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Pbs Learning Media: Mister Chris and Friends: Sound
It's not always easy to learn something new. Mister Chris tries to help his friend Raphael learn how to whistle and Wishing Well sends the two on a musical adventure highlighted by a Big, Big Concert. A companion activity for this video...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids Rocks: Dom La Nena: "My Friend"
PBS Kids Rocks is a music album featuring 28 songs from Grammy Award-winners. Each of the songs helps kids explore topics related to literacy, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and social-emotional learning. Bilingual...
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Pbs Learning Media: My Best Friend's Ukulele
With music coming from a ukulele, this song explores words that start with the letter "U." This resource teaches new vocabulary and reinforces letter learning. [1:34]
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids Rocks: Best Coast: "Taking Turns"
PBS KIDS Rocks is a music album featuring 28 songs from Grammy Award-winners. Each of the songs helps kids explore topics related to literacy, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and social-emotional learning. Bilingual...
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Pbs Learning Media: Mister Chris and Friends: Honeybee
Mister Chris has finished his farm chores, and now he's ready for an adventure full of music and friends. Join him at the orchard to find out how honeybees turn apple blossoms into apples, then dance at the barn concert! [2:42]
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Pbs Learning Media: Kid Vision: African Dance Field Trip
Penny and the KidVision Kids learn about West African dance and music. They listen to a storyteller, make and wear traditional dance attire, play dundun drums and dance the Lamba, and watch a professional performance by Delou Africa!...
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Pbs: Early America: Foo Boo Woo Boo John
Watch a demonstration of how to play the jaw harp as an expert musician performs "Foo Boo Woo Boo John," a traditional folk song that came to America from England.
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Pbs: Early America: Cluck Old Hen/i Had a Rooster
Listen to two folk songs about animals in traditional Southern style both featuring the banjo, a traditional gourd banjo on "Cluck Old Hen" and today's steel-string banjo on "I Had a Rooster." Discussion about the gourd banjo's origins...
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Pbs Learning Media: Ralph Ellison: Renaissance Man
In this video [5:17] from the American Masters film Ralph Ellison: An American Journey, scholars discuss the influence of the Harlem Renaissance on Ellison's writing. Alain Locke's "The New Negro," jazz music, and painter Aaron Douglas...
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Pbs Learning Media: Jazz: A Metaphor for America
In this video [6:05] from the American Masters film Ralph Ellison: An American Journey, scholars discuss the author's ideas about jazz music. Ellison recognized jazz as an art form that represented the complexity of America's...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Music Video: Reading With Feeling: The Electric Company
The Burnham Brothers sing "Reading with Feeling," a song explaining the importance of reading with the feelings ascribed to the characters and events. This resource teaches reading techniques and fluency.
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Shock & Friends Phonics Rap: Ue
Shock and James play "True or Not True" using words that contain the letters "ue" to demonstrate the sound made by that letter combination. The goal of this resource is reading, sight-reading, spelling, and decoding.
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Pbs: Arts in the Renaissance: Palestrina
After a brief introduction to Renaissance music and the composer, key characteristics of Renaissance music is discussed.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Heavy Metal: The Physics of Diy Instruments
Paul Rudolph finds objects in garbage and junkyards, and transforms them into musical instruments, even using them in his own performances with his band. Listen as he talks about this work, and as a scientist discusses the physics of...
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Pbs Learning Media: From the Top at Carnegie Hall: Gypsy Airs: Anna Ji Eun Lee
From the Top at Carnegie Hall video featuring a performance by 12-year-old Anna JiEun Lee on the violin. [4:41]
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Pbs Learning Media: Exploring Excellence: Kimani Griffin
From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment featuring a guitare performance by 17-year-old Kimani Griffin, who is also a talented speed skater. [3:24]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Tiny Dancers Show Rhythm's Roots
Psychologist Marcel Zentner and Tuomas Eerola found that babies will dance when they hear music and other rhythmic sounds. The findings suggest babies smile more when they hit the beat. [3:33]
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Pbs Learning Media: Career Connections: Sound Engineer
Many sound engineers creatively use technology to produce audio for music, radio, film, and television. To prepare for this career path, studying media arts and science would be beneficial. [5:38]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What's the Story Behind the World's Oldest Piano?
In this video [2:14] join Sasha, age 10, as she reports from the Musical Instruments galleries to get the inside scoop on an instrument that changed music history.
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Pbs: Indian Pride: Treaties and Sovereignty, Part 4
Singer/songwriter Jim Boyd, of the Colville Tribe of Washington State, plays guitar and sings original songs. Boyd's contributions to contemporary Indigenous music include four original songs on the soundtrack of the movie "Smoke...
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Pbs: African/african American Culture: Plantation Dance/ring Shout
The Plantation Dance/Ring Shout represents a style of dance and music found in African slave communities on plantations in the southern United States, Caribbean Islands, and other locations. Included are teaching tips and additional...
A&E Television
History.com: Woodstock Almost Never Happened
Woodstock, the iconic music festival, brought huge crowds and groundbreaking performances. But it almost never happened. Watch this video [1:01] to see why.
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Pbs Learning Media: Hamilton's America: Lin Manuel Miranda, Shakespeare, Hip Hop
Explore the inspiration behind Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical Hamilton, Miranda's connection to Shakespeare, and the influence of hip hop in Miranda's storytelling in this media galley from GREAT PERFORMANCES: "Hamilton's America." [3:48]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Jannis Kounellis, "Da Inventare Sul Posto (To Invent on the Spot)"
Watch Jannis Kounellis combine painting music and dance. To learn more about what artists have to say, take our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art, 1945-1989. Created by The Museum of Modern Art. [1:49]
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