Curated Video
Is This Even Music? John Cage, Schoenberg and Outsider Artists
What is music? From John Cage to Legendary Stardust Cowboy, avant-garde artists have forever been pushing on the edges of what is considered music. Composers like Arnold Schoenberg, Harry Partch and outsider musicians like The Shaggs are...
ProTeachersVideo
KS3 History: The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a time of unparalleled prosperity and change. Featuring archive footage from the period, students can gain a fascinating and revealing insight into 1920's America. Archive film based programme about America from the...
ProTeachersVideo
KS3 History: The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a time of unparalleled prosperity and change. Featuring archive footage from the period, students can gain a fascinating and revealing insight into 1920's America. Archive film based programme about America from the...
Jazz Tutorial
HOW TO READ MUSIC IN 15 MINUTES
Download free jazz piano sheet music here: http://www.JazzHeroBooks.com/free-books/ Includes: - Jazz piano chord progressions - Jazz piano endings - Salsa piano patterns - Comping patterns and more. Download here:...
The Guardian
Free improvisation: still the ultimate in underground music?
Pioneered in the 1950s by musicians breaking the rules of jazz and composition, free improvisation is still as difficult – and potentially transcendent – as it ever was. A Guardian documentary takes you inside its world, talking to...
The Telegraph
Suzanne Moore on left wing puritanism
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has become the metropolitan elite it was always accused of being. In this week’s Off Script podcast Suzanne Moore joins Steven Edginton to discuss “trans ideology”, Labour’s prospects and freedom of speech.
Weatherthings
Clouds, Rain and the Water Cycle
A rainy day spent inside helps a little boy learn about clouds and the water cycle from his mother. He sees the value of rain to plants, animals, people and the planet, even when the rain is not convenient for him. As the rain...
12tone
The Scales That Built Jazz
Try 2 months of Skillshare for free! http://skl.sh/12tone4 Modern jazz is one of the most popular styles among academic musicians, with whole fields of research dedicated to studying its use of advanced harmony, chromaticism, and other...
Curated Video
Why this instrument explains Black American folk music
Jake Blount, a banjo scholar, explains. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Jake Blount has built a career out of understanding the banjo’s connection to Black American folk music. In...
12tone
Why Ben Shapiro Is Wrong About Rap
Try 2 months of Skillshare absolutely free! http://skl.sh/12tone19 Well, looks like it's that time of year again. When Ben Shapiro (or anyone else) argues that rap and hip hop aren't technically considered music, they're flying in the...
Creators
Turning Weapons Into Instruments | Bonus: Live at Lisson Gallery
Pedro Reyes creates instruments from dismantled guns. In the bonus clip above, Reyes and a team of musicians before at London's Lisson Gallery. Watch the full documentary on Pedro Reyes' Disarm here: http://bit.ly/1g5UOVL For more info:...
Two Minute Music Theory
Exploring Take Five's Brilliant Use of 5/4 (Score Study)
Take Five is one of the best selling jazz singles of all time. I've always been fascinated by its use of the 5/4 meter. Today we are looking at how the Dave Brubeck Quartet took this simple idea in a complex meter, and made it into a...
National Geographic
What’s in Air Freshener? | Ingredients With George Zaidan (Episode 6)
Do air fresheners really work? ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Watch all episodes of Ingredients here: http://bit.ly/WatchIngredients ➡ Get updates and tweet episode ideas @georgezaidan About Ingredients: Join MIT-trained...
National Geographic
What's in Conditioner? | Ingredients With George Zaidan (Episode 8)
Conditioner: It makes your hair silky, smooth, and it’s a lot like … fat. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Watch all episodes of Ingredients here: http://bit.ly/WatchIngredients ➡ Get updates and tweet episode ideas...
12tone
The World's Most Important Chord Progression
Why the Blues is one of the most influential musical inventions in American history. The first 500 people who click the link in the description will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/12tone23 The past century has...
Royal Opera House
How Liam Scarlett created The Age of Anxiety for The Royal Ballet
Royal Ballet Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett discusses how Leonard Bernstein's music and W.H. Auden's poetry influenced him in creating his ballet The Age of Anxiety, which forms part of The Royal Ballet's Bernstein Centenary...
Royal Opera House
Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon rehearse ballets inspired by Bernstein
Royal Ballet Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor and Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon rehearse and discuss their new works for The Royal Ballet’s programme celebrating the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth. Find out more at...
Royal Opera House
How Erdem Moralioglu and Christopher Wheeldon created Corybantic Games for The Royal Ballet
Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet Christopher Wheeldon and fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu discuss creating the new work Corybantic Games, which forms part of The Royal Ballet's Bernstein Centenary celebration. Find out more at...
Royal Opera House
How Leonard Bernstein inspired Wayne McGregor's 21st century ballet Yugen
Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet Wayne McGregor and artist and designer Edmund de Waal talk about creating the new work Yugen, which formed part of The Royal Ballet's Bernstein Centenary celebration. Find out more at...
Blank on Blank
Nina Simone on Shock
This episode is brought to you by Dropbox http://www.dropbox.com " I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed." - Nina Simone in July, 1968 As told to http://lilianterry.com Hear bonus...
ARTiculations
When Did Modern Architecture Actually Begin? | ARTiculations
Did modern architecture really begin in the 1920s with the founding of the Bauhaus school? Perhaps. But perhaps the changing landscape of architectural practice and theory throughout the last 200 years is not as straight forward as it...
Easy Languages
Your favorite band | Easy Brazilian Portuguese 33
Your favorite band | Easy Brazilian Portuguese 33 Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of...