Music Appreciation and History Lapbook and Notebook
We will begin the Music Appreciation and History Lapbook and Notebook that will be used though all grades. We will be using the following curriculum:
BOOK: Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and what the neighbors thought) by Kathleen Krull
BOOK: The Usborne Famous Composers Reference Book by Anthony Marks
BOOK: 1000 Makers of the Millennium by DK
The Music Appreciation and History Lapbook and Notebook will follow this outline:
- Introduction to Orchestra
- Periods of Music
- Keyboard Vocabulary
- Composers Collection
- Pieces with a Purpose
- Composers Timeline
- Music Appreciation
- Composer Reports
- Instrument Word Scrambles
- Music Bingo Cards
The Music Appreciation and History Lapbook and Notebook will cover the following composers and musicians:
Guido of Arezzo
Des Prez
Palestrina
Monteverdi
Vivaldi
READ ALOUD: I, Vivaldi by Janice Shefelman and Tom Shefelman
READ ALOUD: The Story Orchestra: Four Seasons in One Day: Press the note to hear Vivaldi’s music by Jessica Courtney-Tickle
READ ALOUD: Vivaldi and the Invisible Orchestra by Stephen Costanza
READ ALOUD: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by Anna Harwell Celenza
Couperin
Johann Sebastian Bach x2
READ ALOUD: Bach (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
READ ALOUD: Sebastian Bach, The Boy from Thuringia (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
MOVIE: Fantasia by Disney
George Handel x2
READ ALOUD: Handel (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
READ ALOUD: Handel at the Court of Kings (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
Haydn
READ ALOUD: Joseph Haydn, The Merry Little Peasant (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart x2
READ ALOUD: Mozart (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
READ ALOUD: Mozart, The Wonder Boy (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
Ludwig Van Beethoven x2
READ ALOUD: Beethoven (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
READ ALOUD: Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
Schubert
READ ALOUD: Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Schumann
READ ALOUD: Robert Schumann and Mascot Ziff (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
Frederic Chopin x2
READ ALOUD: Chopin (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
READ ALOUD: Frederic Chopin, Son of Poland, Early Years (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
READ ALOUD: Frederick Chopin, Son of Poland, The Later Years (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
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- Verdi
- Liszt
- Wagner
READ ALOUD: Adventures of Richard Wagner (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
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- Gounod
- Strauss II
- Cui
- Smetana
- Mussorgsky
- Borodin
- Grieg
- Peter Tchaikovsky x2
READ ALOUD: Tchaikovsky (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
READ ALOUD: Peter Tchaikovsky and the Nutcracker Ballet (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
READ ALOUD: The Story of Peter Tchaikovsky (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
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- Johannes Brahms x2
READ ALOUD: Brahms (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
READ ALOUD: The Young Brahms (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
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- John Philip Sousa x2
READ ALOUD: John Philip Sousa (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
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- Dvorak
- Strauss (Richard)
- Mahler
- Balakirev
- Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944); American
- Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Rachmaninov) (April 1, 1873 – March 28, 1943); Russian
- Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (March 18, 1844 – June 21, 1908); Russian
- Achille-Claude Debussy (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918); French
- Igor Stravinsky (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971); Russian x2
READ ALOUD: Stravinsky (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
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- Samuel Augustus Ward (December 28, 1847 – September 28, 1903); American
- George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937); American x2
READ ALOUD: George Gershwin (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
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- Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937); French
- Sergei Prokofiev (April 23, 1891 – March 5, 1953); Russian
- Duke Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974); American
READ ALOUD: Duke Ellington (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
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- Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990); American
READ ALOUD: Copland (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
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- Samuel Barber (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981); American
- Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990); American x2
READ ALOUD: Leonard Bernstein (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
We will be reading the following supplemental books:
READ ALOUD: Music of the Great Composers by Patrick Kavanaugh
READ ALOUD: Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers by Patrick Kavanaugh
READ ALOUD: The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influence by Jane Stuart Smith
READ ALOUD: The Story of the Orchestra by Robert Levine, Meredith Hamilton, and Robert T. Levine
READ ALOUD: Bravo! Brava! A Night at the Opera: Behind the Scenes with Composers, Cast, and Crew by Anne Siberell
READ ALOUD: The Beatles (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers Series) by Mike Venezia
READ ALOUD: Stephen Foster and His Little Dog Tray (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
READ ALOUD: Edward MacDowell and His Cabin in the Pines (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
READ ALOUD: Paganini, Master of Strings (Great Musicians Series) by Opal Wheeler
We will be listening to musical compositions from the composers and musicians using iTunes.
