Product Description
Children learn the names of compositions and composers by singing the author's lyrics to themes by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and the rest of the best.


The included CD has 40 themes (80 tracks) of music from 24 composers. Each theme is recorded first without lyrics, then with lyrics for "name that theme" type games. Music by keyboards, violins, trumpets, and four adult male and female singers will have you singing along in no time!


The hardcover book includes black-and-white illustrations, with a notation of each theme.


Contents of Book:
How to Use Classical Magic Themes to Remember, with ideas for games, art, drama and movement.
Timeline of Composers
The Baroque Period (c.1600-1750) - Vivaldi (The 4 Seasons - Spring); J.S. Bach (Toccata & Fugue in D minor - Theme 1 & Theme 2); Handel (Water Music - Alla Hornpipe, The Messiah - Hallelujah Chorus & He Shall Feed His Flock, Royal Fireworks Music - Overture/ Minuet/ & La Paix); Good Listening from the Baroque Period.
The Classical Period (1750-1820) - Musical Forms of the Classical Period; Symphony Orchestra Seating Plan; Haydn (Symphony No.94 (Surprise) - Mvt.2); Boccherini (String Quintet Op.13 No.4 - Minuet); Mozart (Piano Concerto No.21 - Mvt.2, Symphony No.40 - Mvt.1); Beethoven (Symphony No.5 - Mvt.1, Symphony No.9 - Mvt.4, Sonata No.14 - Moonlight); Schubert (Symphony No.8 (Unfinished), Piano Quintet in A - The Trout); Good Listening from the Classical Period.
The Romantic Period (1820-1900) - Rossini (William Tell Overture - Theme 1 & Theme 2); Mendelssohn (A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wedding March); Chopin (Grande Valse Brillante); Schumann (The Happy Farmer); Gounod (Funeral March of a Marionette); Strauss (The Blue Danube Waltz); Brahms (Lullaby); Saint-Saens (Danse Macabre); Bizet (Carmen - Habanera & Toreador); Tchaikovsky (Swan Lake - Theme 1 (Waltz) & Theme 2); Dvorak (Symphony No.9 - New World); Grieg (Peer Gynt Suite - Morning/ Solveig's Song/ In the Hall of the Mountain King); Good Listening from the Romantic Period.
The Modern Period (1900 to the Present) - Debussy (Clair de Lune); Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto No.2 - Movement 3); Sousa (The Stars & Stripes Forever, Semper Fidelis); Elgar (Pomp & Circumstance); Good Listening from the Modern Period.
Appendices - Musical Notation of Themes, Glossary.

 

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