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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.
Texas Education Agency
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.
PBS
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.
PBS
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...
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.
PBS
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]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Composer: What I Do and How Much I Make
Bryan talks about his work in the music industry and how he makes a living through composition and production. [4:35]
University of Nottingham
Sixty Symbols: Symbols of Physics and Astronomy: The Theramin
A bit of background information on the musical instrument called the theremin, as well as demonstrations by a University of Nottingham physicist. [6:29]
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place: El Coro Del Corral
A fun story with music for children learning Spanish. Presented with situational cartoon images and a narrator speaking the text from text bubbles follow the character on a quest to sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: This Bird Can Shake His Tail Feathers
The owner of a cockatoo discovered it dancing to the Backstreet Boys, posted a video of it to YouTube, which was seen by neuroscientists. They performed an experiment on the bird to see if it was actually responding to the music, and,...
Crash Course
Crash Course Film History #14: World Cinema Part 1
This video focuses on World Cinema from Asia including Japanese films from anime to horror and period dramas to Kaiju films are still popular around the globe. It explains films from mainland China's epics and Hong Cong's martial arts...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Building a Synth, Bit by Bit
A toy kit made by littleBits and Korg teaches you how electronic music is made while you put it together.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Rondo Ostanato
In this video, a lesson is modeled where students keep a rhythmic beat along with the instructor as they read a chant together about money denominations. [2:34]
PBS
Pbs: Piggley's Storyteller Warehouse
In this episode of Piggley's Storyteller Warehouse, the host shares the basic building blocks of all stories: Who? What? Where? The host then sets the characters' names, the conflict, and the setting to the tune of a rap song.
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