An orchestra fills an opera house with music, but a singer’s voice soars above the instruments. Its melody rings out across thousands of patrons— all without any assistance from a microphone. How is it possible that a single voice can be...

Howcast -Learn about the concert ukulele, also known as the alto ukulele, from music teacher Jarret Delos Santos in this Howcast video.

Harmony text books often advise us to avoid using this particular chord progression. Why is that? This music composition lesson explains how this chord progression can create difficulties in the part writing with consecutive / parallel...

Using a storytelling technique to better convey emotion in your music

This music composition lesson takes a simple passage and explains how you can spot obvious places in which to add non-chord tones. The video explains neighbour tones (auxiliary notes) and passing tones (passing notes) then goes on to...

How to convert a less than satisfactory passage of harmony into a passage that works much better. In particular, there is a focus on how to use common notes (common tones) to maintain stability in the part writing when moving from one...

Teaching you the best ways to deal with second inversion chords. The second inversion chord is explained along with its unstable characteristics and the video goes on to illustrate the most convincing musical contexts for using the chord...

What is doubling the major third? How do you know if its a major third? Can you double thirds? Why is doubling a major third bad? This music composition lesson explains one of the rules of writing four-part harmony, namely the advice to...

Music Matters demonstrates Identifying Inessential Notes

Why have I never done an Analysis video? I have no idea! So, today I analyze my favorite Pentatonix song - Run To You. We'll look at how Pentatonix writes this song, and some of the things that make it awesome.

Find out how Bach goes about decorating a straightforward chord progression and use multiple harmonic devices to create a really moving piece of music. We examine the choice of harmony and modulation, the part writing, the use of...

Many musicians have received a grounding in writing harmony in four parts but very few have received help in relation to writing in five parts. This music theory lesson, as a first step, takes a passage of four part harmony and...

The video features soprano Fleur de Bray discussing and performing a piece from the opera Amadeus. She shares tips on breathing and practicing techniques to achieve crisp high notes while avoiding getting carried away with the drama of...

This video explains how to develop for Cosmos DB.<br/<br/>>

This clip is from the chapter "AZ-204 Cosmos Database (DB)" of the series "AZ-204 Developing for Microsoft Azure Exam Prep".This section provides an introduction to Cosmos DB.

Classical voice types and vocal categories. This music theory lesson explains the various voice parts and clarifies vocal ranges. In the standard four-part choir we expect to find Sopranos, Altos, Tenors, and Basses. The Tenors generally...

How are the voice parts written in a score of a piece for Choir and accompaniment? Using an example by Rossini this music theory lesson shows you why it’s necessary to write the vocal parts in open score and how it deals with word...