8/21/13

Pandora Station played for this segment in music built on:

Station Seeds

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• Gregorian Chant
• Responsorium Graduale For Good Friday: Responsorium Graduale by Gregorian Chant
• Factus Est Repente: Factus Est Repente by Gregorian Chant
• Stabat Mater, For Double Chorus & Continuo In C Minor: Stabat Mater Dolorosa by Domenico Scarlatti
• Ubi Caritas by Connie Dover
• Parce Domine, After Jacob Obrecht: Parce Domine, After Jacob Obrecht by Pierre Attaignant
• Ave Maris Stella, For Double Chorus: II by Edvard Grieg
• Christus Factus Est, Motet: Christus Factus Est by Felice Aneri

Thumbed-up Tracks

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• Missa Pro Defunctis, For Chorus: IV. Offertorium by Giovanni Francesco Anerio

   You will have to thumbs down many 17th century, etc. works to get back to Gregorian Chant -- check description for dates.

  One kid signed up for September class through Coursera, to substitute for one independent report

  
  Video about solar flares:
  
  From NASA
  
  
  Reports, made lists of 30 topics, narrowed to 5 in order, checked library sites to see how many resources available, painted cover of research notebook for easy finding
  
  
  Language: Cyrillic Alphabet
  
  also, go from here to page where you hear the pronunciation; it also gives you history of Saints Cyril and Methodius
  
  (another from a helpful friend)
  
  Get familiar with pen and ink to practice uncial
  
  Copy page onto card stock on basic strokes to make Chinese symbols, make many copies, use with pen and with brush and ink, from "Writing Chinese With Ease"
  
  Music:  One page of Usbourne Music Theory, quiz verbally after

  
  
  Read some history of Plain Chant and Gregorian Chant
  
  
  Play piece printed out from IMSLP, search Gregorian Chant, and this site helps show how to play it
  
  If you view Ave Mundi Spes Maria below, the singer shows sheet music with chant notation
  
  On piano, played a bit with the sheet music to see how it works, then got older girls to try to pick out the music on the piano based on listening to the Sissel "Ave Maris Stella" in the youtube videos below. Youngest just learned to sing the English with it. All read own books when not doing music: Youngest library books (Eric Carle), older read lit based on the country of their choosing ("The Importance of Being Earnest" and Pushkin stories).
  With younger in gaps, read Usborne "Sun, Moon, and Stars", watched NASA video above, read Chinese fairy tales book below.  Read story about brothers in law competing to see who could complete a poem with the starts provided, completed a couple ourselves, roughly.  Here are the starts:
  In the sky ___________________
  On the earth _________________
  On the table_________________
  In the room___________________
  Complete the sentences making the first and second and the third and fourth rhyme.
  
  Literature:  Read "The 39 Steps", with discussions on some of the race language.  Some girls have already read the "39 Clues" series and we've watched "Carmen Sandiego" in the conspiracy/travelogue tradition.
  Some cleaning up and making dinner, beef pot pie with prefab crust and leftover stew
  Outside practiced with the Daisy.http://www.daisy.com/