Teaching Music Across History

Teaching Music Across History By Valeaira Luppens and Greg ForemanBook and CD
140 pages
Teaching Music Across History will help your students understand the ways that music and the arts reflect our culture and how historical events have shaped our civilization and customs. Reproducible student pages are included, making lessons a snap to prepare, keeping students actively engaged, and allowing for easy assessment. The accompanying CD contains listening examples of works by great Classical composers to support and reinforce the lessons. By increasing critical and higher level thinking skills with winning, creative, ready-to-teach methods, Teaching Music Across History will help your students meet item 9 of the National Standards for Music Education ("Understanding music in relation to history and culture”). This excellent curriculum will encourage your students to incorporate a deeper understanding of history and heritage, and allow you to effortlessly integrate historical information within music instruction.
Contents:FAVORITE SONGS  What Makes a Song Great?  GEORGE WASHINGTON  George Washington's Biography  MUSIC HISTORY INTERNET RESOURCES  GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY!  TIME MACHINE  The International Society of Time Travelers  CD CONTENTS (SUGGESTED USES)  PEER GYNT ISN'T VERY SWEET!  HOLIDAY FUN  ELECTION DAY  THE TREBLE TALK SHOW!  HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON  Julia Ward Howe  Clara Schumann  Women's Rights  Georgie's Rap  A LINCOLN PORTRAIT  A Lincoln Portrait, (excerpt) by Aaron Copland  LETMY PEOPLE GO!  BACH'S COURT TRIAL  Background Notes for Court Case  Courtroom Procedure  PREFACE  GREAT-GREAT-GREAT INVENTIONS!  Baroque Period Inventions  Classical Period Inventions  Romantic Period Inventions  Modern Period Inventions  Holidays---Fun! Fun! Fun!  THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE  STRING STORY  FORWARD MARCH  ABOUT THE AUTHORS  COMPACTING COMPOSERS  CRACK THE CODE  SAIL! SAIL! SAIL YOUR BOAT!  Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky  MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.  Who Am I?  Martin Luther King Jr.  BUMBLEBEE BLAST!  NURSERY RHYMES  Old MacDonald Had a Farm  Lucy Locket  Mary Had a Little Lamb  Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star  Nursery Rhyme Medley  THE VOICE OF THE PIONEERS  The Voice of the Pioneers Clues  THANKSGIVING TRIVIA  "Over the River and Through the Woods"  HANSEL AND GRETEL  OPERA HISTORY  THE NUTCRACKER  CHIT CHAT  ALL THAT JAZZ!