Norma Jean Haynes - Make Music!: A Kids Guide to Creating Rhythm, Playing with Sound, and Conducting and Composing Music

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Location photography by Jared Leeds Photography

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Illustrations by Jessica Gibson

Wooden instrument construction by Tony Pisano

Score on page by Yeshe Gutschow Rai, age 10

Text 2019 Storey Publishing, LLC, except for additional musical text and creative teaching methods including Clock Music, Playing the Room, Paper Orchestra, and Soundscapes 2003 John Langstaff

Portions of this book previously appeared in Making Music by Ann Sayre Wiseman and John Langstaff (Storey Publishing, 2003).

The bar measurements on page are reprinted from Musical Instruments Made to Be Played by Ronald Roberts, published by Dryad Press, Woodridge, New Jersey. Storey Publishing was unable to locate the owner of the copyright and would welcome that persons contact information.

Ebook production by Kristy L. MacWilliams

Ebook version 1.0

April 30, 2019

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Music belongs to everyone.

Gunnar Schonbeck,
instrument inventor and teacher

If I could offer one piece of wisdom for the new musician and at age 21, I am a newish musician myself it would be this:

Just days after my 20th birthday, I heard the most incredible music wafting down the street in Paris, France. I followed the sound to an unmarked storefront, where a door swung open on friends laughing and eating around a table. A woman sang by a piano, and unfamiliar musical instruments hung on the walls: inflatable blue guitars and pointy, shimmery metal structures. My ears had led me to the studio of the Baschet brothers, two renowned inventors of musical instruments.

The friends saw me and invited me in. Hesitating, I asked myself a question, one that would reappear months later, when I was invited to contribute to this book:

Who makes the music in our world? Is it the conductor before a hushed orchestra? Is it the pop star with billions of YouTube views, or a mother rocking her baby to sleep with a lullaby? Maybe its the cat, wailing for his supper. Could it be you?

Oh no, not me Im not a musician!

For 20 years, Ann Wiseman and John Langstaffs book Making Music has insisted that music is expansive enough to include everyone. All that is required is the intent to listen.

Follow your ears! Our world is filled to the brim with sound: the murmur of talk radio, the tut-puddle-trickle-purrr of the coffeemaker, the ra-ra-ta-tum of the cash register. In the 21st century, we live in a constant soundscape, yet it is easy to take sound for granted, forgetting our right to participate. In Make Music! creative listening is a gateway to creative participation: we stop, we listen, we make our own contribution to the worlds orchestra.

Increasingly, music is recognized as a tool to collaborate and communicate across divides of culture and language, regardless of resources and materials available. In the new edition, Ive included stories and perspectives on how music is used in diverse communities as a part of daily life and work. I hope that you, your family, your students, and your friends might find the ways that it fits into yours.