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1st Term 07 ~ Art/Music Study

2:56 PM, Jan. 10, 2007 .. Posted in Art n Music Study .. 0 comments .. Link

~ Art ~

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569; Flemish Northern Renaissance) How to pronounce Bruegel

1. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c.1554-55)
2. Landscape with the Parable of the Sower (1557) also here.
3. Peasant Wedding (c. 1568)

JMW Turner (1775-1851) English Landscape

~ Music ~

Robert Schumann (1848) (Early Romantic)

Listening selections for this term:

Carnaval (for piano)

Scenes from Childhood for piano

Symphony no 1 in B flat Op 38 "Spring"

Symphony no 2 in C Op 61

an arabeske or humoreske

Liederkreis or other song cycle

~Hymn~

Thus Far The Lord Has Led Me On

*for more details, visit Ambleside Online.

2:30 PM, Aug. 16, 2006 .. Posted in Art n Music Study .. 0 comments .. Link

Art ~ Matisse

Below are the 3 pictures we will focus on:

Music ~ Mozart

Below is a list of some of the selections we are listening to:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1785) (Classical/Roccoco) (This term may change in the future - next rotation, 2012)
Listening selections for this term:

Piano Concerto 20 (2 weeks)

Symphony 40 (4 weeks)

Quintet in A maj for clarinet (2 weeks)

Piano Sonata in A maj K.331 (2 weeks)

Concerto for bassoon and orchestra in B-flat major, K. 191

(the only bassoon concerto he wrote)

* For more details, visit AmblesideOnline.