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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 Kiana Del and Fiona Palensky. Each episode gets listeners involved in making music! Short episodes are...
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Whistle While You Work!
This week on The Music Box, Kiana and Fiona travel all around the world, going to Japan, Tanzania, and West Virginia to explore the history of work so...
Music Doctors – Flamenco Fiasco!
Paging Doctor Kiana and Nurse Practitioner Fiona to the Musical Unit STAT! Another music doctors episode is back, and this time Kiana and Fiona are so...
Water Music: The Curse of the Sunken City
Have you ever been on a submarine?! Join Kiana and Fiona as they dive into music written about water. Explore music by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel,...
Behind the Music: I'm a Radio Host!
What do you want to be when you grow up? Kiana and Fiona are taking you Behind the Music to learn about hosting a show on the radio live on air! Dig i...
PEDALMANIA!!!
Can Fiona become the ultimate guitar master?! This week, Kiana and Fiona meet Rex “The Earthquaker” Dallas to learn all about guitar pedals and their...
Music the Earth Makes
Music really is all around us! In this week’s episode, sound designer and mystical wizard Alex Biscardi guides Kiana and Fiona through music made with...
Carnival: The Festival Music of Brazil
Kiana and Fiona try to pull an all-nighter and end up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during Carnival! Explore the blocos (blah-co) of Brazilian Carnival to...
Tiny Technique with the Mini Midnight Yodelers
Have you ever learned about extended vocal technique from a tour bus full of yodeling gnomes?? There’s a first time for everything! Join Kiana and Fio...
Behind the Music: I'm a Radio Host
What do you want to be when you grow up? Kiana and Fiona are taking you Behind the Music to learn about being a DJ! Dig into the history of DJing, tal...
Creating a Story with Music
Kiana, Fiona, and YOU?! We’re bringing the classroom right to your living room in this week’s episode all about musical storytelling. Grab your pen, n...
Found Sound
Shhh! Do you have your listening ears on? Kiana and Fiona are at Waterfront Park in Louisville, Kentucky tuning our ears to the sonic environment. We...
Bird Music
Break out your binoculars! We're heading through the musical forest in search of bird music. No, not actual birds, but music meant to sound like them....
Music of Ancient Cultures
All aboard the Music Box Express! Kiana wants to visit 1953 and meet a renowned jazz theorist, and Fiona wants to travel to the future to hear some tu...
Indian Classical Music
Ready for your brain to get bigger? Come along with us as we all fill our heads and ears with Indian classical music! We'll learn about the melodies,...
Tiny Technique
There's more than one way to play a violin, and on this episode, we're learning all about non-traditional ways of playing, also called extended techni...
Anything, Anywhere, All Together
What does a sound designer do? Turns out, a lot more than Kiana and Fiona think! On this episode, our own sound designer Alex Biscardi shows the power...
Oh, No! It's Baroque!
The Music Box is back! And it's a good thing, because it looks like Baroque needs some fixing. Luckily, Dr. Kiana and Dr. Fiona are on the case! The m...
Experimentation Station!
For season six’s FINALE, we’ll board the finest time traveling locomotive this side of the train soundboard once again to explore experimental music t...
The Music Doctors: Funk’s Got a Brand New Groove
In the words of James Brown, “get funky with me! C’mon!” We’re back in the operating room this week, so put on your lab coats and get ready to examine...
Music Made By Bugs?!
Creepy crawlies, wriggling worms, buzzing bees, singing cicadas, oh my! Get your daily dose of music AND science as we dive into the bug's life and th...
Behind the Music: I'm a Music Therapist!
We’re going behind the music once again this week! We’ll learn all about what it means to be a music therapist in an interview with an expert from the...
Meeting Asian Composers with Kojin Tashiro
This episode is a special one! We’ll board violinist and sound designer Kojin Tashiro’s private jet and fly all around the Asian continent, meet 4 gre...
Synthesizer to Space!
Blast off on the SS Wendy Carlos with the Music Box team and learn about all things synthesizers. From sine waves to square waves, we’ll explore the m...
Broke Down Somewhere near Jupiter
Oh, no! Looks like Kiana and Fiona need a little more time to fix up their spaceship before you can come aboard. Luckily, they have everything under c...
Behind the Music: I'm a Producer!
What IS a producer anyway? How many hats do they wear? How does a producer help a music track come to life? Find out the answers to all your questions...
Pass The Melted Butter! Polyrhythms and Polymeters
Have you ever tried to count rhythms with an apple or a pineapple? Tried to pass the melted butter? Maybe a hot cup of tea? Find out what all these wa...
I Scream! You Scream! We All Scream for the Drum Machine!
You’ve heard about the instrument families from woodwinds, to brass, to strings, even percussion, but have you explored the mean green drum machine?!...
Behind the Music: I'm a recording engineer!
We’re going on a completely different journey for this episode! We’ll learn all about what it means to be a recording engineer in an interview with an...
Improvisation Station!
This episode, we’ll board the finest time traveling locomotive this side of the train soundboard to explore improvisation through time! Some very spec...
The Music Doctors
Today’s episode is quite the operation. We’ll put on our lab coats and be doctors, examining all the elements of our first patient — jazz! Join us as...
Juneteenth Jubilee
In this musical short, we’ll celebrate Juneteenth by exploring liberation through music! We’ll journey around the U.S, taking a look at the lives of B...
Meter: The Musical!
-This episode is an extra special musical journey that explores the world of time signatures, also known as meter. We're calling it "Meter: The Musica...
Fascinating Rhythm
We'll look at rhythm patterns in music and how they can change the sound of a song. You’ll learn about the different ways you could fill up a measure,...
Practice Makes Perfect
It's another visit to the magical land of Arpeggio, as the inhabitants learn what repetition and practice really mean.
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Time Traveling with America's Black Composers - Part Two
The second part of our feature on Black American composers features more time-traveling fun with Miss Kiana! Bring your dancing shoes and your listeni...
Time Traveling with America's Black Composers - Part One
We’re going on a musical journey with Miss Kiana this week, traveling through time to meet some of America’s Black composers! Bring your dancing shoes...
Tone It Up
What does “tone color” mean in music? Isn't color something that you SEE? We'll dive into tone color and timbre today, using examples from pop, jazz,...
Run, Rondo, Run
We're learning about patterns and song form on The Music Box today! From binary to ternary to rondo and more, you’ll be able to identify the forms of...
What Aria Talking About? Opera Plots Explained
If you’ve ever been to the opera, you may have found yourself wondering what’s happening onstage. Sometimes opera plots can be tough to understand, es...
Composers and Musicians of Latin America!
Today’s episode is a virtual trip to Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, and more, as we explore the work of Latinx musicians and composers. We’ll practice some...