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All-Star Orchestra

This course has been retired

This course is no longer being maintained or updated while we focus our limited resources on other courses.

Unit 1: Music basics

Notes and rhythm: Music basicsReading music: Music basics

Unit 2: Band instrument lessons

Woodwinds: Band instrument lessonsBrass: Band instrument lessonsPercussion: Band instrument lessons
Auditioning: Band instrument lessons

Unit 3: Masterpieces old and new

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5: Masterpieces old and newPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4: Masterpieces old and newRobert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish": Masterpieces old and newJohannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture: Masterpieces old and newAntonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": Masterpieces old and newGustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 – 1st Movement : Masterpieces old and newIgor Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird: Masterpieces old and newMaurice Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloe: Masterpieces old and new
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5: Masterpieces old and newIntroduction to Philip Glass' "Harmonium Mountain": Masterpieces old and newBernard Rands: Adieu: Masterpieces old and newAugusta Read Thomas: Of Paradise and Light: Masterpieces old and newBright Sheng: Black Swan: Masterpieces old and newRichard Danielpour: Piano Concerto No. 4, Movement III: Masterpieces old and newDavid Stock: Blast!: Masterpieces old and newEllen Taaffe Zwilich: Avanti!: Masterpieces old and newJoseph Schwantner: The Poet's Hour: Masterpieces old and new

Unit 4: Instruments of the orchestra

Strings: Instruments of the orchestraWoodwinds: Instruments of the orchestraBrass: Instruments of the orchestra
Percussion : Instruments of the orchestra
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