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Who would love to do some self-paced online courses for music appreciation with your kids? I’d love to share about some from Gena Mayo of Music in Our Homeschool. She has 4 courses that will teach your kids about composers, styles, and musical concepts, while at the same time being so much fun! Check out the free preview lessons at the bottom of each course page.

Each course comes with lifetime access and is self-paced, so students can do it independently.  My middle and high schoolers are current working through the musicals course and the 20th century music appreciation course.  We love it!

This week we are having an awesome giveaway where one lucky person will win lifetime access to all four courses, since Gena has decided to partner with us in a giveaway. This is almost a $200 value!

Here are descriptions of the 4 courses:

15-Minute Music Lessons for Elementary

• Lessons to read
• Videos to watch
• Printables
• Complete each lesson in 15 minutes.
• More material is included if you’d like to expand the time or the days on a particular lesson.
• Some of the lessons include the harp, Patriotic music, and a cappella singing, Handel’s Messiah, and birds in classical music.

Intro to Musicals for Elementary

• Ten lessons on ten different musicals.
• Read about the story and background.
• Watch video clips.
• Work on one printable per lesson.
• Take an online quiz.
• Explore links to outside sites with other materials to enrich your study.
• The ten musicals are Annie, Seussical, Cats, James and the Giant Peach, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Mary Poppins, Newsies, Annie Get Your Gun, The Music Man, and The Wizard of Oz.

Middle Ages Thru Classical Period Music Appreciation for High School

• Semester course
• 18 lessons
• All videos and printables included
• Use for high school credit
• Appropriate for K-12th grades
• Some of the composers and styles include Josquin Desprez, motets, concertos, Bach, Handel, orchestra, harpsichord, Mozart, opera, and Beethoven, and much more.

20th Century Music Appreciation for High School

• Full-year course
• 36 lessons
• All videos and printables included
• Use for high school credit
• Appropriate for K-12th grades
• Some of the composers and styles included are John Phillip Sousa, Ragtime, Big Band, Opera, Puccini, Gershwin, Stravinsky, Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, Jazz, Folk Music, Film Music, John Williams, John Cage, serialism, Schoenberg, and more!