Music and Visual Art

2 courses in one printed volume: Making Music: Music Appreciation for Grades 3-5 and Seeing and Making: Visual Art for Grades 3-5. A semester of really hearing music, with nothing to buy and no instrument required. The student learns beat, tempo, dynamics, melody, timbre, harmony, form and rhythm by singing, clapping, building box harps and bottle flutes, and listening closely to named works from at least four continents: Grieg to gamelan, taiko to Vivaldi, every example findable free and legally. Ends with a curated five-piece playlist defended in real musical vocabulary. Each week is a hands-on activity followed by a short spoken check-in with Clara. A semester of making and looking in equal parts, using paper, pencil and whatever crayons the house already has. The elements of art: line, shape, value, color, texture, space, form, composition, each learned by making before naming, then found in real masterworks from named museum collections across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Includes a two-week observational drawing bootcamp with visible week-over-week progress, and ends with a five-piece curated exhibition with artist statements. Each week closes with a short spoken check-in with Clara.

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