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Fun Music Links!

These games and activities are a great way to reinforce music concepts at home!

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ArtsAlive Guess the Instrument

Match the instrument sound with the picture!

Storm Chasers

Recognize melodic direction to keep the plane flying!

PC Philharmonic Orchestra Game

Identify the instruments of the orchestra!

Whack-A-Note

A fun note matching game! Just like whack-a-mole!

Ready for more?

Here's The Ultimate List of Online Music Education Games!

*credit for compiling this massive list goes to this blog!

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

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 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”

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 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
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

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 acoustics, and create a remix
PBS Cyberchase Pattern Player–create visual and melodic musical patterns

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 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

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

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
PedaPlus Interactive Games–note, key signature, scale and interval recognition
Teoria–Music theory and aural training tutorials and exercises