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Use your screen to create and type all kinds of music

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Patatap is a portable animation and sound kit. With the touch of a finger create melodies charged with moving shapes. Warning: contains flashing images.

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Help Bach create new melodies and harmonies for his songs

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Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach Doodle - Google Doodles

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Learn more about the creation of Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.

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Help Beethoven put his symphonies back in order

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Even when you're the preeminent musical genius of your generation, sometimes you just step in it. So begins Beethoven's trip to the symphony hall in today's musical puzzle, which Leon Hong created in collaboration with artist Nate Swinehart and engineers Jonathan Shneier and Jordan Thompson. It happens that our story isn't much of a stretch in the broader context of Ludwig van Beethoven's life, which saw more than its share of rotten luck.

Ludwig's father, a middling singer in the Elector's court and a man too often in his cups, pulled the precocious child out of school at the age of ten in hopes of earning some money on the shoulders of his talent (as a result, his handwriting was so bad that musicologists still struggle to authenticate his signature). He lost two siblings prematurely, had to assume full responsibility for his family as a teenager, fell madly for unrequiting lovers twice, and, most famously, began losing his hearing at the peak of his career.

Despite all of this, Beethoven's music prevailed. As Mozart reputedly said, "one day, [that boy] will give the world something to talk about." That he certainly did. Sure, he may have raised his voice a few times, but he could overwhelm his friends with excessive kindness and generosity just the same. And while his romances brought him more anguish than happiness, would we have Für Elise or Moonlight Sonata if they hadn't?

It's unclear when Beethoven was actually born, but December 17th marks the 245th anniversary of his baptism. Today provided us a rare opportunity to construct a game in step with beautiful music, whose evocative moods, drama, lightness, and depth made conjuring visuals to match it rollickingly fun. Here's to one of history's greatest artists, and to hoping that, wherever you happen to be traveling this holiday, your life's work isn't eaten by a horse.

Engineers: Jordan Thompson, Jonathan Shneier, Kris Hom, Charlie Gordon

Design Lead: Leon Hong

Animatics/Additional Art: Nate Swinehart

Piano Recordings: Tim Shneier

Production: Gregory Capuano

Mulling over ideas for puzzle structure

The evening's first misstep

Moonlight Sonata before a dip in the Rhine

At last, the crescendo

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Celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven's 245th Year Doodle - Google Doodles

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Learn more about the creation of Celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven's 245th Year Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.

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Create music in many different ways

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How were these built?

All our experiments are all built with freely accessible web technology such as Web Audio API, WebMIDI, Tone.js, and more. These tools make it easier for coders to build new interactive music experiences. You can get the open-source code to lots of these experiments here on Github.

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Music is for everyone. Play with simple experiments that let anyone, of any age, explore how music works.

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Explore A Capella music with Pentatonix

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Dance and sing along to Jack Hartman's awesome songs

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Jack’s music is research-based and teacher-approved to focus on helping children learn important state, national, and early childhood standards. All of Jack’s songs and videos engage children with not only great educational content, but with cool beats kids love and fun movements.

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Dance along to these fun dances by Kidz Bop

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Have a KIDZ BOP Dance Party in your living room to get the wiggles out! KIDZ BOP Dance Along videos are the best way to incorporate music + movement into you...

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Use paper plates as ice skates and skate around your house to your favorite winter music

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Write a parody song using your favorite song! Write new lyrics to the tune of your favorite song and perform for an imaginary audience

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Use any materials around your house to create a one man band. Explore how different materials sound and what you can use to create music. (ex: drums, shakers, bells ect.) Create a song using your new drumset and perform for an imaginary audience

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Sing Karaoke along to your favorite songs

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"sing king karaoke" "sing king" "karaoke lyrics" "lyric video" "lyric videos" "karaoke songs" "karaoke party" "nicki minaj" "justin bieber" "bruno mars" "taylor swift" "instrumental with lyrics" "5sos karaoke" "one direction" "christina perri" "ariana grande" "instrumental music" "karaoke songs with lyrics" "piano karaoke" "piano lyrics" "piano songs with lyrics" "piano songs karaoke" "karaoke piano" instrumental "piano instrumental" "instrumental karaoke" "karaoke instrumental"

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We are Sing King 👑 The home of karaoke 🎤 We're the world's biggest dedicated karaoke channel, serving up the freshest chart hits, classic favourites, and eve...

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Perfect for young musicians, explore the games on this page to practice budding music skills

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Learn about music and play games with your favorite PBS KIDS characters like Elmo, Arthur, Pinkalicious, and Daniel Tiger!

