Music history: Since our recital this month is beach themed we decided to make all of our stations go along with that. For Music History that ended up being Caribbean music! Read all about the types and origin of Caribbean music and listen to some popular songs. We even talk about the most popular Caribbean…

Composition Theme: For July we covered Disco! July 12, 1979 is widely recognized as the day disco died, so for the month we brought it back. Listen to some famous disco songs and try some of your own. We even have some advanced challenges for anyone brave enough to try them! Music History: This month…

When I asked what instruments MTMS offers, I was amazed at the variety. Variety not just in instruments, but in the families. What do I mean by families? Well, each instrument fits into a family or classification (although some fall into more than one), depending on how they are played. And that also decides where…

Did you know that when you translate something, you use your learned language to bring it into your native tongue? One reason is because we use idioms and they’re harder to learn in the new languages. Here are a few Italian songs and arias with the translation as well as the Google translate version. Always…

The votes are in! You may remember the survey we administered from June 7-12 on a theme for our upcoming summer recital (Aug 28th-29th) in the Music Lab. We got a lot of great ideas. Some of my favorites ranged from “My Little Pony” to “80s Punk Rock” and even just the word “fun”, but…