MUSIC ENRICHMENT

Art Projects

• Draw a picture that describes a piece of music
• Sculpt a body or head of a famous musician or composer! Paint it too!
• Make or design a musical instrument: canjo, shaker, maracas, etc...
• Draw and Color A Picture of a Composer - listen to their music as you draw

Composition - Write or Arrange your own music!

• Arrange a piece of music - as a duet, or changing it...
• Compose a piece of music - at least 12 measures
• Download Finale's NotePad to use your computer to write the music!
• A tutorial for using Finale's NotePad (zipped word document)

Internet Sites

• Music Sites for Kids!

Singing

• Learn a Song on your own and sing it to Mrs. Schilling!

Books to Read!

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• A Mouse Called Wolf
• A Noteworthy Tale
• A Pianist's Debut: Preparing for the Concert Stage
• A Real Nice Clambake
• A Very Young Musician
• A Young Person's Guide to Music
• Abiyoyo
• Aida
• Alligators And Music
• Amadeus Mozart
• Amahl and the Night Visitors
• Amazing Grace: The Story of the Hymn
• America, I Hear You: The Story of George Gershwin
• American Indian Music and Musical Instruments
• Animal Orchestra
• Animal Orchestra
• Bantam of the Opera
• Bat Boy and His Violin
• Beethoven Lives Upstairs
• Ben Franklin's Glass Armonica
• Ben's Trumpet
• Berlioz the Bear
• Brass: An Introduction to Musical Instruments
• Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
• Come Sing Jimmy Joe
• Cumbayah
• Dance Me A Story
• Gabriella's Song
• Getting To Know the World's Greatest Composers
• Great Men of Music Set.
• Green Horn Blowing
• Handel and the Famous Sword Swallower of Halle
• Hansel & Gretel: Behind the Curtain
• Her Piano Sang: A Story about Clara Schumann
• Hidden Music: The Life of Fanny Mendelssohn
• Hip Cat
• I Have a Song to Sing, O! An Introduction to the Songs of Gilbert and Sullivan
• I Have Another Language: The language is Dance
• I See A Song
• I See The Rhythm
• If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong
• Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories
• Introducing the Composers
• Isadora Dances
• John Philip Sousa: The March King
• Join the Band
• Lentil
• Lives of the Great Composers: Books 1 and 2
• Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (And What the Neighbors Thought)
• Long Live Music
• Lullabies and Night Songs
• Magic of Mozart
• Making Musical Things
• Making Simple Musical Instruments
• Mandy and Brother Wind
• Max Found Two Sticks
• Meet the Marching Smithereens
• Meet the Orchestra
• Moses Goes to a Concert
• Mozart --Scenes from the Childhood of the Great Composer
• Mozart Tonight
• Mrs. Merriwether's Musical Cat
• Music
• Music
• Musicians of the Sun
• My First Music Book
• Name the Instrument
• Nana Hannah's Piano
• Nutcracker
• OK! The Story of Oklahoma!
• Onstage & Backstage at the Night Owl Theater
• Opera Stories
• Opera! What's All the Screaming About?
• Orchestranimals
• Peter and the Wolf
• Petrouchka
• Phantom of the Opera
• Raggin': A Story about Scott Joplin
• Rattles, Bells, and Chiming Bars
• Rondo, Inc.
• Rubber-Band Banjos & Java Jive Bass
• Satchmo's Blues
• Second Fiddle
• Sing Me A Story: Metropolitan Opera's Book of Opera Stories for Children
• Sing, Sophie!
• Sleeping Beauty
• Song and Dance Man
• Strings: An Introduction to Musical Instruments
• Swan Lake
• Swine Lake
• The Banza
• The Boy Who Loved Music
• The Firebird
• The Heart of the Wood
• The Little Band
• The Maestro Plays
• The Magic Flute
• The Magic of Music
• The Marvelous Music Machine: The story of the Piano
• The Mozart Season
• The Music Box: The Story of Cristofori
• The Old Man and the Fiddle
• The Orchestra
• The Orchestra: An Introduction to the World Series of Classical Music
• The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
• The Science of Music
• The Story of Opera
• The Violin Case Case
• The Violin Close Up
• The Whales' Song
• This Is An Orchestra
• Treemonisha
• What Instrument Is This?
• When Can I Clap, Daddy?
• Yolanda's Genius
• Young Mozart
• Young Person's Guide to the Ballet
• Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
• Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin

Music to Listen to!  (CD's, tapes, or records!!)

