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Year 1
THE ORCHESTRA – Read The Orchestra by Mark Rubin and Alan Daniel. Listen to Bernstein Favorites: Children’s Classics -Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of Animals.
BALLET – Read The Nutcracker by Hoffman or Vagin. Listen to Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite. Try, try, try to watch a live performance. They are often available during the Christmas season. Let your child get close to the orchestra.
OPERA – Read Pet of the Met by Lydia Freeman
Listen to Mozart: Magic Flute Opera.
Year 2
MEDIEVAL MUSIC-While studying this time period in history, we enjoy the music of the time.
1. “A Feather on the Breath of God: Sequences and Hymns by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen” featuring Emma Kirkby and Gothic Voices
2. “Salve Regina – Gregorian Chant” by Benedictine Monks of Saint-Maurice; Saint Maur of Clervaux
3. “A Dance In the Garden of Mirth: Medieval Instrumental Music” by the Dufay Collective
Years 3-7 are suitable as group studies for the entire family. We listen to an interesting biography over three weeks and then spend the rest of the term enjoying the composer’s music. Generally, we draw what comes to mind as we listen. This is all we do. NO lessons. No worksheets. Just listen and enjoy it.
Year 3
The Story of Bach in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Bach
The Story of Handel in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Handel
The Story of Haydn in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Haydn
Year 4
The Story of Mozart in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Mozart
The Story of Beethoven in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Beethoven
The Story of Schubert in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Schubert
Year 5
The Story of Mendelssohn in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Mendelssohn
The Story Verdi in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Verdi
The Story Schumann (and Grieg) in Words and Music
Greatest Hits:Schumann
Year 6
The Story of Chopin in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Chopin
The Story of Wagner in Words and Music (pronounced Vogner)
Greatest Hits: Wagner
The Story of Grieg (and Schumann) in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Grieg
Year 7
The Story of Strauss in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Strauss
The Story of Brahms in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Brahms
The Story of Dvorak in Words and Music
Greatest Hits: Dvorak
Year 8
Listen to Opera For Everyone: This program is currently free and downloadable and compare with the Proverbs.
Barber of Seville
Carmen
Madame Butterfly
Year 9
Concise Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music 4 CD set
Music and Moments with the Masters by Quine (Classical Composers and the Christian World View section)
Gift of Music by Jane Stuart Smith, Betty Carlson, Francis A. Schaeffer
Add composers to your timeline notebook as you study them.
Year 10
Concise Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music 4 CD set
Music and Moments with the Masters by Quine (Classical Composers and the Christian World View section)
Gift of Music by Jane Stuart Smith, Betty Carlson, Francis A. Schaeffer
Add composers to your timeline notebook as you study them.
Note: If you cannot get Quine’s book, It is possible to complete this study without it. Your students can slowly listen to the anthology of music and read the biographies and world views of the composers in Gift of Music as they come up in the recordings. This anthology will also familiarize your family with other composers that were not covered in previous years. Make sure they read Frances Schaeffer’s How Should We Then Live? for a more in depth understanding of how the composers’ world views’ influenced their music.
