Music Appreciation Videos

Description:

A selection of 15 of our online music appreciation videos provides middle-school and homeschool students with the opportunity to learn about and study the structure of an orchestra, to the required K-12 standards.

Recognize the instruments in a symphony orchestra through a summary of their history and development, and through demonstrations of the appearance and sound of each. Learn to recognize the four different families of instruments in a symphony orchestra and study the strengths and special abilities of each. Identify the members of the string, woodwind, brass, and percussion families by appearance, sound, and musical capability.

Trace the origin and development of all the symphonic instruments, including their prehistoric roots. Explore the history of musical performance from the harpists of ancient Egypt to the troubadours and jongleurs of medieval Europe to the modern symphony.

Examine the purpose and process of sectional rehearsals attended by all members of a musical group and follow the Denver Young Artists Orchestra as it prepares for and performs a concert to gain a greater appreciation of the orchestra through performance excerpts and instrument orientation. You will also have the opportunity to listen to performances of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, Copland’s Billy the Kid, and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.

Then use our online interactive quizzes to discover what you have learnt and strengthen your understanding of the subject.

All Topics in Music: Music Appreciation

The number of videos in each topic are indicated in brackets.
Select a topic above to go to a Video series description including Learning Objectives and links to playable videos.

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• Before Zane launched this online video service, our school and homeschool customers paid approximately $14.99 for each of our 250 CD-ROM titles which meant a total cost of $3,750 for the entire library. Our new online video subscription service now enables our customers to use exactly the same K12 material online on those 250 CD-ROM titles but now in video format, for as little as $17.99 per month or $197.89 per year (yes, you even get one month free with our annual service). This means a discount and saving of over 93%.

• The TOPIC TASTER MEMBERSHIP is designed to enable customers to study one Topic at a time for a period of 30 days, however it is likely to be of most use to teachers that want to use our videos in the classroom in situations where the school has not yet purchased a School Subscription License. TOPIC TASTER Membership costs barely anything, $5 a month, even a student could afford this themselves on an allowance or from their paper round, and that's exactly the point, this option is made available primarily as a service to help students with homework on a specific topic and to give teachers or parents the ability to test out our services, take a taster of our videos for review, before commiting to a Full Membership.

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