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How were these built?

All our experiments are all built with freely accessible web technology such as Web Audio API, WebMIDI, Tone.js, and more. These tools make it easier for coders to build new interactive music experiences. You can get the open-source code to lots of these experiments here on Github.

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Music is for everyone. Play with simple experiments that let anyone, of any age, explore how music works.

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BeepBox is an online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental music.

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Free online instrumental or voice lessons and jam tracks with pop/rock focus. (There are ukulele lessons!)

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Create your own opera with Google's experiment - Blob Opera!

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Create your own ML-powered opera song! by David Li with Google Arts & Culture

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Take an e-field trip with Mr. Wendt and learn about the King of Instruments! (15 min. video)

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Online Musical Games

Starting June 1, 2022 this page will automatically redirect to the new games page.

Play the Strings & Woodwinds

Click on each instrument below to hear it play. Once you've explored, take our fun quiz to see if you can match the instrument with its sound - or save the quiz for another day and keep listening to your heart's content!

Musical Memory

Play this fun memory game online right now or print a downloadable version here to play at home. You can also purchase them on our merch store to have a beautiful, packaged set mailed directly to you.

Play the Brass & Percussion

Click on each instrument below to hear it play. Once you've explored, take our fun quiz to see if you can match the instrument with its sound - or save the quiz for another day and keep listening to your heart's content!

Compose With Us Now

Check out this easy composition game that will have you creating new music in no time! When you're done composing, click "share" to get a link you can send to friends. Click to share it with us as well - you just might get to hear your very own composition performed by professional musicians in a special project we're working on!

*If your composition won't play back for you, give it a try in full-screen mode.

Online Rhythm Composer

Get creative with our online rhythm composition activity to compose your own rhythm pieces at home.
Going Further

1. Play along with your music as you play it back.

2. Practice with the recording until you're able to play it on your own.

3. Give your piece a title and write words that go along with the rhythms.

Music Maps

Music Maps are great advanced listening tools for kids to work on independently from elementary school and up. Depending on the age of your kid(s), they're likely already familiar with the concept of story maps - visual representations of what happens in a story, from beginning to end. We've put our own musical spin on it with Music Maps. Music Maps will ask your child to focus and be attentive to what they're hearing as they map out the progression of the music. Here's how it works:

1. Press play to listen to the piece of music. Listen once through before starting the music maps activity.

2. Drag and drop the tiles, each depicting different music events, to reorder them in the order that they happen in the music.

3. When you think you have the order correct, click "Check My Music Map" to find out.

What's Musical Bingo?

Musical Bingo is a fun way to help learners young and old to recognize the sounds of the instruments. Your musical ears will really be put to the test as you work towards being able to shout out BINGO in victory!

Musical Bingo is the same as regular Bingo, except instead of marking off the numbers that someone calls out, you'll listen to music samples and mark off the instruments you hear. If you want to train your ear a little more before you play, head over to our blog posts about the string and woodwind and brass and percussion families to listen to every instrument one by one.

Play Online

Pick the Parts

To help kids understand how musicians work alone and as a team, we have an interactive activity with some of our wonderful musicians playing from home at your command!

You can turn the sound and videos of each musician on and off by clicking on them.

Listen to what parts different instruments play and how they work together.

Try as many combos as you like!

NOTE ON TECHNOLOGY: Please use Google Chrome for this activity. Since Apple will only allow one video to play at a time on an Apple device, visit this page from a non-Apple device to do the interactive activity. If you are on an Apple device, you'll still have access to the full performance video.

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Starting June 1, 2022 this page will automatically redirect to the new games page. Click on each instrument below to hear it play. Once you've explored, take our fun quiz to see if you can match the instrument with its sound - or save the quiz for another day and keep listening to your heart's content!

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'Trombone Shorty' read by Angela Bassett

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Games and More

Music not only has the power to stimulate the mind, enrich the heart and soothe the soul; it can help children to think more creatively, develop craftsmanship and discipline and learn the value of excellence.

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Games and MoreMusic not only has the power to stimulate the mind, enrich the heart and soothe the soul; it can help children to think more creatively, develop craftsmanship and [...]

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Painting with Music: "Trepak" (Russian Dance) from the Nutcracker!

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Painting with Music: "Trepak" (Russian Dance) from the Nutcracker!

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...but might not. Check out this playlist. Do you know any of these? Are there songs you would add to this playlist? Is there a song you know (but your friends do not) that you wish others would know, too? Let me know!

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Music that will inspire you to... dance... learn... play... wiggle...?? ENJOY!

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Westville Senior Primary School Marimba Videos - Chariots of Fire

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Westville Senior Primary School Marimba Videos - Chariots of Fire

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Check out these kids playing marimba (a lot like our xylophones)

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Westville Senior Primary School A' Marimba - Chariots of Fire 2023

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Westville Senior Primary School A' Marimba 2023 - Punju & Brother Rabbit

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#togetherathome Concert Series

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Charlie Puth - #TogetherAtHome Concert Series

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Westville Senior Primary School A' Marimba 2023 - Better Together

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Symphony Storytime • "Because" featuring the viola

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Symphony Storytime • "Llama Llama Red Pajama" featuring the English horn

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2nd Graders share what they learned about various musicians!

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A collection of Motown information, curated by music students and teachers of Winnetka!

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Check out these musical games the DSO has put together!

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Enjoy fun and educational games to learn more about instruments, composers and more!

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Music to inspire a visual masterpiece.  Choose your music, choose your art medium (pencil, crayon, etc) and draw what you hear.

Instructions here as well as my "Draw What You Hear" playlists.

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The Music in George's Head

Fun activities for the whole family: View the Preparatory Guide "

Get ready for some razzmatazz with The Music in George's Head! Filmed in Orchestra Hall, this virtual program brings to life a whimsical picture book biography of George Gershwin written by Chicago author Suzanne Slade with illustrations by Stacy Innerst. It features narration by Chicago jazz legend Kurt Elling and a 2015 CSO recording of Rhapsody in Blue conducted by Marin Alsop with Jon Kimura Parker as soloist. PERFECT FOR AGES 7-12

Program

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

Performers

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Jon Kimura Parker piano
Kurt Elling narrator

Video production by Theremedia-Chicago

Sponsors

Support for Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association programming for children and families is provided by Abbott Fund, John Hart and Carol Prins, Kinder Morgan, PNC, Megan and Steve Shebik, Michael and Linda Simon, the Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust and an anonymous family foundation.

