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Musical Tables

Ear-training games that help music teachers in class, for children from age 5. Listen, remember and write music, one game at a time.

  • Plays in the browser
  • Ages 5 and up
  • 12 languages
  • More than 100 sound collections
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What Musical Tables is

Musical Tables is a set of music games built to support the teacher in lessons for children from age 5, starting from the last year of infant school. It is organized in collections of audiovisual units: sounds paired with pictures, such as an animal, an instrument, a rhythm or a written note.

Every activity is based on analytical listening, memorization and music writing. The teacher can adapt each game to the level of the class or of a single pupil, and use the results to follow how listening skills grow over time.

Musical Tables home screen: a welcome message next to pictures of a bird, an alarm clock, a treble clef and a guitar
The home screen. Pick a collection of sounds from the menu and start playing.

Six ear-training games

  • Choose the sequence

    Listen to a short sequence of sounds and pick the matching version among several written alternatives.

  • Transcribe the sequence

    Listen, then rebuild the sequence by dragging the right pictures into the empty slots.

  • Write the names

    Pictures appear one at a time: drag the correct name under each one.

  • Correct the error

    The sequence on screen has one wrong element. Find it and replace it with what you heard.

  • Sound memory

    A memory game played with the ears: turn the cards and match the sounds.

  • Verbal memory

    The same memory game with written words on the cards instead of pictures.

Sound collections

More than 100 collections cover the main areas of music education, from everyday sounds to harmony:

  • Ambient sounds, timbres: Farm animals, Singing Birds, Engines
  • Rhythm: Rhythmic figures, measures, Bricks, TUBS notation, Monogram with colors, body percussions
  • Pitch: Loudness and Pitch, Notes on the Grand staff
  • Harmony: Triads in C major, Types of chords
  • Famous melodies: Brother Jack, Happy Birthday to you, Amazing Grace, Mary had a little lamb
  • Listening stories: Peter and the wolf, The Carnival of the Animals, The little astronaut
  • Fruit salad of sounds: mixed collections from all the others

In class and at home

  • Runs on smartphones, tablets and interactive whiteboards, so it works for the whole class at once or for one pupil practising at home.
  • Helps the teacher spot pupils who need extra listening practice, even in large classes.
  • Useful for aptitude tests, shared tests across classes and comparing teaching methods.
  • Available in 12 languages: English, Italiano, Deutsch, Español, Français, Nederlands, Português (Brasil), Português (Portugal), Русский, Türkçe, اردو, 中文（简体）

Musical Tables is a work in progress: new collections and activities are added over time. Teachers can send suggestions to stralanc08@gmail.com

Credits

Musical Tables is made by Antonio Lanciotti and Andrea Strappa, with the support of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Fermo. The music examples were recorded with Vincenzo De Angelis (saxophone), Roberta Di Rosa (violin) and Simone Tisba (trombone). Sound synthesis uses Csound.