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The Music Box

The Music Box is an interactive music education podcast for kids, exploring fundamental music concepts through performing, responding and connecting. The current season is hosted by music educators Ki... Read more

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Pitch It!

Pitch It!

Pitch is high, pitch is low. We'll have some fun with animal sounds that make high and low pitches, and we'll pretend to... Read more

5 Sep 2019

8mins

Ranked #2

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All You Can Beat

All You Can Beat

Beat is STEADY! We'll be moving around to different types of music today -- get ready to tiptoe, skip, walk, and hop. Th... Read more

17 Oct 2019

7mins

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Rhythms, Names, and Nonsense

Rhythms, Names, and Nonsense

We'll explore the rhythms of our own names, and the special nonsense sounds we use sometimes to speak rhythms aloud. Th... Read more

21 Nov 2019

9mins

Ranked #4

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Shiver Me Timbres

Shiver Me Timbres

Timbre = the way something sounds! We'll play with different timbres, and we'll use body percussion to make our own thun... Read more

26 Sep 2019

8mins

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Wrapping up Season 1 of The Music Box with Homemade Instruments

Wrapping up Season 1 of The Music Box with Homemade Instruments

Don't have an instrument? Don't you worry! Sometimes if you practice all you need is a leaf to make beautiful music. Lis... Read more

7 Mar 2018

7mins

Ranked #6

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Meet a Composer! with Rachel Grimes on The Music Box

Meet a Composer! with Rachel Grimes on The Music Box

Rachel Grimes is a composer from Carroll County, Kentucky. The ukulele class at Harmony Elementary interviewed her about... Read more

21 Feb 2018

13mins

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Pitch It Good!

Pitch It Good!

High pitch or low pitch or something in between? We'll use pitch to help us know which way to go, and we'll hear differe... Read more

12 Sep 2019

8mins

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Pitch It Real Good!

Pitch It Real Good!

Pitch is high, pitch is low -- and we'll use some singers you know (and a few you probably don't) to explore different p... Read more

19 Sep 2019

8mins

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It's Going Down, I'm Yelling Timbre!

It's Going Down, I'm Yelling Timbre!

Our special music word is "timbre" which means the way something sounds. We'll be using different timbres to tell a stor... Read more

10 Oct 2019

6mins

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Find Your Rhythm!

Find Your Rhythm!

Rhythm patterns coming at you again this week -- and this time we'll try putting different rhythms on top of each other ... Read more

14 Nov 2019

8mins

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A Visit to Timbre-land

A Visit to Timbre-land

We'll continue our investigation of timbre (a music word that means "the way something sounds") with a movement activity... Read more

3 Oct 2019

10mins

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Beat in the Middle

Beat in the Middle

We'll keep exploring that steady beat! This time we'll learn about how beats are grouped in different ways to make time ... Read more

24 Oct 2019

6mins

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Rhythm Nation

Rhythm Nation

Rhythm is a pattern! We'll practice listening to rhythms and clapping them back. This is the first of three episodes abo... Read more

7 Nov 2019

7mins

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How to "Beat" the System

How to "Beat" the System

Rocking to a steady beat... and waltzing, and marching, and bopping, and more. This is the final of three episodes abou... Read more

31 Oct 2019

8mins

Ranked #15

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The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing in Woodwind

The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing in Woodwind

We’re wrapping up our roundup of the instrument families with the woodwind instruments this week! We’ll learn how they m... Read more

28 May 2020

10mins

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Brass Is A Gas

Brass Is A Gas

We’ll be exploring all the different instruments of the brass family this week. We’ll learn about what defines a brass i... Read more

21 May 2020

10mins

Ranked #17

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Play That Percussion!

Play That Percussion!

Percussion instruments are anything you can hit, shake, or scrape — which means they can be a LOT of fun to play! We’ll ... Read more

14 May 2020

9mins

Ranked #18

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The String's The Thing

The String's The Thing

Did you know that we can put most musical instruments into family groups? Just like your family, there are larger and sm... Read more

7 May 2020

11mins

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Waves, Waves, Waves

Waves, Waves, Waves

We’ll learn about the ways that sound can move, both in the air around us and inside our bodies. Get ready to surf the m... Read more

30 Apr 2020

9mins

Ranked #20

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Tuning In

Tuning In

Welcome to Season 3 of The Music Box! Today’s episode will help us learn how music makes us feel. From silly to sad, fro... Read more

23 Apr 2020

11mins

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