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Music with HistoryOld Testament and the Ancient World

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Music with HistoryOld Testament and the Ancient World

By Deborah Cummings, BMus

Easy Classical MusicA Division of Easy Classical Education

Winterville, NC

This book is dedicated to

The Lord, the strength of

my heart, and my portion

forever; and to my husband,

Skip, my love of 35 years and

my hero.

Music with History: Old Testament and the Ancient World

by Deborah Cummings

Published by Easy Classical Press

P. O. Box 1965

Greenville, NC 27835

www.easyclassical.com

 

©2011 by Deborah Cummings

All rights reserved.

 

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The illustrations used in this book were drawn from many sources. The publisher has made every effort

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all illustrations and notices of copyright are given in the picture credits at the end of the publication.

Please notify the publisher if oversights or errors are discovered.

Cover design by Sandra Williams

Cover photo: Egyptian lute players. Fresco from the tomb of Nebamun, a nobleman in the 18th Dy-nasty of Ancient Egypt (c. 1350 BC). |Source=[http://www.shlomomusic.com/banjoancestors_egypt.htm] |Date=1350 BC |Author=unknown |Permission={{PD-art}}. {{PD-US}} Taken on 23 October 2011 by user Villanueva. Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_lute_players_001.jpg. April 9,2012.

Inside photo: An ancient Chinese dynastic engraving of an all-female ensemble of traditional instru-mentalists. {{PD-art}} {{PD-US}} Photo taken on 20 February 2008 by user Badagnani. Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ancientchineseinstrumentalists.jpg. April 9, 2012.

Table of Contents

Getting Set Up ................................................................................................................1

Lesson 1: Introduction to Music/The Creation ................................................................2

Lesson 2: First Instruments/Classification ........................................................................4

Lesson 3: Writing Music ..................................................................................................6

Lesson 4: The Use of Music in the Old Kingdom ............................................................8

Lesson 5: The Music of Early Mesopotamia ...................................................................10

Lesson 6: Theme and Variations ....................................................................................12

Lesson 7: Between Abraham and Joseph ........................................................................14

Lesson 8: Rondo ...........................................................................................................16

Lesson 9: The Music of India .........................................................................................18

Lesson 10: The Music of China and Africa ....................................................................20

Lesson 11: The Music of Egypt’s New Kingdom ............................................................22

Lesson 12: More Music of Egypt/Rests ..........................................................................24

Lesson 13: Staff and Clefs/Rest Review ..........................................................................26

Lesson 14: The Song of Moses/Treble Clef Notes ..........................................................28

Lesson 15: Music for the LORD, Part 1/Psalms ..............................................................30

Lesson 16: Music for the LORD, Part 2/Review .............................................................32

Lesson 17: Music for an Idol/Review .............................................................................34

Lesson 18: Final Review ................................................................................................36

Final Review Answer Key ..............................................................................................38

Songs and Sound-Off ....................................................................................................40

Picture Credits ..............................................................................................................42

Getting Set Up

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Welcome to Easy Classical’s Music with History! Our goal is to bring music and history to life as you travel through time and around the globe learning about

the origin, development, and uses of music of the peoples you are studying. As you

work your way through each lesson, you will systematically cover six of the nine National Standards for Music Educa-

tion developed by the National Associa-tion for Music Education. You are encour-

aged to take private music lessons and/or join with other young musicians in a choir, band, or orchestra. There are some things in music that you can only learn by making music yourself, especially when part of a group of musicians!

Hi, I’m Maestro, your music tour guide. You will be my appren-tice learning the characteristics of music, two of its forms, instru-ment classification, and writing/reading skills as you travel through centuries and across continents. I am a world time traveler, and

have quite a collection of instruments from all over the world. I have studied the music of every civilization from the beginning of time. I love music and hope that you will come to love it, too. As a conductor of an orchestra, I will help you make many instruments this year. Gather the needed supplies and be ready for a musical adventure!

Music Supplies Most of the supplies you will need this year can be

found in your home. Every lesson except the first will list what you need for the following one.

Some of the instruments that we will be making will use containers that held food in them. To avoid toss-ing something you will need, check the projects for

lessons 2, and 5 through 11.

You will need to purchase or borrow CDs for lessons 6 and 8: Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

and Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.

Hi! I’m Maestro, your music

tour guide.