The Music Box
By Louisville Public Media
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Episodes: 152
Description
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 Grace Hopkins Ruml Children's Fund.
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Shapes of America: An audio special about shape-note singing
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Behind the Music with Christian McBride: I'm a Professional Musician!
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Help! My Piano is Haunted!
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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The Mad Scientist's Auditory Laboratory
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Behind the Music: I'm a Sound Designer!
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Whistle While You Work!
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Music Doctors: Flamenco Fiasco!
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Water Music: The Curse of the Sunken City
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Behind the Music: I'm a Radio Host!
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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PEDALMANIA!!!
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Music the Earth Makes
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Carnival: The Festival Music of Brazil
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Tiny Technique with the Mini Midnight Yodelers
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Behind the Music: I'm a DJ!
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Creating a Story with Music
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Found Sound
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Bird Music
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Music of Ancient Cultures
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Indian Classical Music
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Tiny Technique
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Anything, Anywhere, All Together
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Oh, No! It's Baroque!
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Experimentation Station!
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The Music Doctors: Funk’s Got a Brand New Groove
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Music Made By Bugs?!
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Behind the Music: I'm a Music Therapist!
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Meeting Asian Composers with Kojin Tashiro
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Synthesizer to Space!
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Broke Down Somewhere near Jupiter
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Behind the Music: I'm a Producer!
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Pass The Melted Butter! Polyrhythms and Polymeters
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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I Scream! You Scream! We All Scream for the Drum Machine!
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Behind the Music: I'm a recording engineer!
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Improvisation Station!
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The Music Doctors
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Juneteenth Jubilee
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Meter: The Musical!
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Fascinating Rhythm
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May 27, 2021 |
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Practice Makes Perfect
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May 20, 2021 |
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Time Traveling with America's Black Composers - Part Two
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May 14, 2021 |
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Time Traveling with America's Black Composers - Part One
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May 13, 2021 |
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Tone It Up
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May 06, 2021 |
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Run, Rondo, Run
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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What Aria Talking About? Opera Plots Explained
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Composers and Musicians of Latin America!
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Dynamic Dinosaurs
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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The Hunt for Buried Measure
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Don't Judge a Song By Its Cover
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Ready Player Fun!
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Holiday Music History Mystery
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Global Explorations: A Visit to Nicaragua
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Global Explorations: Mountain Music
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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All Aboard the Tempo Train!
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Global Explorations: Drumming from Ghana
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Global Explorations: Eastward Bound
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Fairy Friend Feud
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Beat to the Future
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Dynamics Dynamite
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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1+1 = Etude
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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A Short Pause
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Women's Writes: A History of Women Composers
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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The Treble Troubadours and the Bass Balladeers
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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The Giant and The Fairy
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Meter Wars!
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Kandinsky Can: How Art and Music Collide
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Who Plays What?
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Name the Place and Time
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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It's Rhyme Time
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Hitting the Pause Button
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing in Woodwind
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May 28, 2020 |
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Brass Is A Gas
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May 21, 2020 |
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Play That Percussion!
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May 14, 2020 |
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The String's The Thing
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May 07, 2020 |
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Waves, Waves, Waves
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Tuning In
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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The Music Box is back for Season 3!
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Rhythms, Names, and Nonsense
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Find Your Rhythm!
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Rhythm Nation
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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How to "Beat" the System
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Beat in the Middle
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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All You Can Beat
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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It's Going Down, I'm Yelling Timbre!
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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A Visit to Timbre-land
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Shiver Me Timbres
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Pitch It Real Good!
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Pitch It Good!
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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Pitch It!
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Season 2 Trailer
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Wrapping up Season 1 of The Music Box with Homemade Instruments
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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Meet a Composer! with Rachel Grimes on The Music Box
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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The Music Box Episode 2: Superheroes and Time Machines!
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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The Music Box Episode 1: The Golden Record
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Aug 02, 2017 |
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Introducing The Music Box
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Jul 11, 2017 |