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Fun activities for the whole family: View the Preparatory Guide " Get ready for some razzmatazz with The Music in George's Head! Filmed in Orchestra Hall, this virtual program brings to life a whimsical picture book biography of George Gershwin written by Chicago author Suzanne Slade with illustrations by Stacy Innerst.

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Make a CHROMATIC scale using water glasses and play along with Led Zeppelin! Check out Mr. Wendt's how-to video!

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Creatability Experiments with Google (K-4)

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Creatability Experiments with Google (K-4)

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More interesting sound explorations, like playing a xylophone with your nose!

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Since 2009, coders have created thousands of amazing experiments using Chrome, Android, AI, WebVR, AR and more. We're showcasing projects here, along with helpful tools and resources, to inspire others to create new experiments.

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Learn how to make your OWN rhythm clip and loop it in Garageband!

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Symphony Storytime • "Drum Dream Girl" featuring the timpani and percussion

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Celebrating Luther Vandross's 70th Birthday.

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Celebrating Luther Vandross's 70th Birthday

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Ready to level up in Garageband? Check out how to add some advanced DETAILS to your work!

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During Black History Month, we highlight musicians and their incredible impact on our world.

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Presto! The Case of the Vanishing Viola (2-4)

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Presto! The Case of the Vanishing Viola (2-4)

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Musicians from the Kennedy Center present this 30-minute performance about magic and music!

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Do you have Garageband at home?  Check out Mr. Wendt's Live Loops demo to learn how to arrange your own mix!

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Incredibox Digital Beatbox Arranger (2-4)

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Incredibox Digital Beatbox Arranger (2-4)

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Form is how music is put together. It’s the beginning, middle, and end. Compose music in Incredibox that:

1. Has  “layering in” to start

2. Has an interesting/surprise moment in the middle

3. Has a satisfying ending that makes the song feel finished

Click the picture to go to Incredibox

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Explore the music of Beethoven in Germany with this interactive website!

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Symphony Orchestra Virtual Field Trip (K-3)

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Symphony Orchestra Virtual Field Trip (K-3)

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Join the New World Symphony for this orchestra virtual field trip that is under 10 minutes long!

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Calm your brain and body down with a breathing warmup before watching My Magic Breath, found in Musical Story Time.

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Music Inspired by the Message of MLK Jr.

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Music Inspired by the Message of MLK Jr.

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This 3-part lesson included music to inspire you to think about 3 things.

Unity (song video - United)

Peace (song audio - Plea for Peace here)

Love (song video - Love is All)

We Shall Overcome song video here

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Listen to Rhapsody in Blue as it is animated by Disney in Fantasia 2000.

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The Music in George's Head

Fun activities for the whole family: View the Preparatory Guide "

Get ready for some razzmatazz with The Music in George's Head! Filmed in Orchestra Hall, this virtual program brings to life a whimsical picture book biography of George Gershwin written by Chicago author Suzanne Slade with illustrations by Stacy Innerst. It features narration by Chicago jazz legend Kurt Elling and a 2015 CSO recording of Rhapsody in Blue conducted by Marin Alsop with Jon Kimura Parker as soloist. PERFECT FOR AGES 7-12

Program

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

Performers

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Jon Kimura Parker piano
Kurt Elling narrator

Video production by Theremedia-Chicago

Sponsors

Support for Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association programming for children and families is provided by Abbott Fund, John Hart and Carol Prins, Kinder Morgan, PNC, Megan and Steve Shebik, Michael and Linda Simon, the Walter and Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust and an anonymous family foundation.

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Fun activities for the whole family: View the Preparatory Guide " Get ready for some razzmatazz with The Music in George's Head! Filmed in Orchestra Hall, this virtual program brings to life a whimsical picture book biography of George Gershwin written by Chicago author Suzanne Slade with illustrations by Stacy Innerst.

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Learn about music and play games with your favorite PBS KIDS characters like Elmo, Arthur, the Cat in the Hat and Daniel Tiger!

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Learn about music and play games with your favorite PBS KIDS characters like Elmo, Arthur, Pinkalicious, and Daniel Tiger!

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Create a Space Soundscape using Garageband!

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Using Vivaldi's "Autumn" from Four Seasons as inspiration, create your own musical composition using the sounds of autumn.

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An animated tribute to Freddie and the music of Queen.

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Freddie Mercury's 65th Birthday #GoogleDoodle

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Learn about the man who invented the piano!! It was called a pianoforte back then, because it was the FIRST keyboard to play soft and loud because of Cristofori's invention of the HAMMER.

