A terrific reference for music students and teachers! Explains the fundamentals of the major scale, provides diagrams, and audio clips to help children recognize this piece of music theory.

A free music notation software program! From the makers of Finale, the industry standard for this type of software, Finale NotePad can be downloaded from Coda for free. Although it is an entry level version of Finale, it is quite useful.

A thorough description of generic intervals with a printable chart at the end of the lesson. MusicTheory.net provides illustrated examples, and highlighted vocabulary terms. (You may need to download Flash Player to view this site.)

This online instructional activity will help young scholars understand how composers write music by engaging in a project which culminates in their own compositions.

Interactive site that teaches kids about jazz, jazz instruments, and writing jazz music. Includes games,videos, and lots of great sounds.

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...

Understanding MIDI, digital audio, and how to compose using both. Although this site is from 1996, much of the information remains relevant.

Compose music with this interesting online tool. To compose, you click small boxes on a grid. The grid is continuously scanned with a line that passes over your clicked boxes which in turn plays their sounds. You can listen to other...

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.

Provides information about composing music and songwriting. Of interest is the Tips & Information section where there are several articles of advice about songwriting.