Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: Music and Composer Study

Charlotte Mason: Music and Composer Study

Music to my ears....that is what happens when I see my teen listening to his current composer each week all on his own. I know that many of you are just starting out with composer study or maybe you don't make it a regular part of your homeschooling week yet, but I want to encourage you in your efforts.

My best advice: Every child's taste is different so don't give up if at first they don't like your selected composer. Move on and try again with a different composer. (You can read our family's experience: But I Don't Like Mahler..What to Do Now?)

If you need some inspiration, this is the carnival for you. There are many families just like yours that live in the modern world but still enjoy classical music and composer study as a way to enrich their child's growing up experience. Research has proven that listening to classical music is beneficial to our children, perhaps even helping them learn other subjects more efficiently and easily. If you would like to see my top ten list for beginning classical music composer study, click over to my Build A Classical Music Library For Children page on Squidoo. You may also like to read this entry,  Appreciating Great Music: For Children and Moms Too, which includes a free music listening log sheet to download.


Sarah from All That's Goood has put together a wonderfully inspiring post: Composer Study Mozart. This is going to give you some great ideas for your own study. The video above is from their family...love the masks!

Nadene from Practical Pages has written Our Study of Schubert. I loved this entry and the connections it makes between one of my favorite composers and a favorite movie. You can also find her Famous Musician Pages a big help in composer study follow-up.

Nancy from Sage Parnassus shares Longing and Waiting with carnival readers. A visit to her entry will give you some ideas and thoughts about the coming musical season.

Angie from Petra School is a new contributor to the CM Blog Carnival. She shares their Pablo Picasso and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov entry with carnival readers. Here is their follow-up entry Tale of Tsar Saltan. I love glimpsing into their composer study!

Phyllis from All Things Beautiful contributes their family's study of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Love the video she includes for readers. Interesting!

Adventures in Mama-Land has submitted her entry What Do These Men Have In Common?  Click over to read the answer.

Jimmie from The Notebooking Fairy has generously made a set of Composer Notebooking Pages for you to use along with your composer study. She also includes some links to her wonderful composer pages. Thanks Jimmie.

Amy from Fisher Academy International is going to make it a Handel for Christmas year in their home, listening to Handel's Messiah each day as they move through the season. 


Other Charlotte Mason Topics For This Edition


Annie Kate from Tea Time with Annie Kate has written and submitted a review of a "living" DVD: Katherine's Farm. She writes, "It’s about a real girl who’s helping on the farm.  This is one of the best children’s films I’ve ever seen, and many adults will enjoy it as well." I think that sums it up well. You can view some sample clips HERE.

 Pamela from Blah, Blah, Blog reminds us in her entry to check local resources for ways to supplement our home libraries: Hands On Chaos. Great reminder.

Kelly from The Homeschool Co-Op has submitted an entry showing a glimpse into a nature exchange: A Box of Goodies: Loving and Learning From Our Nature Exchange. Take a look at how a simple idea enriched so many areas of learning. Here is the account of their receiving their exchange with all its nature-goodness: Nature Connections: Inside and Out. Love the puzzle idea!

Michelle from The Holistic Homeschooler has written 5 Tips for Successful Nature Study, a topic near and dear to this mama's heart. Michelle has also submitted her entry Narration, Dictation and Copywork, Oh My! for carnival readers. She suggests some steps to implementing this important aspect of a Charlotte Mason style education.

Amanda from Home Grown and Beeyoutiful shares their entry: Autumn Walks in the Woods. I encourage you to pop over and indulge in a beautiful autumn blaze of glory.

Clara from A Slice of Homeschool Pie shows us My Son's Art Studies Photo Album. Very practical post showing how she implemented this idea.

Tricia from Hodgepodge shares their family's simple and fun pastel tutorial Christmas Tree in Snow. Special tip: Use blue chalk pastel to make snow!

Tiger's Mum from The Tiger Chronicle put together a post sharing their Nature Study in November.  She writes, "After attempting different ideas since September, I am now inclined to have a monthly theme as a basis of our nature study. " Great idea!

Lisa from Olive Plants Around My Table has submitted their entry, Interview With My Children.  What do your children think of a Charlotte Mason education?

Lanaya from Gore Family News would like to share her entry, Homeschooling is Discipleship for carnival readers. This is a thoughtful entry that will ring true with many of us.

Dana from Epi Kardia has gathered a post about Charlotte Mason and the Bible.  She asks us to consider some important aspects of a Charlotte Mason education....are we applying the methodology without the philosophy?



So if you have made it this far down the carnival, you are in for a treat! Debra from NotebookingPages.Com has generously offered to share a set of her Famous Composer Pages with THREE of our carnival readers.  You can enter for the giveaway below on the Rafflecopter form. See below for ways to enter. The giveaway will end on 12/12/11 and I will email the winners instructions for receiving your set of notebook pages.

You will need to click over to the blog to see the entry form!

The next Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival will be held on December 20, 2011 at Dewey's Treehouse! The theme is Book of Centuries/Timelines (a form of vitality)
* CM vol.6 p169-180 & vol.4 p.36-38
* Parent's Review articles: The Book of Centuries & The Teaching of Chronology
You can submit your entries HERE.