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Since 2000, BGG is the go-to platform for every content related to board games. The most impressive feature is a catalog that gathers the whole history of the medium (128 000+ games). Titles interesting from our perspective are gathered in Music category (which includes also merely music-themed games) and under Singing mechanic (where singing is sometimes a very small part of the whole game).

One of the many features of BGG are lists and here you may find music-related ones from wiki editor, including:

Having a musically rich experiences to buy in a box is rather not popular. More often the game relates to music just with a setting, by employing tests of musical trivia knowledge, or by providing a theoretical education (in the school curriculum sense). Here are a few more notable titles from the Board Game Geek database, most of them closer to our library scope.

Some games on BGG

Cacophony		sold	Noisy charades with physical constraints
Cobra: Game of the Normandy Breakout	Brad Hessel David James Ritchie	rare	Only a wargame, but also an inspiration and namesake for John Zorn's gamepiece
Dixit	Jean-Louis Roubira	sold	With many extensions this game is a huge set of inspire cards, rules allow musical play although by default it's for speaking
Fairy Prank	Jeremie Kletzkine	sold	Charming game of found sound and listening
Heroic Echoic	David B. H. Barton	sold	Assemble a super-hero team by playing cards with sound effects from comics
Images	Peter Brötzmann	rare	Integrates with the game Signs (visual cues)
Jazz: The Singing Card Game	Anxietydecending	rare	A memory game organized around scat vocals
Maracas	Bruno Faidutti Hervé Marly	sold	A listening and guessing game with percussion but minimum musical performance
Music City	Ian Howard	rare	A full musical micro-game made as a promo for a board gaming convent
Muzundrum	J. S. Kingfisher	rare	Theory-only. This game introduced the 12-sided Musician's Dice with pitch classes on the sides
Noisy Neighbors	Westley Ciaramella Keith Millman	rare	A game of making noises, listening, and guessing
Patch: The Card Game	James Cigler	sold	A deck for exploring modular synthesis with card types like "Abstraction", "Progression", or "Disruption"
Scott Joplin Melody Dicer		rare	A take on Musikalisches Würfelspiel in the ragtime genre
Signs	Peter Brötzmann	rare	Abstract inspire cards designed specifically for musical improvisation
Wee Whimsical Creatures	Bez Shahriari	sold	The actual full title says all: "A game about WEE WHIMSICAL CREATURES and trying to identify them after someone makes noises", 80 pictures