Instructional Video4:31
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Why we love repetition in music - Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

Pre-K - Higher Ed
How many times does the chorus repeat in your favorite song? How many times have you listened to that chorus? Repetition in music isn't just a feature of Western pop songs, either; it's a global phenomenon. Why? Elizabeth Hellmuth...
Instructional Video9:32
Music Matters

Harmonizing an Ascending Scale with 5-6 Alterations - Music Composition

9th - 12th
This music composition lesson demonstrates an idea for alternating inversions and an associated melodic pattern above an ascending scale in the bass line. Ascending scales in the bass can be awkward to harmonise satisfactorily without...
Instructional Video14:17
Music Matters

Creating Tension and Release in Music - Music Composition

9th - 12th
Learn how to create tension and release in music. This music composition lesson explores five particular ways in which tension and release can be achieved in music. While this will be of particular interest to composers it will also...
Instructional Video10:57
Music Matters

Using Suspensions to Harmonize a Descending Bass - Music Composition

9th - 12th
Here's an idea for writing a sequence based on using a chain of suspensions above a descending scale in the bass line. Descending scales in the bass can be awkward to harmonise satisfactorily without generating parallels. This pattern...
Instructional Video12:50
Music Matters

Elaborating an Upper Voice When Using an Ascending Bass Scale - Music Composition

9th - 12th
An idea for elaborating an upper melodic line over an ascending scale in the bass line. Ascending scales in the bass can be awkward to harmonise satisfactorily without generating parallels. This pattern illustrates one way of handling...
Instructional Video24:44
Mr Henry's Music World

Music Lesson for Beginners Guide to Writing Composing Music

K - 5th
Hey there! Looking for fun, awesome piano lessons for kids ages 6-10? Check out this video!
Instructional Video5:27
TED Talks

Morley: "Women of Hope"

12th - Higher Ed
Inspired by Aung San Suu Kyi's call to action, "If you're feeling helpless, help someone," Morley composed this song. She sings it at TEDxWomen in her gorgeous, warm voice.
Instructional Video0:44
The March of Time

MOT: 1938: Nazi persecution of the German Jewish population

12th - Higher Ed
Crowds on the street, stormtroopers painting Star of David on shop window, inside pulling out sheet music written by Jewish composers.
Instructional Video5:04
NASA

NASA | SDO: Three Years in Three Minutes--With Expert Commentary

3rd - 11th
This version of SDO:Three Years in Three Minutes is extended and narrated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center heliophysicist Alex Young. He highlights many interesting aspects of the video and points out several of the...
Instructional Video3:40
NASA

Young Cryovolcano on Ceres

3rd - 11th
Analysis of images from NASA's Dawn mission reveals that dwarf planet Ceres hosts an unexpectedly young cryovolcano that formed with the past billion years.



Musi
c credits:
"Farewell to the King" by Richard Friedman...
Instructional Video2:12
NASA

Swift Tracks Water From Interstellar Comet Borisov

3rd - 11th
For the first time, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tallied the water lost from an interstellar comet as it approached and rounded the Sun. The object, 2I/Borisov, traveled through the solar system in late...
Instructional Video9:05
Curated Video

How to Build a Magnetized Piano Harp: Sound Builders

9th - 11th
Subscribe to MOTHERBOARDtp://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARD' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>MOTHERBOARD In our final episode of season two of Sound Builders, presented by Harman, we head over to downtown Brooklyn, to spend the day...
Instructional Video3:58
NASA

NASA | SDO: Three Years of Sun in Three Minutes

3rd - 11th
Music: "A Lady's Errand of Love" - composed and performed by Martin Lass



In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has...
Instructional Video4:35
Tate

Black Mountain College – 'A School Like No Other' | TateShots

K - 11th
Black Mountain College was a highly influential school founded in North Carolina, USA, in 1933 where teaching was experimental and committed to an interdisciplinary approach. The college’s progressive principles were based on the...
Instructional Video14:50
Joy 2 Learn

Jazz Musicians

6th - 12th
Ten informative videos make up a series hosted by Wynton Marsalis designed to share the musical triumphs of jazz musicians Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and more! 
Instructional Video8:40
Joy 2 Learn

Nuts and Bolts of Jazz

6th - 12th
A collection of videos directs viewers through a series of seven videos detailing all things jazz. Video topics include how to play, its forms, rhythm, syncopation, swing, improvisation, and explores the rhythm, horn, and wind sections....