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Robert Schumann Resources

Cindy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:35:02 +0000

Schumann was February’s composer of the month. We’re off to learn about and listen to Brahms this month.

Robert Schumann

Duke Ellington Resources

Cindy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:12:50 +0000

We enjoyed Duke Ellington a lot! It was refreshing to hear a different style of music than we’ve been listening to so far this semester. We aren’t studying a composer in December. I’ll have resources in the sidebar again in January!

Duke Ellington

Making Music Fun – Biography and You Tube Performances

PBS Kids Biography

Books We’ll Read

CD’s We’ll Listen To

George Gershwin Composer Study

Cindy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:48:14 +0000

I hope these resources come in handy as you plan a study of George Gershwin!

George Gershwin

Classics for Kids

Books We’ll Read

CD’s We’ll Listen To

Vivaldi Resources

Cindy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:17:40 +0000

Vivaldi’s music and story have made for wonderful studies this month! We’re off to a more contemporary composer, George Gershwin, for the month of October.

Antonio Vivaldi

Classics for Kids

Book We Read

CD’s We Listened To

Don’t forget to sign up for the giveaway that takes place bright and early Thursday, October 1st!

Frederic Chopin

Cindy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:58:57 +0000

Here are the resources that have been in my sidebar for our month spent with Chopin. Vivaldi is in the sidebar through September.
Frederic Chopin

Classics for Kids

Listen

Book We’ll Read

Composer Study – Frederic Chopin

Cindy — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:41:28 +0000

Here’s Chopin’s sidebar info. You’ll probably see this in the sidebar next school year, too!
Frederic Chopin

Classics for Kids

Listen

Book We’ll Read

Johann Sebastian Bach

Cindy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:03:32 +0000

To make room for a new composer study in the sidebar, I’m transferring Bach resources into this post for future reference.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Classics For Kids

Listen to Bach

Artist Study – Nativities

Cindy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:20:17 +0000

This was our second week studying nativities of various artists. After seeing this great art project at That Artist Woman, I just knew it would be perfect for our study.

Here are our attempts at nativity silhouettes as we listened to Handel’s “Messiah”.

December Artist and Composer Studies

Cindy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:22:10 +0000

Thanks to the ladies at the CM Artist Study group, I’ve found a wonderful site for various nativity scenes that we’ll use for art study this month.

Each week, we’ll observe ALL of the paintings noticing different things each time like:

realism

colors

feelings

which ones capture the reverence best, or the joy best, etc

the number of people

who is consistently in each painting and why

what style pleases them most

what style pleases them least

Since we’re working on a daily scrapbook page to go along with the Names of Jesus unit and we’re frequently crafting this month, I doubt we’ll do any additional art besides the picture study.

Our composer of the month is – who else – George Frederick Handel. And we’ll be listening to – what else -the “Messiah”.

The biography will come mostly from Classics for Kids, and I may choose an activity or two from Cindy Downes free unit.

As for the “Messiah”, here is a nice explanation of the musical story. We own the “Messiah” on CD, but you can listen to parts of it online here.