Discovery Orchestra Chat 12 – Program Music
What is program music? It is music that has some “outside of the music” idea attached to it!
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Discovery Orchestra Chat 11 – Repetition and Sequence
Discover two aspects of form in this Chat – the use of repetition and sequence in music.
Discovery Orchestra Chat 10 – Name that Timbre
Timbre is the sound source in music – violin, piccolo, trombone etc. Learn more in this Chat!
What is Maullaria?
The term “Maullaria” was coined by a young student of mine in the early 1980s who had a T-Shirt made which stated: “I have Maullaria.” Amused, years later I decided…
Discovery Orchestra Chat 8 – Texture Part 3
Part 3 in this series of Chats on musical texture!
Thank you for providing the free online learning videos! We had our students listen to The Firebird Suite Lullaby & Finale and read an article where researchers found evidence that a conch shell was used as an instrument 17,000 years ago. Then students drew a picture (grades K-2) or wrote (grades 3-8) about how the music made them feel.