Secondary General Music Lesson Ideas
Videos
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YouTube Videos
Animated Classical Music (secondary age)
L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love)
BBC Documentary Series – Great Composers
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
Wagner
Classroom Instruments are Cool
Flight of the Bumble Bee - Boomwhackers
Clefs
Game On: Increasing Learning Through Online Games
Middle School
High School
Howard Goodall How Music Works Series
Melody
Rhythm
Harmony
Bass
Instruments of the Orchestra
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Multiple clips found on YouTube
Music Appreciation by Chris Wright Music
Chorale and Cantata
The Classical Symphony
The Rondo
Oratorio and Opera
The Fugue Explained
Smithsonian Folkways (lesson plans, audio recordings, virtual exhibitions, podcasts)
Mariachi
The Country Blues
Throat Singing
Strings of the North
Latino Chicago
Music of Ghana
Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena
Music of Central Asia
Many, many more
Individual Movies
Amadeus (Mozart)
Immortal Beloved (Beethoven)
Copying Beethoven
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
The Pianist (Chopin)
Sour Grapes (Bach, Beethoven, Bizet, Boccherini, Brahms, Grieg, Gounod, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Ponchielli,
Prokofiev, Rossini, Schuber, J. Strauss, von Suppe, Thomas)
HBO Composers' Specials (Bach, Bizet, Handel, Liszt, Rossini, J. Strauss)
BBC Great Composers' Series (Bach, Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Wagner)
I, Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Testimony (Shostakovich)
Impromtu (Chopin)
Bride of the Wind (Mahler)
Mozart's Sister (Nannearl Mozart)
Rhapsody Rabbit (Liszt)
Fantasia - 1940 (Bach, Beethoven, Dukas, Mussorgsky, Ponchielli, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky)
Fantasia - 2000 (Beethoven, Dukas, Elgar, Gershwin, Respighi, Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich, Stravinsky)
