The Ultimate List of Online
Music Education Games
By: KATHY GOSSEN


Beat Boxing
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Incredibox–create a 3-note pattern and then listen to a variety of patterns to choose the one you created
Aural Training
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Creating Music Block Game–create a 3-note pattern and then listen to a variety of patterns to choose the one you created
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Creating Music Comparing Game–listen to two melodies and determine if they are the same or different
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Creating Music Block Game with Rhythm–list the block game above only with an 8-note melodic and rhythmic pattern
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Creating Music About Pitch–listen to classical music excerpts demonstrating rising and lowering pitch
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12 Steps–Select the sound heard to help Alice (in Wonderland) up the stairs
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Orchestra Game–listen and identify the instrument played
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BBC Seaside Activity—match sounds with descriptions
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BBC Mood Music—listen to music selections and match with a mood
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BBC Instrument Matchup—match sounds with instrument
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BBC Quiz—review of aural rhythm, style, and instrument recognition
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Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” –Interactive Listening Map
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Classics for Kids Rhythm—imitate rhythms played on the space bar
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Funschool Kazounds—musical memory game
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Funschool Music Match ‘em—match the instrument with the sound
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Arts Alive Guess the Instrument—multiple choice choose instrument played
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PBS Caillou Stars—musical memory game
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PBS Toopy and Binoo Planets—musical memory game
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PBS Toopy and Binoo Shells—match pitches
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PBS Toopy and Binoo Bubbles—musical memory game
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DJ Games Music Matching–imitate melodies played on a solfege ladder
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Sousa Palooza–an interactive music map of a famous Sousa march turned into an asteroid-like game
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Note Pair–aural concentration game
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Theta Music Trainer–many aural training games for everything from scales, intervals, chord progressions, rhythms, and more
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Music Memory–aural solfege training
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Music Teacher Games–many games for staff, piano key, rhythm, and aural recognition
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Melody Mayhem 1–recognize a melody
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Storm Chasers–recognize melodic direction
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Good Ear–ear training exercises for intervals, chords, scales, cadences and more
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Echo Time with Annie–aural concentration game
Composers
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Quia Composer Fun Concentration–match composer with a famous work
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Quia Composer Fun Word Search–find composers in this word search and learn which which famous works they wrote
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Quia Composer Fun Matching–match composers with a famous work
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Quia Composer Fun Flash Cards–Flip the flashcards to memorize composers and their famous works
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Fun Brain Word Scramble–given a clue, unscramble the word to name the composer
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Fun Brain Composers Stay Afloat–play hangman to name the composer
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DSO Kids Beethoven’s Baseball–multiple choice questions about composers
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Sphinx Kids Composer Gallery–learn about composers by birthday, country, style or name
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Carnegie Hall: A History of African American Music—timeline with listening examples of notable composers/performers and a short history
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Classics for Kids Composer Time Machine—learn about composers of each time period and listen to their compositions
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Arts Alive Name the Composer—multiple choice composer quiz
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Online Piano Game–listen and name the note on the treble staff
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Poisson Rouge Piano–compose a melody on a piano keyboard, see it placed on the staff and listen to it played
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Hansel and Gretel: Design Your Own Opera–customize this musical experience to learn about opera in the process
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Rhythms in the House–find objects to play rhythms on in the house with the idea that “music is everywhere”
Composition
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Global Groovin’–create a world-music mix with drag and drop instruments, beats, and sounds
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BBC Cave Sounds—create a cave-sound mix with drag and drop sounds
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Classics for Kids Compose Your Very Own Music—compose 4 measures of music in 4/4 time
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Arts Alive Compose Music—compose a 9 note melody
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PBS Martha Speaks Make the Band—choose the instruments, vocalists, rhythm and tempo for the band to play
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PBS Shock’s Beatbox—create a beat box composition
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SFS Kids Composerizer—drag and drop measures in the order you choose to compose a piece
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Online Piano Machine–play a melody on an octave keyboard, record it, and see it written on a staff
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Boomthang–play and record your own mix
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Science on Music–compose music in a virtual kitchen, learn about accoustics, and create a remix
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PBS Cyberchase Pattern Player–create visual and melodic musical patterns
Musical Instruments
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Flying Instruments—a Tetris-like game with three levels–matching by instrument family, by instrument, and by sound
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Orchestra Game–listen and identify the instrument played
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Fun Brain Musical Instruments Word Scramble–given a clue, unscramble the word to reveal the instrument
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Fun Brain Instruments Stay Afloat–play hangman to name the instrument
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Quia Instrument Quiz–a 21 question quiz on the orchestra instrument families
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Quia Rags to Riches–like “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” with questions limited to the orchestral instruments.
