Adventures in Music Listening. Level 1 (Big Book)

Description

by Dr. Leon Burton, Dr. Charles Hoffer, and Dr. William Hughes.

An integrated elementary listening program for music classes, regular classes, libraries and home use. Includes 32 great musical selections complete with historical information, composer/arranger biographical information, musical features sketches, cross-curricular connections and anticipated outcomes. Meets the National Music Standards.

Level 1: Grades K-2

Contains:

African Folk Song – Ohihi Owo Ti Ka Huhahi?

American Shaker Song – Simple Gifts

Bartok – Teasing

Bizet – March, Trumpet, and Drum

Corelli – Gigue

Debussy – Golliwogg’s Cakewalk from Children’s Corner Suite

Donaldson – March Band, Acrobats, and Juggler from Under the Big Top

Elwell – Dance of the Merry Dwarfs from The Happy Hipocrite

Gounod – Funeral March of a Marionette

Grieg – Morning from Peer Gynt Suite

Handel – Bourree from Royal Fireworks Suite

Kodaly – Viennese Musical Clock from Hary Janos Suite

Latin America – La Bamba

Menotti – Dance of the Shepherds from Amahl and the Night Visitors

Mussorgsky – Bydlo and Ballet of Chicks in their Shells from Pictures at an Exhibition

Pinto – Run, Run from Scenes from Childhood

Prokofiev – Troika from Lt. Kije Suite

Ravel – Hop O’ My Thumb from Mother Goose Suite

Rimsky-Korsakov – The Flight of the Bumble Bee

Rodgers – March of the Siamese Twins from The King and I

Rossini – Finale from The William Tell Overture

Rossini-Respighi – Pizzicato and Waltz from The Fantastic Toy Shop

Russian Folk Song – Dark Eyes

Saint-Saens – The Elephant and The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals

Schumann – The Happy Farmer

J. Strauss – Trutsch Tratsch Polka

Stravinsky – Circus Polka

Tchaikovsky – Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy from The Nutcracker

Villa-Lobos – Let’s Run Across the Hill from Brazilian Folktunes