Links, Resources, and Assignments
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This page includes the following categories:
Videos of Holidays, Festivals, and Songs from World Religions and Traditions
Video Playlist of International Stars of Our Time
Videos for Knowledge About Music in Historical Context
World Music Links and Resources
Music Literacy Links and Resources
NOTE ABOUT DOING ASSIGNMENTS: To do assignments in google docs online, click on the assignment link first, which will be in View Only mode, then make a copy of it using File-Make a Copy. Note that you must be signed into your google account in order for the 'Make a Copy' option to be available. Rename the copy to include your name while keeping the name of the assignment, such as 'Instrument Classification-John Smith'. Then, share it with Mrs. Cianciola (jciancio@bsdvt.org) allowing her to Comment.
Videos of Holidays, Festivals, and Songs from World Religions and Traditions:
Assignment - Listening Reflection on Holidays, Festivals, and Songs from World Religions and Traditions
Christianity - Boxing Day - Dec. 26 in Australia, UK, Canada, Kenya, etc.
Christianity - St. Nicholas Day - Eastern Europe - December 6-19
Christianity - Three Kings Day - Jan 6 in Mexico, Russia, Poland, etc
Islam - New Zaky Ramadan nasheed - Knock Knock it's Ramadan with Muhammad Khodr
Islam - Ramadan - Eid al-Fitr: Feast of Breaking the Ramadan Fast
Videos for Knowledge About Music in Historical Context
Assignment - Listening Reflection on Videos for Knowledge About Music in Historical Context
And All That Jazz - Minstrelsy, Ragtime, Blues, Swing, Bop
Beethoven, Bach, or Mozart? - Which of these famous Classical Composers do you like the best???
Civil Rights History in the US - Bob Dylan's Blowing in the Wind, Photos of Segregation in the South, Separate But Equal Schools?, We Shall Overcome, Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech, Music of Civil Rights In Performance at the White House
Country Music In Performance at the White House - Tributes by Alison Kraus, Band Perry, Kris Kristofferson, Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley/Lauren Alaina
From Russia With Love - Rimsky-Korsakov (Flight of the Bumble Bee and Scheherezade), Tschaikovsky 1812 Overture and Ballets (Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet), Russian Anthems
Great American Composers - Gershwin, Copland, Berlin, Barber, Porter, Rodgers, Ellington, Ives, Glass, Cage, Herrmann, Arlen, Kern, Wilder, Bacharach, Whitacre, Cohan, Sondheim, Crumb, Bernstein
How the Beatles Changed the World - Paul McCartney Interview, McCartney Live in Red Square (2005)
In Performance at the White House - Paul McCartney, Ray Charles Salute, Celebration of American Creativity, Memphis Soul, The Blues, Women of Soul, The Gospel Tradition, Red..White...and Blues, President Obama Singing Sweet Home Chicago
Moving on to Modern Classical Music - Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, Schoenberg, Stravinsky
Opera - La Traviata and more
Oratorio and "Oohs" - "Messiah" (G.F. Handel), Sorcerer's Apprentice (Paul Dukas), Danse Macabre (Camille Saint-Saens)
Patriotic Songs from the USA - Sousa Marches, Civil War Songs, Anthems, and the 50-States Capital Song
This Is Your Brain On Music - Dr. Daniel Levitin, How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain, Ted Talks on Music Benefits, The Mozart Effect
Time for Romance! - Piano music of Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann
Contemporary World Music Links and Resources
Playlist of Recent International Stars (the artists in this playlist are listed below alphabetically by country)
Alpha List of Stars by Their Country (this is a listing of the artists in the playlist)
radiooooo.com (cool site where you can listen to music played in a selected country and decade)
Assignment - Listening Reflection on International Stars
Algeria (Khaled)
Australia (Gurrumul)
Belize (Andy Palacio)
Benin (Angelique Kidjo)
Brazil (Gilberto Gil, Sergio Mendes, Antonio Carlos Jobim)
Cape Verde (Cesaria Evora)
Colombia (Carlos Vives)
Cuba (Silvio Rodriguez Buena Vista Social Club)
Dominican Republic (Juan Luis Guerra)
Egypt (Amr Diab)
France (Gipsy Kings, Edith Piaf, Manu Chao)
Guadeloupe/Martinique (Kassav)
Hawaii (Israel Kamakawiwoole)
India (Ravi Shankar, Kailash Kher)
Ireland (The Chieftains), Israel (Idan Raichel)
Jamaica (Bob Marley, Harry Belafonte)
Japan (Kyary Pamyu Pamyu)
Mali (Habib Koite, Salif Keita)
Nepal (Resham Filili - Jaalma II)
Niger (Bombino)
Pakistan (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)
Panama (Ruben Blades)
Puerto Rico/USA (Tito Puente)
Scotland (Capercaille)
Senegal (Youssou NDour)
Sierra Leone (Sierra Leones Refugee All Stars)
South Africa (Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miriam Makeba)
Traditional World Music Links and Resources
Assignment #1 - Classify the Instruments By Instrument Category *
Assignment #2 - Classify the Instruments by World Region *
Traditional World Instruments Playlist (youtube) (Indian Sub-Continent, Far East (Japan and China), Near East, Middle East, Africa, South America)
Traditional World Instruments by Region (African, Far Eastern, Indian/Middle Eastern, Latin American):
Music Literacy Links and Resources
Rhythm Reading
Tonal (Melodic) Reading
Word Wall
Songwriting
Miscellaneous
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