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Sphinx Kids Instruments Gallery—learn about the 4 orchestral string instruments, their history, and their instrument parts
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Sphinx Kids Instrument Storage Room—learn about the different instruments in the orchestra, how they sound, their history, and their instrument parts
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Sphinx Kids Concert Stage—listen to performances and view personal interviews of famous instrumentalists
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Sphinx Kids Practice Room—select a student to hear them describe and play his/her string instrument
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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
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BBC Instrument Match Up—match sounds with instrument
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Carnegie Hall’s Listening Adventures: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra—learn about the different instruments and families
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Funschool Music Match ‘em—match the instrument with the sound
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Melody Street—watch cartoon videos about instruments, play games, listen to the instruments and more
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NSO Kids—listen to instrumentalists, learn where they are located on stage, and understand the affect of acoustics
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Arts Alive Guess the Instrument—multiple choice choose instrument played
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Arts Alive Instrument Lab—learn about the instruments and instrument families, view virtual instruments from all directions, and listen to the instruments being played
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PBS Arthur’s Global Gizmo—global instrument matching and information
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PBS Word World Band—recognize the instruments being played and learn to spell them
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Virtual Drum Set–use number keys to play a virtual drum set
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Instruments Pair Game–instrument concentration
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Animated Science Orchestra–fill in the blank instrument quiz
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BBC Conduct a Classical Music Store–Bring the instruments in based on a score cue
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Ocean Treasure Hunt–instrument sound and image recognition
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Leo and the Musical Family–match instruments to family
Notation
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Funbrain The Piano Player–staff and piano keys recognition
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SFS Kids Performalator—play simple melodies via color coded music
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Musicards Note Names—treble clef flash cards
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Musicards Intervals—treble and bass clef interval flash cards
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Musicards Triads—treble clef triad flash cards for chord and inversion recognition
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Classics for Kids Note Names—name sets of treble clef notes
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Music Match–match the note on the piano keys with the note on the staff
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Online Piano Game–listen and name the note on the treble staff
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Musical Notes–treble clef and piano key recognition
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Music Teacher Games–many games for staff, piano key, rhythm, and aural recognition
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Page Turner Treble Staff Spaces–recognize staff spaces
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Naming Intervals: Steps and Skips–recognize steps and skips
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Whack-a-Note–like whack-a-mole only with staff notes
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Sherm’s Music Quiz–staff note recognition
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Music Press Distress–collect the notes for the desired value
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Eek! Shark!–treble and bass clef staff recognition
Symbols and Vocabulary
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Quia Musical Elements Matching–match musical elements and their definitions
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Quia Musical Elements Flash Cards— Flip the flashcards to memorize musical elements and their definitions
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Quia Music Vocabulary Flash Cards–Flip the flashcards to memorize music vocabulary and their definition
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Quia Music Vocabulary Matching–match vocabulary and definitions
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Quia Music Vocabulary Concentration–match vocabulary and definitions
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Quia Vocabulary Word Search–find vocabulary in a word search
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SFS Kids What’s Tempo?–select a tempo marking and listen to how it changes the speed of the music
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SFS Kids What’s that Symbol? — select a symbol and listen to how it changes the way the music is played
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Musicards Key Signatures—key signature flash cards
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DSO Kids Music Match–match the music symbols
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Music Darts 1–recognize music symbols
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Leo’s Barnyard Baton–understand tempo and dynamics while pretending to conduct
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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.
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SFS Kids
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The New York Philharmonic Kids Zone
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PBS Kids Music Games
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Music Theory.Net—lessons, tools, and customizable exercises for note, key, interval, choral, and keyboard note recognition both on the staff and aurally
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Quia Music Review—Jeopardy-like game to review music elements, notation, instruments, rhythm and more
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Quia Shared Music Games—full list of over 200 Quia shared music games
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Creative Kids Education Foundation Projects–learn about opera, composers, musical styles and more
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PBS Jazz Kids–learn about jazz music, musical elements and improvisation
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eMusic Theory Practice–exercises to practice note names, piano keys, string instrument fingerings, rhythms, intervals, chords, scales, and more
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Music Tech Teacher–over 130 elementary quizzes, puzzles, and games on music notes, rhythms, instruments, composers, and more
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PedaPlus Interactive Games–note, key signature, scale and interval recognition
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Teoria–Music theory and aural training tutorials and exercises

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