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Toy
Symphony is an exciting new music-making project for kids. Using newly
designed Music Toys, you can learn to perform and compose music easily
and have a lot of fun, too! There are three Music Toys used for Toy
Symphony, and all are enhanced with technology so that you can learn
not only about the different aspects of music (melody, harmony, and
rhythm) but also how to write music and perform on a musical instrument
in an easy, fun way.
Toy
Symphony is a project that will travel to different cities, involving
local children and professional musicians in a week-long workshop
that ends in a concert performance. At the final concert, children
will play alongside professional musicians on stage, performing
music that has been written by children and professional composers.
To
learn more about the Music Toys, keep reading. We are developing
online versions of these toys right now, so that every kid can play
with them on their computers, whether at home or in the classroom.
Be sure to check back for them in the near future.
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Hold
a Beatbug in one hand and bang it with the other. Make any rhythm
you like, and the Beatbug will play it for you again and again. Now
you can bend
the antennae to change and improve your rhythm. When you feel you
are ready,
bang on the Beatbug and send your rhythm to a friend. Receive rhythms
from
other friends. You can improve them with your antennae, keep them
if you
like, or enter your own rhythm and send it away. This is fun because
you
never know when and what kind of rhythm you are going to get. The
more
friends your have to play with, the more fun it is to combine all
of your
rhythms into great rhythmic songs.
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The
Music Shapers are soft and squishy. They come in different shapes,
such as balls, pyramids, wheels, and even butterflies. When you squeeze
a Shaper you can influence and explore the music that it has inside.
You can also add your own music and change it as you play along. Different
colorful embroidered patterns around the Shapers show you where and
how to squeeze. You can squeeze any pattern that you like, squeeze
soft or squeeze hard, and the music will keep on changing. The more
you play, the more you can hear and understand what each pattern does.
This is where it really gets to be fun. In Toy Symphony you can even
use Musical Shapers to change and add to the music of other players,
such as flutists, clarinetists, and oboists, and perform with them
in a new composition that was written especially for this concert.
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HyperScore
is a colorful sketchpad that lets you draw musical ideas. You can
compose and listen to your own melodies in a special window and then
map these melodies to different colored pens. By drawing with these
pens,you can compose your own complete pieces of music, and by sketching
and stretching the lines in your drawing, you can continue to shape
and change your composition.
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