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Applied Music Practicum: Streaming Music, Films and Online Content

Films on Demand and More

Equal Temperament (Pythagoras believed that music originates in nature and that natural harmonies express very distinct mathematical relationships between their notes.)
Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 (Documentary film on the history surrounding the composition.)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 4 (The 1939 premier was canceled to avoid {Shostakovich's] political persecution.)
Playing the Flute (Step-by-step lessons.)
Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles

Search for more titles at Films on Demand.

Resource Tools and Online Content

Tools by Type: Find which tools to use.

Arkivmusic: find recordings as well as dates of composition.  When you find a recording of interest, go to Naxos Music Library to listen.

Boston Symphony Orchestra Media Center (click on "Notes" on the right)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Program Notes

Directory of Open Access Journals Free full-text online music journals.

Naxos Music Library: includes streaming music, playlists, fundamental terms, dictionary, bibliographies, guided era tours, opera synopses, podcasts, and more.

Oxford Music Online. Includes Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and Oxford Companion to Music, with more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works.

Program Notes Wiki

San Francisco Symphony Program Notes

Silver Clef Music Public-domain Program Notes

Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music Referencing Guide (from Monash Univesity)

 

 

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