Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Meet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

(1756-1791) Austrian Classical Era Composer

For a great kid friendly biography go to Making Music Fun.

Here you'll also find great activities, lesson plans, sheet music, etc..

Don't forget to also look back at how we use Music Study in our homeschool. Also listen to our other composers: Bach & Handel. This completes the three composer list for Music Study 1.

We always try to go along with Simply Charlotte Mason in our homeschool. So please also look at the other composers that they have put together in a list for you.

George Frideric Handel

Meet George Frideric Handel

 (1685-1759) German Baroque Era Composer

Another great composer.

For a great kid friendly biography go to Making Music Fun.

Here you'll also find great activities, lesson plans, sheet music, etc..

We talked about last time how Charlotte wanted us to be able to hear the great composers of our time. I also noted on that posts how and when I use Music Study. I thought I would go ahead and post for you guys the three main composers we are studying this year. So our first composer was Bach. Now our second is Handel, and our third....well you'll have to wait till next Thursday. I know you're all itching with excitement. :) But for now let us listen to the wonderful work of 

George Frideric Handel...

Johann Sebastian Bach

 

Meet Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685-1750) German Baroque Era Composer

For a great kid friendly biography go to Making Music Fun.

Here you'll also find great activities, lesson plans, sheet music, etc..

 

Charlotte wanted kids to be able to hear the great composers of our time. I like Music Study because we can simply pick a composer and listen to him/her at various times throughout the week. I like to do these studies and the youtube read alouds when we are out running errands. I simply plug my phone into our radio's system and the kids can listen to it will running errands (makes it a little more enjoyable too) :) Continue to listen to pieces by the same composer for several weeks until the children become familiar with that composer’s style.

If you have or are starting a Book of Centuries don't forget to add your composer in that as well. We usually choose one composer to study per semester/term of our school year.

Now for you, another great YouTube find,...Bach!

Music Study Thursday's

Well just like our YouTube books I have found great resources on there for music study as well. I started to search for it when I got an email from Amazon.com saying that certain digital products that you purchase could actually earn you $1 credit off of mp3's. (FYI in case you wanted to go buy your digital products for $1 off credits) But this made me think, "Okay I've got a $1 off credit that I could use on mp3 of the composer that we will be studying. But wait, I bet there are already a lot of composer music on YouTube."

And guess what....

I was right! (Shocking I know haha)

There is a LOT of classical music on YouTube. In fact this channel is completely classical music by composers. A really great find.

We will begin to put together our own Music Study series on Thursdays.

So stay with us next Thursday for the first of our Music Study series.

What composer do you study?