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Welcome to the Music Lab! Here are a few games and activities to have fun with music.
     
SoundScapes: Michael Colgrass' BandQuest piece, "Old Churches," shows us that music does not always have to be represented by regular notes. Click below to have fun painting pictures with sound.
Sound Scapes   Create Your Own Sound Scapes
     
The Joke Show: Tom Duffy's BandQuest piece, "A+: A 'Precise' Prelude and an 'Excellent' March," shows us how to make music funny. Here is a whole boatload of jokes about music for you to have fun with.
The Band Quest Joke Show   Hear Jokes on the Joke Show
     
The Alegre Groove Sampler: Here's your chance to compose your own soundtrack in Afro-Caribbean style as inspired by Tania León's BandQuest piece, "Alegre."
The Alegre Groove Sampler   Compose Music with Alegre Groove Sampler
     
Code Cracker: The spiritual "Wade 'n Water" contained codes in the lyrics which gave directions to escaping slaves. These code games also have hidden messages for you to find.
CODE   Crack Codes with Code Cracker

 

 

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