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2001-2002 TERM 1 (This term’s artists are Renoir, Rodin)
Claude Debussy (1910) (Impressionist)
Listening Selections for this term:
Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faun
La Mer
Nocturnes for Orchestra
Suite Bergamasqe includesClaire de Lune
Children’s Corner
Jeux
2001-2002 TERM 2 (This term’s artists are Ruisdale, de Hooch)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Listening selections for this term:
Brandenburg Concerto no. 2
St. Matthew Passion (for 4 weeks)
Toccata and Fugue in d minor (do-able in 2 weeks)
Well-Tempered Clavier (Prelude and Fugue in C minor, Book I)
Goldberg Variations
2001-2002 TERM 3 (This term’s artists are Gauguin, Cezanne, Seurat)
Opera Overtures
Listening selections for this term:
Giuseppi Verdi Aida overture
Giuseppi Verdi Rigoletto overture
Giacomo Puccini Madame Butterfly overture
Giacamo Puccini La Boheme overture
Gioacchino Rossini Barber of Seville overture
Gioacchino Rossini William Tell overture
2002-2003 TERM 1 (This term’s artists are Copley, Gilbert Stuart)
Franz Josef Haydn (1780) (Classical)
Listening selections for this term:
String Quartet Op 76 no 3 “Emperor” OR String Quartet Op 76 no 4 “Sunrise” (2 weeks)
London Symphony no 104 (4 weeks)
The Creation (4 weeks)
a horn concerto (2 weeks)
2002-2003 TERM 2 (This term’s artist is Degas, Manet)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1880) (Romantic)
Listening selections for this term:
Symphony no 6 “Pathetique”
Piano Concerto no 1
Serenade for Strings
1812 Overture
String Quartet in D maj (Andante Cantabile)
Swan Lake
2002-2003 TERM 3 (This term’s art is representing the Hudson River School)
Mark O’Connor (1961- ) Modern, American
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971 (Modern, b. Russia, France 1920-1939, US citizenship 1939 til death)
Listening selections for this term:
Mark O’Connor – Fanfare for the Volunteer
Mark O’Connor – The American Seasons
Mark O’Connor – Strings and Threads Suite
Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird
Igor Stravinsky – Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms
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2003-2004 TERM 1 (This term’s artists are Rubens, Velasquez)
Children’s Classics
Listening selections for this term:
Benjamin Britten-Young person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Sergei Prokofiev-Peter and the Wolf
Paul Dukas-Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Engelbert Humperdinck-Hansel and Gretel
Claude Debussy-La Boite A Joujoux (The Toy Box, a ballet for children)
Georges Bizet-Jeux d’enfants, op. 22 (Children’s games)
We suggest you schedule as many of these selections as you can comfortably find resources for. These particular pieces are usually easily found at public libraries. If your local branch doesn’t have them, ask for them through interlibrary loan. You should also be able to find many used copies available at local used bookstores or internet sites such as www.half.com or www.ebay.com .
2003-2004 TERM 2 (This term’s artists are Corot, Courbet)
Johannes Brahms (1880) (Romantic)
Listening selections for this term:
Variations on a theme of Haydn
Symphony no 1 Opus 68
Violin Concerto in D
Piano Concerto no 2 Op 83
Tragic Overture Op 81
Wiegenlied (Lullaby)
2003-2004 TERM 3 (This term’s artists are Ingres, David)
Franz Schubert (1823) (Late Classical/Early Romantic)
Listening selections for this term:
Trout quintet
Symphony no. 8 (“Unfinished”)
Symphony no. 9 (“The Great”) (2 weeks)
Impromptus op. 90 (D. 899)
Die schone Mullerin (a song cycle)
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2004-2005 TERM 1 (This term’s artist is Mary Cassatt)
Antonin Dvorak (1888) (AN-toe-NEEN d-VOR-zhak) 1841-1904, Late Romantic
Listening selections for this term:
Symphony 9 From the New World
Slavonic Dances
Carnaval Overture (may also be spelled Karneval)
Humoresques for piano
Quartet in F maj (“American”)
Trio in E min (“Dumky”)
Recordings of these pieces may be available at public libraries. If your local branch doesn’t have them, ask for them through interlibrary loan. You should also be able to find many used copies available at local used bookstores or internet sites such as www.half.com or www.ebay.com .
2004-2005 TERM 2 (This term’s artist is Giotto)
Medieval Era Music (see Notes for this Term)
Listening selections for this term:
1. “A Feather on the Breath of God: Sequences and Hymns by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen” featuring Emma Kirkby and Gothic Voices; Hyperion label.
2. “Salve Regina – Gregorian Chant” by Benedictine Monks of Saint-Maurice & Saint Maur of Clervaux; Philips label, Silver Line Classics series.
3. “A Dance In the Garden of Mirth: Medieval Instrumental Music” by the Dufay Collective; Chandos label.
Alternate Option – “Miri It Is” by the Dufay Collective; Chandos label. [If you choose to purchase only this CD, we do urge you to check your library for Gregorian chant and Hildegard of Bingen selections to supplement your study.]