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You may have never heard of Bartolomeo Cristofori, but you definitely know his invention. Cristofori was an Italian musical instrument maker credited with inventing the pianoforte, or: the piano. One of his biggest innovations was creating a hammer mechanism that struck the strings on a keyboard to create sound. The use of a hammer made it possible to produce softer or louder sounds depending upon how light or hard a player pressed on the keys. In fact, that's how Cristofori's new instrument got its name -- in Italian, piano means soft, while forte means loud. Being able to change the volume was a major breakthrough. And that's exactly what Doodler Leon Hong wanted to highlight in this interactive Doodle. We talked to Hong to get the inside scoop on how this musical Doodle came to be.
Though the piano is one of the most popular instruments, the name Bartolomeo Cristofori isn't widely known. How did you first learn of him?
The topic was first suggested by the Google team in Italy. I was also astonished I had never heard of him given that he'd had such a large impact on music. We're always trying to find topics that are educational, fun, and surprising - Cristofori is an ideal topic. Hopefully after the doodle, people will think of Cristofori everytime they see a piano.
What music is playing in the doodle ? How did you go about recording it?
The melody is from Johann Sebastian Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. It was important to me to have a piece that was from the same time period as Cristofori's life. In addition, I was also looking for a memorable tune composed of notes with all the same duration so it would fit nicely with the animations. The timing and loudness had to be precise and consistent so I plotted the notes using software and rendered the sound files with a virtual piano instrument.
Can you walk us through your process for creating this doodle?
It began with several sketches on paper after a round of research. For this particular doodle, everybody knows what a piano looks and sounds like so it was difficult to think of simple concepts that could be both educational and visually delightful to a large audience. For some reason when I first came up with the idea of a volume control slider labelled with 'piano' and 'forte' it made me chuckle. It stuck and I began fleshing out the details soon after.
What was the biggest challenge?
Besides deadlines (it's difficult to change someone's birthday), this doodle was enjoyable to work on. Creating the animations and music was a fun and educational experience for me. It was probably much more challenging for Corrie Scalisi, our engineer, to take the code I had written and make it bug-free and work on different browsers.
What is your favorite part about the finished doodle?
My favorite part of the doodle is the animation of Cristofori playing when the volume is set on forte. If I had more time I would have put even more bounce to his bottom. I hope people decide to do more research after playing with the doodle and learn more about him.
Which musicians do you think we'll be celebrating with a doodle in 360 years?
I would say Bob Moog, but we've already celebrated him! There are lots of new exciting electronic keyboard instruments coming out these days, such as the Seaboard and Continuum, which are even more expressive than traditional pianos. Maybe one day such devices will be as ubiquitous as the piano.
You can check out Cristoforo's original pianos at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Google Cultural Institute or at the museum in New York City, at the Museo Strumenti Musicali in Rome, and at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum of Leipzig University in Germany.

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Bartolomeo Cristofori, inventor of the piano, was born 360 years ago today! #GoogleDoodle

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Learn about the Theramin - the world's first electronic music maker!

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Learn to play the theremin with Clara Rockmore! #GoogleDoodle

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Listen to Clair de Lune and watch how the lights show the rhythm & melody.

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Claude Debussy’s 151st Birthday #GoogleDoodle

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A super short music video using his music to honor what would have been his 70th birthday.

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John Lennon's 70th Birthday #GoogleDoodle

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This is from 2015 - his 245th birthday.

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Even when you're the preeminent musical genius of your generation, sometimes you just step in it. So begins Beethoven's trip to the symphony hall in today's musical puzzle, which Leon Hong created in collaboration with artist Nate Swinehart and engineers Jonathan Shneier and Jordan Thompson. It happens that our story isn't much of a stretch in the broader context of Ludwig van Beethoven's life, which saw more than its share of rotten luck.

Ludwig's father, a middling singer in the Elector's court and a man too often in his cups, pulled the precocious child out of school at the age of ten in hopes of earning some money on the shoulders of his talent (as a result, his handwriting was so bad that musicologists still struggle to authenticate his signature). He lost two siblings prematurely, had to assume full responsibility for his family as a teenager, fell madly for unrequiting lovers twice, and, most famously, began losing his hearing at the peak of his career.

Despite all of this, Beethoven's music prevailed. As Mozart reputedly said, "one day, [that boy] will give the world something to talk about." That he certainly did. Sure, he may have raised his voice a few times, but he could overwhelm his friends with excessive kindness and generosity just the same. And while his romances brought him more anguish than happiness, would we have Für Elise or Moonlight Sonata if they hadn't?

It's unclear when Beethoven was actually born, but December 17th marks the 245th anniversary of his baptism. Today provided us a rare opportunity to construct a game in step with beautiful music, whose evocative moods, drama, lightness, and depth made conjuring visuals to match it rollickingly fun. Here's to one of history's greatest artists, and to hoping that, wherever you happen to be traveling this holiday, your life's work isn't eaten by a horse.

Engineers: Jordan Thompson, Jonathan Shneier, Kris Hom, Charlie Gordon

Design Lead: Leon Hong

Animatics/Additional Art: Nate Swinehart

Piano Recordings: Tim Shneier

Production: Gregory Capuano

Mulling over ideas for puzzle structure

The evening's first misstep

Moonlight Sonata before a dip in the Rhine

At last, the crescendo

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Celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven's 245th Year Doodle - Google Doodles

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Learn about the history of Hip Hop through this Google Doodle that includes an introduction to DJing and a DJ board you can use right here!

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Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons (K-1)

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Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons (K-1)

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Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

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Using the music that your family listens to, make a playlist for two different parts of your day (for example, a playlist for dinner and a playlist for a dance party). Post your playlist (a screenshot, example above) in SeeSaw for us to check out!

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Learn about composers, play musical games and more!

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Welcome Back! Classics for Kids has returned with our new Fun Facts videos, worksheets and lesson plans!https://youtu.be/7BjOMa7NvzIFun Facts: Marian Andersen https://youtu.be/OBnHXKNDqXUFun Facts: Yo-Yo Ma Explore More Composers Learn More Worksheets [...]

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Take any poem or simple rhyming story you have at home and turn it into Hip-Hop!

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🎤🎶 Wes Tank Raps Fox in Socks 🎶🎤 | @DrSeuss | Songs | Cartoons For Kids

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Make your own beats by clicking on this drumset!

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Hybrid drum kit, made up of acoustic drums and electronic pads, for Hip hop drummers

Hip hop music and movement was born in the poor districts of New York by Afro-American and Latin teenagers in the 70's.

In Hip hop music the drums beats play a fundamental role in the arrangement of the songs, drum tracks are usually played by electronic instruments or plug-ins, often with samples of drumming beats and drum fills taken from songs that belong to the Rhythm'n'Blues and Funk tradition. However some Hip hop bands include a drummer in their lineup for live performances. When drummers play Hip hop drums beats live, they focus on the groove and drum sounds, sometimes using all-electronic drums or adding some electronic pads to their acoustic drum kit, just like this music making game with which you can play your Hip hop beats with a drum kit with electronic pads.
You can create your own Hip hop beats for drums online in real time, or play the virtual drum kit along with your favorite Hip hop songs using your PC keyboard and pressing the keys corresponding to the drum kit elements: snare, kick, toms, hi hat, cymbals and electronic pads.
If you want to build your own custom drums, you can also choose color, sounds and even additional percussion, so you'll have the best setup for your favorite music genre.

