Many people ask if we have SQUILT LIVE! lessons in the summer.
The short answer is YES!
Summer is the perfect time to beat the heat with music - enjoy a live afternoon lesson (or catch a recording if you miss it live), pour a glass of lemonade, and dive into beautiful music.
Summer is also the perfect time for the homeschooling parent to get a B...
Music appreciation has its own specific "grammar" - or language.
As children learn to listen to music it is necessary for them to know the words to express what they are hearing.
Rather than saying something is loud or soft, we can talk about the dynamics. Instead of using the words fast and slow we can use different Italian words for the tempo...
In an increasingly fast-paced age, our children are left with precious few opportunities to slow down. They are left with little time to be STILL, silent, and contemplative.
The education pioneer, Charlotte Mason, so aptly stated this concern:
It is impossible to overstate the importance of this habit of attention. It is, to quote words...
Now that I've given you a list of 5 pieces of music children should know, let's talk about composers your children will enjoy.
These are composers who either wrote a lot of music for children, or whose music just APPEALS to children (or the child in all of us).
As with ALL of music, this list is subjective, based on my years of teaching el...
I teach at a Christian school to very small classes, and both my older group (11-14) and younger group (5-10) loved the amount of options for the Christmas carol listening calendar! Carol of the Bells and O Come, O Come Emmanuel especially led to lots of great discussion about what makes music sound victorious, joyful, and rich. Thank you Mary!
