UPPER SCHOOL ARTS — MUSIC HISTORY

UPPER SCHOOL ARTS — MUSIC HISTORY

Arts are often sadly neglected today in education. We offer extensive programs in Music Theory and Composition; Animation; and Acting, all designed for home school use. These highly creative, detailed courses provide an education in depth, with an eye toward the creation of professionals. They should generally be done in sequence by the student interested in that art form.

To find out more about our extensive Music History program for Upper School, we recommend you first take a look at the video that you'll find toward the top of this page. Then read this article, look at the course descriptions offered of each course below, along with the samples that we provide of each course. (Please note - these courses can be done by Lower School students who are truly interested in music history and who are reasonably literate.)

MUSIC HISTORY COURSES OVERVIEW

Our Music History program consists of nine extensive courses.  Music History revolves around both composers, and schools or periods of music and art such as the Baroque, Romantic, Impressionistic, or the Nationalistic movements of the 20th century.  We cover well over 100 composers in great detail.  We also provide links to many hundreds of examples of their music, as played by many of the greatest musicians of the 20th century.  (We can't promise that every link will be live when you use them, but you can doubtless find others for the few that will not be, on You Tube, by running a search with the composer's name and the piece that you wish to hear.  The vast majority of performances should be there waiting for you.)

For the beginner, for the person longing to compose their own music, and for the person who has long held an interest in music history - these are courses just for you.

The end result of a student who completes our Music History program is a person very familiar with the history of music, kinds of music, the great composers and their lives and works, and who can use that knowledge to deepen their appreciation of music in general.

To find out more about this program, please take a look at the video that you'll find toward the top right of this page. Then take a look at the description and samples provided for each course.

Please note - Many of the required films or music have links provided so that there may be no need to secure them. However, we cannot guarantee that all the links will be “live” or active when you use them. You may need to secure films or music in other ways. No film or music selected is very hard to secure. Any book required will need to be secured by you, though a great deal of reading material built in to the courses (such as The Story of Mankind) is built directly into the courses and so do not need to be secured.

All courses are PDFs and can be instantly downloaded upon purchase!