Compiled by John Feierabend and a supplement to his
First Steps In Music Curriculum.
Find, maintain and express the steady beat in 36 up-beat, rhythmic, classical works that inspire movement. Arranged in chronological order, from Corelli to Kabalevsky, these instrumental, choral, & vocal works are great for listening and conducting, too.
A great survey of classical music, the selections presented here are in historical order from the seventeenth to the twentieth century and include major and minor tonalities as well as duple and triple meters.
75 minute CD.
Composers represented:
- Corelli
- Vivaldi
- Bach
- Handel
- Locatelli
- Mozart
- Gounod
- Offenbach
- Brahms
- Tchaikovsky
- Respighi
- Kodaly
- Stravinsky
- Prokofiev
- Copland
- Kabalevsky
