Here is a fun music video that was created about the movie, The Wizard of Oz. The music is a combination of many of pop songs. The fun part is that the words still help tell the story of the The Wizard of Oz! Do you recognize any of the songs? The singers in this video are Todrick Hall, who was a finalist in season 9 of American Idol, and the a capella singing group, Pentatonix, who won the third season of The Sing-Off. The word "a capella" means that people are singing without any accompaniment from other instruments. You will hear what sounds like drums and a bass guitar in the music video, but each of those are actually one of the members of the group making those sounds! Enjoy your visit to Oz!
These days, computers allow us to create music out of any kind of sound. You can even change the words someone speaks so that it sounds like a note! In the video below, you will hear a remix of scenes from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. A remix is a song in which the original song or, in this case, spoken words, are changed to create a new song. The pitch of Mr. Rogers' voice has been edited using a computer so that it sounds like notes in the song. This could also be an example of sampling. Sampling takes parts, or samples, of a sound recording and reuses it in another song or piece of music.
Definitions of remix and sampling from wikipedia.com.
