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Meet the Great Composers Classroom Kit, Book 2
SKU
000165
ISBN
9780739013496
Grade 3-12
Classical
Neutral
Low Teacher Involvement
Multi-Sensory
No other materials needed
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Charlotte Mason
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Description
Classroom kits include Book 2 with CD and the corresponding set of 17 reproducible activity sheets.
Publisher's Description of Meet the Great Composers Classroom Kit, Book 2
The Classroom Kit contains Meet the Great Composers Book 2, the companion CD, and reproducible activity sheets.
Category Description for Meet the Great Composers
If you want to expose your children to the composers and their music but don’t have a lot of time to do it, Meet the Great Composers might be a good fit.
Each Book has 17 units which cover composers from the Baroque to Contemporary period. Lessons include a picture and short fact sheet about the composer, a suggested listening, a story of the composer’s life, a study of his music or an event from the time in which he lived, and a review in the form of a puzzle or game. These take only 20-30 minutes to complete. Reproducible Activity Sheets from the book are also available separately.
Book 1 covers Bach, Scarlatti, Handel, Haydn, Clementi, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Joplin, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Bartók and Kabalevsky.
Book 2 includes Couperin, Kuhlau, Schubert, Hensel, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Foster, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Grieg, MacDowell, Beach, Granados, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Gershwin and Barber.
The Classroom Kit includes Book 1 or 2 with CD and set of 17 activity sheets. Books are also available separately.
This course will give your children a decent overview of the great composers, the time period in which they worked, and an idea of what their music was like.
Details
| Product Format: | Other |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 3-12 |
| Brand: | Alfred Publishing |
| ISBN: | 9780739013496 |
| EAN/UPC: | 038081155029 |
| Length in Inches: | 12 |
| Width in Inches: | 9 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.25 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1 |
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