Google Doodles in Music!
August 1973 is when Hip Hop Music began! Check out this interactive Google Doodle to learn about this style of music, and try your hand at laying down some beats!
Beethoven's music is here to stay! Although he lived 250+ years ago, his music is still heard and played today. Check out this interactive Google Doodle and see if you can recreate the musical puzzles to play some of his most famous melodies. I bet you've heard music by Ludwig van Beethoven! https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-ludwig-van-beethovens-245th-year
Celebrating Tito Puente - https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-tito-puente
Tito Puente was a percussionist, composer, songwriter, recording artist, and bandleader. With a career spanning five decades, he is often referred to as “El Rey de los Timbales” and “The King of Latin music.”
Celebrate Steel Pan Music - https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-steelpan
The steelpan is now the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago, and is a source of great pride and true resilience for its citizens.
Celebrating Amanda Aldridge - https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-amanda-aldridge
British composer, teacher and opera singer Amanda Aldridge released over thirty songs and dozens of instrumental tracks under the pseudonym Montague Ring. Aldridge composed love songs, sambas, and orchestral pieces into her old age, garnering international attention for her fusion of musical styles. At 88, Aldridge appeared for the first time on television on the British show “Music for You,” introducing a new generation to her classic compositions.
Celebrate Tim Bergling aka Avicii - https://www.google.com/doodles/tim-berglings-32nd-birthday
Whether blaring from speakers of a music festival mainstage or into the headphones of millions of listeners worldwide, the music of Swedish superstar DJ, producer, songwriter, and humanitarian Tim Bergling—known best by his stage name Avicii—is widely considered to have forever altered the trajectory of the Pop genre.
Celebrate Swing Dancing and the Savoy Ballroom - https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-swing-dancing-and-the-savoy-ballroom
Celebrate swing dancing and the Savoy Ballroom—an iconic Swing Era dance hall that thrived from the 1920s to 50s in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood.
Celebrate the Ukulele and the music of Hawaii - https://www.google.com/doodles/israel-kamakawiwooles-61st-birthday
Celebrate the 61st birthday of native Hawaiian `ukulele player, singer-songwriter, and activist Israel “IZ™” Kamakawiwo`ole, who is perhaps best known for touching the world with his beloved rendition of “Over the Rainbow” and forever changing the face of Hawaiian music. Through his joyful songs and lifelong advocacy for the islands’ values and culture, Kamakawiwo`ole has been widely referred to as the “Voice of Hawai`i.”
Mr. Rogers shared his love for music and children to teach children https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-mister-rogers
Mr. Rogers learned to play piano before he was 5, and studied music composition in college! He composed and wrote the lyrics for most of the music on his show.
Play the mbira! https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-mbira
Zimbabwe’s national instrument is the mbira. Try your own hand at this instrument that has been played for over 1,000 years, while experiencing a story as told through the lens of a Zimbabwean girl who learns to play the mbira.
Celebrate Leonard Bernstein! https://www.google.com/doodles/leonard-bernsteins-100th-birthday
Happy 100th birthday (1918) to American music icon Leonard Bernstein! The youngest conductor ever to lead the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, he was also the first U.S. conductor to gain international renown.
Celebrate the PIANO! https://www.google.com/doodles/bartolomeo-cristoforis-360th-birthday
Celebrate Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the rock band Queen. https://www.google.com/doodles/freddie-mercurys-65th-birthday
Harmonica! Celebrate Toots Thieleman, who played harmonica, guitar and whistled professionally! https://www.google.com/doodles/toots-thielemans-100th-birthday
Fanny Hensel (Mendelsohn) https://www.google.com/doodles/fanny-hensels-216th-birthday
Fanny Hensel is widely considered one of the most important woman composers of the 19th century.
Clara Rockmore - best known for playing the Theremin - an instrument you don't touch! https://www.google.com/doodles/clara-rockmores-105th-birthday
Les Paul - famed guitarist, electric guitar maker, and innovative recording techniques. https://www.google.com/doodles/les-pauls-96th-birthday
Celebrate the music of John Lennon! https://www.google.com/doodles/john-lennons-70th-birthday
Celebrate Bedrich Smetana's music! https://www.google.com/doodles/bedrich-smetanas-195th-birthday
Robert Moog, the inventor of the Moog Synthesizer. https://www.google.com/doodles/robert-moogs-78th-birthday
In the mid-1960s, Dr. Robert Moog unleashed a new universe of sounds into musicdom with his invention of the electronic analog Moog Synthesizer. The timbre and tones of these keyboard instruments (true works of art in and of themselves) would come to define a generation of music, featuring heavily in songs by The Beatles, The Doors, Stevie Wonder, Kraftwerk and many others.
Celebrate German composer Johann Sebastian Bach - https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-johann-sebastian-bach
Celebrate with Mariachi music! https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-mariachi
Mariachi is typically characterized by a small group of musicians dressed in traditional clothing who perform a wide repertoire of Mexican songs on mostly stringed instruments (the term Mariachi can refer to either the music or the musicians themselves).
Claude Debussy - https://www.google.com/doodles/claude-debussys-151st-birthday
One of the most influential composers of all time!
Clara Rockmore - most famous performer on the THERAMIN!
Learn about Clara Rockmore and discover how to play the theramin without ever touching it!
Try the lessons, and then go on to create your own tunes using hand gestures to control the sounds on a theramin!