Silver Burdett Video Titles
From The Music ConnectionCompiled 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