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Explore the world of percussion with Stomp

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Feel the Rhythm of New York Matchboxes, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters and more fill the stage with energizing beats at STOMP, the inventive and invigo...

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Explore Orchestral Music with the National Youth Orchestra

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Welcome to The National Youth Orchestra's YouTube channel. We are the UK's leading organisation championing orchestral music as a powerful agent for teenage development. Here you can delve into interviews, insights into the NYO Community and enjoy the electric energy of NYO with videos of recent performances.

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Use this website to explore games and activities that will train your musical mind

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Inside the Orchestra brings music to children, cultivating music appreciation and enhancing their education through engaging, interactive experiences with orchestral music. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Learn more about our values and our work in the community.

Online Programming
Online and offline musical experiences designed by professional musicians and educators.

Tiny Tots

School Programs

Free Online Resources for Parents and Educators

Get Involved

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Inside the Orchestra | Bringing music to children throughout Colorado

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Inside the Orchestra brings music to children, cultivating music appreciation and enhancing their education through engaging, interactive experiences with orchestral music. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Learn more about our values and our work in the community. Online and offline musical experiences designed by professional musicians and educators.

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Use this website to practice ear training

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These exercises will improve your musical ability by developing a more intuitive understanding of what you hear. For best results, practice a little bit every day:

Intervals: In this exercise, you will hear two notes in sequence. Your goal is to identify the interval between the two notes.

Chords: In this exercise, you will hear a chord. Your goal is to identify the type of chord that you heard.

Scales: In this exercise, you will hear a scale. Your goal is to identify the name of the scale that you heard.

Chord Progressions: In this exercise, you will hear a chord progression. Your goal is to identify each chord that you heard.

Perfect Pitch: In this exercise, you will hear a single note. Your goal is to identify the name of the note.

Scale Degrees (functional): In this exercise, you will hear a short chord progression followed by a single note. You must identify the scale degree of that note relative to the key established by the chord progression. This is also known as "functional ear training".

Intervals in Context (functional): This exercise combines the "Intervals" and "Scale Degrees" exercises. In this exercise, you will hear a short chord progression followed by two notes. You must identify the major scale degrees of the two notes relative to the key established by the chord progression as well as the interval between the two notes.

Melodic Dictation: In this exercise, you will hear a short chord progression followed by a short melody. You must identify the major scale degree of each note in the melody.

For Teachers

If you are a teacher who would like to use these exercises in the classroom, check out the teacher version of the site:

Give assignments online with specific exercise settings

View student scores

More exercises -- music theory exercises like chord building and key signature identification

Click here to use the teacher site.

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These exercises will improve your musical ability by developing a more intuitive understanding of what you hear. For best results, practice a little bit every day: Intervals: In this exercise, you will hear two notes in sequence. Your goal is to identify the interval between the two notes.

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Play games to practice musical topics we learn in class

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Welcome Back! Classics for Kids has returned with our new Fun Facts videos, worksheets and lesson plans!https://youtu.be/7BjOMa7NvzIFun Facts: Marian Andersen https://youtu.be/OBnHXKNDqXUFun Facts: Yo-Yo Ma Explore More Composers Learn More Worksheets [...]

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Create a boyband while piecing together parts of the song

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A fun, interactive music experience
Incredibox is a music app that lets you create your own music with the help of a merry crew of beatboxers.Choose your musical style among 9 impressive atmospheres and start to lay down, record and share your mix.

Where making music is child's play!

Part game, part tool, Incredibox is above all an audio and visual experience that has quickly become a hit with people of all ages. More than 80 million players worldwide have already enjoyed it. The right mix of music, graphics, animation and interactivity makes Incredibox ideal for everyone. And because it makes learning fun and entertaining, Incredibox is now being used by schools all over the world.

Create a mix

Drag and drop icons onto the avatars to make them sing and start to compose your own music. Find the right sound combos to unlock animated choruses that will enhance your tune.

Share it

Once your composition sounds great, just save it and you will get a link to your mix. You can easily share it with anybody so they can listen and even vote for it.

Be a legend

If you share your mix a lot and get enough votes from other users, you may go down in Incredibox history by joining the Top 50 chart. Ready to show your stuff?

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Incredibox is a music app that lets you create your own music with the help of a merry crew of beatboxers. Choose your musical style among 9 impressive atmospheres and start to lay down, record and share your mix.

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Find a random product in your house. Write a short tune for a made up commercial for this item.

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Bemuse: BEAT☆MUSIC☆SEQUENCE — Online rhythm game. Play in your browser — no installation required.

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Play a cello inspired instrument with Viola the Bird and the help of machine learning! An experiment by David Li.

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Paint With Music - Google Arts & Culture