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Music Lessons are Not Really About Music...

Music Lessons are Not Really About Music...

Music lessons provide invaluable skills that can help a student’s personal, social, and academic development. A student of music can foster and develop an appreciation for being creative, confident, and...

Music Lessons are Not Really About Music...

Music lessons provide invaluable skills that can help a student’s personal, social, and academic development. A student of music can foster and develop an appreciation for being creative, confident, and...

Clarinet Parents - Be Smarter Than Your 5th Grader - Speaker Key and other interesting facts

Clarinet Parents - Be Smarter Than Your 5th Gra...

The B-flat clarinet is an orchestral instrument going back to the time of Mozart and beyond.  It is a transposing instrument, which means that the note heard is a major second...

Clarinet Parents - Be Smarter Than Your 5th Gra...

The B-flat clarinet is an orchestral instrument going back to the time of Mozart and beyond.  It is a transposing instrument, which means that the note heard is a major second...

Einstein Loved His Music!

Einstein Loved His Music!

Einstein was Quite The Musician! In 1929, Albert Einstein told the Saturday Evening Post, “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician.” By then Einstein was world-renowned...

Einstein Loved His Music!

Einstein was Quite The Musician! In 1929, Albert Einstein told the Saturday Evening Post, “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician.” By then Einstein was world-renowned...

What Color was that Music?

What Color was that Music?

Music and colors have few, if any, sensory properties in common: Music is auditory and has properties such as tempo, pitch, timbre, and rhythm. Color is visual and has the properties of lightness, vividness, and hue. But both music and color map aspects of emotion....

What Color was that Music?

Music and colors have few, if any, sensory properties in common: Music is auditory and has properties such as tempo, pitch, timbre, and rhythm. Color is visual and has the properties of lightness, vividness, and hue. But both music and color map aspects of emotion....

Percussion Learn More

Percussion Learn More

As the "keeper of the rhythm," the drum provides the foundation for the overall sound of music. The many instruments included in the percussion family include any instrument that is...

Percussion Learn More

As the "keeper of the rhythm," the drum provides the foundation for the overall sound of music. The many instruments included in the percussion family include any instrument that is...

Baritone Introduction

Baritone Introduction

The baritone is a brass instrument.  The sound is made by buzzing the lips into the mouthpiece like all the brass family.  It has valves like a trumpet but is...

Baritone Introduction

The baritone is a brass instrument.  The sound is made by buzzing the lips into the mouthpiece like all the brass family.  It has valves like a trumpet but is...