Composers and Art
his Composers and Art course is geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents while responding to biographies and the music of famous composers.:
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Fall Semester
Vivaldi
Handel
Bach
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Mendelssohn
Chopin
Schumann
Liszt
Verdi
Bruckner
Foster -
Spring Semester
Brahams
Tchailkovsky
Dvořák
Fauré
Elgar
Debussy
Strauss
Joplin
Ives
Gershwin
Copeland
Williams
Composers and Art will provide your student with the opportunity to respond to biographies and the music of famous composers through many different types of choice based arts projects. Art projects are not step by step projects, but projects that encourage students to respond to the composer of the lesson. For each lesson, students are required to explain their artistic response with a few words explaining their creations when they share in the following lesson. Students will be taught to create a visual journal and will be expected to create one journal entry/week.
Expectations for each lesson:
- Listen to the biography or story of the musician in class
- Projects: Complete the art project based on a piece of music by the composer of the week.
- Create at least one Visual Journal Entry and/or one short drawing assignment.
- Explain your artistic response to the lesson.