Click on the keys button from the main game menu to set the keys, click sounds if you want to adjust the volume of the virtual drum kit elements. Sounds and key settings are different for each music making game.
Hip hop drums and all other virtual drum kits require JavaScript to be enabled in your browser.

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Virtual Drumming is a hub for drum games where you can play Hip hop beats with the virtual drum kits of the best drummers. Free PC drumming games

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Check out this Google Doodle and learn about this beautiful instrument, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.

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Celebrating Mbira Doodle - Google Doodles

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Kindergarten focuses on sound opposites through the year. Check out this lesson on same and different!

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Want to work at reading rhythms?  Grab some found objects as instruments and play along!  (Click on the picture below)
Kinders:  Can you play one of the rhythms in the video?
1st & 2nd:  How many rhythms can you play?
2nd: You can play in layers with your family, too!  You can learn more about rhythm reading in the Visual Musical Minds series:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjUxQg9cHiOYqaRdtZ6pfoQ

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Rhythm Builder #1: Drum, Cow Bell, Maraca, Claves, Guiro

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Using the inspiration of dancer Lil Buck, create your own musical movement piece.

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Clips is a free app for your iPad.  After you download the app from the app store, take a short clip of something in your house and add a soundtrack you think best fits the action.  Don't have a pet? Take a video of a plant or something else that might have an interesting MOOD to work with. No people, please. Check out this quick-and-easy video of my fish.

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Take an e-field trip with Mr. Wendt and learn about the King of Instruments! (15 min. video)

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Join Mr. Novello & Mr. Wendt in singing this classic Irish Folk Song and add your own verse at the end!

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Westville Senior Primary School A' Marimba 2023 - Mr Williams

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From materials around the house, make an instrument.  Form a family Recycled Materials Band.

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DIY Musical Instruments for Kids | Make Your Own Musical Instruments at Home

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Learn about musicians and music.

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In BrainPOP’s Arts & Music movies, you’ll learn how folks use words, music, and images to express themselves! Plus, meet some famous artists and see their work.

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Creating a story with music.  Use movement to tell the story of "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks."

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Mister Henry's Music World YouTube Channel

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Mister Henry's Music World YouTube Channel

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A music education video channel that breaks down musical elements for kids!

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Hello and Welcome to Mr. Henry’s Music World YouTube Channel! Thank you so much for visiting. I’m an elementary general music teacher and video creator offering music teachers access to high-quality, engaging, and fun videos... to ultimately make life a little easier for teachers... and a whole lo…

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Line Rider-Hall of the Mountain King (1-4)

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Line Rider-Hall of the Mountain King (1-4)

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Follow the lines of the listening maps to understand a classic piece of music deeper! (click on the picture below) Check out Doodle Chaos for more visualized music here:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnVimh35ecf46P_Bt-2AArg

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Want to know the letter names of the lines and spaces? Understand the staff more? Here's a TED talk about it.

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Use drama & music to bring one of the 3 paintings below to life.  Look at the characters. Who are they? Are there characters you think might not be in the actual painting? Create a beginning, middle and end to a story you think is happening in the artwork.  Then act out your story and add orchestration.  Can you make up music with your found sound instruments to help the actions of the story?  Walking?  Running?  Raining?  What sounds will you make to help bring the painting to life?

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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884

Date:

1884/86

Artist:

Georges Seurat
French, 1859-1891

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About this artwork

In his best-known and largest painting, Georges Seurat depicted people from different social classes strolling and relaxing in a park just west of Paris on La Grande Jatte, an island in the Seine River. Although he took his subject from modern life, Seurat sought to evoke the sense of timelessness associated with ancient art, especially Egyptian and Greek sculpture. He once wrote, "I want to make modern people, in their essential traits, move about as they do on those friezes, and place them on canvases organized by harmonies of color."

Seurat painted A Sunday on La Grande Jatte-1884 using pointillism, a highly systematic and scientific technique based on the hypothesis that closely positioned points of pure color mix together in the viewer's eye. He began work on the canvas in 1884 (and included this date in the title) with a layer of small, horizontal brushstrokes in complementary colors. He next added a series of dots that coalesce into solid and luminous forms when seen from a distance. Sometime before 1889 Seurat added a border of blue, orange, and red dots that provide a visual transition between the painting's interior and the specially designed white frame, which has been re-created at the Art Institute.

Status

On View, Gallery 240

Department

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist

Georges Seurat

Title

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

1884-1886

Medium

Oil on canvas

Inscriptions

Inscribed at lower right: Seurat

Dimensions

207.5 × 308.1 cm (81 3/4 × 121 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1926.224

IIIF Manifest

https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/27992/manifest.json

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Jules Christophe, Georges Seurat (Paris, 1890).

Gustave Kahn, "Seurat," L'Art Moderne 11 (April 5, 1891), pp. 107-10.

Henry van de Velde, "Georges Seurat," La Wallonie 6 (March/April 1891), pp. 167-71.

Emile Verhaeren, "Mort de Georges Seurat," La Nation (April 1, 1891).

Emile Verhaeren, "Georges Seurat," La Société nouvelle (April 30, 1891), pp. 430-38.

Téodor de Wyzewa, "Georges Seurat," L'Art dans les Deux Mondes 22 (April 18, 1891), pp. 263-64.

Jules Christophe, "Seurat," La Plume (September 1, 1891).

Paul Signac, D'Eugène Delacroix au néo-impressionnisme (Paris, 1899).

Emile Verhaeren, "Georges Seurat," L'Art Moderne 15, 13 (April 1, 1900), p. 104.

Thadée Natanson, "Un Primitif d'aujourd'hui: Georges Seurat," La Revue Blanche 21 (April 1900), pp. 610-14.

