TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What's going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks...
TED Talks
Tod Machover + Dan Ellsey: Inventing instruments that unlock new music
Tod Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression to everyone, from virtuosos to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms, from opera to video games. He and composer Dan Ellsey shed light on what's next.
TED Talks
Daria van den Bercken: Why I take the piano on the road ... and in the air
Pianist Daria van den Bercken fell in love with the baroque keyboard music of George Frideric Handel. Now, she aims to ignite this passion in others. In this talk, she plays us through the emotional roller coaster of his music — while...
Music Matters
Identifying Non-Chord Tones - Music Theory
This music theory lesson works through a short passage of music identifying all the non-chord tones or inessential notes. The video explores the harmonic outline of the piece before covering an explanation of passing tones, passing notes...
NASA
The Rocket Ranch: Episode 24: Space Lullaby
Astronaut Chris Hadfield flew to space three times, and was the first Canadian to walk in space. His cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity that he recorded on the International Space Station has over 47 million views, and as you're about...
Bridgeman Arts
WWI, ground, naval and aerial warfare, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff
WWI, ground, naval and aerial warfare, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff
Bridgeman Arts
Tuareg tribe at camp, playing and listening to music. Man holds woman's hand (courting?). Algeria 1957
Clip 9 from 16mm film about the Hoggar region of Algeria in 1957. The Tuaregs, Bedouin tribes. Woman plays a string instrument with others sitting around listening. Person greeted as they walk up to tent in encampment in the Tamanghasset...
Bridgeman Arts
Man plays a vinyl record. Re-enacted scenes on the invention of the phonograph. 1958.
Clip 1 from Au Creux des Sillons. French language film about the history of sound recording made in 1958 with the help of Pathe-Marconi. Shows the process of manufacturing vinyl discs from studio recording to factory. Young woman walks...
Curated Video
The Red Hot Chili Peppers headline second day of Danish rock festival
1. Aerials of Roskilde Festival site
2. Saybia performing 'Fools Corner'
3. SOT Soeren Huss, (Singer Saybia) "We are a band of five guys playing music basically, we have been playing together for nine years."
4. Saybia performing 'Day...
Bridgeman Arts
Afghanistan 1945 - nomadic people with camels and donkeys, playing the rubab (traditional Afghan instrument), girl sings.
Desert, plain, nomads, herds, shepherd, a man playing the national instrument of Afghanistan, the rubab, very old windmills. Camels, children by the river, young bird trainer, young girl with turban singing while a young man watches, two...
Classical Archives
Classical Music Archives
Touted as the largest classical music site on the web, you can find a library of classical music files for listening, thousands of composer biographies and images plus tips on conducting and playing music. Content also includes timelines...