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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Music Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers detailed information on music theory, a set of systems for analyzing, classifying, and composing music and the elements of music.
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Website
Northern Arizona University

Northern Arizona University: Sojurn: How to Analyze a Fugue

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is very helpful in analyzing and understanding fugues. Great site for music theory students and teachers.
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Website
Other

Creating Music

For Students 3rd - 5th
This online, interactive environment for music creation and exploration includes games and puzzles and interesting activities that teach about music in a visual way.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Musical Elements

For Students 3rd - 5th
A great matching game to reinforce music vocabulary and an understanding of the elements of music.
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Article
OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Melody

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about one of the basic elements in music, melody. Discover the ideas of melodic shapes and phrases as well as motifs and themes, and how to present these topics to children.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Music Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a fun and interactive way to learn all about the elements of music. It offers links to information, definitions, assessments, and examples of melody, harmony and tonality, structure, tempo, metre and rhythm,...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Fractions in Music

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students explore the relationship between fractions and musical pitch. Media resources and teaching materials are included.
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Website
Toby Rush

Music Theory: Species Counterpoint: Melody [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A music theory worksheet regarding species counterpoint and melody. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].
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Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Learning Musical Elements Through Listening

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a site created for teaching children the art of listening to music. Includes sections on the elements of music, composers, and genres with more under construction.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Introduction to Polyphonic Singing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a step by step introduction to rhythm, melody, and polyphonic singing through the use of several canons.