Emile Verhaeren, "Notes: Georges Seurat," La Nouvelle Revue Française 1 (February 1, 1909), p. 92.

Roger Fry, "The Post-Impressionsists," in Manet and the Post-Impressionists, exh. cat. (Grafton Galleries, London, 1910-11), pp. 8-9.

Lucie Cousturier, "Georges Seurat," L'Art Décoratif 27 (20 June 1912), pp. 357-72.

Elie Faure, Les Constructeurs (Paris, 1914).

Félix Féneon, "Georges Seurat," Bulletin de la Vie Artistique 7 (14 May 1914); reprinted in Félix Fénéon, Oeuvres plus que complètes, ed. Joan Halperin (Geneva, 1970), pp. 293-94.

Roger Bissière, "Notes sur l'art de Seurat," L'Esprit Nouveau 1 (Oct. 1920), pp. 13-28.

André Salmon, "Georges Seurat," The Burlington Magazine 37 (September 1920), pp. 115-22.

Roger Fry, "Retrospect" in Vision and Design (London, 1920), pp. 188-199.

Lucie Cousturier, Seurat (Paris, 1921), p. 17, pl. 11.

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André Salmon, Propos d'atelier (Paris, 1922).

André Lhote, Georges Seurat (Rome, 1922), pl. 4.

André Lhote, "Seurat" in Parlons peinture, 1922; reprinted in Ecrits sur la peinture (Brussels, 1946).

Walter Pach, "Georges Seurat (1853-1891)," The Arts 3 (March 1923), pp. 160-74.

Walter Pach, Georges Seurat (New York, 1923), pl. 6.

Gustave Coquiot, Seurat (Paris, 1924), pp. 214-19, ill. opp. p. 216, 247.

Félix Fénéon, "Précisions concernant Seurat," Bulletin de la Vie Artistique (15 August 1924); reprinted in Félix Fénéon, Oeuvres plus que complètes, ed. Joan Halperin (Geneva, 1970), pp. 467-68.

Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Georges Seurat, foreward by Walter Pach (New York, Brummer Galleries, 1924).

Guy Eglinton, "The Theory of Seurat," International Studio 81 (May 1925), pp. 113-17.

Félix Fénéon, "Georges Seurat und die oeffentliche Meinung," Der Querschnitt 6 (October 1926), pp. 767-70.

Roger Fry, "Georges Seurat," The Dial 1926, reprinted in R. Fry, Transformations, Critical and Speculative Essays on Art, 1926, pp. 188-96 and Sir Anthony Blunt, Seurat (1965), pp. 9-22.

Amédée Ozenfant, "Seurat," Cahiers d'Art 7 (September 1926), p. 172.

Florent Fels, "La Peinture française aux XIXe et Xxe siècles, Seurat," A.B.C. Magazine d'Art (1927), pp. 282-87.

André Lhote, "Expositions Seurat et Roger de la Fresnaye," (1927); reprinted in La Peinture, Le Coeur et l'Esprit (Paris, 1933).

Claude Roger-Marx, "Georges Seurat," Gazette des Beaux-Arts (December 1927), pp. 311-18.

Christian Zervos, "Un Dimanche à la Grande Jatte et la technique de Seurat," Cahiers d'Art 9 (1928), pp. 361-75.

Alfred Barr, The Museum of Modern Art First Loan Exhibition New York November 1929; Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, New York 1929), pp. 23-27.

Robert Rey, "Seurat," in La Peinture française à la fin du XIXe siècle, La Renaissance du Sentiment Classique, Degas, Renoir, Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat (Paris, 1931), pp. 95-134.

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F. Walter, "Du Paysage Classique au surréalisme: Seurat," Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne 63 (April 1933), pp. 165-76.

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Lévy-Gutmann, "Seurat et ses amis," Art et Décoration 63 (Jan. 1934), pp. 36-37.

Paul Signac, "Le néo-impressionisme," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 11 (January 1934), pp. 49-59.

Daniel Catton Rich, Seurat and the Evolution of "La Grande Jatte" (Chicago, 1935).

Meyer Schapiro, "Seurat and "La Grande Jatte"," The Columbia Review 17 (November 1935), pp. 9-16.

A. Watt, "Art of Georges Seurat," Apollo 23 (March 1936), pp. 168-69.

J. Hélion, "Seurat as a predecessor," The Burlington Magazine 69 (July 1936), pp. 4-14.

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Georges Duthuit, "Seurat's System," The Listener 17, 421 (February 3, 1937), pp. 210-11.

D. Goldring, "London Art News: Seurat and His Contemporaries," London Studio 13 (April 1937), p. 219.

"Seurat," Apollo 32 (July 1940), pp. 11-12.

R. J. Goldwater, "Some Aspects of the Development of Seurat's Style," Art Bulletin 23 (June 1941), pp. 117-30.

Lionello Venturi, "The Art of Seurat," Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-Dec. 1944), pp. 421-30.

John Rewald, Georges Seurat (New York, 1946).

Georges Duthuit, "Georges Seurat, Voyant et physicien," Labyrinthe [Geneva] (December 1946).

Germain Seligman, The Drawings of Georges Seurat (New York, 1947).

André Lhote, Seurat (Paris, 1948).

André Lhote, "Le classicisme de Seurat; excerpts," Arts (June 18, 1948), p. 2.

Thadée Natanson, "L'Ecole de Seurat," in Peints à leur tour (Paris, 1948), pp. 121-29.

John Rewald, "Seurat: the meaning of the dots," Art News 48 (April 1949), pp. 24-27, 61-63.

Umbro Apollonio, "Disegni di Georges Seurat," in XXV Biennale di Venezia, Catalogo (Venice, 1950), pp. 175-79.

"Sunday at the Grande Jatte," Life 31 (July 23, 1951), pp. 60-64.

"Pointillism with Paint and Camera," Design 53 (March 1952), p. 141.

"Chicago's Fabulous Collectors" Art Institute Announces it will Get Treasures from their Homes," Life Magazine (October 27, 1952): 90.

