Description

A Simple, Fun Approach to Classical Music – An Orff Based Approach
Author: Deborah Lyn Ziolkoski
Format: Book with CD and DVD
Version: Teacher’s Guide, Classroom Materials
Fun with Composer’s Award Winning Series takes children on a classical music Adventure! Classical music is transformed from a complicated, mysterious form to one that is child-centred and fascinating! Dancing bugs, Snobby Pears and Sneaky Pirates are just a few of the fascinating characters unveiled in this unique union of story and song!
Each FWC Teacher Guide revolves around 9 new orchestral pieces and contains 27 interactive, Orff based lessons which promote literacy and include reproducible music maps, composer images and bios, visual arts activities, cross-curricular integration and more! Audio files (with catchy lyrics sung to the music and orchestral track) and instructional video files with a classroom of children demonstrating the teaching process, and final performances of each piece make teaching classical music the highlight of your curriculum! Designed for classroom and music teachers.
Contents:

• Foreword
• Let’s Warm Up
• Composer Biographies & Activity Sheets
• A CD with fun-filled lyrics as well as an authentic orchestral recording of each selection (also accessible on-line)
• A DVD which features key teaching strategies and the final performance of each selection (also accessible on-line)
• Musical Selections from various composers:
  • Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks – Mussorgsky (Charli and the Chicks Get Cracking!)
  • Kangaroo – Saint-Saens (Joey Gets Lost)
  • William Tell Overture – Rossini (The Great Race!)
  • March of the Toreadors – Bizet (Peter Parkers Marching Band)
  • Symphony No. 9 – Beethoven (Ode to Joy!)
  • Turkish March – Beethoven (The Magic Stone)
  • Symphony No. 5 – Beethoven (Allowishes and the Royal Bananas!)
  • Russian Dance Trepak – Tchaikovsky (Join the Russian Dance Troupe!)
  • Hall of the Mountain King – Grieg (Peer Gynt and the Mountain Trolls)