This online music dictionary offers more than just definitions. Most terms have vocalized pronunciations and audio examples, as well.

Classical music label Naxos provides brief definitions of musical terms.

Learn the history of soul music from its origins in gospel music, through Motown and Memphis Soul, to contemporary rhythm and blues. The site includes three videos: Sam Cooke singing "A Change is Gonna Come," from 1964, with images from...

This page has a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 24 vocabulary words pertaining to Music and Fine Arts. It also offers an extensive vocabulary word list for music, a list of musical instruments, and lesson questions.

This site contains a list of 50 words from Act I lyrics from the Broadway production of Hamilton, a Grammy Award-winning and the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece discusses how music influences mood. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...

Learn English vocabulary and grammar through songs from a wide range of famous pop artists from the Beatles and Elvis to contemporary standouts like Avil Lavigne, Good Charlotte, and James Blunt. Find an exercise by grammar or vocabulary...

A great matching game to reinforce music vocabulary and an understanding of the elements of music.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart lesson contains several activities. History - students understand the chronology of Greek history and can organize events and people into major categories to explain historical...

In this lesson plan, students will use music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions. They will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group work which can...

Students explore the rich diversity within Latino culture using WGBY's bilingual program Presencia. The lesson explores the variety within Latino food, music, and art and the individuals who celebrate their culture. Students learn...

Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences about musical terms. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.

Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences about terms related to music, theater and dance. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.

A word bank of thirteen musical terms.

Links to lists of vocabulary words with sixteen different topics. Topics include sports, music, movies, TV, time, festivals, holidays, and more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the topic of illegal downloading of music. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

Find an online encyclopedia specializing in microtonal music theory.

This resource explains how to learn about classical music, and covers the evolution, styles, and vocabulary of this important musical genre.

This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...

Explore vocabulary words, the alphabet, and music alongside Del, Dot, and Dee through media, lesson plans, and graphic organizers.

Interactive and fun activity to drill vocabulary related to sports, adventure and musical instruments. Children choose the language (English or Spanish). Engaging activity for ELL learners and students of Spanish.

Resources for French foreign-language teachers including a catalogue of links to resources on grammar, vocabulary, culture, idiomatic expressions, culture, reading, holidays, Francophone cultures, dictionaries, listening exercises and...

Students measure the wavelength of sounds and learn basic vocabulary associated with waves. As a class, they brainstorm the difference between two tuning forks and the sounds they produce. Then they come up with a way to measure that...

See what happens when Noah goes for popcorn and gets lost at the circus; learn the Spanish words for musical instruments and numbers in the tens (10-50).