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includes activities in language arts, Maths, Social awereness, science, arts and crafts and music.
Grades pre-K-1

 

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From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Polyphony, sonata form, serial music - many musical expressions are also explained - by performances from some of the most highly praised recordings of recent years.

Chapters:    
01 The Early, Middle and Renaissance Periods  [1:13]
02 The Baroque and Classical Periods  [1:18]
03 The Romantic Period   [1:17]
04 The Twentieth Century   [1:17]

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 grades pre-K-1

Rosemary Border
The Piano
Oxford Bookworms Library

Level 2 (700 words)

One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. ´It´s all rubbish,´ he says.
In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him - and the music moves his fingers.
When he opens his eyes again, he knows that his life is changed for ever . . .
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Mendel's Accordion (Kar-Ben Favorites)
By Heidi Smith Hyde

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2—This gentle, picture-book history of klezmer music may have difficulty finding an audience. Mendel plays the accordion and forms a traveling band, but when life gets difficult in the old country, he leaves for America. On the way, he meets other musicians and starts a new group. In New York, he marries

and has children and grandchildren, who love different kinds of music. Finally, his great-grandson finds the old instrument in the attic and has it fixed, and a new generation of klezmorim emerges. The text is unremarkable and lacks transitions in places; but the simple language is accessible and makes the complex story of

immigration comprehensible for a young audience. The attractive folksy watercolor illustrations move the story along effectively and capture life in the various settings. The characters are representative of Jewish culture without being caricatures; the joy of music is clear on their faces. An endnote discusses immigration, klezmer music and its resurgence, and the history of the accordion.