Discovery Orchestra Chat 123 – Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Part 2
Maestro Maull continues the exploration of the 4th movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in this second of eight Discovery Orchestra Chats on the piece!
Harmony
Discovery Orchestra Chat 122 – Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Part 1
Maestro Maull begins the exploration of the 4th and final movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in this first of eight Discovery Orchestra Chats on the piece!
Discovery Orchestra Chat 108 – The Land of 6th’s and Octaves
When composers want to add harmony to a melody, there are a number of ways they can do it. Learn more in this Discovery Orchestra Chat, featuring high-school musicians Katie…
Classical Music Is So Relaxing!
Or is it? One of the things frequently said about classical music is: “I love classical music because it’s so relaxing!” When I encounter this observation I can only think…
Discovery Orchestra Chat 102 – False Relations
What exactly are False Relations? In this Chat, Maestro Maull and guitarist phenom Celil Refik Kaya explore the “chromatic contradictions” in Alonso Mudarra’s Fantasy No. 10.
Discovery Orchestra Chat 100 – Piano Transcriptions Part 1
Maestro Maull and pianist Stephen Wu use Christoph Gluck’s Dance of the Blessed Spirit to investigate piano transcription.
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.