptions
• BBC Mood Music—listen to music selections and match with a mood
• BBC Instrument Matchup—match sounds with instrument
• BBC Quiz—review of aural rhythm, style, and instrument recognition
• Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures:  Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” –Interactive Listening Map
• Classics for Kids Rhythm—imitate rhythms played on the space bar
• Funschool Kazounds—musical memory game
• Funschool Music Match ‘em—match the instrument with the sound
• Arts Alive Guess the Instrument—multiple choice choose instrument played
• PBS Caillou Stars—musical memory game
• PBS Toopy and Binoo Planets—musical memory game
• PBS Toopy and Binoo Shells—match pitches
• PBS Toopy and Binoo Bubbles—musical memory game
• DJ Games Music Matching–imitate melodies played on a solfege ladder
• Sousa Palooza–an interactive music map of a famous Sousa march turned into an asteroid-like game
• Note Pair–aural concentration game
• Theta Music Trainer–many aural training games for everything from scales, intervals, chord progressions, rhythms, and more
• Music Memory–aural solfege training
• Music Teacher Games–many games for staff, piano key, rhythm, and aural recognition
• Melody Mayhem 1–recognize a melody
• Storm Chasers–recognize melodic direction
• Catch the Coconut–aural interval recognition
• Good Ear–ear training exercises for intervals, chords, scales, cadences and more
• Echo Time with Annie–aural concentration game

DSO Kids Beethoven’s Baseball

• 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 Time Machine–place composers in the appropriate time period
• 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
• Online Piano Game–listen and name the note on the treble staff
• Poisson Rouge Piano–compose a melody on a piano keyboard, see it placed on the staff and listen to it played
• 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”

Classics for Kids Compose Your Very Own Music

• Global Groovin’–create a world-music mix with drag and drop instruments, beats, and sounds
• BBC Cave Sounds—create a cave-sound mix with drag and drop sounds
• Classics for Kids Compose Your Very Own Music—compose 4 measures of music in 4/4 time
• 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
• PBS Shock’s Beatbox—create a beat box composition
• 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

BBC Instrument Match Up

• 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
• ASO Conduct the Orchestra—select the instruments to hear how they sound individually, as a family, and as an orchestra
• 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
• PBS Arthur’s Global Gizmo—global instrument matching and information
• PBS Word World Band—recognize the instruments being played and learn to spell them
• Virtual Drum Set–use number keys to play a virtual drum set
• Instruments Pair Game–instrument concentration
• Quia Battleship–play battleship and answer multiple choice questions about instruments at the same time
• Animated Science Orchestra–fill in the blank instrument quiz
• BBC Conduct a Classical Music Store–Bring the instruments in based on a score cue
• Ocean Treasure Hunt–instrument sound and image recognition
• Leo and the Musical Family–match instruments to family

Classics for Kids Note Names

• Funbrain The Piano Player–staff and piano keys recognition
• 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
• Classics for Kids Note Names—name sets of treble clef notes
• Music Match–match the note on the piano keys with the note on the staff
• Online Piano Game–listen and name the note on the treble staff
• Musical Notes–treble clef and piano key recognition
• Music Teacher Games–many games for staff, piano key, rhythm, and aural recognition
• Page Turner Treble Staff Spaces–recognize staff spaces
• Naming Intervals: Steps and Skips–recognize steps and skips
• Whack-a-Note–like whack-a-mole only with staff notes
• Sherm’s Music Quiz–staff note recognition
• Music Press Distress–collect the notes for the desired value
• Eek!  Shark!–treble and bass clef staff recognition

SFS Kids What’s That Symbol?

• 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
• Leo’s Barnyard Baton–understand tempo and dynamics while pretending to conduct

The NY Philharmonic Kidzone!

• 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
• PedaPlus Interactive Games–note, key signature, scale and interval recognition

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