Music Web Sites
Following is a list and brief description of several web sites with information about music and games to play.
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Music Reading Games
Games involve notes that float across the lines and spaces of the staff. The correct key must be clicked on a piano keyboard before the note reaches the clef. There are games for the G (treble) clef staff, the F (bass) clef staff, and the grand staff. (There is a fourth game for C-clef. This clef is not a part of piano music and has not been studied in class.) Games can be found here.
PhilTulga.com
Phil Tulga is music educator from Sacramento, California who visits elementary schools giving educational presentations on the importance of music in the curriculum. His web site contains many music games that connect to other academic subjects as well as ideas and instructions for projects building and playing different kinds of musical instruments.
To check out this site, click here. (This site requires the use of Adobe Flash. It is a free download available here.)
To check out this site, click here. (This site requires the use of Adobe Flash. It is a free download available here.)
Creating Music.com
- Creating Music – Create music using the sketch pad. Follow the directions to create music.
- Playing with music – Beethoven: click play to hear the selection. Use the number keys to play the song. Each tap of the number key plays the next note in the song. Scales: Use the number keys to play the notes on the scale. Choose different instruments to change the tone color.
- About music – click on this and read/listen to more
- Hearing music – 2 music games to try.
A Musical Time Machine
Popular music has evolved over many years. The sound changes to reflect the people who listen to it. Both history and location affect the changes. One website allows you to listen to popular music around the world for more than a century. Just choose a country, a decade, and a type of music. Then click play. To check out this website, click here.
Popular music has evolved over many years. The sound changes to reflect the people who listen to it. Both history and location affect the changes. One website allows you to listen to popular music around the world for more than a century. Just choose a country, a decade, and a type of music. Then click play. To check out this website, click here.
New York Philharmonic Kids
There are several different sections to this site. Look around. Following is a list of games in the Game Room.
- Minuet Mixer
- Instrument Frenzy – a fast paced instrument sorting game
- Percussion Showdown – Playing percussion instruments – can you keep up with the computer?
- Noterunner
- Orchestration Station
- Scavenger Hunt - a hunt through the website to find everything on the list
- Music Match Composers – Matching game
- Music Match Instruments – Matching game
- Puzzle and Quizzes – do not do this. It is not an online game. It is worksheets to print and do with pencils.
- Music Quest – navigating through the website to gather information and pass obstacles along the way. This one takes some time and is more challenging.
- Make your own instrument – just what it says….
San Francisco Symphony Kids
Game Room: Lots of fun music-based games.
Instrument Storage Room: Explore the instruments of the orchestra.
Dressing Rooms: Meet the conductor and the performers.
IInstrument Lab: Make your own instrument.
Composers Gallery: Learn about famous composers.
You can also watch a symphony concert here. (Click on the TV.)
To check out this site, click here. (This site requires the use of Adobe Flash. It is a free download available here.)
Instrument Storage Room: Explore the instruments of the orchestra.
Dressing Rooms: Meet the conductor and the performers.
IInstrument Lab: Make your own instrument.
Composers Gallery: Learn about famous composers.
You can also watch a symphony concert here. (Click on the TV.)
To check out this site, click here. (This site requires the use of Adobe Flash. It is a free download available here.)
Arts Alive
Instrument Lab - Learn about, listen to, and "virtually" handle all the instruments of the orchestra.
Great Composers - A timeline and biographies of many of history's greatest composers.
Activities and Games
Compose Music
Name the Composer - an online quiz about composers
Name the Instruments - listen and identify the instrument
To check out this site, click here.
Great Composers - A timeline and biographies of many of history's greatest composers.
Activities and Games
Compose Music
Name the Composer - an online quiz about composers
Name the Instruments - listen and identify the instrument
To check out this site, click here.
Music Tech Teacher
A site filled with links to different music-related games on subjects like:
- Instruments
- Music terms
- Musicians
- Piano
- Music notes
- Music technology
- Music careers
- Rhythms
- Scales
- Intervals
Pianu
An online piano with songs that can be played using the computer keyboard, by clicking on keys on the screen, or by connecting an electronic piano
To check out this site, click here.
To check out this site, click here.
MuseScore
This is a free download program that creates printed music. Students can create their own songs, listen to their creations, and print their creations.
To check out this site, click here.
This is a free download program that creates printed music. Students can create their own songs, listen to their creations, and print their creations.
To check out this site, click here.