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Music Comes Alive: What Sets Our Curriculum Apart?

Nov 16, 2024
2 min read

Updated: Jan 22

Our mission is in our name: Music Comes Alive aims to bring music to life for your family through an easy, fun, and comprehensive homeschool music curriculum.

Easy & Fun

Primary A Curriculum Guide "Month at a Glance"

Music Comes Alive is designed to fit into your busy homeschool life, with one easy-to-teach lesson per week.

Each course includes a parent-friendly Curriculum Guide and an engaging Activity Pack for each student. Our no prep, open-and-go Curriculum Guides contain a year's worth of fully written-out lesson plans, with everything you need to teach music at home:

(1) For planning: scope & sequence, booklist, playlist, supplies list & month-at-a-glance pages

Primary A Activity Pack — Elementary A Activity Pack "Musician Fact File"

(2) For teaching: fully written-out lesson plans with diagrams and internet-linked resources (with links & QR codes)

The Activity Pack features colorful activity sheets for a fun, hands-on experience. For each lesson, your student will enjoy the accompanying Activity Pack page, such as "Musician Fact File," "Fundamentals Focus," "Instrument Spotlight," or "Hands-On Activity." "Listening Pages" are provided for each listening assignment.

Comprehensive Music Curriculum

Nine picture books for Primary A — Books for Primary A

In addition to being easy and fun, Music Comes Alive aims to be comprehensive, providing access to a range of musical styles and topics for your family to enjoy.

Our literature-based curriculum uses great books to bring music to life and foster connection between you and your child. Over the course of each month, you and your child will learn about music history, music fundamentals, and musical instruments. Curated playlists and listening guides help you and your child to become familiar with great musical compositions and to learn how to listen to different styles of music.

Music Comes Alive also taps into various learning styles by using a range of teaching approaches, including read-aloud books & lessons, listening assignments, hands-on worksheets & activities (crafts, games, etc.), and internet-linked resources (primarily video) for further exploration of the topics covered by the curriculum.

Course Offerings

Our long-term vision is to offer digital and print homeschool music curriculum for grades K-12.

Primary A Curriculum Guide and Activity Pack

Our current offerings include:

Primary A (Grades K-2): Medieval Melodies to Musical Theater (Learn More)
Elementary A (Grades 3-5): Medieval to Modern (Learn More)

Print versions of Primary A and Elementary A will be available soon!

Upcoming courses will include additional courses for grades K-2 (Primary B) and grades 3-5 (Elementary B) as well as our first middle school curriculum (Intermediate 1). Head on over to the Music Comes Alive store and bring the joy of music to your homeschool today!

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Homeschool Music for Multiple Ages

Oct 12, 2024
2 min read

Homeschool Music Curriculum with Flexible Age Ranges

Adding music to your homeschool should be easy! One way to keep things simple is to teach multiple grades at once. Each of our courses is suitable for a range of grades:

Our Primary A: Medieval Melodies to Musical Theater course serves grades K-2.
Our Elementary A: Medieval to Modern course serves grades 3-5.

Additional tracks for Primary (grades K-2) and Elementary (grades 3-5) and more are coming soon!

Parallel Homeschool Music Curriculum

If you have a range of elementary ages in your home, consider purchasing parallel courses! All our Primary and Elementary tracks work in parallel.

For example, Primary A: Medieval Melodies to Musical Theater covers the same time periods and many of the same musicians as Elementary A: Medieval to Modern. (See below)

Month	Primary A: Medieval Melodies to Musical Theater	Elementary A: Medieval to Modern
Month 1	Hildegard of Bingen (Medieval Era)	Guido D'Arezzo (Medieval Era)
Month 2	J. S. Bach (Baroque Era)	J. S. Bach (Baroque Era)
Month 3	W. A. Mozart (Classical Era)	W. A. Mozart (Classical Era)
Christmas	"Silent Night"	"In the Bleak Midwinter"
Month 4	Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George (Classical Era)	Ludwig van Beethoven (Classical Era)
Month 5	P. I. Tchaikovsky (Romantic Era)	P. I. Tchaikovsky (Romantic Era)
Month 6	George Gershwin (Modern/Jazz)	George Gershwin (Modern/Jazz)
Month 7	Marian Anderson (Opera singer)	Billie Holiday (Jazz singer)
Month 8	Broadway Stars (Musical Theater)	Leonard Bernstein (Modern/Musicals)

Upcoming courses Primary B & Elementary B and Primary C & Elementary C are structured in a similar way. Combine parallel courses to create a rich feast of musical learning for all your elementary-aged students!