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The Ultimate List of Online Music Education Games

Ultimate List of Online #Music Education Games #onlineeducationgames
Having a background as a music teacher, I often get the asked what resources are available for homeschoolers to grow in their music studies.   As such, today I’d like to share with you an Ultimate List of Online Music Education Games available for FREE to public and homeschoolers alike to have fun while learning more about music.  Whether playing via iPad, SmartBoard, or laptop, each resource provides supportive games and activities to reinforce music concepts at home.  For your browsing convenience, these online music education games are organized into the following categories:  aural training, composers, composition, instruments, notation, symbols/vocabulary and variety.

Aural Training

  • 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 moodClassics 4 Kids
  • 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
  • Good Ear–ear training exercises for intervals, chords, scales, cadences and more
  • Echo Time with Annie–aural concentration game

15 Minute Music LessonsComposers

  • 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 composersBeethoven's Baseball
  • 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”

Composition

  • 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

 

Ultimate List of Online #Music Education Games #onlineeducationgames

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
  • 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

Notation

  • 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 recognitionNote Names Game
  • 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
  • Music Press Distress–collect the notes for the desired value
  • Eek!  Shark!–treble and bass clef staff recognition

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

15 Minute Music Lessons 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 ZoneNYP Kidzone
  • 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
  • Teoria–Music theory and aural training tutorials and exercises

Looking for free online education games for another subject area?  Check out the other posts in the One Humongous List of Free Online Education Games Series for a complete roundup.

*This post is a part of iHomeschool Network’s Ultimate Guides.  For more Ultimate Guides for everything from housekeeping to homeschooling be sure to check out the Ultimate List of Ultimate Guides created by several dear home school bloggers like myself at ihomeschoolnetwork.com.

**Did I leave out one of your favorite online music education games?  Feel free to let me know in the comments and I’ll be glad to add it to the links above for others!  In order for online games/activities to be included in the above list they must be FREE, ONLINE, INTERACTIVE, and EDUCATIONAL.  Thanks for your help in making this an even more ULTIMATE musical resource.

Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord.  Ephesians 5:19

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Great list, Kathy!

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Thank you!

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WOW! This is quite the list! I’m pinning it and referring to it often for my piano students (and eventually my kids when I really start home-schooling them. The oldest is only in K4 this year and I’m not doing any extracurricular subjects w/ him.) I didn’t look at every single one – do you have Makingmusicfun.net on there? Great printables with “speed drills” for note-naming, interval naming, etc.

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Oh no…I missed one. LOL. Thank you for the tip! I’ll be sure to add it!

Kathy

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Super list—thanks so much for putting it together. I’m teaching 4-6th grade music for our co-op this year, and I’m sure I’ll be referring to these sites. Blessings!

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Would love it if the list included DLP – free music lessons, courses, quizzes, ear training for 37 instruments. Great resources for both teachers & students. http://www.dlpmusicprogram.com – still a nice list though 🙂

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This is a wonderful list of resources. I’m always looking for quality sites focused on music and music education. Thank you for putting this together—this is a “must keep!”

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Thank you. Hope it helps many save lots of time and energy so they can use it for other things more important. Glad you found it helpful.

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This list is awesome! Thanks! 🙂

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You are welcome!

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Um…..where have you been all my music teaching life???? This is AMAZING. Wow. Thank you so much for posting. This represents hours of searching and sifting through…..what a goldmine!!

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Um… Lets just say I’ve been there. ;). Hope it helps. Let me know if you find something I missed or if a link no longer works. I hope to keep this page as up to date as possible. Thanks.

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i know thats right preach it

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What a great list — thanks so much for all the resources!!

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You’re welcome!

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Greetings,

I was just looking for some new music games and found your site. Thank you so much fo sharing these sites with us. I teach elementary vocal musc in the Troy School District near Detroit. I just sent my whole dept. the link to your site. Will be trying out a bunch of the games next week.

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Yeah! Thanks for sharing. As a former public school elementary music teacher I was hoping this would be a great resource for some of my favorite people in the world. 😉 Have fun playing and let me know if you find anything to add. I’d love to keep this post up-to-date! Thanks!

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My nieces and nephews use the online piano lessons at FreePianoLessons4Kids.com and they love them! The viedoes start at a very beginner level and are geared toward kids 5-10 years old, and balance fun with good technique.

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Ooo…thanks for the link. I’ll be sure to check it out!

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Whats up yall

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What an interesting article! My kids LOVE apps like this and I am always on the look out for more. One that I have found that I really like is AURALBOOK. It helps kids improve their listening skills and gives them direct feedback. I think AURALBOOK would be a great addition to this list!

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Just read the article and was about to comment the exact same thing! My kids absolutely love AURALBOOK and it’s free! It rly fits in well with the other apps on this site.

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Only thing is these are online games, not apps. Good thought though. Thanks for sharing.

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Great resource list. Thanks for putting it together, Kathy! Another excellent app for notation reading is ‘Playpad’ from Musical Trixstar. http://www.musicaltrixstar.com/playpad.html The idea is that you can play and hear notes by tapping on the staff. The advantage of this is that learners not only see what they have to do but they also hear an instrument play back the note they’ve selected. This takes the concept of learning to read and play from staff notation from an abstract activity to a practical one. The aural feedback confirms the note to the student, which is a great boost to learning.… Read more »
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Good recommendation, but it’s an app not a website. That said, maybe I need to make a musical app list, yah? If so, I’ll be sure to put this on the list! 😉

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Really useful list. Great! Thanks

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