• Bach - Toccata & Fugue in D minor
• Bach's Art of the Fugue
• Bach's Minuet in G
• Bach's Musette in D
• Beethoven's Fifth
• Beethoven's Fur Elise
• Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
• Blues pieces
• Brahm's Symphony No. 3
• Chopin's Nocturnes
• Chopin's Polonaises
• Chopin's Preludes and Etudes
• Copland - Symphony #3 Fanfare for the Common Man
• Copland's Appalachian Spring
• Copland's Billy the Kid
• Copland's Rodeo
• Cowell's The Banshee
• Debussy's Children's Corner
• Dvorak - Symphony No. 9, Mvmt. 3
• For Listening - describe the music -- story, form, dynamics, instruments you heard
• Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
• Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite
• Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite
• Handel's Messiah
• Haydn's Farewell Symphony
• Haydn's Surprise Symphony (No. 94)
• Holst's The Planets
• Jazz pieces
• Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag
• Joplin - The Entertainer
• Mahler's Symphony No. 1
• Mozart - Figaro Overture
• Mozart - Magic Flute
• Mozart - Requiem - Dies Irae
• Mozart - Rondo Alla Turca
• Mozart - Symphony No. 40, Mvmt. 1
• Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
• Mozart's Jupiter Symphony (Symphony No.41)
• Mozart's Requiem
• Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain
• Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition
• Pachelbel's Canon in D
• Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
• Ragtime Music
• Rossini - Barber of Seville
• Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals
• Schumann's Carnival (Piano pieces)
• Schumann's The Wild Horseman
• Sorcerer's Apprentice
• Sousa - Liberty Bell
• Sousa - Semper Fidelis
• Sousa - Stars N Stripes
• Sousa - The Thunderer March
• Sousa - Washington Post
• Strauss - Blue Danube (Johann)
• Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel (Richard)
• Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
• Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture
• Vivaldi's Spring
• Wagner's Ride of the Valkeries

Video's to watch!

• Abiyoyo - Reading Rainbow series
• Amadeus - about Mozart (rated PG)
• Amahl and The Night Visitors
• Barn Dance - Reading Rainbow series
• Beauty and the Beast
• Beethoven Lives Upstairs
• Behind the scenes with Carrie Mae Weems (photog)
• Behind the Scenes with David Hockney (Art video)
• Behind the Scenes with Julie Taymor (lion king)
• Behind the Scenes with Max Roach (Jazz perc)
• Berlioz the Bear - Reading Rainbow series
• Carnival of the Animals (will be watched in school)
• Children's Video Classics: cinderella, Magic Flute, Hansel and Gretel, Swan Lake, and Alice in Wonderland
• Fantasia - original and 2000 version
• Follow the Drinking Gourd - Reading Rainbow series
• Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck
• Hip Cat - Reading Rainbow series
• Lady and the Tramp
• Lion King
• Madame Souzatska - PG
• Mama Don't Allow - Reading Rainbow series
• Miracle of Mozart (shapes to mozart's music)
• Mr. Holland's Opus - PG
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters - Reading Rainbow series
• Music of the Heart
• My Fair Lady
• Nutcracker (will be watched in school)
• Oliver and Company
• Peter and the Wolf - various versions
• Romeo and Juliet Ballet
• Silent Mouse (about Silent Night)
• Sleeping Beauty
• Sophie and Lou - Reading Rainbow series
• The Arisotcats
• The Music Man
• The Orchestra by Mark Rubin
• The Paper Crane - Reading Rainbow series
• The Wizard of Oz
• Uncle Jed's Barber Shop - Reading Rainbow series
• West Side Story - PG
• Who's Afraid of Opera?
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• Wynton on Form: Listening for Clues
• Wynton on Practice: Tackling the Monster
• Wynton on Rhythm: Why Toes Tap
• Young People's Concerts: What does Music Mean?
• Young People's Concerts: What is Classical Music?
• Young People's Concerts: What makes Music Symphonic?
• Zin! Zin! Zin! - Reading Rainbow series
  

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