Meet the Great Composers Book 1 Only
Description
Each unit on a famous composer takes approximately 20 minutes to complete and can be used in group teaching, home school or as an assignment for individual upper elementary or middle school students. A Classroom Kit is also available and contains this book along with a CD and reproducible activity sheets. The companion repertoire book contains simplified arrangements of famous themes.
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.
| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 3-12 |
| Brand: | Alfred Publishing |
| Author: | June Montgomery |
| ISBN: | 9780739010495 |
| EAN/UPC: | 038081124506 |
| Length in Inches: | 12 |
| Width in Inches: | 9 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.5 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.6 |
| Pages: | 72 |
| Publication Date: | 7/1/1995 |