Just for Students
Music Game/Theory/History/Listening Websites
Note: Make sure your sound is turned ON to get the most out of these educational music sites!
A good site for exposing kids to classical music in a fun way, safely searching composer history, etc. Games, radio shows, instruments of the orchestra, musical dictionary, more.
A world-class music learning resource for children. The highly engaging site brings music to life, making difficult concepts such as harmony, rhythm, and tempo both more understandable and more fun.
This highly interactive site is a favorite among students, with its entertaining music history games (such as Beethoven's Baseball!) to fun Composition Activities and learning Instruments of a Symphony Orchestra.
Great graphics and fun games (like the clarinet scavenger hunt!) make this New York Philharmonic website great, especially for instrumental students.
Quiz yourself on treble and bass note flashcards, build major and minor scales. Provides feedback and scoring.
An interactive place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles.
Two dozen different musical activities are offered on this site. There are games for pianists, violinists, Beethoven enthusiasts, composers and much more!
Funbrain offers games on composers, instruments, reading and vocabulary.
Learning about and listening to different instruments, reading music, musical genres and links to additional sites are the features of this site.
This site offers performances and compositions by and for kids from all over the world. It requires Quicktime 3.0, which you can install free from the website if needed.
Includes quality theory tutorials, and interactive identification and ear training drills in note reading, key signatures, intervals and triads.
Rhythmic dictation; Clef reading; Interval/Chord construction, identification, and ear training; Reference.
This site contains 26 free music theory lessons (which include some audio examples) and printable quizzes.
Fun music games for young children
Jazz lesson plans and activities for kids of all ages! Activities include Improvisation Station, Jazz Timeline, Repeat the Beat, Now and Then (stories about todays jazz kids & other famous jazzers)
Fun musical games, compose by click & drag
This site offers ninety-nine additional sites for music and learning.
Homework Spot: Classical Music
This site offers many links to quality classical music sites.
Students can test their music knowledge with quizzes, matches, concentration card games and other activities.
An award winning site, created by high school students, that has lots of information on music theory, history, styles, jobs and a few games.
This site offers ear training and theory skills.
Other Helpful Resources:
Scott Houston has many helpful resources for learning piano using the chording method. His weekly shows on PBS are highly educational and entertaining! (Indianapolis: M,W,F at 4 pm) Click here for a preview of his piano TV shows.
The Printable Staff Paper Page
Enables students to compose from a MIDI keyboard and add voice-overs or other audio recorded through a microphone.