Space

Music and mobiles take flight in these resources that explore the relationship between artist, art, and the cosmos, including the special meaning behind the stars and early African-American spirituals.

Audio Series

Art/Space

How do composers hear space? What does space sound like? Is there music in space? Narrated by Roger Launius of the Space History Division of the National Air and Space Museum, this series looks at the way music and outer space connect.

Audio

Sputnik: Art/Space

The space age began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.

Audio

Voyager: Art/Space

There's music floating in Outer Space--two disks filled with songs that are floating out beyond the planets that are most distant to Earth.

Lesson

Planets in Balance

Students explore the solar system through experimentation of mobile design in the style of Alexander Calder.

Lesson

Harriet Tubman: Secret Messages Shared through Song

In this lesson, students are introduced to the African-American spiritual and its use of a secret language to share information within the slave community.

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