Silver Burdett Video Titles From The Music Connection

Compiled by Kimberly Walls


Grade 1 Storytelling

Trouble

I Had an Old Coat

Sing a Whale Song

The Nutcracker

Grade 1 Singing Games

Here Comes Valerie

La Vibora

Juggling Game

Che Che Koolay

Grade 1 How We Make Music

The Story: The first song ever sung: poem

Tapa Pounding: working to make sounds (Tonga)

Sasa (Samoa) dance body percussion working to make sounds

Hambone body percussion

Blackbird Bobby McFerren body percussion and falsetto

Flute, Drum, and Guitar (Ghana drum gold flute)

Panpipe, Pipa, and Violin Bolivian musicians, Chinese lute, child playing violin

This is the Day Soul Children of Chicago gospel body percussion

Grade 2 Music for Special Occasions

Royal Fireworks Music (minuet)

The Stars and Stripes Forever

Nongak (Korea)

Carnaval (South America)

Kwanzaa Celebration

Arp's Anniversary Song

Grade 2 Rhythm

Rhythms around us

Juggler

Mexican folk dance (unaccompanied)

London Bridge (melodic rhythm)

Kodo (Japan, taiko)

Compagnons d'Akati (Ivory Coast drums)

Steve Gadd (drum set)

Zudio (moving to the song)

Grade 3 One Voice, Many Voices

Story about animals singing in harmony

Jean Ritchie and Reel World String Band (folk bluegrass)

A Ram Sam (Moroccoan round)

Sandyland and Skip to my Lou partner song

Row Row Row Your Boat, ostinato and round

Great Getting Up Morning, Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers, arranged spiritual

Ballo (Italy, male quartet imitating instruments)

Our Melody (Fraggle Rock)

Grade 3 Folk Dance

Rain Dance story (African)

South American harvesting sugar cane folk dance

Turkish folk dance in lines

American square dance

Russian dance in circles

Learn La Raspa Mexican folk dance

Grade 3 Creating Music

Comparing composing to baking with correct ingredients

Elements

Rondo form

Flight of the Bumblebee by Korsakov

Instrumental ensemble from India (Ram Narayan, Sarangi, sarod)

Gamelan (Indonesia)

Grade 4 Percussion Instruments

Percussion ensemble from Senegal (drums)

Brazilian samba (drum, guitar, recoreco, ganza, cowbell, cuica)

Latin American salsa (piano, drum set, trumpet, electric bass, guiro, conga)

Percussion improvisation (spoons, forks, tuning forks)

Gamelan music (metallophones, gongs, cymbals, drums)

Korean percussion ensemble (Gongs, drums)

Percussion ensemble arrangement of "Dance of Vengeance" (bass drum, snare drum, tom tom, triangle, cymbal, vibraphone, glockenspiel, marimba, timpani, sleigh bells, metallaphone)

Grade 4 String Instruments: Bowed

Zhang Xiaohui, Erhu and Li Xiaoyuan, Yangqin

Kevin and Joshua Moore, Fiddles

Orchestra da Camera

Leila Josefowicz, age 3, violin

Leila Josefowicz, age 9, violin

Leila Josefowicz, age 12, violin

Paul Neubauer, viola

Carter Brey, cello

Gary Karr, double bass

Guarneri Quartet, string quartet

Cleveland Institute of Music Youth Orchestra, Janos Suite

Grade 4 Singing Styles

Whitney Houston, Star Spangled Banner, gospel

Bobby McFerrin, jazz

Tom Paxton, American folk, Appalachian

Pam Tillis, country

Diane Schuur, jazz

Pink Floyd, rock

Second Edition, barbershop, American choral sound

King's Singers, British choral sound

Hei-Kyung Hong, La Boheme, opera

Shanghai School of Music, Chinese children singing, nasal

Daisy Eagan, American child singing, open

Bambini di Praga, Czechoslovakian choral singing, nasal

Oklahoma Collegium Musicum, Monteverdi

Total Experience Gospel Choir

Grade 5 String Instruments: Plucked

Electric Guitar

Acoustic Guitar

Lute

Pipa (Chinese)

Balalaika

Charagno and Ensemble (Andes)

Ukulele Ensemble (Hawaii)

Banjo

Banjo and Acoustic Guitar (Bluegrass)

Acoustic Guitar

Acoustic Guitar and Piano

Guitar Ensemble

Zheng (China)

Koto (Japan)

