songsparrow Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Any recommendations for good books or other materials to use for a broad overview of art history/appreciation and music history/appreciation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walking-Iris Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 I really like the Harmony Fine Arts materials. The DK book Art is beautiful and we love it. I still have my college music text, Music: An Appreciation by Kaiman. It's really good. Depending on the ages of your kids the Getting To Know The World's Greatest series is fun. Then there's the Krull books, Lives of the Musicians, Lives of the Artists and several others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie of KY Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 We are enjoying Discovering Music for music appreciation/music history. It's been fascinating to me as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TarynB Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 DVD resources (also on YouTube): Sister Wendy DVDs Sister Wendy's American Collection Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts History of Rock N Roll (some commentary portions not appropriate for younger students, i.e., drug use, s#%) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TarynB Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 Books: The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern Smart Art: Learning to Classify & Critique Art Looking at Pictures Cave Paintings to Picasso Story of the Orchestra (comes with a CD of musical excerpts to listen to along with reading the book section by section, covers selected composers and instruments) CDs: Story of X In Words & Music (~30 minutes of biographical narration + ~30 minutes of musical excerpts, separate CDs for several different composers - this link takes you to Bach, there are others for Mozart, Handel, Haydn, etc., some only $1.99 each right now! - look under "customers who bought this item also bought") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NittanyJen Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 We're enjoying Meet the Masters quite a bit. Although each week focuses on one artist, the lesson discusses the artist's place in the art world, and explains the Paris Salon, or expressionism or cubism or who was friends with whom and even what music he artists listened to, and where they lived and what was going on in the world while they were learning and creating. In addition to a short hands-on technique lesson, MTM really places the art world in a context. It is pretty neat! edited to note: watch the VanGogh unit. No punches are pulled on how his life ended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyDay Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 we enjoyed BF History of Classical Music. I've got several books here that dc have enjoyed and go back to fairly often here are 2: http://www.amazon.co...at Artistshttp: http://www.amazon.co...Great Paintings Architecture: http://www.amazon.co...of Architecture http://www.amazon.co...to contemporary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 DVD resources (also on YouTube): Sister Wendy DVDs Sister Wendy's American Collection Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts We are currently watching these DVDs during lunch calling it lunchtime learning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songsparrow Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 Thank you for all of the replies so far! I've been looking at all of the materials recommended. At least for Music History, I think I've settled on using a combination of: Meet the Great Composers Book 1 and the lapbooking materials from Joy Morin. I will probably tweak the lapbooking pages a bit, as I plan to do an interactive notebook and I want some pages where the girls can respond to the music that they hear, such as these SQUILT notebooking pages. I think these will work well for this year, as all I am planning is a brief, once-a-week lesson to give a broad overview of the major classical periods and a couple major composers from each period. I am keeping notes on other resources that we may use in the future if we want to go deeper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mona Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 This is new. Beethoven Who? Family Fun with Music http://www.marciawashburn.com/BeethovenWho.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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