Music is one of the things in home school that seems to be the hardest to incorporate. I have, in past posts, made lists of music that could be used along with science and history lessons to help bring things together in an artful and well-rounded way. After scouring iTunes and the internet thoroughly, I've found some real treasures I want to share with you. I am so thankful for iTunes "preview" feature that allows me to listen before buying.We use Christian Cottage Unit Studies (which is a Charlotte Mason approach to history and science). Everything I do, except maybe math, revolves around this─music, foreign language, art, reading...
This "list" of music appreciation listening is going to follow the run of unit studies that are in this curriculum. But, they can be used for just about any curriculum since these are topics that are covered in pretty much all classrooms.
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Music Appreciation for Roots and Relations: The Foundation of Civilizations Unit Study
Listen to Haydn’s The Creation (this is a whole 2 disc listening experience, so there are no other ‘assignments’ for this unit)
or for younger students
"Creation of the World" by Darius Milhaud
Music Appreciation for Light and Matter Unit Study
Listen to “Light” by Hans Zimmer from The Thin Red Line soundtrack
Music Appreciation for Early Civilizations Unit Study
Listen to Ancient Lyre music by Michael Levy
· An Ancient Lyre
· Echoes of Ancient Ur
· Hurrian Hymn No. 6 (c.1400BCE) Ancient Mesopotamian Musical Fragment
Listen to EL-HAWZI by Hossam Ramzy (Egyptian Rai)
Listen to Dulab Huzam by George Dimitri Sawa (The Art of the Early Egyptian Qanun)
Listen to Ancient Memories by Derek Bell (The Mystic Harp)
- Learn what a harp looks and sounds like
- Learn what a lyre looks and sounds like
- Learn what a Qanun (kanun) looks and sounds like and where it originates from
Listen to “Tsunami” from the album Bending the Light: Chamber Works…
Listen to “La Mer” by Debussy
Listen to “A Sea Symphony” by Vaughan Williams
Listen to “Sea Preludes” by Douglas Lilburn
Listen to “Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium” by Camille Saint-Saëns
Music Appreciation for Greece and Rome Unit Study
Listen to “Roman Banquet” by Michael Levy
Listen to “The First Delphic Hymn to Apollo” (c. 138 BCE) Ancient Greek Musical Fragment by Michael Levy
Listen to “Song Seikilos” (1st Century Greek Song) by San Antonio Vocal Arts Ens.
Listen to ”Ancient Dance” by Petros Tabouris Ensemble
Listen to “Pompei” by Synaulia (music from Ancient Rome Vol.1)
Listen to “Lamentation of Tekmessa” by Christodoulos Halaris
- Research some of the Roman Musical Instruments such as the Roman Tuba, askaules, aulos, and the syrinx
Music Appreciation for Weather Unit Study
Listen to Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”
Listen to “Stormy Weather” by Ella Fitzgerald or Frank Sinatra
Listen to “Thunder and Lightning Polka” by Johann Strauss Jr.
Listen to “Wind” by Peter Davison
Music Appreciation for Middle Ages Unit Study
Listen to Music for a Medieval Banquet by Drew Minter, Judish Malafronte, Mary Springfels, and Newberry Consort
Listen to “Medieval Music: Laudario di Contona” by Vocal Ensemble of Montpellier
Listen to “Salterello” by The Dufay Collective
Listen to “Medieval Dance Music” from the album Indroducing Continuum
- Learn what “chant” sounds like and where it began
- Learn about the beginnings of written music
Music Appreciation for Bread of Life: Birds, Biomes, Bugs, and Bodies Unit Study
BUGS
Franz Schubert's Der Einsame D 800 (The Hermit)
Bela Bartok's Mikrokosmos, Book VI, BB 105, No. 142, From the Diary of a Fly
Ralph Vaughan Williams' Overture to the Wasp
Modest Mussorgsky's Mephistopheles’s Song Of The Flea
Chet Atkins' Centipede Boogie
Thomas Arne's Where The Bee Sucks There Lurk I
Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee
Kalevi Aho's Insect Symphony (7th Symph.)
Bela Bartok's Night Music
Roussel's The Spider's Feast
Ralph Vaughn Williams' The Wasps Suite
Tchaikovsky's Chorus of Insects
Grieg's La Papillon (The Butterfly)
ANIMALS
Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals
J. S. Bach's Where My Sheep Safely Graze
Rossini's La Boutique fantasque: Galop (horses)
Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
Respighi's Prelude from The Birds
Anderson's The Waltzing Cat
PLANTS
Jonas Forssell: I begynnelsen (The Kingdom of Plants),
Lakmé: The Flower Duet (BBC Concert Orchestra),
Don Quixote: Flower Walt
Music Appreciation for Astronomy Unit Study
Listen to The Planets by Gustav Holst (this is, again, a whole album of listening, so it’s the only ‘assignment’ for this unit)
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That brings us to the end of the the first volume of Christian Cottage Unit Studies. If you are interested in seeing some of what is included in these unit studies, please see my posts on Year One, Year Two, and Year Three or check out their website linked at the beginning of this post.
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