CFK Fun Facts – Classics for Kids https://www.classicsforkids.com/video-post-page/
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Beethoven’s Ninth Many generations of concertgoers have heard Ludwig van Beethoven
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Spanish and Latin American Composers 4: Latin American Composers – Classics for Kids https://www.classicsforkids.com/podcast/spanish-and-latin-american-composers-4-latin-american-composers/
After Christopher Columbus made his first trip across the Atlantic Ocean, Spain and other European countries began to colonize the Americas. Spanish music had a big influence on Latin American […]
married European forms with Indigenous sounds, creating folk music traditions that have
The Concerto, Part 2: Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” – Classics for Kids https://www.classicsforkids.com/the-concerto-part-2-antonio-vivaldis-the-four-seasons/
A. Kori Hill Some folks joke that Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) wrote the same concerto 200 times. He didn’t; he wrote at least 300, some think as many as 500, though […]
didn’t; he wrote at least 300, some think as many as 500, though not all of them have
Music Theory: Call and Response Form – Classics for Kids https://www.classicsforkids.com/music-theory-call-and-response-form/
A. Kori Hill When you take a music theory class, you’ll hear about sonata form, rondo form, ABA or ternary form, AABA form, 12-bar blues, and verse-chorus form. But one […]
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Does it Need to Sound Pretty? Part One – Classics for Kids https://www.classicsforkids.com/does-it-need-to-sound-pretty-part-one/
A. Kori Hill If you study classical music, you’ve probably been told to take the edge out of your sound and make it pretty. There is so much classical music […]
Each musician has at least four other things they have to play.
Understanding Opera: Part 2 – Classics for Kids https://www.classicsforkids.com/understanding-opera-part-2/
The operas discussed here are not set in 18th century France or a mythological country. One is set in 21st century Cincinnati, Ohio; the other in 19th century South Carolina. Both deal with topics you may not expect from an opera: four high schoolers prepping for college admission essays; an enslaved Muslim man finding his way in pre-Civil War America. But what they tell us is that opera is only limited by what we decide it can express.
Did you think an opera could have an aria where a character sings about their love
A Lesson on Minimalism – Classics for Kids https://www.classicsforkids.com/a-lesson-on-minimalism/
A. Kori Hill Repetition is a funny thing–it can be boring or exciting. It can make you feel like you’re going nowhere or rediscovering something familiar. You can feel all […]
It may be a while before you notice that more instruments have come into the texture
Bamboula, Op. 2 by Louis Moreau Gottschalk – Classics for Kids https://www.classicsforkids.com/bamboula-op-2-by-louis-moreau-gottschalk/
A. Kori Hill Do you know about the bamboula? It’s a music-dance form whose name comes from the bamboula drum. It developed in Africa and was brought to the United […]
Would you have known Louis was using the bamboula just by listening to?
R. Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses – Classics for Kids https://www.classicsforkids.com/r-nathaniel-detts-the-ordering-of-moses/
Remember how we talked about Messiah by Handel and The Ballad of the Brown King by Bonds? How did Handel tell a musical story about Jesus’ life and Bonds’ tell […]
Dett’s The Ordering of Moses may have started as a class project, but the details
William Grant Still Suite for Violin and Piano – Classics for Kids https://www.classicsforkids.com/william-grant-still-suite-for-violin-and-piano/
A. Kori Hill In 1943, William Grant Still wrote a piece for his friend, violinist Louis Kaufman. It was called Suite for Violin and Piano. But first, a little intro: […]
Kori Hill Have you ever been excluded?