Classical Classroom

A classical music listening curriculum for grades k-6

presented by

FM90 / KUER

Welcome / Introduction

Lesson Recommended for Grades 3-4

 

Lesson 1: Guide to the Orchestra

Lesson 2: The Moldau

Lesson 3: Bydlo

Lesson 4: Also Sprach Zarathustra

Lesson 5: Flight of the Bumblebee

Lesson 6: Recorder Suite in A Minor

 

 

Lesson Recommended for Grades 3-4

 

Lesson 1: 1812 Overture

Lesson 2: Clarinet Concerto

Lesson 3: Waltz in C# Minor

Lesson 4: Water Music & Toccata and Fugue

Lesson 5: Pope Marcellus Mass & Hallelujah

Lesson 6: Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1

 

 

 

Instruments of the Orchestra

 

Strings / pict. file

Brass / pict. file

Woodwinds / pict. file

Percussion / pict. file

 

 

Resources and Bibliography

 

Books

Recordings

Films/Videos

World Wide Webb

Community

CD ordering information

Worksheets and Visual Aids

 

Lullabies (lesson I-2) / W-1

Spring Sonnet (lesson I-3) / W-2

A new Wig for Bach (lesson I-4) / W-3

Venn Diagrams (lesson I-6) / W-4

Instrument Cards (lesson II-1) / W-5

Musical Instrument Word Search (lesson II-1) / W-6

Zarathusa Music Map (lesson II-4) / W-7

Bee Dances (lesson II-5) / W-8

The Recorder (lesson II-6) / W-9

Anthems (lesson III-1) / W-10

The Waltz (lesson III-3) / W-11

Diamante Poem (lesson III-4) / W-12

Mirror Art (lesson III-4) / W-13

Hallelujah Chorus Excerpt (lesson III-5) / W-14

Composer Biographies (alphabetical by last name)

 

Johann Sebastian Bach / pict. file

Ludwig van Beethoven / pict. file

(Edward) Benjamin Britten / pict. file

Frederic Chopin / pict. file

Edward Elgar / pict. file

George Frideric Handel / pict. file

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / pict. file

Modest Mussorgsky / pict. file

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina / pict. file

Maurice Ravel / pict. file

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / pict. file

Bedrich Smetana / pict. file

Richard Strauss / pict. file

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky / pict. file

Georg Philip Telemann / pict. file

Antonio Vivaldi / pict. file

 

Timeline

1200's / Middle Ages

1400's / Rennaisance

1500's / Rennaisance

1600-1700 / Early Baroque

1700-1750 / High Baroque

1750-1825 / Classical

1825-1900 / National & Romantic

1900 / Modern