Feast of Ideas Week 1 - Hildegard Von Bingen

I am so excited for our 2021 - 2022 music class. Besides getting to sing and play musical games with friends, my children, along with the students in their class will be learning about a different composer every week. We are going to explore that composer’s music, the influences on the composer’s life through the food they might have eaten, fairy tales they may have listened to, historical events that happened during their lifetime, inventions and scientific discoveries, and their contemporaries in the art and music world.

Each week I will post a blog about our composer of the week along with a few ideas you can do to incorporate music history into your home! So here we go….

To study each composer, here is a basic outline of activities to do

1) Download the Composer Study Activity Packet (CLICK HERE)

2) Gather needed materials such as books, food, artwork, computer links, music

3) Complete activities throughout the week (can do as many or as few as you want)

Day 1

  • Listen to Song while coloring the doodle page

    Eat the food from their country while reading the living book

  • Discuss & cut out the concurrent people, places, inventions, and events that occurred during the composer’s lifetime.  Paste onto Map page. 

Day 2

  • Listen to a song from the composer (same song or different version, or another of the composer’s albums)

  • Complete the Sequencing worksheet

  • Geography: draw the country of the composer or work on drawing your continent

Day 3

  • Listen to music

  • Complete the Copywork Worksheet

  • Art

    • Copy, draw, attend artwork from the time period of composer

    • Read aloud a living book about the artist

    • Create your own artwork while listening to the music

Day 4

  • Listen to music

  • Complete Braille Decoding worksheet

  • Science

    • Read aloud a living book about a scientist or scientific discovery or invention that occurred during the composer’s life

    • Conduct an experiment (youtube, pinterest, library) based on an invention or discovery of the time period

Day 5

  • Listen to music

  • Complete the Rhythm Matching worksheet

  • History

    • Read aloud a living book about a historical event or person

    • Ask for a narration

Week 1 - HIldegard Von Bingen. Our first composer is a woman from the middle ages, a nun from Germany.

Click HERE to learn more about Hildegard.

You can also watch this short biographical video on Hildegard.

Here are links to the music to listen to for Hildegard

 
 

Here is a fun tie in to a recent current event - the Cicadas. In this video, a woman uses the cicadas as the drone sound to accompany her song composed by Hildegard.

 
Beth Smith