Composer Study - Johann Sebastian Bach (Tour 3)

Johann Sebastian Bach

"What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve."

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a German composer of the Baroque era. His genius and inventiveness of the “Art of the Fugue”, the "Goldberg Variations" and the "Crab Canon" (which can be played upside down and backwards). Bach was happily married two times, had lots of friends, was an excellent teacher, and loved food and coffee. But he didn't always get along with everyone. He sometimes fought with employers, once to the point he was put in jail (house arrest) because his boss didn't want to let Bach go work somewhere else.

Composer Study

Start off with the Music Lesson which includes

  • Music Links

  • Read Alouds

  • Time & Place Connection Subjects

  • Recipe

Throughout the week, cover the Multi-Subject Connections

  • Science Activity, read aloud, fun code worksheets

  • Art Activity, read aloud, optional coloring page

  • Literature Activity, read aloud, copywork

  • History Activity, read alouds, geography activity, Book of Centuries

Johann Sebastian Bach’s dessert: Stollen

Learn how to make this German dessert. Click on the picture below to go to the recipe.

 

Bach’s Music

Song 1: Goldberg Variations 1 - 5

Music Class: J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 - Aria - Variations 1-5"


SONG 2: Crab Canon

Science Song: Bach - J.S. Bach - Crab Canon on a Möbius Strip. This song is so cool!!!!!


Song 3: I want you bach

Art Song: "Jackson 5 and Bach were funky way before Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk! -"I Want You Bach"-The Piano Guys"


Song 4: minuet from the Anna magdalena bach notebook

Literature Song: Bach's Minuet from The Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook, Anh. 114


Song 5: Brandenburg Concerto

History Song: Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major BWV 1048, complete, Voices of Music 4K UHD video


Biography

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