Catalog Search Results
Language
English
Description
This program introduces viewers to the musical styles of three distinct eras within the common practice period: Baroque, Classical, and Romantic. Typical structures, forms, instruments, rhythms, and melodies are described and supported with examples. Significant composers and famous works from each era are identified. This is an easy to follow overview of the changing characteristics of European art music over three centuries.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever been to an event where someone introduced the featured speaker? That introduction can make or break how the audience reacts to the speaker.So it is with a musical composition! Composers are very aware that if they compose an introduction it has to be “just right” to set up what follows. Maestro George Marriner Maull uses Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 to illustrate in this video chat.
Language
English
Description
The Lyric Project celebrates how and why songs can have such a lasting impact on us. An anthological documentary, these themes are explored through submissions from the general public - recordings of people reading the lyrics from their favorite songs and reflecting on why the song had such a strong impact on them.
Language
English
Description
This film explores the trends in contemporary music in America over the last half of the 20th century and beyond. Interviews with some of the most influential American composers reveal the circumstances that shaped modern classical music today, and the creative visions that have emerged from it. The film features some of the innovative work being done through short sequences from a variety of ensembles. Interviews with leading performers of this music...
Language
English
Description
One of the elements of music is dynamics, which is the use of loudness and softness for expressive, inflective purposes. In this video chat, Maestro George Marriner Maull asks you to notice how many distinct dynamic events occur in Ernest Chausson’s Poeme for Violin and Orchestra.
Language
English
Description
This video chat from Discovery Orchestra offers another lesson in ternary form. The orchestra’s Executive Director Virginia Johnston and Maestro George Marriner Maull’s wife, Marcia, perform the second movement of Brahms’ Sonata for Clarinet & Piano No.1, highlighting the ABA form, with the special surprise ending.