Meet the Great Composers Book 1 w/ Online Access
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. The Classroom Kit contains the book and audio combo 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: | 9780882848556 |
| EAN/UPC: | 038081124513 |
| Length in Inches: | 12 |
| Width in Inches: | 9 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.5 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.6 |
| Publication Date: | 7/1/1995 |