Exploring Extremes: Music to the Max!
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 9 years ago -When it comes to creating music, composers like to push the limits. Get ready to hear how!
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NSO Young People's Concert: Exploring Extremes - Student Cuesheet
October 03, 2014 13:35 - 8.76 MB application/pdfStudent Cuesheet for the 2014-2015 National Symphony Orchestra's Young People's Concert, Exploring Extremes: Music to the Max!
NSO Young People's Concert: Exploring Extremes - Teacher Cuesheet
October 03, 2014 13:34 - 3.9 MB application/pdfTeacher Cuesheet for the 2014-2015 National Symphony Orchestra's Young People's Concert, Exploring Extremes: Music to the Max!
Exploring Extremes: Stars and Stripes and Everything We've Learned
October 01, 2014 14:19 - 8 minutes - 9.27 MBStudents review all four of the musical extremes featured on this CD through John Philip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever March.
Exploring Extremes: Loud and Quiet: The Deal with Dynamics
October 01, 2014 14:14 - 11 minutes - 133 MBStudents learn that composers use musical dynamics or extremes in volume to create music. By listening to Gustav Mahler’s Symphonies No. 2 and No. 5, students also experience the role extreme dynamics plays in expressing big emotions and ideas.
Exploring Extremes: Big and Small: Meet the Orchestra
October 01, 2014 14:09 - 8 minutes - 10 MBStudents will learn about the third extreme composers consider—size—referring to both an instrument’s size and that of an orchestra. Students will also be introduced to the four families or sections of an orchestra. Students focus on Richard Strauss’ An Alpine Symphony.
Exploring Extremes: Fast-Slow, High-Low
October 01, 2014 14:05 - 10 minutes - 12.2 MBStudents are introduced to two pairs of musical extremes that a composer chooses from his toolbox to create music—tempo and pitch—through the music of Aram Khachaturian’s wild "Sabre Dance."
Exploring Extremes: Introduction
October 01, 2014 14:01 - 4 minutes - 5.01 MBStudents are introduced to the concept of musical extremes and opposites, and how a composer uses these special tools to make their music sound dramatic and powerful. Specifically, students will learn about tempo, pitch, size, and musical dynamics.