Explore United States history and its connections to Western Music with this all-in-one resource for upper elementary through high school. Along with a helpful historical timeline; each section includes a reproducible student article; activity sheets; games and listening maps for 16 composers spanning five centuries. Full-length National Standards-based lesson plans accompany each section and all musical listening selections are included on the CD. Historical periods and composers include: The New World (Desprez; Palestrina); The Colonial Period (Bach; Vivaldi); Mid-1700s (Scarlatti; Gluck); the American War of Independence (Haydn; Mozart); the War of 1812 (Beethoven; Schubert); the Civil War (Liszt; Brahms); the Industrial Revolution (Ravel; Elgar); the early 20th Century (Holst; Prokofiev).

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