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๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ„ ๐ŸŽ… Homeschool Holiday Music Month (Recent Posts)

A collection of great homeschool teaching ideas, resources, and little lessons on an assortment of seasonal musical favorites in a great variety of styles and genresย โ€” classical and modern, sacred and secular, serious and sillyย โ€” posted every December for the River Houses Homeschool Network. Print your own copy of our River Houses Calendar to follow all of our educational events throughout the year, and add your name to our free River Houses homeschool mailing list to get more posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week!ย ๐Ÿ˜Š

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽญ TWELFTH NIGHT and the End of Holiday Music Month 2021โ€“2022

5 January 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Long long ago the world begun,ย / With aย hey, ho, the wind and the rain.ย / But that’s all one, our play is done,ย / And we’ll strive to please you every day.” (Shakespeare helps us bring the 2021โ€“2022 Christmas Season, and our own Homeschool Holiday Music Month, to a close.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries, Homeschool Language & Literature

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ„ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: A Partridge in a ๐Ÿ๐ŸŒณ

5 January 2022 by Bob O'Hara

One of the deepest purposes of a liberal education is to enable people to get jokes. David Chase’s brilliant “Twelve Days of Christmas” illustrates that happy principle for us as we approach the end of our Homeschool Holiday Music Month.

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๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŒŸ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Star in the East

3 January 2022 by Bob O'Hara

For Homeschool Holiday Music Month, introduce your students to the early American shape-note tradition by way of the beautiful carol “Star in the East,” first published in the Southern Harmony collection in 1835.

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๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ‰ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: The Old Year Now Away is Fled

1 January 2022 by Bob O'Hara

“Let’s merry be this day,ย / And let us now both sport and play,ย / Hang grief, cast care away,ย / God send you aย happy new year!” (An ancient new-year carol sung to the tune “Greensleeves,” by the great countertenor Alfred Deller, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries

๐Ÿ–‹ ๐Ÿป WONDERFUL WORDS (and Music!): Auld Lang Syne

30 December 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“We two once ran along the hills,ย and picked the daisies fine; / But we’ve wandered many a weary foot since those days of long ago.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from Robert Burns, for auld lang syne.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Holidays & Anniversaries, Homeschool Language & Literature, Poems-of-the-Week

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ„ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: The Sussex Mummersโ€™ Carol

28 December 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“God bless your house, your children too,ย / Your cattle and your store;ย / The Lord increase you day by dayย / And send you more and more.” (The Sussex Mummersโ€™ Carol, from Percy Grainger and others, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŒน HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Lo, How a Rose Eโ€™er Blooming

26 December 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“It came, a flow’ret bright, / Amid the cold of winter, / When half spent was the night.” (An ancient German carol that has been translated into many languages, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.)

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๐ŸŽต ๐Ÿ‘ ๐ŸŒŸ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: The Shepherdโ€™s Carol

25 December 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“We stood on the hills, Lady, / Our dayโ€™s work done, / Watching the frosted meadows / That winter had won.” (Aย Christmas night carol, from Bob Chilcott and Clive Sansom, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

๐ŸŽต ๐ŸŽ„ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: Hallelujah!

23 December 2021 by Bob O'Hara

Introduce your homescholars (in just ten minutes) to one of the world’s most famous pieces of classical music, from George Frideric Handel, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month.

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music

๐ŸŽต โ„๏ธ HOLIDAY MUSIC MONTH: In the Bleak Midwinter

21 December 2021 by Bob O'Hara

“Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;ย / Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,ย / In the bleak midwinter, long ago.” (A frosty carol from Christina Rossetti and Gustav Holst, for Homeschool Holiday Music Month and the winter solstice.)

Filed Under: Holiday Music Month, Homeschool Arts & Music, Homeschool Language & Literature

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