Music History & Appreciation

History of American Pop Music, featured on PBS. 2 30-min. DVDs and PDF teacher's guide.

Trace the history and development of Jazz in 2 30-minute videos with PDF teacher's guide.

Conductor Andrew Davis narrates, enlightens, and entertains in a narrative introduction to the instruments.

Boston Youth Symphony players are taken completely out of their comfort zones.

The history of music from European Ars Antiqua through American Rock.  Each DVD has two 30-min live performances before student audiences. 

Wynton Marsalis teaches the fundamentals with down-to earth humor, vivid examples (syncopation taught by dribbling a basketball), and a contagious love of music.

 PBS documents the migratory history of blues told by the musicians that lived it.