Month Five
Lafayette and the American Revolution
American Revolution-- Foods and Crafts
Music:
Music:
- Revolutionary War Music
- Yankee Doodle: Music of the American Revolution
- Dr. Joseph Warren's Ballad
- British Grenadier Song
- Fife and Drum Music
- The World Turned Upside Down (played at Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown)
- Re-enactment of British surrender at Yorktown
- Drum calls of the Revolution
FRANCE
Outline Map of France
French Crafts and Food
French language: 30 minutes of French for kids
French children's songs
Games French children play
Plays:
French Crafts and Food
French language: 30 minutes of French for kids
French children's songs
Games French children play
Plays:
- Bernard Palissy: Enamaller to His Majesty
- The Keys of Calais
- The Burghers of Calais
- Saxon and Norman
- The Maid of Orleans
- The Necklace
- Jean Valjean (from Les Miserables)
- French National Anthem (with English subtitles)
- French accordion music with scenes of France (5 minutes)
- French cafe music (1 hour)
- French baroque music (1 hour)
- Moment when French national anthem is sung in defiance of the Germans in Casablanca
- Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (5th movement) 9 minutes conducted by Leonard Bernstein (Great music for imaginations to take fire!)
- Camille Saint-Saens: La Danse Macabre
- Carnival of Animals (2 min)
- Carnival of Animals: Aquarium (3 min)
- Carnival of Animals: Royal March of the Lions (2 min)
- Carnival of Animals: The Swan (played by Yo-Yo Ma, 4 min)
- Carnival of Animals: The Elephant (1 min)
- Carnival of Animals: The Kangaroo (1 min)
- Carnival of Animals (complete with puppets - 27 min)
- Offenbach: Can-Can Music (2 min)
- Bizet: Camen Overture (3 1/2 min), London Philharmonic
- Erik Satie: Gynopedie No. 1 (piano)
- Ravel's Bolero (15 min - world's longest crescendo)
- Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune (on harp or with full orchestra)
- Gabriel Faure's Pavane with paintings by Claude Monet
CANADA
SWITZERLAND
Music:
- National Anthem (with Swiss scenery) or (with words)
- Original Swiss folk music
- Swiss national treasure: the Schwyzerorgeli (Swiss accordion)
- The Ultimate Yodeler (here or here)
- More Swiss music (How can you not be happy there??)
- Swiss Alpine horn (here or here)
- Rossini: William Tell Overture (Finale) 3 min