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approach the content in an interdisciplinary manner, covering the areas of Ear
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Training, Harmony, and Counterpoint. David Bruce, Rick Beato, Music Mat­
ters, Adam Neely, and Nahre Sol teach about the modes, explaining the scale
structure, playing, improvising, and composing. The major and minor tonali-
ties were covered by Rick Beato, Music Matters, Adam Neely and Nahre Sol,
combining the theoretical and practical perspective in a similar way. In one of
his videos, Adam Neely practices the diatonic major scale through two octa-
ves in all twelve tonalities for almost five hours, playing ascending and descen-
ding intervals and chords. The whole-tone scale is explained by Rick Beato and
the Music Matters channel, showing how Debussy used it in his music. Inter-
val structure and recognition is covered by Gareth Green on the Music Matters
channel, while Adam Neely tried to answer some of the following questions:
Is a perfect 4th dissonant? What is the most dissonant interval? Creators con-
ducted theoretical studies of chords and their practical use, talking also about
opposite chord qualities and negative harmony. As a very broad term in music,
‘harmony’ is not considered exclusively in the context of tonality. The creators
talk about the harmonization of popular music, jazz, and many other genres,
and pay particular attention to the role of harmony in composing, arranging,
improvising, and performing music, discussing also reharmonization.
YouTube creators do not consider classical music superior to other types
of music, and they provide analyses of popular, film, and video game music.
Their approach to classical and ‘non-classical’ music is equally professional and
detailed: in the series named ‘Composer Insights’, Gareth Green (Music Mat­
ters channel) covered popular artists such as David Bowie, George Michael,
and Whitney Houston. Analyses of film music (like The Matrix soundtrack by
Don Davis) are provided on the Inside the Score channel. Regarding the mu­
sical forms category, we can find a lot of videos about the structural elements
of music (e.g. the creation and use of motifs on the Music Matters channel),
as well as forms like the fugue, sonata form and classical concerto. Nahre Sol
explains the need for comprehensive musical analysis, working on the Mazur­
ka op. 59 no. 1 by F. Chopin in one of her videos. In the category of musicologi­
cal content, there are a lot of videos covering style periods and genres, as well as
the characteristics of musical instruments and ensembles. In the video ‘Why
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is Mozart a genius?’ (Inside the Score), we can learn about Mozart’s life and his
music. Numerous videos are dedicated to composers in a similar way, including
Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, Brahms, Bruckner, Satie, Shostakovich,
Rachmaninoff, Ligeti, Holst, etc. In the series ‘How to sound like...’ Nahre Sol
describes the music of some of the most important composers in history, and at
the end of each video she writes and performs a short musical piece in the style

5 E.g. ‘A Very Short History of Classical Music’, ‘Program Music - Is It Wrong to Tell a Sto-
ry with Music?’, ‘Percussion: the stars of the show?’ (all three by David Bruce Composer),
‘What is a baroque orchestra?’ (Music Matters), ‘Why is the organ the future of music?’ (In-
side the Score), and many others.

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