Music Matters
Realizing Figured Bass - Inside the Mind of Bach
We delve inside the mind of Bach and examine one of his Chorales employing a Chorale melody and a Figured Bass. The video covers the meaning of the figures used alongside the bass line, after which there is a demonstration of how to play...
Odd Quartet
New World Symphony - Antonin Dvorak
Today we are looking at Symphony No. 9 by Antonín Dvořák. Dvorak was a composer of the Romantic era and made a name for himself as a musician and composer from an early age. In 1892 he was invited to become the director of the National...
Mr Henry's Music World
Scales on Piano for Beginners C Major Scale
Hey there! Looking for fun, awesome piano lessons for kids ages 6-10? Check out this video!
Odd Quartet
How to Harmonize a Melody
Today I want to talk about harmonizing a melody for a keyboard instrument. Harmonizing is just a fancy way of saying finding chords that go along with a melody (or bass line). First we will look at keyboard specific issues to keep in...
Music Matters
Name the Composer Quiz! - #6 Do you know your classical composers?
How well do you know your classical composers? Find out with our name the composer quiz! We present ten facts about a random composer, see if you can guess the correct answer by the end of the video.
Music Matters
Orchestration & Writing for Brass - The Trumpet
All you need to know in order to begin composing for the trumpet. This orchestration video explores the Trumpet as a solo instrument and in the context of playing as part of an ensemble of Trumpets or wider Brass, and explains the rather...
Music Matters
The Rules of Harmony and Some Things to Avoid - Keyboard Harmony
These rules will get you writing better harmony. Avoiding these common mistakes, although not absolutely necessary, will often help your keyboard harmony flow much better than before. In this video, we work through some of the ‘rules of...
Music Matters
Orchestration & Writing for Woodwind - The Oboe
A look at how to write for the oboe in detail. During this orchestration video you will discover the range of the Oboe, the clef it uses, how it functions as a double reed non-transposing instrument, and how to write for it in such a way...
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
New Music for Old Instruments: Stevie Wishart on her new composition
Composer Stevie Wishart talks about her new commission for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment entitled "The Rough with the Smooth: Concerto à Double Entendre" http://www.oae.co.uk
MinuteEarth
Milk Is Just Filtered Blood
Join Honey for FREE at: https://www.joinhoney.com/MinuteEarth. Special thanks to Honey for sponsoring this episode. Female mammals make milk, a cocktail of filtered blood, to provide their babies with vital nutrients. Thanks also to our...
MinuteEarth
Poop Transplants!
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These tiny shells know how much ice there is on Earth
Foraminifera – tiny, single-celled marine life forms – build gorgeous houses that record how much ice there is on the planet. SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron:...
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Ocean Confetti!
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MinuteEarth
Milk Is Just Filtered Blood
Female mammals make milk, a cocktail of filtered blood, to provide their babies with vital nutrients. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: Mammal: Endothermic vertebrates...
Curated Video
TESS Finds Related Stars Have Young Exoplanets
Thanks to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, orbiting a pair of related young stars called TOI 2076...
Curated Video
The most feared song in jazz, explained
Making sense of John Coltrane's "Giant Steps." Follow Vox Earworm on Facebook for more: http://www.facebook.com/VoxEarworm And be sure to check out Earworm's complete first season here: http://bit.ly/2QCwhMH John Coltrane, one of jazz...
The British Museum
A sitar performance by Anoushka Shankar
One of Ravi Shankar’s sitars was donated to the British Museum and is now on display in the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia. In this video, Shankar’s daughter Anoushka Shankar plays extracts from two compositions on the...
Curated Video
Exploring Our Solar System with Dr. Amy Simon
Dr. Amy Simon has always been fascinated with space. From a young age she dreamed of lifting off in the space shuttle, just like her hero, astronaut Sally Ride. Over the years her interest in space remained, and she eventually found...
Gresham College
The Joy of Six: Brahms and Strauss - Professor Christopher Hogwood
Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio Brahms: String Sextet Op.18 Professor Christopher Hogwood, Gresham Professor of Music, with players from the Royal Academy of Music The choice of instrumental grouping can make or break a composition; the...
Sydney Opera House
Empowering musicians on the autistic spectrum at the Opera House | Club Weld
In a first-of-its-kind project, Rainbow Chan, George Nicholas (Seekae) and Eugene Ward (Dro Carey/Tuff Sherm) collaborated with musicians on the autism spectrum from and with other disabilities to make their own music in the Sydney Opera...
12tone
Understanding Dream On
Dream On is a startlingly mature piece of music in both theme and composition. It was one of the earliest power ballads, and to my mind, it remains one of the best. It avoids a lot of the cornier elements that plagued many of its...
12tone
The Mother Chord
It's Mother's Day, which means it's time to take a look at music's own tribute to maternity, the Mother Chord! Ok, it's not actually very mother-y, but it's still pretty cool: It's the solution to an important math puzzle in music's...
Gresham College
Mozart's Rebellious Oboe: Christopher Hogwood explains why Mozart's Oboe Quartet is so daring
Christopher Hogwood explains one of the most extreme examples of Mozart's compositions "doing what they are not supposed to" Mozart is renowned for writing "multiple characterisations" in his music, whether for voices in his operas or...
Gresham College
Darkness Audible: Benjamin Britten at 100 - Middle, 1945-1970 - Dr Paul Kildea
The success of Peter Grimes caught Britten by surprise. It gave him enormous capital, but for the most part he chose to spend it outside London, away from the emerging music institutions the new Labour government was determined would...