The document provides guidance for classroom teachers to incorporate music from different historical periods into their lessons. It introduces the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods and gives examples of composers and pieces from each that would be suitable. For each period, it also lists related historical facts from the areas of math, science, English, history, and physical education that teachers could explore with their students. The intention is to help teachers provide some historical context for their lessons and keep important musical works alive.
2. A DYING ART
MUSIC IS SLOWLY LEAVING PUBLIC EDUCATION
RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTINUE A TIME HONORED
TRADITION
KEEP THESE WONDERFUL PIECES OF MUSIC ALIVE!
BE KNOWLEDGEABLE OF THE BASICS SO YOU CAN
INCLUDE MUSIC IN YOUR CLASSROOM!!
3. MY REASONING
TIMES AND PERIODS MADE PURPOSEFULLY BROAD
COMPOSERS AND PIECES ARE CHOSEN FROM THE
TIMELINE OF MUSIC HISTORY
WILL HELP PROVIDE SOME HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR
YOUR TEACHING
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE A MULTITUDE OF GENRES, I
MAINLY CHOSE FROM CLASSICAL REPERTOIRE
ESPECIALLY THE EUROPEAN TRADITION AND CANON
4. BAROQUE PERIOD FOR TEACHERS
MATH-THIS IS THE ERA WHERE NEWTON DISCOVERS
THE MATHEMATICS BEHIND CALCULUS. THE SHAPE OF
THE PARABOLA BEGINS TO DEFINE ARCHITECTURE OF
THE TIME
SCIENCE- TELESCOPE POINT TOWARDS THE HEAVENS
AND GALILEO DISCOVERS THE EARTH IS NOT THE
CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE!
ENGLISH-BAROQUE COMES FROM ITALIAN WORD
BAROCCO AND WHEN TRANSLATED MEANS BIZARRE
OR EXUBERANT
HISTORY-THIS IS THE TIME OF LOUIS XIV. HIS PALACE
AT VERSAILLES WAS DECORATED IN THE BAROQUE
STYLE AND MUSIC OF THE PERIOD WAS FREQUENTLY
PERFORMED
PHYSICAL EDUCATION-DURING THIS TIME THE SPORT OF
CROQUET BECOMES POPULAR!
5. CLASSICAL PERIOD FOR
TEACHERS
MATH- 742, the German mathematician Christian
Goldbach proposed the Goldbach Conjecture, which states
that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as
the sum of two primes (e.g. 4 = 2 + 2; 8 = 3 + 5; 14 = 3
+ 11 = 7 + 7; etc)
SCIENCE-SIR HUMPHREY DAVY INVENTS THE FIRST
ELECTRIC LIGHT AND ELECTRIC ARC IN THE YEAR
1800
ENGLISH-ITALIAN LIBRETTIST LORENZO DA PONTE
WRITES 3 OF MOZARTS FAMOUS OPERAS:
MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, DON GIOVANNI, AND COSI
FAN TUTTE
HISTORY-CLASSICISM TAKES OVER; THE ATTEMPT
AT EMULATING THE IDEALS OF CLASSICAL
ANTIQUITY
PHYSICAL EDUCATION-PROFESSIONAL PROMOTION
OF SPORTS BEGINS WITH GROUPS OF 50,000+
CROWDS FOR SHOOTING AND WRESTLING
MATCHES.
6. ROMANTIC PERIOD FOR
TEACHERS
MATH-CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS INTRODUCES
THE = SYMBOL IN HIS BOOK DISQUISITIONES
ARITHMETICAE
SCIENCE-DARWIN WRITES ON THE ORIGIN OF
SPECIES IN 1859
ENGLISH-GERMAN WRITE JOHANN GOETHE
TAKES LITERATURE BY STORM AND IS THE
SUBJECT OF MANY OPERAS AND ART SONGS BY
COMPOSERS SUCH AS SCHUBERT AND
CHARLES GOUNOD.
HISTORY-THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION HITS
THE AMERICAN CONTINENT
PHYSICAL EDUCATION-ELIZABETHAN STYLE
FOOTBALL WAS COMPARABLE TO MODERN DAY
RUGBY
7. MODERN PERIOD FOR TEACHERS
MATH-MUSIC BECOMES AS MATHEMATICALLY AS IT
GETS WITH THE EVOLUTION OF DODECAPHONIC MUSIC,
OR TWELVE TONE MUSIC
SCIENCE-EINSTEIN PIONEERS HIS THEORIES ON
RELATIVITY
ENGLISH-ERICH MARIA REMARQUE WRITES ALL QUIET
ON THE WESTERN FRONT ONE OF MANY NOVELS THAT
EMBODIES THE HOPELESS OF PEOPLE THROUGHOUT
BOTH WORLD WARS
HISTORY-THE WORLD WARS RAVAGE THE WORLD AND
AFFECT EVERY NOTION OF SOCIETY, ESPECIALLY THE
ARTS
PHYSICAL EDUCATION-THE FIRST SUPERBOWL TAKES
PLACE IN 1967
8. THE COMPOSERS AND PIECES
BAROQUE PERIOD CLASSICAL PERIOD
BACH- PRELUDE AND FUGUE IN G MINOR HAYDN-SURPRISE SYMPHONY #94 HTTP://
HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH? WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=0GF-
V=X8LBLYJ9ACI WZP8NI8
HANDEL- HALLELUJAH CHORUS FROM MOZART-THE COMMENDATORE SCENE FROM
MESSIAH HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/ DON GIOVANNI HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/
WATCH?V=USFIASWR4QU WATCH?
V=DK1_VM0FMAU&FEATURE=RELATED
VIVALDI-FOUR SEASONS CONCERTO WINTER
HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH? CLEMENTI-GRADUS AD PARNASSUM HTTP://
V=NGDFHJXCIAQ WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?
V=WIGALQGDFHK
PURCELL- WHEN I AM LAID FROM DIDO AND
AENEAS HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH? CHERUBINI-REQUIEM IN C MINOR DIES IRAE
V=D_50ZJ7J50U&FEATURE=RELATED HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?
V=Q9UT1Y7RZKA
9. THE COMPOSERS AND PIECES
CONTD
ROMANTIC PERIOD MODERN PERIOD
BEETHOVEN-SYMPHONY 9 FINALE HTTP:// BERIO-SINFONIA 3RD MOVEMENT HTTP://
WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH? WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?
V=0OXURYTAPYS V=XJVH1C2NA2U&FEATURE=RELATED
DEBUSSY-PRELUDE TO THE AFTERNOON OF A CAGE-433 HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/
FAUN HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH? WATCH?V=HUJAGB7HL0E
V=9_7LOZ-HWUM
SHOENBERG-PIERROT LUNAIRE HTTP://
BERLIOZ-SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE 5TH WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?
MOVEMENT HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/ V=UTM1HH16UWM&FEATURE=RELATED
WATCH?V=IREZPUWIY98
VARESE- IONISATION HTTP://
WAGNER-PRELUDE TO TRISTAN AND ISOLDE WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?
HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH? V=A9MG4KHQRPW
V=FKTWPGCR7YW