John Rewald, "Seurat and His Friends," in Seurat and His Friends, exh. cat. (New York, Wildenstein, 1953).

Terence Mullaly, "Pointillists," Apollo 63 (June 1956), pp. 185-89.

D.C. Rich, ed., Seurat Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat. (Chicago, 1958).

D. C. Rich, "Place of Seurat," Art Institute Quarterly 52 (February 1958), pp. 1-5.

L. Katz, "Seurat: Allegory and Image," Arts 32 (April 1958), pp. 40-47.

Meyer Schapiro, "New Light on Seurat," Art News 57 (April 1958), pp. 22-24, 44-45, 52.

J. O. Kerr, "Seurat: the Silent Post-Impressionist," Studio 155 (May 1958), pp. 129-33.

Robert L. Herbert, "Seurat in Chicago and New York," The Burlington Magazine 100 (May 1958), pp. 146-155.

Robert L. Herbert, "Seurat and Jules Chéret," Art Bulletin 40 (June 1958), pp. 156-58.

William I. Homer, "Seurat's formative period: 1880-1884," Connoisseur 142 (September 1958), pp. 58-62.

Henri Dorra and John Rewald, Seurat (Paris, 1959), no. 139 (ill.).

Robert L. Herbert, "Seurat and Puvis de Chavannes," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 25 (October 1959), pp. 22-29.

Robert L. Herbert, "Seurat and Emile Verhaeren: Unpublished Letters," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 54 (December 1959), pp. 315-28.

César M. De Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre 2 vol. (Paris, 1961), no. 162.

John Russell, Seurat (London, 1965).

John House, "Meaning in Seurat's Figure Painting,"Art History 3, 3 (September 1980), pp. 345-56.

Richard Thomson, " 'Les Quat' Pattes': The Image of the Dog in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art," Art History 5 (September 1982), pp. 331-37.

Jeroen Stumpel, "The Grande Jatte, that patient tapestry," Simiolus 14 (1984), pp. 209-24.

Richard Thomson, Seurat (Oxford, 1985), pp. 97-126.

Richard R. Brettell, "The Bartletts and the 'Grande Jatte:' Collecting Modern Painting in the 1920s," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), pp. 103-113 (ill.).

Alan Lee, "Seurat and Science," Art History 10 (June 1987), pp. 203-26.

S. Hollis Clayson, "The Family and the Father: The Grande Jatte and its Absences,"

The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 14, 2 (1989), pp. 155-72.

Stephen F. Eisenman, "Seeing Seurat Politically," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 14, 2 (1989), pp. 211-21.

Mary Mathews Gedo, "The Grande Jatte as the Icon of a New Religion: A Psycho-Iconographic Interpretation," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 14, 2 (1989), pp. 223-37.

John House, "Reading the Grande Jatte, " The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 14, 2 (1989), pp. 115-31.

Linda Nochlin, "Seurat's Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 14, 2 (1989), pp. 133-53.

Richard Thomson, "The Grande Jatte: Notes on Drawing and Meaning," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 14, 2 (1989), pp. 181-97.

Michael Zimmerman, "Seurat, Charles Blanc, and Naturalist Art Criticism," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 14, 2 (1989), pp. 199-209.

Jean Claude Lebensztejn, Chahut (Paris, 1989).

Natasha Staller, "Babel: Hermetic Languages, Universal Languages, and Anti-Languages in fin de siècle Parisian Culture," Art Bulletin 76 (June 1994), pp. 331-54.

Fritz Novotny, Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1780-1880 (New Haven, 1995), p. 370.

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Jennifer A. Thompson, "Van Gogh and Close-up Techniques in 19th-century French Painting," Van Gogh: Up Close. Exh. cat. (Yale UP, 2012), p. 69.

Joseph J. Rishel, "Arcadia 1900," Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia Exh. cat (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012), p. 7, p. 48, p. 50, fig. 49.

Marije Velekoop, Van gogh at Work, exh. cat. (Brussels:Mercatorfonds, 2013), fig. 174.

Hélène Eisenberg and François Lespinasse, Peintres de la Seine (Rouen : Éditions des Falaises, 2013), 202 no. 86, 203 (color ill.).

Richard Kendall, Sjraar van Heugten, and Chris Stolwijk, Van Gogh and Nature exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), 96 fig. 67.

Michelle Foa, Georges Seurat: The Art of Vision (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), 63-87.

Gavin Parkinson, "Method and Poetry: Georges Seurat's Surrealist Dialectic," The Art Bulletin 99, no. 3 (Sept. 2017), pp. 126-27, 131-33, 145n70, 145n72, fig. 5, fig. 6 (detail).

Paris, Maison Dorée, 1, rue Laffitte, VIIIème Exposition de peinture, May 15-June 15, 1886, cat. 175.

Paris, Rue des Tuileries, IIème Exposition de la Société des Artistes Indépendants, August 21-September 21, 1886, cat. 353.

Brussels, Musée de l'Art Modern, IVe exposition annuelle de XX, February, 1887, cat. 1.

Paris, Pavillon de la Ville de Paris, VIIIème Exposition de la Société des Artistes Indépendants, March 19-April 27, 1892, cat. 1082.

Paris, 23 Boulevard des Italiens, Exposition de La Revue Blanche, Georges Seurat: Oeuvres peintes et dessinées, March 19-April 5, 1900, cat. 17.

Paris, Grandes Serres de la Ville de Paris (serre "B" de la Champs de la Reine, Aval-Alma), 21me Exposition de la Société des Artistes Indépendants. Éxposition Rétrospective Georges Seurat (1859-1891), 1905, cat. 18.

Paris, Galeries Bernheim-Jeune et Cie, Georges Seurat (1859-1891), December 14, 1908-January 9, 1909, cat. 58.

Paris, Galeries Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Georges Seurat, January 15-31, 1920, cat. 23.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Exhibition of Modern French Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, April-September, 1925, checklist no. 9.

Boston Art Club, Birch-Bartlett Collection of Modern French Paintings, December 9-16, 1925, checklist no. 26.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 370.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 324.

