Music is a very important part of our homeschooling. How do we fit it in? For starters, we listen to a lot of music, of all kinds. It doesn't matter to us if it is oldies, today's hits, opera, or something else. We keep music playing during the majority of our days and evenings.
Although, I was a musician, I don't force my children to learn musical instruments unless they want to do so. We do have a very busy baton twirling and dance team and we use a wide variety of music for that.
As for focusing on specific composers, you can listen to classical music for free on Spotify. If you would like to focus on a specific composer for a specific term or period of time, you can find playlists galore on the internet to listen to for free. I chose The Nutcracker for Tarja for this term. She already somewhat knows the story of The Nutcracker, because she has watched several children's varieties on Netflix. I found a playlist of various pieces from The Nutcracker on Spotify and turned it on for her to listen to while she does her copywork. As each piece plays, we talk about the name of the composer and the name of the piece. She recognizes a lot of the pieces from cartoons, but now she will be able to identify them by title and composer. We will repeat the same music daily for at least a month.
Some of my favorites to introduce to children are:
The Nutcracker
Peter and the Wolf
Swan Lake
Scheherazade
Tubby the Tuba
These are all fun and important works to learn and remember.
THAT was easy!
Have a great day!
Laurel Santiago
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