101 Music Games for Children

101 Music Games for Children
Author: Ger Storms
Publisher: Hunter House
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780897931649

Music is wonderful for bringing out creativity and encouraging learning in kids. They love to sing and dance, and they love it when adults sing and dance along with them. Appropriate for families, teachers, day care providers, and camp leaders, this book presents lively music games that children and adults can play together. Using popular songs, easy rhythms, and musical recordings, the games in this book help children develop creative, personal, and social skills. They also learn about music and sound. The games are not competitive, they encourage and reward children for participating, not for winning.

99 Musical Games

99 Musical Games
Author: Ellen Jane Lorenz, Jr.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1937-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780893281786

This collection of--you guessed it--99 music-themed games is an excellent resource for any classroom, ensemble or music club. From reproducible word scrambles and acrostics to action games like "Musical Dash" and "Kitchen Orchestra" to unique and fun tests of musicianship, these games are a great way to break the ice, assess musical skills or simply have a blast with a group of music-minded friends.

Music Mind Games

Music Mind Games
Author: Michiko Yurko
Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications
Total Pages: 442
Release: 1992
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Uses educational games to teach music theory and reading music.

Classroom Music Games and Activities

Classroom Music Games and Activities
Author:
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0787710776

This collection will help you teach music basics whether you have a music degree or no formal music training. Students will practice their listening skills, identify musical notation and terms, recognize instruments, and more! Reinforce lessons from other subjects with cross-curricular elements, or adapt the activities to include new material. Mix and match whole-class, group, and individual activities to give your students a variety of ways to learn music basics.

101 More Music Games for Children

101 More Music Games for Children
Author: Ger Storms
Publisher: Hunter House
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2001
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780897932981

Music games are relaxing and playful. They encourage creativity both in children's imagination and expression. All players need is a willingness to have fun and to experience the joys of interacting with others. The games include rhythm games, dance and movement games, card and board games, and musical projects. All of the games stress humor, challenge, surprise and cooperation rather than competition.

Sound Play

Sound Play
Author: William Cheng
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-03-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199970009

Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music-making to vocal sexual harassment. William Cheng shows how video games empower their designers, composers, players, critics, and scholars to tinker (often transgressively) with practices and discourses of music, noise, speech, and silence. Faced with collisions between utopian and alarmist stereotypes of video games, Sound Play synthesizes insights across musicology, sociology, anthropology, communications, literary theory, philosophy, and additional disciplines. With case studies spanning Final Fantasy VI, Silent Hill, Fallout 3, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Team Fortress 2, this book insists that what we do in there-in the safe, sound spaces of games-can ultimately teach us a great deal about who we are and what we value (musically, culturally, humanly) out here. Foreword by Richard Leppert Video Games Live cover image printed with permission from Tommy Tallarico

Music In Video Games

Music In Video Games
Author: K.J. Donnelly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2014-03-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1134692110

From its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, video game music has gone through its own particular set of stylistic and functional metamorphoses while both borrowing and recontextualizing the earlier models from which it borrows. With topics ranging from early classics like Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. to more recent hits like Plants vs. Zombies, the eleven essays in Music in Video Games draw on the scholarly fields of musicology and music theory, film theory, and game studies, to investigate the history, function, style, and conventions of video game music.

Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians

Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians
Author: Jeffrey Agrell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2008
Genre: Games with music
ISBN:

Why don't classical musicians improvise? Why do jazz players get to have all the fun? And how do they develop such fabulous technique and aural skills? With these words, Jeffrey Agrell opens the door to improvisation for all non-jazz musicians who thought it was beyond their ability to play extemporaneously. Step-by-step, Agrell leads through a series of games, rather than exercises. The game format takes the pressure off of classically trained musicians, steering them away from their fixation on mistake-free performance and introducing the basic concepts of playing with music itself instead of obsessing over a perfect rendition of a written score. Agrell draws an analogy with sports that illustrates the absurdity of the traditional approach to classically-oriented music performance.

Wee Sing Games, Games, Games

Wee Sing Games, Games, Games
Author: Pamela Conn Beall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-07-20
Genre: Children's songs
ISBN: 9780843120356

A lively collection of musical and non-musical games featuring both old favorites and some newer ones.