Classical Connections to US History

Explore United States history and its connections to Western Music with this all-in-one resource for upper elementary through high school. Alongwith a helpful historical timeline, each section includes a reproducibl e student article, activity sheets, games and listening maps for 16 composers spanning five centuries. Full-length National Standards-based lesson plans accompany each section and all musical listening selections areincluded on the CD. Historical periods and composers include: The New W orld (Desprez, Palestrina), The Colonial Period (Bach, Vivaldi), Mid-1700s (Scarlatti, Gluck), the American War of Independence (Haydn, Mozart),the War of 1812 (Beethoven, Schubert), the Civil War (Liszt, Brahms), t he Industrial Revolution (Ravel, Elgar), the early 20th Century (Holst, Prokofiev).