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The Music Box

The Music Box

46 episodes

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 Kiana Del and Fiona Palensky. Each episode gets listeners involved in making music! Short episodes are perfect for a car ride or just hanging out at home. Get printable lesson plans and ideas for extending the learning at musicboxpod.org. The Music Box is produced by Louisville Public Media and made possible in part by support from PNC and the Norton Foundation.

Podcasts

Experimentation Station!

Published: Nov. 10, 2022, 7:51 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 41 seconds

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The Music Doctors: Funks Got a Brand New Groove

Published: Oct. 20, 2022, 5:54 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 10 seconds

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Music Made By Bugs?!

Published: Oct. 13, 2022, 5:35 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 56 seconds

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Behind the Music: I'm a Music Therapist!

Published: Oct. 7, 2022, 5:40 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 37 seconds

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Meeting Asian Composers with Kojin Tashiro

Published: Sept. 30, 2022, 4 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 11 seconds

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Synthesizer to Space!

Published: Sept. 22, 2022, 7:09 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 27 seconds

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Broke Down Somewhere near Jupiter

Published: Aug. 18, 2022, 2:37 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds

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Behind the Music: I'm a Producer!

Published: Aug. 11, 2022, 4:34 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 53 seconds

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Pass The Melted Butter! Polyrhythms and Polymeters

Published: Aug. 3, 2022, 9:11 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 27 seconds

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I Scream! You Scream! We All Scream for the Drum Machine!

Published: July 28, 2022, 4:48 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 38 seconds

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Behind the Music: I'm a recording engineer!

Published: July 21, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 14 seconds

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Improvisation Station!

Published: July 14, 2022, 12:50 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 29 seconds

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The Music Doctors

Published: July 7, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Juneteenth Jubilee

Published: June 15, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 28 seconds

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Meter: The Musical!

Published: June 3, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 17 seconds

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Fascinating Rhythm

Published: May 27, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds

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Practice Makes Perfect

Published: May 20, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 48 seconds

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Time Traveling with America's Black Composers - Part One

Published: May 13, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 32 seconds

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Tone It Up

Published: May 6, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 37 seconds

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Run, Rondo, Run

Published: April 29, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 28 seconds

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What Aria Talking About? Opera Plots Explained

Published: April 22, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 45 seconds

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Composers and Musicians of Latin America!

Published: April 15, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 15 seconds

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Dynamic Dinosaurs

Published: April 8, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 24 seconds

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The Hunt for Buried Measure

Published: April 1, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 53 seconds

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Don't Judge a Song By Its Cover

Published: March 25, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds

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Ready Player Fun!

Published: March 18, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 46 seconds

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Holiday Music History Mystery

Published: Dec. 10, 2020, noon
Duration: 15 minutes 42 seconds

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Global Explorations: A Visit to Nicaragua

Published: Dec. 3, 2020, noon
Duration: 13 minutes 51 seconds

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Global Explorations: Mountain Music

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, noon
Duration: 13 minutes 40 seconds

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All Aboard the Tempo Train!

Published: Nov. 12, 2020, noon
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds

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Global Explorations: Drumming from Ghana

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, noon
Duration: 12 minutes 53 seconds

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Global Explorations: Eastward Bound

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 21 seconds

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Fairy Friend Feud

Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 22 seconds

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Beat to the Future

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds

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Dynamics Dynamite

Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds

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1+1 = Etude

Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds

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A Short Pause

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 52 seconds

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Women's Writes: A History of Women Composers

Published: Sept. 17, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 48 seconds

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The Treble Troubadours and the Bass Balladeers

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 34 seconds

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The Giant and The Fairy

Published: July 16, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 51 seconds

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Meter Wars!

Published: July 9, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 47 seconds

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Kandinsky Can: How Art and Music Collide

Published: July 2, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 3 seconds

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Who Plays What?

Published: June 25, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds

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Name the Place and Time

Published: June 18, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 51 seconds

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It's Rhyme Time

Published: June 11, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds

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Hitting the Pause Button

Published: June 4, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 59 seconds

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The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing in Woodwind

Published: May 28, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds

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Brass Is A Gas

Published: May 21, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds

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Play That Percussion!

Published: May 14, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 58 seconds

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The String's The Thing

Published: May 7, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 23 seconds

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Waves, Waves, Waves

Published: April 30, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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Tuning In

Published: April 23, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 7 seconds

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The Music Box is back for Season 3!

Published: April 15, 2020, 8:31 p.m.
Duration: 56 seconds

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Rhythms, Names, and Nonsense

Published: Nov. 21, 2019, noon
Duration: 9 minutes 7 seconds

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Find Your Rhythm!

Published: Nov. 14, 2019, noon
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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Rhythm Nation

Published: Nov. 7, 2019, noon
Duration: 7 minutes 40 seconds

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How to "Beat" the System

Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds

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Beat in the Middle

Published: Oct. 24, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 46 seconds

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All You Can Beat

Published: Oct. 17, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 7 seconds

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

Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds

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A Visit to Timbre-land

Published: Oct. 3, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 45 seconds

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Shiver Me Timbres

Published: Sept. 26, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 36 seconds

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Pitch It Real Good!

Published: Sept. 19, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds

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Pitch It Good!

Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes

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Pitch It!

Published: Sept. 5, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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Season 2 Trailer

Published: Aug. 22, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 27 seconds

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Wrapping up Season 1 of The Music Box with Homemade Instruments

Published: March 7, 2018, 4:03 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 25 seconds

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Meet a Composer! with Rachel Grimes on The Music Box

Published: Feb. 21, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 57 seconds

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The Music Box Episode 2: Superheroes and Time Machines!

Published: Dec. 13, 2017, 5:27 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 21 seconds

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The Music Box Episode 1: The Golden Record

Published: Aug. 2, 2017, 5:08 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 16 seconds

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Introducing The Music Box

Published: July 11, 2017, 2:21 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds

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