Art Institute of Chicago, Art of the United Nations, November 16, 1944-January 1, 1945, no cat. no.

Art Institute of Chicago, Seurat: Paintings and Drawings, January 16-March 7, 1958, cat. 101, traveled to New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Seurat: Paintings and Drawings, March 24-May 11, 1958.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300-1900, October 17-December 14, 1986, not included in the catalogue.

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago's Dream, A World's Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago 1893-1993, November 1-January 9, 1994, no cat. no, pl. 21.

Art Institute of Chicago, Seurat and the Making of 'La Grande Jatte,' June 16-September 19, 2004, cat. 80.

By descent to Mme. Seurat, the artist's mother (died 1899), Paris, 1891; by descent to Emile Seurat, the artist's brother; sold for 800 francs to Casimir Brû, Paris, 1900; given by him to his daughter, Lucie, Paris, 1900; Lucie Brû Cousturier and Edmond Cousturier, Paris; sold for $20,000 possibly through Charles Vildrac, Paris to Frederic Clay and Helen Birch Bartlett, Chicago, 1924; given to the Art Institute, 1926.

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On loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for Surrealism Beyond Borders

Time Transfixed

Date:

1938

Artist:

René Magritte
Belgian, 1898-1967

About this artwork

Impressed by René Magritte's submissions to the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition, the collector Edward James invited the artist to paint canvases for the ballroom of his London home. In response, Magritte conceived On the Threshold of Liberty (in the collection of the Art Institute) and his now-famous Time Transfixed. The artist later explained this picture: "I decided to paint the image of a locomotive... . In order for its mystery to be evoked, another immediately familiar image without mystery-the image of a dining room fireplace-was joined." The surprising juxtaposition and scale of unrelated elements, heightened by Magritte's precise realism, gives the picture its perplexity and allure. The artist transformed the stovepipe of a coal-burning stove into a charging locomotive, situating the train in a fireplace vent so that it appears to be emerging from a railway tunnel. Magritte was unhappy with the English translation of the original French, La durée poignardé, which literally means "ongoing time stabbed by a dagger." He hoped that the painting would be installed at the bottom of the collector's staircase so that the train would "stab" guests on their way up to the ballroom. Ironically, James installed it over his fireplace instead.

Status

On loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for Surrealism Beyond Borders

Department

Modern Art

Artist

René Magritte

Title

Time Transfixed

Origin

Belgium

Date

1938

Medium

Oil on canvas

Inscriptions

Signed, l.r.: "Magritte"

Dimensions

147 × 98.7 cm (57 7/8 × 38 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph Winterbotham Collection

Reference Number

1970.426

Copyright

© 2018 C. Herscovici, London / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Extended information about this artwork

L'Invention collective, no. 1 (February 1940), p. 4 (ill.).

Saturday Book v. 19 (1959), p. 284 (ill.).

James Thrall Soby, René Magritte (New York, 1965), p. 37 (ill.).

Patrick Waldberg, René Magritte, translated by Austryn Wainhouse (Brussels, 1965), p. 37 (ill.).

The Collections of the Tate Gallery (London, 1967), p. 162.

David Sylvester, Magritte (New York and Washington, 1969), pp. 2, 81 (ill.).

Simon Watson Taylor, "René Magritte and André Breton," Studio International, CLXXVII (February 1969) p. 69 (ill.).

Burlington Magazine, CXII (September 1970), p. lxxviii (ill.).

Arts Magazine, CXII (September 1970), ill.

"So Real Surrealism," The Detroit News (January 12, 1971), ill.

Anne D'Harnoncourt, "Acquisitions of Modern Art by Museums," Burlington Magazine, CXIV (February 1972), p. 123 (ill.).

José Vovelle, Le Surrealisme en Belgique (Brussels, 1972), p. 116 (ill.).

A. M. Hammacher, René Magritte, translated by James Brockway (New York, 1973), p. 114 (ill.).

Sarah Whitfield, Magritte (London: South Bank Centre, 1992), no. 155.

David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield, René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 (Houston: The Menil Foundation, 1993).

Magritte A bis Z, ed. Christoph Grunrmberg and Darren Pih, Exh. cat. (Alberina Publishing, 2012), p. 8, ill. 232, ill. 233, ill. 235, p. 259.

Magritte A to Z, ed. Christoph Grunenberg and Darren Pih, Exh. cat. (Tate Publishing, 2012), ill. 58, p. 59, 195, 204.

Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938, ed. Anne Umland, Exh. cat. (The Museum of Modern Art, 2013), ill. 223.

Didier Ottinger, Magritte : La trahison des images, exh. cat. (Centre Pompidou, 2016), pp. 39 (color ill.); 221.

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, René Magritte, May 13-24, 1939, cat. 2.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Réne Magritte, December 15, 1965-February 27, 1966, no. 38, p. 37 (ill.); traveled to Waltham, Massachusetts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, April 3-May 1, 1966; Chicago, Art Institute, May 30-July 3, 1966; Pasadena, Art Museum, August 1-September 4, 1966; Berkley, University Art Museum, October 1-November 1, 1966.

London, Tate Gallery, René Magritte, February 14-April 2, 1969, no. 62, p. 81 (ill.).

London, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Rene Magritte, May 19-August 2, 1992; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 9-November 22, 1992; Houston, Menil Collection, December 15, 1992-February 21, 1993; and Chicago, Art Institute, March 16-May 30, 1993.

Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique, Réne Magritte, March 6-June 28, 1998.

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, La Revolution Surrealiste, February 27-June 24, 2003; traveled to Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, July 20-November 24, 2002.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, René Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, December 10, 2006-March 4, 2007, pg. 146 (ill.).

Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960, September 13, 2008-January 18, 2009.

Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle, June 24, 2011-Febuary 26, 2012.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938, September 28, 2013-January 12, 2014, no. 126; traveled to Houston, The Menil Collection, February 14-June 1, 2014, and Chicago, Art Institute, June 24-October 13, 2014.

