Music Appreciation: Middle Ages Thru Classical Era for High School
Learn about Music in the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical Eras
The Music Appreciation: Middle Ages Thru Classical Era course consists of 36 lessons about the music, genres, styles, and composers of Western Music from 450-1800. You'll learn about Gregorian Chant, 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, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, hymn writers, Beethoven, and many more!
Once purchased you have forever access to the course.
Music Appreciation: Middle Ages Thru Classical Era includes written lessons, videos to watch to learn more about concepts and to listen to the music, assignments to complete using printables which are provided, and online quizzes.
Use the course to get a full credit in high school Fine Arts. The course can be used for all ages (K-12), but is specifically written for the junior high/high school level.
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~ L.S., homeschool mom
Your Instructor
Gena Mayo is a homeschooling mom of 8 who has been teaching music in various forms for 30 years. She has a Bachelors degree in Music Education and a Masters degree in Vocal Pedagogy (teaching voice lessons). It has been her joy to teach elementary and junior high choir, high school voice classes, private voice lessons for teens through adults, early childhood music and movement classes (babies through preschool), elementary general music, and music appreciation for elementary through high school. But, her favorite music teaching experience has been as musical director for stage musicals such as Seussical, Shrek, Singing in the Rain, Newsies, and Beauty and the Beast. It is Gena's desire to help all homeschoolers easily include music in their homeschools!
"My oldest (14,) is loving listening to the variety of different music in the Middle Ages Music Appreciation online course. She is especially enjoying the minstrel and medieval music. She's seen many of the songs in literature, but never heard them. The course is bringing a new level of understanding to other aspects of our homeschool, which make it extra enjoyable. Thank you!"
~ Shannan Swindler, homeschool mom and blogger at Captivating Compass
Course Curriculum
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StartLesson 1: Sacred Music of the Early Middle Ages ~ Saint Augustine and Boethius
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StartLesson 2: Music of the Eastern Orthodox Church
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StartLesson 3: Sacred Music of the Early Middle Ages ~ Hildegard of Bingen and Medieval Church Modes
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StartLesson 4: Sacred Music of the Early Middle Ages ~ Guido of Arezzo and Guidonian Hand
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StartLesson 5: Secular Music of the Middle Ages ~ Minstrels, Troubadours, and Trouvères
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StartLesson 6: Secular Music of the Middle Ages ~ Minnesinger, Meistersinger, and Estampie
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StartLesson 7: The Development of Polyphony (Organum)
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StartLesson 8: Guillaume de Machaut
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StartLesson 9: Instruments of the Middle Ages
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StartLesson 10: Dunstable and Dufay
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StartLesson 11: Renaissance Music and Ockeghem
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StartLesson 12: Josquin des Prez
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StartLesson 13: Palestrina
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StartLesson 14: Gabrieli
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StartLesson 15: Music of the Protestant Reformation, part 1
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StartLesson 16: Music of the Protestant Reformation, part 2
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StartLesson 17: Renaissance Madrigals
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StartLesson 18: Renaissance Instruments
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StartLesson 19: Early Baroque Instrumental Music
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StartLesson 20: Intro to Baroque period and Instrumental Forms
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StartLesson 21: Schütz, Buxtehude, & Pachelbel
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StartLesson 22: Opera ~ Caccini, Monteverdi, Lully, and Purcell
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StartLesson 23: Keyboard and String Composers Couperin, Corelli, Torelli, Vivaldi, and Rameau
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StartLesson 24: J.S. Bach, part 1
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StartLesson 25: J.S. Bach, part 2
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PreviewLesson 26: Handel
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StartLesson 27: Hymn Writers Watts, Wesley, Newton, Billings
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StartLesson 28: Classical Period Forms
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StartLesson 29: More Classical Period Forms
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StartLesson 30: Haydn
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StartLesson 31: Mozart, part 1
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StartLesson 32: Mozart, part 2
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StartLesson 33: Scarlatti, J.C. Bach, C.P.E. Bach
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StartLesson 34: Gluck and Paganini
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StartLesson 35: Beethoven, part 1
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StartLesson 36: Beethoven, part 2
I wish I could have used your courses with our children as we did school at home. We are a music loving family and it would have been a gift to them to broaden their experiences with your lessons. However, the youngest of 6 is a freshman in college this year - off on his own musical adventures.
When I came across your courses, I invested in the first one as a resource to use with my piano students. I expect to continue to do that from time to time. I have enjoyed going through them for my own education and enjoyment.
Probably the most significant use is one I still anticipate. We will become grandparents this spring, and my thoughts have drifted toward what kinds of things I want to have available for the next generation. The simplicity of what you provide, the easy access to the music via the Internet, and the number of lessons you provide in a course all speak to my heart. Your musical choices take me outside the normal music I find on my own. It helps me explore with a little less investment of time.
~Carol
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