Music Matters
Overlapping Suspensions - Inside the Mind of Bach
How Bach makes use of multiple suspensions, often overlapping each other, in one of his chorale workings. We also take a look at the choice of harmony, the part writing, dealing with harmonic and melodic minor, plus other features of the...
Music Matters
Identifying Consecutive Fifths and Octaves - Music Composition
Music Matters demonstrates "Identifying Consecutive Fifths and Octaves"
Music Matters
Piano for Beginners Lesson 8 - The Notes A, B & C in Bass Clef
In this video you will continue to develop knowledge of the bass clef, including the introduction of a new note, A. Fingering and fingering control are developed, and you will get more confident with counting rhythms and playing with a...
Music Matters
How to Sight Read Advanced Piano Pieces
In this advanced sight reading video we explore a two part invention from the perspective of how to sight read a more advanced piano piece, the level of sight reading is that required by many music exam boards for diploma exams. You...
Curated Video
The Mystery of the Shepard Tone Illusion Explained
In this video, we explore the Shepard Tone illusion, a fascinating auditory phenomenon. Through ear tests and demonstrations, we learn how sets of notes played simultaneously create the illusion of an endlessly rising or descending pitch.
Mr Henry's Music World
Understand Notes F, G and A and B on the Piano
Learn notes F, G, A and B on the piano through this animated, kid friendly video.
Odd Quartet
Music Theory - Reading Time Signatures
This video takes a look at reading time signatures in today's video. It also looks at some of the more common time signatures and go over some examples.
Music Matters
The Genius of Schubert’s Melodic Writing - Composer Insights
A look at the beauty of Schubert’s melodic writing and how it interacts with his use of harmony and texture. This composer insights lesson takes the opening of Schubert’s Andante from his Piano Sonata in A and explores the melodic design...
Music Matters
The Difference Between 3:4 and 3:8 Time Signatures - Music Theory
Understand the difference between 2/2 and 4/4 time signatures. Mathematically it appears that 2/2 and 4/4 are two versions of the same thing. Musically they are quite distinct because 2/2 contains two minim beats per bar, while 4/4...
Music Matters
How Good is Your Harmony? - Music Theory
How good is your harmony? Are there mistakes that commonly catch you out when writing harmony. This music theory lesson presents a passage of four-part harmony, test your harmony knowledge and try to answer these questions about chords,...
Music Matters
Name the Time Signatures - Music Theory
When you look at a rhythm how good are you at identifying the time signature that most appropriately fits it? How do you know if a rhythm should be in 6/8 or in 3/4, especially when the notes in any given bar add up to the same...
Music Matters
Adding Chords to a Melody on the Piano - Music Composition
How to find and choose chords to fit a melody. Have you ever written a melody but didn’t really know how to find chords to fit it? If you have a melody and you’re searching for chords to harmonise with it this music composition lesson...
Music Matters
Piano for Beginners Lesson 11 - Five Notes in the Treble Clef, Ties & Dynamics
In this video you will learn a new note in the treble clef, G, and learn to use all five fingers in the right hand. There is a new piece to learn using C, D, E, F and G with all fingers on the move and a variety of rhythms. By the end of...
NASA
Elegance: Music & Math
At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, this past summer, sometimes before the start of the work day, interns Philip Lu and Gabriel Apaza played impromptu classical piano concerts on the Steinway in Goddard's...
Music Matters
Harmony Enriched with Suspensions - Inside the Mind of Bach
Learn from the master of harmony and find out how Bach uses suspensions to enrich the chords within this chorale. We examine the choice of harmony and modulation, the part writing, the use of inessential notes and suspensions, plus other...
Odd Quartet
Fanny Mendelssohn - A Life of Music
A look at the life and works of composer Fanny Mendelssohn.
The Kiboomers
Mama Don't Allow No Music Playing Around Here Song For Kids | Fun Songs for Children | The Kiboomers
"MAMA DON'T ALLOW SONG"
Mama don't allow no guitar playing around here
Mama don't allow no guitar playing around here
Well we don't care what mama don't allow
We gonna play the guitar anyhow
Mama don't allow no guitar playin around...
Odd Quartet
Listener's Guide To Carnival Of The Animals By Camille Saint-Säens - Movement 1 - The Royal March of the Lion
Written in 1886, the Carnival of the Animals is a humorous piece by french composer Camille Saint-saens. The piece is made up of 14 different movements which represent different animals, however this video focuses specifically on the 1st...
Weird History
Facts About the Hindenburg Crash
On May 6, 1937, the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg, a type of rigid aircraft known as a Zeppelin, was making its final approach to Manchester Township, New Jersey, when it caught fire and crash landed. In total, 35 of the 97...
Music Matters
Piano for Beginners Lesson 6 - Getting Started with the Bass Clef
In this video you will learn about the bass clef. So far in the course the focus has been on playing right hand notes in the treble clef; now the focus moves to the left hand reading in the bass clef. The focus is on Middle C and you...
Science360
Singing in the brain - Finding Your Science
Neuroscientist Nina Kraus talks about how the brain hears music. Visit the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory homepage at www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu to learn more about this fascinating research. Finding Your Science engages the...
Mr Henry's Music World
Carol of the Bells Piano Easy Tutorial [Part One]
Hey there! Looking for fun, awesome piano lessons for kids ages 6-10? Check out this video!
Music Matters
What is a Lombard Rhythm? (The Scotch Snap) - Music Theory
The Lombard rhythm or Scotch snap is a syncopated musical rhythm in which a short, accented note is followed by a longer one. Find out all about this syncopated musical rhythm, including how it's written and how it sounds in this music...
Music Matters
Halloween Spooky Style - Composing for the Piano
Halloween special of composing for the piano. In this episode, we look at how to present the Music Matters theme in a spooky style just for Halloween. This suitably spooky arrangement demonstrates how to use tritones and corruptions of...