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Magritte, la trahison des images, September 21, 2016-January 23, 2017, no cat. no., Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Feb. 10-June 5, 2017 (Paris only).

The artist; sold to Edward James, London, by July 12, 1939 [letter from the artist to Edward James, July 12, 1939, Edward James Foundation, copy in curatorial file]; sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Oct. 28, 1970, lot 50, to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Nighthawks

Date:

1942

Artist:

Edward Hopper
American, 1882-1967

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About this artwork

About Nighthawks Edward Hopper recollected, "unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city." In an all-night diner, three customers sit at the counter opposite a server, each appear to be lost in thought and disengaged from one another. The composition is tightly organized and spare in details: there is no entrance to the establishment, no debris on the streets. Through harmonious geometric forms and the glow of the diner's electric lighting, Hopper created a serene, beautiful, yet enigmatic scene. Although inspired by a restaurant Hopper had seen on Greenwich Avenue in New York, the painting is not a realistic transcription of an actual place. As viewers, we are left to wonder about the figures, their relationships, and this imagined world.

Status

On View, Gallery 262

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Edward Hopper

Title

Nighthawks

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

1942

Medium

Oil on canvas

Inscriptions

signed l.r. "Edward Hopper"

Dimensions

84.1 × 152.4 cm (33 1/8 × 60 in.)

Credit Line

Friends of American Art Collection

Reference Number

1942.51

Extended information about this artwork

Gail Levin, "Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, Surrealism, and the War," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 22, 2 (1996), 180-95, fig. 1.

The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 85, ill.

Judith A. Barter et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), no. 133.

Nina Baym et al., eds., The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th edition (W. W. Norton & Company, 2012), ill.

Arthur Shimamura, Experiencing Art: In the Brain of the Beholder (Oxford University Press, 2013), 237 (ill.).

Derek Matravers, Introducing Philosophy of Art: In Eight Case Studies (Routledge, 2013), ill.

Duane Preble Emeritus et al., Prebles' Artforms, 11th edition (Pearson, 2013), 428, ill.

Robert Burleigh, Edward Hopper Paints His World (Henry Holt and Co., 2014), ill.

Steven Mintz, The Prime of Life: A History of Modern Adulthood (Belknap Press, 2015), ill.

Ramsay H. Slugg, Handbook of Practical Planning for Art Collectors and Their Advisors (ABA Book Publishing, 2015), ill.

Judith A. Barter, ed. America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2016), fig. 3, 178.

Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago, Highlights of the Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2017), 135.

Judith A. Barter, "Prolog: Eine neue Welt der Kunst" and Susanne Scharf, "Bilder von Amerika: Edward Hoppers Äesthetisierung des Alltäglichen," in Es war einmal in Amerika - 300 Jahre US-amerikanische Kunst [Once Upon a Time in America: Three Centuries of American Art], eds. Barbara Schaefer and Anita Hachmann (Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud/Wienand Verlag, 2018), 25, fig. 12 (ill.); 219, fig. 1 (ill.).

Charles Passy, "Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks' Gets 21st Century Makeover," The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 5, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/edward-hoppers-nighthawks-gets-21st-century-makeover-11607184000.

"The Defining Artworks of 2020," ARTnews, Dec. 9, 2020, https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/most-important-artworks-2020-1234578712/edward-hopper-nighthawks-1942, ill.

Hall W. Rockefeller, "A Rehang of Hopper's Iconic 'Nighthawks' Changes the Game," Hyperallergic, Mar. 23, 2022, https://hyperallergic.com/718667/a-rehang-of-edward-hopper-iconic-nighthawks-changes-the-game (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty-third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 29-Dec. 10, 1942, cat. 132.

Indianapolis, 1943.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty-fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 28-Dec. 12, 1943, cat. 15.

New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Hopper: Retrospective Exhibition, Feb. 11-Mar. 26, 1950, cat. 61, pl. 28; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Apr. 13-May 14, 1950; Detroit Institute of Arts, June 4-July 2, 1950.

New York City, Wildenstein, Loan Exhibition of Seventy Twentieth Century American Paintings, Feb. 21-Mar. 22, 1952, cat. 54.

Venice, Esposiazione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, June 14-Oct. 19, 1952, cat. 26.

Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959-Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].

Lake Forest College, Illinois.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Hopper, Sept. 29-Nov. 29, 1964, cat. 43; Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 18-Jan. 31, 1965.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Fifty Years of Modern Art, June 14-July 31, 1966, cat. 81.

New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist, Sept. 23, 1980-Jan. 18, 1981, cat. 386; London, Hayward Gallery, Feb. 11-Mar. 29, 1981 (separate catalogue, cat. 96), Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Apr. 22-June 17, 1981; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, July 10-Sept. 6, 1981; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 3-Nov. 29, 1981; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dec16, 1981-Feb. 14, 1982.

Essen, Germany, Museum Folkwang, Edward Hopper und die Fotografie: die Warheit des Sichtbaren (Edward Hopper and Photography: The Truth of the Real), June 28-Sept. 27, 1992, p. 63, ill.

London, Tate Modern, Edward Hopper, May 27-Sept. 5, 2004; Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Oct. 9, 2004-Jan. 9, 2005.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Oct. 3-Dec. 31, 2006.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Edward Hopper, May 6-Aug. 19, 2007; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Sept. 16, 2007-Jan. 21, 2008; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 16-May 11, 2008.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Edward Hopper, June 12-Sept. 16, 2012; Paris, Galeries nationales d'exposition du Grand Palais, Oct. 5, 2012-Jan. 28, 2013 (Paris only).

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Edward Hopper Drawings, May 23-Oct. 6, 2013; Dallas Museum of Art, Nov. 17, 2013-Feb. 16, 2014; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Mar. 15-June 22, 2014 (New York only).

Art Institute of Chicago, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, Nov. 10, 2013-Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 28; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22-May 18, 2014.

Shanghai Museum, Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865-1945, Sept. 28, 2018-Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 71.

Edward Hopper (1882-1967), 1942; consigned to Frank Rehn Galleries, 1942; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.

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