Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Music Composition
A complete, undergraduate level online course on music composition. Includes all course material, projects, assignments, and exams with solutions.
University of Virginia
Music Paper
Composing your own music is just a click away with this blank music paper. Several templates are available to help you quickly begin composing. Simply select the one you would like and print out as many copies as you need.
PBS
Pbs: Elements of Music: Exploring the Composer's Tools
This online lesson will help students understand how composers write music by engaging in a project which culminates in their own compositions.
Other
Morton Subotnick's Creating Music
This site is an effective and fun way to help children understand music better. There are several online interactive games to play to better understand rhythm, pitch, scales and much more.
Other
Creating Music
This online, interactive environment for music creation and exploration includes games and puzzles and interesting activities that teach about music in a visual way.
Other
Music Sheaf: Music Paper
Here is an excellent site that allows you to print your own music paper. The great feature of this site is that you can also create your own customized version of music paper to better suit your needs.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Composing With Solfege
Through solfege, students will create their own musical compositions as Maria did in the musical The Sound of Music.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Scoring Music: Write for Specific Instruments
If you are interested in arranging your own music, you should check out the tips offered at this website. Including a history of how music was arranged, this site also gives several good ideas of how to make your arrangements interesting.
Other
Chord Studio
Have fun composing your own music with this easy to use online tool. Select the chords you want your song to have and choose the various instrument styles. You can sign up for a free account so you can save your songs and edit them later.
PBS
Classics for Kids: Compose Your Own Music
In this interactive you will compose your own music in 4/4 time. Hit play to hear to hear your song then send it to your friends!
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 44: Compositional Techniques
Young music young scholars rarely see or, better still, hear a connection between the different types of scales, modes, intervals and other compositional techniques such as meter, tonality, and form used in both traditional 'Art' music...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Could Be the Next Beethoven
In this lesson, young scholars write the words and compose a melody for a school alma mater.
Toby Rush
Music Theory: Species Counterpoint: Melody [Pdf]
A music theory worksheet regarding species counterpoint and melody. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].
Toby Rush
Music Theory: Introduction to Species Counterpoint [Pdf]
A music theory worksheet regarding species counterpoint. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].
Toby Rush
Music Theory: Species Counterpoint: Species I [Pdf]
A music theory worksheet regarding species counterpoint. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].
Toby Rush
Music Theory: Species Counterpoint: Species Five [Pdf]
A music theory worksheet species counterpoint. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].
Toby Rush
Music Theory: Species Counterpoint: Species Four [Pdf]
A music theory worksheet regarding species counterpoint. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].
Toby Rush
Music Theory: Species Counterpoint: Species Three [Pdf]
A music theory worksheet regarding species counterpoint. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].
Toby Rush
Music Theory: Species Counterpoint: Species Ii [Pdf]
A music theory worksheet regarding species counterpoint. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].
PBS
Pbs: Caillou's Magic Keyboard
This site allows young children to explore composition using elements supplied by the program, to create short, original musical pieces. The instructions are read aloud.
McMaster University
Mc Master University: Music Composition for Beginners
A brief site on the advent of technology changing how music is written (and by whom) forever. One bad point is that for most of the links to work, you have to figure out for yourself where they go and type it in.
Other
The Golden Rules of Songwriting
Do you have the desire to begin writing music but don't know how to get started? This well written article provides some very good advice to help you on your way.
Other
Musink: Beautiful Sheet Music, Fast
Musink Lite is a 'free' music-composition software package for Windows, that lets you write music at unprecedented speeds. Musink lets you create anything from orchestral scores to short-musical-snippets, to exercise books. Musink will...