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Busy Kids Love Music
Busy Kids Love Music is a podcast for the whole family, brought to you by Carly Seifert, the creator of Busy Kids Do Piano. Join Carly as she explores musical styles, composers and terms. You'll listen to loads of great music on the way!
Episodes
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 188: Für Elise
You’ve heard it on music boxes, phone ringtones, and probably a few dozen times from the piano bench at your own house. Here’s what most people…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 187: The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven
Here’s a confession: we have talked about Beethoven on this podcast more times than Carly can count. He got a whole episode on his nine symphonies back…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 186: What Was That Sound? – Halloween Edition
There’s something about October that makes even the most ordinary orchestra sound a little haunted. A rumbling drum becomes distant thunder. A xylophone…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 185: Meet the Conductor
We’re closing out our orchestra series with the one person who doesn’t play a single instrument, and yet somehow holds the whole thing together…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 184: Meet the Percussion Family
We’re wrapping up our orchestra series with the loudest, most colorful family of all — percussion. Over the last few episodes, we’ve built an…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 183: Meet the Brass Family
Today we’re getting to know the brass family — the loud, bright, fun-loving cousins of the orchestra. (And yes, I’m a little biased here, since my…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 182: Meet the Woodwind Family
Meet the Woodwind Family We’re kicking off a brand-new series on the podcast, and I could not be more excited about it. Over the next few episodes…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 181: Folk Music of the Philippines
We made it to the final stop on this summer’s Around the World with Busy Kids Love Music tour — and what a destination to end on. The Philippines is an…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 180: Folk Music of Czech Republic
Stop 4 on our summer world tour takes us to the heart of central Europe — the Czech Republic, a country about the size of South Carolina with a fiercely proud…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 179: Folk Music of Nigeria
Stop 3 on our summer world tour takes us to the continent of Africa — specifically to Nigeria, the most populous country on the continent, home to more than…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 178: Folk Music of Norway
Our summer world tour continues — and for Stop 2, we’re trading the warm Caribbean rhythms of Puerto Rico for something entirely different: the misty…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 177: The Folk Music of Puerto Rico
  We’re officially stamping our passports for the first stop on this summer’s Around the World with Busy Kids Love Music tour — and…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 176: Meet the String Family
  If you’ve been listening along to our last few episodes, you’ve heard a lot of violin — Vivaldi wrote for it constantly, and it’s easy…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 175: Concerto for Two Violins in A Minor
  In today’s episode, we’re wrapping up our three-part series on Antonio Vivaldi with a piece that feels both intimate and expressive—the Concerto for Two…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 174: The Four Seasons
In this episode of Busy Kids Love Music, we continue our three-part series on Antonio Vivaldi with a deep dive into one of the most famous pieces of classical…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 173: The Life of Antonio Vivaldi
  In this episode of Busy Kids Love Music, we begin a brand-new three-part composer series all about Antonio Vivaldi—one of the most famous composers of…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 172: Why Were So Many Women Composers Forgotten?
  March is Women’s History Month, and in this special episode of Busy Kids Love Music, we explore a powerful and important question: If women have been…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 171: Margaret Bonds
In our last episode, we explored the vibrant creativity of the Harlem Renaissance. Today, we zoom in on one extraordinary composer who stood right in the…
Busy Kids Love MusicEpisode 170: Music During the Harlem Renaissance
In this special Black History Month episode of Busy Kids Love Music, we travel back about 100 years to Harlem, New York—an exciting neighborhood overflowing…