Fine Arts

Songs of Peace and Joy

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This is a teacher's handbook which corresponds to the music cd Songs of Peace and Joy CD. Book includes sheet music for the following songs:

  • Light the Candles All Around the World
  • A Time for Peace
  • Today is the Day!
  • Friends are Like Diamonds
  • This Little Light of Mine
  • Sing of Joy!
  • Where is the Peace?
  • Dona Nobis Pacem
  • An Old Irish Blessing

Get Kids Singing Old Favorites

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This is a teacher's handbook which corresponds to the music cd Get Kids Singing Old Favorites CD. Book includes sheet music for the following songs:

  • I've Been Working on the Railroad
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • A Frog Went A-Courtin'
  • I Met a Bear
  • This Old Man
  • The Ants Go Marching
  • If You're Happy and You Know It
  • Turkey in the Straw

About Face: Copley's Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith

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Curriculum ideas centered around the Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith by John Singleton Copley, housed at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. Teachers will have to wade through some repetitive info and the occasional broken link to find useful ideas, but the concept fits perfectly within the 4th grade Interdependent Roles in Colonial Times Module.

The Coffins of Pa-debehu-Aset

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Lesson plans and activities from the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester designed for young children to learn about Ancient Egypt in Art, Math, Music, ELA, Science, and Social Studies. Incorporates museum collection into learning.

Debussy

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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

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1.   Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun 10'54
       London Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas

2.   The Girl with the Flaxen Hair 2'43
       from Preludes, Book 1
       Paul Crossley, Piano

3.   Fetes 6'21
       from Two Nocturnes
       Philharmonia Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas

Handel

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Track Listing:

1.   Arrival of the Queen of Sheba 3'05
       from Solomon
       English Chamber Orchestra/Raymond Leppard

       Water Music Suite No. 1 (Excerpts)
2.   3. [Allegro] - Andante - [Allegro] da capo 7'37
3.   5. Air 2'38
4.   6. Minuet 3'52
5.   7. Bourree 1'07
6.   8. Hornpipe 1'32
       New York Philharmonic/Pierre Boulez

Ravel

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Track listing:

1.   Bolero 15'24
       London Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas

2.   Pavane for a Dead Princess 5'45
       Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy

3.   Alborada del gracioso 8'40
       Orchestre National de France/Lorin Maazel

4.   "Feria" from Rapsodie espagnole 6'41
       London Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas

Mozart

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Track Listing:

1.   The Marriage of Figaro Overture, K. 492 4'43
       Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil

2.   Theme from Elvira Madigan (Andante) 6'39
       from Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467
       Murray Perahia, Pianist & Conductor
       Chamber Orchestra of Europe

       Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 545 ("Sonata facile")
3.   I. Allegro 1'49
       Glenn Gould, Piano

Bach

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Track Listing:

1.   "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" 3'10
       from Cantata No. 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
       Mormon Tabernacle Choir
       (Richard P. Condie, Director)
        Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy

       The Anna Magdalena Notebook, And. 114
2.    Minuet 1'35
       (arr. Thomas Frost)
       Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy

Bernstein

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Track Listing:

1.   Candide Overture 4'22
       Philharmonia Virtuosi/Richard Kapp

       Selections from West Side Story:
2.   Maria 2'39
3.   Tonight 6'36
4.   Somewhere 5'14
       Peter Hofmann, Tenor
       Deborah Sasson, Soprano
       Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas

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