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CLASSICAL MAGIC® PRODUCTS |
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Stories with pictures,
Music to sing.
Hear an example,
Listen to "Spring." |
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Composer portraits,
Books with CDs,
Guides for the teachers,
Learning's a breeze! |
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Each Themes
To Remember book with CD
(Volume 1 and Volume 2)
consists of a hard-cover,
124+ page Smyth-sewn library-quality book with
an included compact disk designed to teach recognition
of 40 classical music
themes.
The themes are taught through lyrics (written by
the author) that make it fun, educational, and
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illustrated with children in mind. Piano, a quiet
little cat, and Forte, a rather loud little dog,
accompany children throughout the books. Among other
themes, Volume 1 features
Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite and
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
Volume 2 features all four of
Vivaldi's Four Seasons,
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and
Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. |
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Each volume also includes definitions of musical terms and notations
of the themes.
The CD tracks include the classical music themes without lyrics,
then with lyrics, to aid in learning and for "name that theme" type games.
Click on the List of Themes button for a list of the
themes covered by each book/CD.
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Classical Karaoke
for Kids, a third hard-cover
library-quality book with CD covering 37 additional
classical music
themes.
It uses the same format as the Themes
To Remember volumes. In addition to Piano
and Forte, this volume also features Adagio, the
cat, and Allegro, the mouse, in Haydn's Clock Symphony.
(Of course, Adagio never catches Allegro because
Allegro is always faster than Adagio!).
(The product requires a CD player, not a Karaoke machine.)
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The combination of Themes To Remember, Volumes
1 and 2, plus Classical Karaoke for
Kids covers a total of 117 of the
most famous classical music themes from 42 composers.
What a wonderful way to introduce your students,
children and grandchildren to a lifetime adventure with classical
music.
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Antonin
Dvorák
From the New World with Lyrics is
an 80 page, fully illustrated,hard-cover library-quality
book with CD. This book and CD have lyrics
for each of the 12 main themes in Dvorák's From
the New World Symphony. Sample titles for the
themes are: Play for the People, With
the Gypsies I Want to Stay, Music Calls
Me, I Miss You So My Country, Welcome
to Spillville, Chief Big Moon Powwow,
and How I Love The Woods.
The book tells the story of Dvorák's life in both prose and lyrics,
and includes reproducibles plus a listening guide for the orchestrated
recording on the CD.. The CD contains, in addition to tracks of
the themes with and without lyrics, a fully orchestrated recording of the Symphony
(without lyrics). |
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Our products provide a wonderful way to introduce children
(and even adults) to a lifetime adventure with classical music! |
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Volume
1 and Volume 2 Teacher's
guides are also available. These
guides emphasize the importance of introducing children
to, and generating enthusiasm for, classical music
by first building a theme recognition foundation.
The guides then give proposals for using each of
the 40 classical music themes in each volume to introduce
the relevant music concepts and the appropriate National
Music Teaching Standards. This curriculum
material is adaptable to any age group. |
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All book/CD combinations include
composer portraits by a professional portrait artist
as well as short composer biographies.
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Enlarged (8 1/2" x
11") sets of 41 black and white composer portraits
are available, including hard-to-find portraits such
as Offenbach, Suppé, Smetana, and Joplin. These portraits
cover the composers in Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Themes
To Remember and the composers of Classical
Karaoke for Kids. Teachers often laminate them
for hands-on activities such as finding composers
and placing them on timelines. |
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| Portraits of the
Music Masters, a small easy-to-keep-in-hand
book (black & white, 5 1/2" x 6") that children
will love. Includes original portraits of the most famous composers.
Children will want to see a face to go with a name. Opposite
each portrait page they will find a short biography
including the most interesting facts of the composer's
life. Great for classroom hands-on, school libraries and gifts. |
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Can You Name That
Classical Tune, a
CD with twenty themes from Volume 1 of Themes
To Remember with a music only track followed
by a music-with-lyrics track for each theme. Kids
love games and this will be a favorite. Listen to
a tune. See who can name the classical music
composer and composition. Sing along with the kid-friendly
lyrics, then learn an interesting composer fact.
Great for classroom, for home, or for harmony in
the car when traveling. Makes time fly.
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Packages of over 50 illustrated
reproducibles of the lyrics for Volume 1 and for
Volume 2 of Themes To Remember and/or for
Classical Karaoke for Kids are available from some
of our suppliers.
These reproducibles may be used for classroom or other
teaching environments for making overhead projector transparencies,
worksheets
including reading and/or coloring sheets, etc. Reproducibles
for the
Antonin Dvorák book are included in the back section of the book.
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Single Themes To Remember and Classical
Karaoke for Kids CDs in jewel cases may be purchased
directly from Classical Magic, Inc. for use in the car,
to replace a lost or damaged CD, etc.
Click on the "Ordering Info" button on the left column
of this page for ordering Classical Magic® materials.
For information regarding quantity purchases or replacement CDs,
or to discuss teaching the program, and similar topics contact Classical Magic,
Inc. directly at comapers@skybest.com or call 828-898-7765. |
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This page was last updated on 1/18/2008 |
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