by Valeaira Luppens & Greg Foreman.
An outstanding resource for educators, 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.
Explore Units on:
- Martin Luther King or the Underground Railroad
- President’s Day (George Washington's Rap and Copland's Lincoln Portrait)
- Learn about harmony with a Thanksgiving partner song
- Discover what inventions were created in which musical period
- Explore the history of opera, jazz, Broadway, or Early American songs.
- In The Time Machine, track clues on composers' nationalities, works, and periods, along with historic events.
- Set up a courtroom trial of J.S. Bach, or a TV game show on composers.
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. Teaching Music Across History is not only necessary, but fun!
29 mind-expanding units, many only 20 to 30 min. Gr. 2-6. Paperback & CD
