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Rebecca and Lauren give the story behind the carol and Mid Carolina High School Chorus performs O Holy Night.Music Collection
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O Holy Night | Stories Behind the Carols We Love to Sing 108
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108
Joy to the World | Stories Behind the Carols We Love to Sing 107
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107
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Jilly gives the story behind the carol and The Mid Carolina High School Chorus sings Joy to the World.
A. Introduction: Stories Behind the Carols We Love to Sing 101
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101
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This program features South Carolina school choirs performing holiday favorites and providing the history of these well-known carols. The program includes choruses from Dutch Fork Middle School, Irmo...
Go Tell It On the Mountain | Stories Behind the Carols We Love to Sing 104
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104
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Rachael gives the story behind the carol and The Honors Chorus of Dutch Fork Middle School sing Go Tell It On The Mountain.
Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and Melody | A Minute with Miles
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Already during their lifetimes, Antonin Dvorák and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky were among the most famous composers in the world. Their music is extremely sophisticated, the product of highly skilled...
Chamber Music Rehearsals | A Minute with Miles
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Chamber music rehearsals are very different from orchestra rehearsals. In an orchestra rehearsal, it’s the conductor’s job to make the overall musical decisions and to ensure that the members of the...
Francis Poulenc | A Minute with Miles
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Francis Poulenc didn’t have to depend on composition for his living—he was the heir to the fortune of the Rhône-Poulenc pharmaceutical company—but he nonetheless turned out an enormous body of work in...
Program Notes for Non-Musicians | A Minute with Miles
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A word of advice today for non-musicians reading program notes in concert programs: If the program notes are heavy on technical analysis and are loaded with terms like modulation, inversion...
Atonal Music | A Minute with Miles
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Atonal music is music that isn’t written in a key, music that doesn’t follow the traditional rules of harmony. But although the term “atonal” tells us what a piece isn’t, it doesn’t tell us what it is...
Atonality vs Dissonance | A Minute with Miles
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Atonality and dissonance are often linked in listeners’ minds, but they’re not the same thing. Dissonance, from the Latin words for “sounding” and “apart,” is the simultaneous sounding of two or more...