2004-2005 TERM 3 (This term’s artist is Winslow Homer)
Aaron Copland (1930) & George Gershwin (American)
Listening selections for this term:
Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring
Aaron Copland Billy the Kid or Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copland Rodeo
George Gershwin American in Paris
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin Concerto in F maj
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2005-2006 TERM 1 (This term’s artist is Michelangelo)
Ludwig von Beethoven (1810) (Classical/Romantic) this term subject to change
Listening selections for this term:
1. Symphony 5 OR 6
2. Piano Sonata 14 (Moonlight, Opus 27) OR 8 (Pathetique, Opus 13)
3. Razumovsky String Quartets Opus 59, no 1-3 OR Septet in E-flat Opus 20
4. Piano Concerto 5 (Emperor, Opus 73)
5. Symphony 7 OR 9 (Opus 125)
6. Fidelio
(Options are offered for those who did Beethoven with us in 1999 and would like some new music this term.)
2005-2006 TERM 2 (This term’s artist is Jan Vermeer)
Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695, Baroque)
Listening selections for this term:
Selections based on the CD “Essential Purcell” from the Hyperion label. Available from amazon.com Barnes and Noble
2005-2006 TERM 3 (This term’s artist is John William Waterhouse)
Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899) (Romantic)
One possible CD suggestion, although most collections will be just as suitable:
Strauss Favorite Waltzes, Franz Welser-Möst, and London Philharmonic Orchestra
Includes these waltzes:
1. Artist’s Life
2. Roses From The South
3. The Gypsy Baron: Overturen
4. Tales From The Vienna Woods
5. Emperor Waltz
6. Die Fledermaus
7. On The Beautiful Blue Danube
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2006-2007 TERM 1 (This term’s artist is Pieter Bruegel the Elder)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1785) (Classical/Roccoco) (This term may change in the future – next rotation, 2012)
Listening selections for this term:
Piano Concerto 20 (2 weeks)
Symphony 40 (4 weeks)
Quintet in A maj for clarinet (2 weeks)
Piano Sonata in A maj K.331 (2 weeks)
Concerto for bassoon and orchestra in B-flat major, K. 191 (the only bassoon concerto he wrote)
2006-2007 TERM 2 (This term’s artists is JMW Turner)
Robert Schumann (1848) (Early Romantic)
Listening selections for this term:
Carnaval (for piano)
Scenes from Childhood for piano
Symphony no 1 in B flat Op 38 “Spring”
Symphony no 2 in C Op 61
an arabeske or humoreske
Liederkreis or other song cycle
Lorraine N. collected some resources – biographies, free and pay downloads of the term’s music and posted it to the AO email list.
2006-2007 TERM 3 (This term’s artist is Titian)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883); Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) (German Romantic)
Listening selections for this term:
Wagner: Siefried’s Idyl (orchestral)
Wagner: Selections from The Valkyries (opera)
<> Wagner: The Love Feast of the Twelve Apostles (choral) (massive work requiring 1200 singers and 100 instruments!) (4 weeks)
Offenbach: Selections from Orpheus in the Underworld (opera)
Offenbach: Selections from The Tales of Hoffmann (opera)
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2007-2008 TERM 1 (This term’s artist is Da Vinci)
Music: Russian nationalists
Listening selections for this term:
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov- Scheherazade
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov-Symphony 2 ‘Antar’
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov-Cappriccio Espagnol
Alexander Borodin-Polovtsian Dances
Modest Mussorgsky-Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky-Night on Bald Mountain
2007-2008 TERM 2 (This term’s artist is Rembrandt)
George Frideric Handel (1750) (Baroque)
Listening selections for this term:
Messiah (an oratorio) (4 weeks)
Water music
Any of the organ concerti (such as Organ Concerto in B-flat Major, op. 7,no. 6)
Rinaldo (opera)
Harmonious Blacksmith (from suite in E major)
2007-2008 TERM 3 (This term’s artists are Grunwalde, Van Eyck)
Camille Saint-Saens & Hector Berlioz (1850) (Early Romantic)
Listening selections for this term:
Saint-Saens Symphony no 3 in C min
Saint-Saens Danse Macabre
Saint-Saens Carnaval of Animals
