Gain access to vibrant and comprehensive video lectures by the author of Discovering Music, Dr. Carol Reynolds, which contain the instructional material for Kolbe Academy’s high school Music History course. Dr. Carol walks students through all of the necessary classroom instruction portions of the course, leaving students prepared to work through the corresponding workbook exercises independently. Each Unit of the workbook has a dedicated lecture to be viewed before completing the exercises.
Delve into Western music throughout the Common Practice Era, a span of three hundred years from the late Renaissance to the eve of World War I. This course examines music alongside cultural trends and historical events, including wars and significant dynasties that shaped popular music of the time. Students will encounter a multitude of musical and artistic figures, as well as terminology and key artistic movements. A diverse range of musical compositions reflecting major styles from the Common Practice Era will be explored. The course also investigates how influences such as art, culture, politics, and technology shaped Western Art Music. By the conclusion, students will be proficient in utilizing terms like form, opera, Romanticism, Impressionism, and more. As part of Kolbe’s classical education approach and a commitment to forming and educating whole people, students will master musical terms and learn to recognize different historical styles that complement the knowledge being learned in literature and history courses of Kolbe Academy’s classical Catholic curriculum.
Discovering Music connects music with visual arts, political and economic history, and Western Culture from 1600 to 1914. Music was recognized in ancient times as one of the seven essential subjects comprising the Liberal Arts, and music has always been central to Classical Education. By connecting music history to political and cultural history, we make all of history more memorable and more interesting.
This unique curriculum takes a comprehensive approach to history and the arts, linking literature, geography, social movements, science and technology, paintings, and architecture to form a more complete picture. By experiencing the arts of a particular time and place, students are better able to understand what happened – the social and political forces as well as the daily life of historical figures.
History taught through the lens of the Arts and Music becomes more vivid and memorable. It’s history you can hold in your ears.
Used in the following course:
- Music History:
- Homeschool
- Online- Optional