Aural Training
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Online Music Resources. 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 ● 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 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” 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 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 ● www.moosiko.com practice tool for students to help them learn chords, transitions, and play song 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 ● 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