Click on
PICTURES above for selections included in course, and
NAMES to left for composers'
websites.
Look at each picture and see which composers you recognize. Place mouse cursor over pictures to see if you were right.
Yes, a hearty hello
to all visiting for the first time. You have come to a very
special place...one where you can acquire knowledge that
will amaze yourself, as well as your friends, a place to
learn and have fun, and a place where you can gain pleasure
and satisfaction that will last all your life. How old do
you to be to have for all this...well we humbly estimate the
range to be from 9 to 90. So, in short, the
Classical
Music Project
is a course of study for people of all
ages that provides them with interesting information
about forty of the greatest classical music
composers in history, and empowers them to identify
109 of these men's most familiar works.
Phew, quite a feat!!! Don't take our word
for it, see below four purple audio buttons
that play four examples of such works...just remember there are
105 MORE of these pieces (we call them "Sparklers")
of the same quality and familiarity. Click slowly on
the circles until you see the triangles
turn to squares...dial-up people be
patient.
Here are the promised examples: Gounod/Bach: Ave Maria Pachelbel: Canon D Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto Number 1 Elgar: Pomp and Circumstances NOTE: If you don't see the buttons, there are four scenarios that could cause such: 1. You are not using Internet Explorer, 2. You have not allowed ActivesX controls to run Internet Explorer, 3. You have not made the classical music site a trusted site, 4. You are using another browser besides Internet Explorer, 5. You are using a MAC computer, 6. You do not have Adobe Flash Player installed on your computer. You flatly cannot take part in the Project if you don't meet these 6 criteria...no getting around it. Solve the problems and then return by clicking on the back button of Internet Explorer.
BTW, we have even included
some opera in the PROJECT. Say you don't like opera...hmm, let's see...watch this video
from YouTube and decide...Click
on little
guy coming out to perform
Finally...use the
HomeBase
menu above to guide you through the
Classical Music Project.
Take about an hour in doing so. You
will see a blue animated arrow above telling you where
to start. Read carefully all the blue backgrounded boxes along the top of the
HomeBase menu to learn about the PROJECT in detail,
then go to the maroon box on the second row of the menu that specifically
pertains to you; such as,
6. Teacher, if a teacher,
8. Parents,
if a parent, etc. If you intend to take part in the
Project,
the red box, 5.
Course of Study/The StageHouse, is where you will
be spending all your time. We hope you have as much fun taking part in this
endeavor as we have in creating it...
©2008, EdWorks, LLC and licensed from Delta Corporation. We regret the recent passing of Mr. Coster... "Save a place up there for us, Irwin." All classical excerpts are provided by Delta Corporation by arrangement with Source/Q. Full versions of this repertoire are available on the Laserlight label wherever classical CD's are sold.
Special thanks goes to Marty Welker of Source/Q...who
helped throughout this project...and actually made the
course possible in the first place.
NOT FOR SALE EXCEPT IN UNITED STATES; NOR IN
RETAIL STORES
Narrator was Justin Sheehan at
giftedpage@hotmail.com **Important**: If you don't have a cable or DSL internet connection, you will have slow response times when you do various activities on this site. However, Internet Explorer will store the web pages you visit in its cache, and the next time you do the activities, you will get much faster response time. Otherwise, our only suggestion is to go to your library"...computers there invariably have cable connections. Just remember to set monitor to 1024 x 768 or higher...right click on blank part of desktop screen, go to "settings" and move slider to 1024 x 768. Also please note: This site will simply not run using Mac computers because Microsoft Activx is an indispensable part of the controls found on many pages...like the purple ones above, and such will not run on MACS or any non-Microsoft based browser for that matter...like Firefox or Opera. Don't buy the PROJECT, therefore if you have a MAC, or can't use Internet Explorer, or one of its cousins that uses its engine...our favorite of these being Maxthon ...click here to download...running with the Vista skin...just stunning. Yet again...this course was written for people who have PC's NOT MAC computers...sorry, but we just don't know how to write for MACS, and the activities flat out will not run or render using it. Maybe a MAC guru will rewrite the site for us. Added to this is fact is that those who actually do use PC's MUST USE the browser Already built into Windows ITSELF; that is, Internet Explorer (NOT...NOT Firefox or Opera). Alternately though, a person can use one of the browsers that uses IE's engine. Here, we highly recommend Maxthon because it isn't affected by the Activix issues that Internet Explorer has...the ones mentioned about the seeing of the sound buttons and Paul Potts video. What are these issues?...well IE7 with service pack 2 keeps popping up a window asking you if you want to run Activex controls. You must always say . You must always say yes, and also click on bar above at the top of the page, and finally the popup message, or you simply won't even see various control buttons that need to run on that page.
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