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Date Posted: 2008-09-02 14:08:10
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great introduction to classical music
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Posted By: Stacey Hunter
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Location: Waverly, VA United States
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ALL my children love these books (toddler to ten). Our piano students use them for writing reports about the composers. LOVE the coloring pages, too. Very thankful for the sheet music included on the mp3.
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Date Posted: 2008-09-02 15:08:33
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The Best way to teach the great composers!
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Posted By: Monica Johnson
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Location: Sunman, IN United States
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These are the best books for giving you a great insight to the lives of the great composers whose talents and gifts transformed music for generations. I have used them with my own children and in a co-op setting and every student walks away able to tell you specific details of the person you have studied. The study guide book is a must have. It gives you the interesting tidbits that tie it all together and adds so much in your teaching of the composer. It also contains comprehension questions to give to your students. I taught both Bach & Mozart in our Co-op, and it is amazing what the kids walk away with, way more than the name and date, they know about their lives and their music. I've used it with 2nd graders thru middle school and most of them enjoyed it. The text of the story is written for young students but my older students still enjoyed the stories. I just beefed up the requirements in the assignments I gave each week for my older students. I did make up a comb bound workbook for each of my students, although it wouldn't be necessary. This included the pages from the companion CD, The list of questions from the study guide, portraits of the composers and their families, pictures of the kings & queens they played or worked for. I got all the pictures & portraits off the internet. I also added time line sheets for them to look over and add to, & a few activities I came up with to correspond with the lesson. The companion CD has coloring pages and also the sheet music for the composers works that are mentioned in the story book. Some students get into coloring while being told a story others do not. The music on the companion CD is done in a single piano recording. It's good as you go through the story for them to get the basic melody of the composed piece of music. But I would definitely supplement with a music CD of the composer's works done with an orchestra. (Ex: The Best of Mozart) I never retained much about any of the great composers from the instruction that I received as a child. I found the subject boring- just a bunch of names and dates to memorize, so I was dreading teaching it to my children but these books have helped me learn so much about these gifted musicians and their lives and they give me all I need to be able to teach my kids in an interesting and memorable way.
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Date Posted: 2008-09-12 16:28:27
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GREAT MUSIC BOOKS!
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Posted By: Gwendolyn Meyer
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Location: West River, MD United States
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I must admit to being a major fan of these books. Our children having been reading through them all and we just love them. And, they love the coloring pages on the CD, even the 3 year old. The stories are quite vivid in detail and to hear the music to go along with the stories is the icing on the cake. My children's love for classical music has really grown through these stories. My daughter sat down and wrote her own composition after hearing the story of Mozart! GREAT MUSIC BOOKS!
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