Music Theory 

DSO Kids (Dallas Symphony Orchestra)

http://www.dsokids.com/2001/rooms/musicroom.asp

Instrument encyclopedia, articles, music theory, and many additional resources.

Gary Ewer’s Easy Music Theory

http://www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca/lessons.html 

To learn about the musical staff, notes, durations, measures, internals, key signatures, flats and sharps, scales, and more, scroll to the bottom of the page, which offers free lessons.

Introduction to Reading Music

http://datadragon.com/education/reading 

All you ever wanted to know about clefs, time signature, notes, rests, counting, symbols, and shaping.

Musictheory.net

http://www.musictheory.net/index.html

"Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books."

MiBAC: Music Theory

http://www.mibac.com/Pages/Theory/Main_Theory.html

Straightforward information about music staffs, lines and spaces, notes, key signatures, major and minor scales, time signatures, arpeggios, and much more.

The New York Philharmonic Kidzone! 

http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml 

Interactive website that includes a Game Room, Musicians' Lounge, Composers' Gallery, Instrument Storage Room, Instrument Laboratory, Conductor/Soloist Dressing Rooms, a Newsstand and Composition Workshop.  In order to get the full sound and visual experience computers must have both Shockwave and QuickTime loaded. 

Solomon's Glossary of Technical Music Terms

http://solomonsmusic.net/glossary.htm 

From a cappella to whole tone scales, hundreds of terms succinctly explained. 

Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary

http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary

"Select a letter of the alphabet from the list below to look up any musical term. The terms starting with that letter will appear on the left side of the screen."

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