Week 6.3 Are We Playing Music or Making Sounds?

What's the difference between music and sound?    The children came to the following conclusions:

If there is singing it is music

If it's too loud it is not music

Drums all by themselves can be music too and so is the rainmaker- because they are fun to play

Then we listened to music that the children were familiar with and played along.  I wondered if they were making music or sound.  They saw no difference between their music and the music that was playing - Matthew even said that "its like twins."  Then we all sang together, "Are You Sleeping Brother John" and accompanied our singing with instruments of their choice.  Was this music, I wondered aloud?  The children agreed, except one, that decided that it was still too loud, with hands clasped over his ears.  

Children playing along with the music