Monday's are Music Days. After lunch, we generally have time for some kind of "culture" time (as I call it). On Monday we take about 10-15 minutes to discuss music. The kids really enjoy imitating rythyms and getting a chance to play low or high notes on the piano. Once again, it is amazing to me that with such little time investment, they can learn and retain so much. I've created a list of music
lessons based on suggestions from some of the following sites:
Theory Time - I didn't purchase these workbooks, though they look pretty good. I am using the concepts listed as jumping board for our gentle theory lessons.
Making Music FunDuring nightly Family Worship we work on learning one hymn per month. At the beginning of the year, I came up with a list of hymns (both old and new) and printed all of the lyrics and sheet music from the internet.
This is our list for 2009:
January
| Be Thou my Vision
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February
| What Wondrous Love is This
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March
| I will Glory in my Redeemer
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April
| Crown Him with Many Crowns
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May
| Not What my Hands Have Done
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June
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July
| Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
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August
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September
| Great God of Wonders
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October
| And Can it Be
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November
| Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
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December
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offers several different classical pieces for free via MP3 download. There are also other categories in the Free section
Theory Time - I didn't purchase these workbooks, though they look pretty good. I am using the concepts listed as jumping board for our gentle theory lessons.