Music Appreciation and Music History from the Middle Ages Thru Classical Era

Make teaching music appreciation fun and easy with these click-and-go lesson plans for all grades of students! This set includes 36 low-prep lessons perfect for engaging students in learning about music history. Quick and easy setup for the music teacher, homeschool mom, or high schooler doing the lessons independently!

Description:

This Middle Ages through Classical Era music appreciation and music history curriculum (full lesson plans) consists of 36 lessons about the music, genres, styles, and composers of Western Music from the years 450-1799. You'll learn about Gregorian Chant, music of the Eastern Orthodox church, the beginnings of musical notation, organum, Medieval church modes, Hildegard von Bingen, Guido d'Arezzo, Josquin des Prez, madrigals, motets, the beginnings of opera, music of the Reformation, Buxtehude, Vivaldi, Bach, hymn writers, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and many more!

**An updated version was uploaded on November 20, 2021. All links were updated and quizzes and answers have been added. Also, the curriculum has been expanded from 18 to 36 lessons! (If you prefer the older 18-lesson version, it is included as well)

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Here's what you'll get:

• Lesson Plans with composer bios, descriptions of styles/genres, and video links
• Notebooking Pages to keep students engaged
• Extensive Bibliography for further study
• Log of Hours printable (for homeschooled high schoolers to track their hours)
• Quizzes and Quiz Answer keys

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Your students will love learning about the huge variety of music that came about in the 20th century. They'll begin to see how past music affected what came next and even music that's popular today.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student notebooking pages, have a way to play the videos for your class (homeschooling just one student? You can even just use your phone!), open up your lesson, and you're ready for a fun and exciting class!

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Table of Contents:

Music Appreciation: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, & Classical Eras

Lesson 1 .....................Sacred Music of the Early Middle Ages ~ Saint Augustine and Boethius

Lesson 2 .....................Music of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Lesson 3 .....................Sacred Music of the Early Middle Ages ~ Hildegard of Bingen and Medieval Church Modes

Lesson 4 .....................Sacred Music of the Early Middle Ages ~ Guido of Arezzo and Guidonian Hand

Lesson 5 .....................Secular Music of the Middle Ages ~ Minstrels, Troubadours, and Trouvères

Lesson 6 .....................Secular Music of the Middle Ages ~ Minnesinger, Meistersinger, and Estampie

Lesson 7 .....................The Development of Polyphony (Organum)

Lesson 8 .....................Guillaume de Machaut

Lesson 9 .....................Instruments of the Middle Ages

Lesson 10 .....................Dunstable and Dufay

Lesson 11 .....................Renaissance Music and Ockeghem

Lesson 12 .....................Josquin des Prez

Lesson 13 .....................Palestrina

Lesson 14 .....................Gabrieli

Lesson 15 .....................Music of the Protestant Reformation, part 1

Lesson 16 .....................Music of the Protestant Reformation, part 2

Lesson 17 .....................Renaissance Madrigals

Lesson 18 .....................Renaissance Instruments

Lesson 19 .....................Early Baroque Instrumental Music

Lesson 20 .....................Intro to the Baroque period and Instrumental Forms

Lesson 21 .....................Schütz, Buxtehude, & Pachelbel

Lesson 22 .....................Opera ~ Caccini, Monteverdi, Lully, and Purcell

Lesson 23 .....................Keyboard and String Composers

Lesson 24 .....................J.S. Bach, part 1

Lesson 25 .....................J.S. Bach, part 2

Lesson 26 .....................Handel

Lesson 27 .....................Hymn Writers Watts, Wesley, Newton, Billings

Lesson 28 .....................Classical Period Forms

Lesson 29 .....................More Classical Period Forms

Lesson 30 .....................Haydn

Lesson 31 .....................Mozart, part 1

Lesson 32 .....................Mozart, part 2

Lesson 33 .....................Scarlatti, J.C. Bach, C.P.E. Bach

Lesson 34 .....................Gluck and Paganini

Lesson 35 .....................Beethoven, part 1

Lesson 36 .....................Beethoven, part 2

Appendix Notebooking pages, Worksheets, Bibliography, Quizzes, & Answers

Older Version: .....................18 Lessons in Music Appreciation: Middle Ages Through Classical Period

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Check out the FREE PREVIEW for the Table of Contents and a lesson example.

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Gretchen C. says, "This was a great resource that fits well into in-class OR distance learning, and my students have found it to be very engaging. Thanks for a helpful resource!"

(Used with 9th grade students.)

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Continue your studies with all my music appreciation curricula:

• 20th Century European and South American Music Appreciation
• 20th Century American Music Appreciation
• Music Appreciation of the Romantic Era (1800s)

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