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Berlioz Dance of the Sylphs
Berlioz Rakoczy March from the Damnation of Faust
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2008-2009 TERM 1 (This term’s artists are Hals, Steen)
Johann Sebastain Bach (1730) (Baroque) term subject to change
Listening selections for this term:
Magnificat in D (4 weeks)
Chaconne (2 weeks)
any Church cantata (2 weeks)
Brandenburg Concerto no. 6 (2 weeks)
Art of the Fugue (2 weeks)
2008-2009 TERM 2 (This term’s artist is Goya)
Franz Liszt (1855) (Early Romantic)
Listening selections for this term:
Piano Concerto no 1
Hungarian Rhapsodies (esp no 2)
Les Preludes
Liebestraum for piano
Piano Sonata in B min
Mephisto Waltz
2008-2009 TERM 3 (This term’s artist is Van Gogh)
Gustav Mahler (1895) and Anton Bruckner (Late Romantic/20th Century)
Listening selections for this term:
Mahler: Symphony 1 (Titan)
Mahler: Symphony 9
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (song cycle)
Bruckner: Symphony no 4
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2009-2010 TERM 1 (This term’s artist is Raphael)
Music: 20th Century British
Listening selections for this term:
Ralph Vaughn Williams-Symphony 1
Ralph Vaughn Williams-Fantasia on Greensleeves
Ralph Vaughn Williams-Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Edward Elgar-Serenade for String Orchestra
Edward Elgar-Pomp and Circumstance
Edward Elgar-“Enigma” Variations
2009-2010 TERM 2 (This term’s artists are O’Keefe, Singer-Sargent)
Edvard Grieg (1890) & Jean Sibelius (nationalists)
Listening selections for this term:
Grieg Peer Gynt Suite no 1
Grieg Piano Concerto in A
Grieg Norwegian Dance no 2
Sibelius Finlandia
Sibelius Symphony 1 OR 2 (4 weeks)
2009-2010 TERM 3 (This term’s artist is Monet)
Maurice Ravel (1915) (Impressionist)
Listening selections for this term:
Daphne et Chloe – selections
Bolero
Mother Goose Suite
Pavane pour une infante dufunte
Piano Concerto in D for left hand
Rhapsody espagnole
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2010-2011 TERM 1 (This term’s artist is Albrecht Durer -1500, Renaissance)
Ludwig von Beethoven (1810) (Classical/Romantic)
Listening selections for this term:
Piano Sonata 8 (Pathetique) Opus 13
Piano Sonata 14 (Moonlight) Op 27
Symphony No. 3 (Erocia-meaning ‘heroic’) Opus 55
String Quartets opus 59, no.1-3 (Razumovsky Quartets)
Piano Concerto 5 (Emporer) Op 73
Symphony No. 9 (the one with Ode to Joy at the end) Opus 125
2010-2011 TERM 2 (This term’s artist is Carravagio 1600, Baroque)
Antonio Vivaldi (1730) (Baroque)
Listening selections for this term:
Gloria (choral work);
The Four Seasons;
Trio Sonata in C major, RV.82;
plus 3 concerti – Maybe one for violin, one for guitar and
one for a woodwind instrument such as oboe or bassoon.
2010-2011 TERM 3 (This term’s artists are Theodore Gericault 1820, Eugene Delacroix 1838 Romantic)
Frederic Chopin (1840) (Romantic)
Listening selections for this term:
Op 09 no 2 Nocturne in E flat maj
Op 10 no 3 Etude in E-maj
Op 10 no 12 Revolutionary Etude in C minor
Op 21 Piano Concerto number 2 in f minor
Op 28 Preludes no’s 15, 20 and either 16 or 17
Op 53 Polonaise in A flat, Heroic
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2011-2012 TERM 1 (This term’s artists are Antoine Watteau, Jean Honore Fragonard Rococo)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (early classical)
Listening selections for this term:
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
Requiem [A Vocal work]
Symphony no. 41 in C major (Jupiter)
Sinfonia Concertante
Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major (K.467)
2011-2012 TERM 2 (This term’s artist is Boticelli)
Felix Mendelssohn (1840) (Romantic)
Listening selections for this term:
Songs without words
Violin Concerto in E minor
Symphony no. 4 in A major (Italian) (4 weeks)
Octet in E-flat major
Fingal’s Cave (“Hebrides”) Overture
2011-2012 TERM 3 (This term’s artists are Pollack, Rockwell, Hopper)
Listening selections for this term:
Bela Bartok: String quartet no. 1
Bela Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Bela Bartok: Mikrokosmos
Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler (an orchestral work)
Paul Hindemith: Ludas Tonalis (solo piano)
Paul Hindemith: Viola Concerto, op. 36, no. 4
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