Uncover a lively music history workbook centered on encouraging students to immerse themselves and experience music alongside the historical information provided. This approach makes the course come alive and piques the interest of young learners, fostering deeper understanding of course topics through this immersive ideology. Students will gain access to important and relevant terminology and definitions, dates and locations, figures, and other historical information to shape contexts of musical pieces and seek to explain stylistic choices made in art and music by people of the time period being focused on.
Additionally, this workbook contains engaging exercises and questions, “Putting It All Together” sections, requiring students to employ critical thinking and synthesize answers using information learned during instruction and supplemented by further study. Listening and viewing guides relating to the DVD lectures and listening supplements are included for ease of coordination with the other components of the course. Unit quizzes to assess student learning and grasp of concepts can be found near the end of the book.
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.
Course this book is used in:
- Music History:
- Homeschool
- Online