Educational Videos shown in Music Classes

(Link titles explain where we start the videos in music classes.)

First Grade Music Class

• Jingle Bells, in simplified sign language.

  • Week 13 - Start at 0:29, end at 1:53

• String instruments

  • Week 16 - Start at beginning

  • Week 17 - Start at :16, skip 1:42-2:03, and 2:36-3:04.

  • Week 18 - Start at beginning, Start at 6:36

  • Week 18 - Start at 1:09

• Lomax, the Hound of Music Videos

  • "Old Bell Cow" - Start at beginning

  • "Buffalo Gals" - Start at beginning

  • "Kitty in the Straw" - Start at beginning

  • "Ain't No Bugs on Me" - Start at beginning

  • "The Cat Came Back" - Start at beginning

Second Grade Music Class

• "Zin, Zin, Zin, a Violin" - start at :21

• Klezmer Music - Start at 1:36, end at 3:10

• Strings

  • Johann Pachelbel, "Canon in D" - start at :06.

• Conducting

  • John Phillip Sousa, "Stars and Stripes Forever" March - start at 4:07. 

• Woodwinds

  • George Gershwin, "Rhapsody in Blue", played by the Vienna Clarinet Quartet - Start at beginning

  • Jean Francaix, "Woodwind Quartet" - start at beginning

• Symphony Orchestra

  • Rachmaninoff, "Symphonic Dances" - start at beginning

Third Grade Music Class

• String Instruments

  • Joan Tower - "Rising", for flute and string quartet, start at 1:09

• Woodwind Instruments

  • Week 17: Sammartini, "Recorder Concerto" - start at beginning

  • Woodwind Choir start at beginning

  • Eugene Bozza, "Three Pieces", played by Ensemble Correlatif - start at 4:23

• Brass instruments

  • Nelhybel, "Three Intradas for Brass Choir - Allegro con Brio", start at beginning

• Percussion instruments

  • Bach piece, played on a xylophone, start at :27

• Symphony Orchestra

  • Mahler, "Symphony #2"; excerpt played by New York Philharmonic, start at 1:35, end at 3:14.

• Concert Band

  • John Phillip Sousa, "Stars and Stripes Forever" March - start at beginning, start at 3:36. 

• Jazz - Louis Armstrong

  • Louis Armstrong in 1964, "Basin Street Blues", Beginning to :58, 1:28 to 2:59

• Composer

  • Joan Tower - "Made in America", explanation starts at :56, piece starts at 1:50

• Preparation for the Pittsburgh Symphony Field Trip

  • Brass: "Fanfare to precede La Péri", by Paul Dukas, start at beginning

  • Woodwinds: “Nimbus 2000” from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by John Williams, start at :07

  • Strings: "Symphony for Strings in C minor, Opus 110A II. Allegro molto", by Dmitri Shostakovich, start at beginning

  • Percussion: timpani, start at :24

  • Harp: “Waltz of the Flowers” from "The Nutcracker", by Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky, start at beginning

  • "Radetzky-March, Opus 228", by Johann Strauss, recording only.

  • “Les Toréadors” from Suite No. 1 from Carmen, by Georges Bizet start at 10:28

Fourth Grade Music Class

• Woodwind Quintet - Week 14

  • “Six Bagatelles” by Gyorgy Ligeti - 1:32-2:40, then 4:30-.

• Recorder - Week 11

  • Monti, "Czardas" - Start at :58

• Chorus - Week 15

  • The Star Spangled Banner, performed by the Nashville Children's Choir, start at :11

  • "Dance of the Willow"

• Woodwind Quintet

  • William Grant Still, "Miniatures for Woodwind Quintet" - start at :05

• Jazz - Louis Armstrong - Week 19

  • Louis Armstrong in 1961, "When the Saints Go Marching In", Beginning to 3:26

• Recorder Quartet - Week 20

  • Tarquino Merula, "La Lusignola", all

• Improvisation, Week 24

  • "Boil them Cabbage Down", with Mark O'Connor and Wynton Marsalis, start at :11

  • "Mumbles", by Clark Terry, start at beginning

• Orchestra

  • Beethoven, Symphony #9, Performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - high quality, Start at 1:16

  • Rachmaninov, "Symphonic Dances" - all

• Concert Band

  • Percy Grainger, "Lincolnshire Posy", by the University of Michigan Symphony Band - start at 11:15

  • William Walton, "Crown Imperial", by the Tokyo Kosei Wind Ensemble - start at beginning

• Brass Quintet - Week 27

  • "Sonata die Bankelsangerlieder" - Start at beginning

• Clarinet

  • Black Dog, by Robert Spring - Start from beginning

• French Horn

  • Mozart, "Horn Concerto #3" - start at :29

Fourth Grade Band

• Flute

  • Chaminade: "Concertino", performed by student Hayley Miller - Start at 2:14

  • Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Flight of the Bumble Bee", performed by James Galway - Start at beginning

• Clarinet

  • Messager: "Solo de Concours", performed by Julian Bliss - Start at :48

  • Mozart: "Clarinet Concerto", final movement, performed by Julian Bliss - Start at beginning

  • Con Fuoco Clarinet Quartet - "Uhl Divertimento" Mvt. 3 - Start at beginning

• Saxophone

  • "Work Song" - performed by the Cannonball Adderley Sextet - Start at :18

  • Karel Husa: "Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band, Movement II: Ostinato", performed by Jeff Kinsey and the Penn State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble - Start at 4:50

• Trumpet

  • Haydn: "Trumpet Concerto", performed by Maurice Andre - Start at :52

  • "The Star-Spangled Banner", performed by Arturo Sandoval at the 2009 Orange Bowl - Start at :15

• French Horn

  • "The Star-Spangled Banner" by the U.S. Army Band Horns - Start at beginning

  • Disney movie melodies played on horn - Start at beginning

• Trombone

  • Appermont: "Colors for Trombone" - performed by Mario Teixeira - Start at :54

  • Eastman School of Music Trombone Quartet - Start at beginning

• Euphonium/Baritone Horn/Tuba

  • "Czardas", performed by David Childs - Start at :27

  • "Stars and Stripes Forever", performed by the Army Band Tuba/Euphonium Quartet - Start at beginning

• Tuba

  • Tuba Trio: "Ride of the Valkyries" by Richard Wagner, arranged by Carol Jantsch - Start at 1:06.

  • "Anitra's Dance", performed by Øystein Baadsvik -  Start at :13

  • Snedecor Duet #2", performed by Andrew Dougherty and Keith Kile - Start at 1:30.

• Percussion

  • Anderson: "Sleigh Ride" performed by the Mt. Lebanon Percussion Ensemble - Start at beginning

  • Delecluse: "Snare Drum Solo No. 9", performed by Jaske' Goff II - Start at beginning

  • Emmanuel Séjourné: "Katamiya", performed by Filip Merčep - Start at :12