What are your best Baroque music and art curric. ideas for 7 year old?

[Michele B]

I want to hit more than Bach. But they do not have kid-books for Purcell etc....

Thanks a bunch!

Michele

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[gandpsmommy]

For music we use the Classical Magic book Themes To Remember, Vol. 1 by Marjorie Kiel Persons. In the Baroque Period section we learned The Spring Theme fron The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. We also spent a rather long period of time on Handel. We learned some themes from Water Music, The Messiah, and Royal Fireworks Music.

Classical Kids has some good cd's which we listened to, as well, Vivaldi's Magic Ring of Mystery and Hallelujah Handel. We also have a picture book called Handel Who Knew What He Liked by M.T. Anderson.

That's all we've done for the Baroque period so far, so that's all I can recommend. I hope you get more answers!

[Rebecca in VA]

that have been reprinted. They're perfect for young children. They're now available with CDs of the music mentioned in the books and study guides.

Check out www.bookpeddler.us (look in the right-hand column to see their composer specials). So far they've reprinted the books on Chopin, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Handel, Schumann, and Bach. It's possible they'll be reprinting more in the future.

[Rebecca in VA]

They also just reprinted the Opal Wheeler books on Brahams and Schubert. They're so new they haven't even been shipped yet.

[Verena]

Here are some more composers/music on the classicsforkids website:

http://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/composers_period.asp