Comments on: The Arts http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2006/09/22/the-arts/ Christian Homeschooling in a Classical Style Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:53:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Allison http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2006/09/22/the-arts/#comment-5241 Allison Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:09:07 +0000 http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2006/09/22/the-arts/#comment-5241 oh, and a good way to find basic music appreciation course materials (music CDs, etc.) is to get your local library to inter library loan them from universities. Universities teach music appreciation courses (usually it's music 101, intro to music) and the tapes/cds for the course are also part of their library collections. (Courses like Kerman's Listen books and CDs are common.) Even if you don't want to purchase the CDs for the music 101 course, they should be available through inter library loan to you. oh, and a good way to find basic music appreciation course materials (music CDs, etc.) is to get your local library to inter library loan them from universities. Universities teach music appreciation courses (usually it’s music 101, intro to music) and the tapes/cds for the course are also part of their library collections. (Courses like Kerman’s Listen books and CDs are common.) Even if you don’t want to purchase the CDs for the music 101 course, they should be available through inter library loan to you.

]]> By: Allison http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2006/09/22/the-arts/#comment-5240 Allison Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:06:51 +0000 http://www.triviumpursuit.com/blog/2006/09/22/the-arts/#comment-5240 I have a 4 month old. While I can imagine this advice won't work so well with 4 rugrats under the age of 10, chances are you'll have one child to start with, and this advice will work for the first year or so. I don't know much about art, but I live in the Twin Cities. Once a week, I take my son and we go to a museum. (Usually, one day a week or month, they are free. Others are always free.) I go and I take the docent tours that are offered. My child sleeps in his stroller, or I carry him n my arms and he is FASCINATED by the art. I stay on the tour as long as he is not crying. and I learn about art, and learn to enjoy it. and he already enjoys the bright colors, shadows, sculptures. I also live near colleges, and often walk throug the quads, where there are invariably piecces of modern art. I let our son touch or bang on them, feeling the marble, listening to the steel. wen he is older, we will use these as starting points for library projects on art. re music: there aer some fantastic CD and podcast sets out there for learning about classical music. one great thing to do is go to your local library and read the Penguin Guide to Classical Music, which rates performances on CD/tape/LP. most libraries will allow you to check out classical music CDs. Even if you know little about music, start simply by listening and playing the ones the Penguin Guide recommends. Read the liner notes and learn from them. A great piece to learn from is Bejamin Britten's A Young Person's Guide to Orchestra. It's a piece of music with a narration. The narration introduces you to the instruments and to themes and variations on themes. Britten was abrilliant composer who loved bringin music to children. This is a great piece for "young people of all ages" to learn about classical music. So you attend a church that encourages music and singing? Often the music director will have formal music training. When your children are young, just attending services with music will help teach them, but you can ask for advice from teh music director on how to supplement their education. A children's choir is a common way. I have a 4 month old. While I can imagine this advice won’t work so well with 4 rugrats under the age of 10, chances are you’ll have one child to start with, and this advice will work for the first year or so.

I don’t know much about art, but I live in the Twin Cities. Once a week, I take my son and we go to a museum. (Usually, one day a week or month, they are free. Others are always free.) I go and I take the docent tours that are offered. My child sleeps in his stroller, or I carry him n my arms and he is FASCINATED by the art. I stay on the tour as long as he is not crying.

and I learn about art, and learn to enjoy it. and he already enjoys the bright colors, shadows, sculptures.

I also live near colleges, and often walk throug the quads, where there are invariably piecces of modern art. I let our son touch or bang on them, feeling the marble, listening to the steel. wen he is older, we will use these as starting points for library projects on art.

re music: there aer some fantastic CD and podcast sets out there for learning about classical music. one great thing to do is go to your local library and read the Penguin Guide to Classical Music, which rates performances on CD/tape/LP. most libraries will allow you to check out classical music CDs. Even if you know little about music, start simply by listening and playing the ones the Penguin Guide recommends. Read the liner notes and learn from them.

A great piece to learn from is Bejamin Britten’s A Young Person’s Guide to Orchestra. It’s a piece of music with a narration. The narration introduces you to the instruments and to themes and variations on themes. Britten was abrilliant composer who loved bringin music to children. This is a great piece for “young people of all ages” to learn about classical music.

So you attend a church that encourages music and singing? Often the music director will have formal music training. When your children are young, just attending services with music will help teach them, but you can ask for advice from teh music director on how to supplement their education. A children’s choir is a common way.

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