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(1) The swing thing documentary - YouTube - 0 views

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    This YouTube documentary covers the history of swing. From Louis Armstrong to modern day artist like Michael Buble. It discusses how each era built on each other and the downfall of big bands was due to the cost to operate them.
cedenoa23

Episodes: Keeping Score | PBS - 0 views

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    Michael Tilson Thomas with the San Francisco Symphony creates Keeping Score. This series contains different documentaries about the history of music, the composers, conductors, musicians, locations and performances. Music educators can explore interactive multimedia, biographies of the composers and access the episodes to share with students.
hero1338

PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Classroom - 0 views

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    This website offers resources for teaching about jazz music in the general music classroom. The lesson plans and activities are based on the PBS documentary "Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns" and specifically designed for grades K-5 or 6-12.
Jessica Martin

BSO Webumentary Series - YouTube - 1 views

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    The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's YouTube page as a section dedicated to online documentaries, or "Webumentary Series," used for educational purposes on music history & the BSO performances of various works. Webumentaries range from videos on Beethoven's Fifth to West Side Story.
chammer

Big Voice - 0 views

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    The purpose of the resource is to provide educators and students will an accurate and telling documentary about high school choir. Specifically, this resource covers the very real issues regarding budget, atmosphere, and choral singing. It provides keen insight to both educators and students about the possibilities that can exist in choral program. Licensing and single copy purchase information is available as well as an overview of the film.
Jason Longtin

Jazz - a film by Ken Burns - 0 views

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    This is a great website for learning about the history and development of Jazz in the United States. It includes geography, musician biographies, information about musical instruments, and more!
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    PBS offers an amazing companion site to the 2000 Ken Burns documentary, Jazz.
s61white

Jazz | A Note from Ken Burns | Ken Burns - 1 views

  • They're the three most beautiful things Americans have ever created.
    • s61white
       
      Jazz is one of the greatest things Americans will be remembered for? That is a pretty weighty statement/
  • Jazz has offered a precise prism through which so much of American history can be seen — it is a curious and unusually objective witness to the 20th Century. It is the story of two world wars and a devastating Depression — the soundtrack that helped Americans get through the worst of times.
  • nd Jazz is also a story about race and race relations and prejudice, about minstrelsy and Jim Crow, lynchings and civil rights. Jazz explores the uniquely American paradox that our greatest art form was created by those who have had the peculiar experience of being unfree in our supposedly free land
    • s61white
       
      I tend to agree with this statement. So much of the jazz idioms are also found in the gospel music of African churches.
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  • In a filmed interview for a documentary history of our national pastime we made several years ago, the writer and essayist Gerald Early told us that "when they study our civilization two thousand years from now, there will only be three things that Americans will be known for: the Constitution, baseball and jazz music
ntatarka

SCORE: A Film Music Documentary | EDUCATORS - 0 views

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    This website provides educator resources for the movie Score. Resources include worksheets for the movie. Great for studying movie music in the classroom.
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