My Teaching Material Classical Music ... for Cool Teachers..

On this website page, I offer you three sections to explore. First is my philosophy: why I believe that my approach is the best way to introduce kids to Classical Music. Second, there’s really entertaining, interesting, and above all cool information to explore on the topic of Classical Music. And third, there’s a section introducing my “Teaching Material Classical Music”. Click here to get directly to the right place in the shop already now..

“Teaching Material Classical Music": You surely recognize the man on the far left and the “Number 3.” And the second of the four is also a very well-known performer. But who ... is the maestro on the far right?..

My “Teaching Material Classical Music”: 150 questions, 150 answers ... all in multiple-choice style. 20 parts are 15 PDFs, 2 MP3s, and 3 videos. © Pixabay.

One part of the Teaching Material Classical Music – and included even in the free “portion”: a Bach music collection. It features Bach’s most popular hits in just over 45 minutes. Why not try it out right now and see how it “works”? Click the link at the end of this section to access SoundCloud and listen – very quietly – to some of Bach’s most popular musical works while you continue reading this page. Click here to get directly to this music selection..

Teaching Material, Exciting Stuff and My Philosophy ... With the Subject Classical Music..

My personal philosophy regarding the teaching material: Just keep reading below this selection..

To visit the special website dedicated exclusively to the question “What is Classical Music?”, please click here..

For an exciting and fun read on the topic of “Classical Composers and Their Quirks”—full of eye-opening insights and fascinating facts—that goes perfectly with my teaching materials, please click right here and now ... and you get all the way down on this page to find this entertaining content for you and your kids..

You don’t have to be a Classical Music fan to recognize the first composer in the picture above. The image of the man in the top hat next to him is also famous. And Beethoven as the fourth ... I’d only dare ask elementary school kids that. But who is the stylish contemporary in the black-and-white photo in position 3, wearing a cap and medals?..

1 My Special Philosophy Regarding My Special “Teaching Material Classical Music ”

“What is Classical Music precisely?” ... That was the question that kicked off the era of my teaching material for teachers in our Johann Sebastian Bach Mission. Why? Because I hadn’t been able to find a satisfactory answer anywhere myself. Because there are four ways to explain Classical Music. And because, along the way, I discovered that I could use this answer to indirectly lead people to Bach as well. A special website dedicated to this question came into being back then..

Shortly after that, I developed the topic “Is there Classical Music for children?” And I also “crafted” yet another special website. In doing so, I also fulfilled a lifelong dream. Of course, it was never something I thought about every day, nor was it ever a major obsession. Namely, to put together a cool collection of classical works that I liked. And I really didn’t like much classical music..

Please keep in mind as you read my text that I enjoy writing a lot ... and I intentionally do so. I never “get to the point right away.” So that’s true here, too. A report on the German TV news channel n-tv introduced the Lehrermarktplatz.de portal (... The Teacher Market Place Portal). That’s when it “clicked,” and I knew that my “path to Bach” could also work through the general topic of “Classical Music.” And especially through Popular Classical Music. More on Popular Classical Music later..

There are really only three types of teachers, and I think I can help all three groups. That's right ... this above is definitely not a music lesson. © Info.

First, there are the Classical Music fans. With my “Teaching Material Classical Music,” I can provide them with a new, additional “tool” that might help them get more kids interested in Classical Music starting right away. This group certainly regrets the most that interest in this – their musical genre – is so difficult to transfer. The second group?

Some of the teachers might not like Classical Music at all. In that case, my teaching material will certainly make things much easier for them starting this year. And the third group? You might – like me – enjoy some Classical Pieces but not the vast majority of Classical Music: If that’s the case, then this site is especially exciting for you. I promise!

I am firmly convinced that successfully introducing children to Classical Music is a tremendous challenge. And I am also convinced that, when it comes to The Carnival of the Animals and even The Four Seasons, the only way to do it is by following the motto: better this way than not at all. Even Peter and the Wolf is only of limited use. But ... there simply hasn't been any other approach so far..

However, I finally found another one ... or rather ... I made one up myself. The right keywords would actually be “fun,” “entertainment,” and “Popular Classical Music” (... just not on Google). You’re familiar with “fun” and “entertainment,” so that leaves “Popular Classical Music.”..

Popular Classical Music is what I’ve been searching for my whole life, and I didn’t even know the term before I got deeper into the subject. That was exactly it ... what had been running through my mind for just a few seconds at those moments for nearly 50 years. At those moments, whenever I heard a piece of Classical Music – whether in a movie, an advertisement, or on the radio – that I really liked.

Also over the course of these past 50 years, I made many half-hearted attempts to spend a few minutes listening to a Classical Music program on a Classical Radio Station ... while channel surfing on TV during a performance of Classical Music, or while “hopping from one radio station to the next” in a traffic jam. And each time, a brief reflection (... again and again) led me to conclude: I still didn’t seem “mature enough for Classical Music.”

Today I know: That wasn't the problem. Buying a CD titled “Best of Bach” around 2011 brought me a significant step closer to the solution: I thought most of the pieces were awful (... how embarrassing), two were “pretty okay,” and two I really liked.

And what does that mean? I couldn’t figure out what people found so special about Bach’s music. Today I know. It was the commercial aspect that drives music publishers to put together such collections. And it’s the convenience with which “best-of” lists on Classical Music pop up online. They use whatever’s readily available or cheap to use (... CDs). Or they copy from someone else what’s supposed to be exciting. The author (... usually) couldn’t care less about how the interested listener then consumes the music. That ... was the “key.”

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