| Reading Music |
| Reading Sheet Music and Notation |
| | Music Reading
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| | This great ThinkQuest site teaches you the basics of note reading, intervals & scales, chords & symbols, and expression marks. |
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| | Introduction to Reading Music
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| | Take a step-by-step tutorial in reading music! Learn about clefs, time signatures, Types of Notes, Types of Rests, Basic Counting, Symbols, Shaping. From the site: "The following set of pages will try to introduce the most important topics in reading music in a very easy to understand way." |
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| | The Composerizer
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| | From the San Francisco Orchestra, a great interactive composing activity! Listen to different measures, and then drag-and-drop the measures onto the staff in the order you like. Experiment with different combinations, and play your tunes! |
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| | Basic Music Reading
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| | Great introductory lessons on Treble Clef, Bass Clef, Measures, Bar Lines, Double Bar Lines, Grand Staff, Note Values & Time Signatures, Rests, Dynamics, Tempo Markings and Other Musical Symbols, Ties, Slurs, Repeat Signs, First and Second Endings, Flats, Sharps, Naturals, Whole and Half Steps.
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| | Lessons on Reading Music for the Guitar
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| | From a guitar playing site, a great 10-part series of lessons on reading sheet music! Lessons include: The Staff, Time Signatures and Counting, Notes on Each String, Dotted Notes.
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| | Reading Music and the Drums
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| | From the site: "This page hopes to give the beginning reader some of the fundamentals of reading music. It is not meant to be a final statement. A lifetime of study and practice is required to become proficient, particularly at sight-reading - the ability to play music that's put in front of you for the first time." |
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| | The Piano Player - "The Game Where You Read Music"
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| | From the fabulous folks at Funbrain, this great game shows musical notes; for each note shown, students click on the correct key on the virtual piano. Four different levels of difficulty, from Beginner to "Virtuoso"!
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| Reference and Musical Terminology |
| | Virginia Tech Music Glossary
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| | A multimedia glossary of music terms - from "a ballata" to "Zwischen-spiel"! |
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| | Music Dictionary - Classics for Kids
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| | Learn about music - from A-Z! This interactive dictionary features lots of visual and audio examples that help kids understand musical terms. |
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| | Glossary of Musical Terms
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| | This ThinkQuest Jr. site has a great kids' glossary of music terms!
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