MusicplayOnline includes thousands of interactive teaching resources:
Singing games are at the heart of MusicplayOnline. The program includes over 200 singing games designed to teach and reinforce musical concepts.
The games follow a sound-before-symbol approach and are presented in a sequential framework, allowing students to experience songs and musical ideas through active play before introducing notation and terminology.
By playing the games repeatedly, students internalize musical concepts naturally—creating an engaging classroom where students are actively making music while they learn.
MusicplayOnline includes games that get the whole class involved. Use digital interactive games like Four Corners and Recorder Baseball, or off-screen activities like staff floor games and melody and rhythm hunts. Whether students are moving, playing, or responding, everyone participates in the learning.
MusicplayOnline includes hundreds of resources perfect for music centers and small-group work. Use flashcards, rhythm dice games, worksheets, and interactive activities to reinforce musical concepts while students learn through hands-on practice.
Games for Concept Review
Games like Space Music Adventure and Musicplay Heist turn concept review into an exciting challenge, helping students practice beat, rhythm, note recognition, and musical literacy through interactive play. MusicplayOnline also includes many single-player and multi-player games for individual practice or whole-class participation.
Interactive Composition
MusicplayOnline includes interactive composition tools that allow students to create rhythms, melodies, and more. Students can listen to their compositions, make changes, and refine their ideas before sharing them using a digital link. The tools are levelled for different age groups, making composition accessible for every student. Printable worksheets are also included so students can transfer their digital compositions to paper, and then sing or play the music they create.
Virtual Instruments
MusicplayOnline includes a wide range of virtual instruments that can be projected to demonstrate techniques to the whole class or used by students individually. These tools also help support diverse learning needs, giving every student a way to participate in music-making.
Song-Specific Interactives
Choose from a variety of song-specific interactives including solfa/note challenges, beat and rhythm activities, tone ladder, and more. These familiar activities provide structure and consistency, allowing students to build on their musical learning as they explore new songs.
Screen-Free Games
Musicplay was built on singing games and active music-making experiences. Alongside the digital tools, you’ll find hundreds of singing games and full-class activities that get students moving, singing, and making music together. These screen-free games reinforce musical concepts while creating an engaging, energetic classroom where students learn through authentic music-making.
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I use it all the time!
Convenient way to look up songs and exercises.
Dear Artie, Denise and MusicPlayOnline team, I wanted to personally thank you for coming to DC this summer and for all your efforts to put on such a great conference! After attending the summer symposium virtually for the past few years, I was so fortunate to be able to attend in person. In fact, I live in Old Town Alexandria, which is 3 miles away from the venue. How did I get so lucky?!
Denise - Thank you for adding John Jacobson to MusicPlayOnline. In Fairfax County we teach 5th/6th grade chorus and give multiple concerts per year. Let's just say - I didn't really have a *background* with children's choral music, nor do we really have a budget to buy octavos at our schools. We don't do programs/musicals but I am finding SO MANY new wonderful selections on the site to perform on my chorus concerts. THANK YOU for this!
Our returning music teachers love MusicPlay & our new teachers wonder how they ever taught without it!
Teachers seem to be enjoying the Musicplay curriculum. It is nice to have a curriculum as a district. It is especially helpful for our new teachers and the long term sub we have doing one of our music positions right now.
I LOVE musicplayonline. There are so many resources and options to choose from. I have heard good comments from the other music teachers as well. We have one teacher who has not been using it in spite of my encouraging her to do so. I will continue to work with her because I feel she is missing out on so many wonderful opportunities for her students - especially since the county paid for her to have a subscription! Very pleased! Thank you again!