Harp

Grade 5 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

Foster: Medley (Trad. Chinese Instruments)

Mozart Concerto in G

Tartini Sonata in G Minor

Chinese Traditional Melody (Erhu)

Eccles Sonata for Cello and Piano

Mozart Variatons on "Ah, vous dirai-je Maman" (Piano)

Brahms Concerto in D

 

Grade 5 Wind Instruments: Wood

Bolivian Flutes and Ensemble (Peru)

Panpipes and Ensemble (Peru)

Shakuhachi (Japan)

Sao (Vietnam)

Bagpipe (Scotland)

Shawm (Vietnam)

Oboe (Peter and the Wolf, Prokofiev)

Bassoon and Piano (Vivaldi)

Sopranino Recorder and Accordian (J.S. Bach Badinerie)

Soprano Recorder, Cello, and Harpsichord (Telemann Sonata)

Baroque Flute, Cello, and Harpsichord (Telemann Sonata)

Flute and Piano (Gossec)

Clarinet and Piano (Saint-Saens)

Flute and Jazz Ensemble (Bach)

Grade 6 Percussion Instruments: Tuned

Marimba ensemble (Zimbabwe)

Warren Wolf (USA Bach marimba)

Roneat players (Vietnam)

T'rung and angklung players (Vietnam xylophones and rattle)

Gamelan (Java)

Steel drums (Trinidad and Tobago)

Grade 6 Dancing

Compagonons d' Akati Ivory Coast

Marica Merrill, Flamenco

Classical Dancers, Cambodian

The Cape Fox Dancers, Alaska

Aloha Dalire's Dancers, hula

Slask Dancers, Poland

Alexander Godunov, Russia/USA

The National Tap Dance Company, Canada

Grade 6 Wind Instruments: Brass

US Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, America the Beautiful

Trumpet demonstration

Wynton Marsalis Quartet, Nozz Moe King

Bryan Lowe, French horn, Tchaikovsky Sym #5

Steve Wampler, Trombone, Raiders of the Lost Ark

Jay Huntsberger, Tuba, Vaughan Williams concerto

Randoph Whittle, Euphonium, Arutiunian concerto

Euphonium Ensemble of Indiana University, Gabrielli Canzona

Canadian Brass, Carnival of Venice, Handful of Keys by Waller

Cleveland Institute of Music Youth Orchestra, Koday Janos Suite

Grade 7 Unusual Sound Sources

The Wind Harp of Bainbridge Island

Electronic Digital Sound Sampling

Metaphonics (Sounds from the Junkyard)

Grade 7 Performing in Groups

Mallet Percussion Ensemble

Dvorak Trio

Haydn Trio

Yeni Ses folk ensemble (Turkey, saz and drum)

Taypi Kala folk ensemble (Bolivia, drum, guitar, charano, panpipes rattle)

Instrumental ensemble (China, dongxiao, erhu, sheng, zzheng, yangqin, pipa)

Dou Dou Rose Ensemble (Senegal, drums)

Seattle Symphony, Copland Street in a Frontier Town

Total Experience Gospel choir (children, America)

Pink Floyd (Learning to Fly)

 

 

Grade 7 Keyboards

Piano

Boy playing piano

8-hands piano

Jazz rhythm section

Harpsichord

Clavichord

Fortepiano

Acoustic piano

Prepared piano

Pipe organ

Electronic organ

Synthesizers-Don Muro

Grade 8 Jazz and Improvisation

Eagle Park Slim singing Sweet Home Chicago (blue notes, blues)

Louis Armstrong playing On the Sunny Side of the Street (jazz)

Wynton Marsalis plays Big Butter and Egg Man

Cliff Lenz plays Golden Slippers (ragtime)

Overton Barry and Bruce Phares improvise on Mary Had a Little Lamb (piano and bass)

Emily Beaulieu and Bruce Phares improvise on Meet the Flintstones

Diane Schuur sings and plays It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got that Swing

Dominant Seventh high school a cappella group

Canadian Brass Bach Fugue in C minor (jazzy)

Rosehill Jazz Ensemble (junior high)

Grade 8 Theater and Film

Westside Delegation Show choir

Nongak, Samul Nori (Korean drums)

Michigan Marching Band

Vietnam Water Puppets, Italian Opera

Children's Chorus from Bizet's Carmen

Silent Film

Alligator Scene

Wild About Anchorage (cartoon)

Grade 8 Technology and Music