Month: January 2011

Discovery Orchestra Chat 8 – Texture Part 3

Part 3 in this series of Chats on musical texture! Watch and listen to Chat 5, Part 1. Watch and listen to Chat 6, Part 2. Sign up here to…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 7 – Cadence

What exactly is cadence in music? Find out in this Chat!

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 6 – Texture Part 2

Learn more about musical texture in this Chat! Watch and listen to Chat 5, Part 1. Watch and listen to Chat 8, Part 3. Sign up here to receive our…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 5 – Texture Part 1

All music has texture – find out what the different kinds are in this Discovery Orchestra Chat! Watch and listen to Chat 6, Part 2. Watch and listen to Chat…

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 4 – Did You Say Modal?

What exactly does modal refer to? Find out in this Discovery Orchestra Chat!

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Discovery Orchestra Chat 3 – Musical Paragraphs

Composers write the equivalent of sentences in music which we call “phrases”. Groups of phrases are put together to form “paragraphs” in music. Learning how to notice these paragraphs gives…

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Wow, thank you so much for sharing this wonderful program. Maestro Maull is a true master of oral presentation and explanation. Clear and engaging, friendly but challenging. He drew in the on-site crowd – and me – to think and listen. I resonated with the way he “taught” the crowd through normal conversational speech … thanks again for expanding my consciousness!

– “Discover Saint-Saens’ ‘Organ’ Symphony” television show viewer