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Summer 2025

Summer 2025

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  • Discover Movie Music
  • Explore The Movie Score: From Concept to Final Cut
  • Play 2025 Composition Contest Winning Scores
  • Share 5 Questions with a Film Composer
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Create a Comic Strip for Burgmüller’s “Ballade”

Includes a drawing page and a copy of the score!

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100-Point Practice Chart

How will you get to 100?

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New Music: Movie Soundtrack: Composition Competition Winners

Piano Inspires Kids Composition Contest Winner and Runner-up Scores.

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  • Discover: The Art of Foley: Become a Junior Sound Designer!
  • Explore: The Power of a Soundtrack
  • Play: Summer Practice Challenge: Reaching 100 with Piano Inspires Kids!
  • Share: The Composer Behind the Soundtrack

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Spring 2025

Discover how we hear, explore the history of recorded music, play new music by Kevin Olson, and share how to protecting our ears.

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Winter 2025

Discover nature inspirations in music, explore pianos now and then, play new music by V. Jessica Sparvier-Wells, and more in the Winter 2025 issue!

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Autumn 2024

Discover the art of improvisation, explore masters of improvisation, play your own music with improvisation, and share how you like to improvise.

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Summer 2024

Discover the connection between music and athletes from around the world! Our 2024 competition contest winners have been published here.

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Winter 2024

Discover the music of Florence Price, host a Silent Film Festival, play new music by Artina McCain, share musical accomplishments from our readers, and more!

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Spring 2024

Discover how music impacts the brain, explore how we learn, play new music by Chee-Hwa Tan, and share memorization tips in the Spring 2024 issue of Piano Inspires Kids.

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Autumn 2023

Discover the Music of Argentina, explore dances of Argentina, play an Argentine Folk Tune, share ideas on practicing, and more!

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