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 studentarticle 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).
