With this in mind, we offer a variety of classical compositions created specifically. As music educators ourselves, we know just have important it is for young musicians to have access to dynamic, educational pieces. Need Lesson Plans for Classical Composition VI: Encomium, Invective, & Comparison? Click here to purchase a printed or digital version. At Mountain Crest Music, we understand that finding the right music for your students can be difficult. This set includes a Student Book, Teacher Guide, and Instructional DVDs. The 14 exercises, organized from the simplest and most basic to the most complex and sophisticated, were the core education of a classical speaker, designed to produce what Quintilian once called “the good man, speaking well.” The greatest communicators of ancient times, Quintilian and Cicero among them, employed the progymnasmata to teach their students the art of communication. The 14 exercises, organized from the simplest and most basic to the most complex and sophisticated, were the core education of a classical speaker, designed to produce what Quintilian once called 'the good man, speaking well.'Įncomium, Invective, & Comparison DVD Sample Fur Elise, a three-minute bagatelle is one of the most popular music compositions ever written for the Piano. The progymnasmata gave them the stylistic tools to appeal to their hearts as well. Beethoven’s Fur Elise And Immortal Beloved. This method involved learning fourteen skills, organized from the simplest and most basic to the most complex and sophisticated. Presented clearly and systematically in a structured curriculum, Classical Composition will give you a clear road map to writing excellence.Īncient writers invented a way of teaching writing known as the progymnasmata, which provided a method of teaching composition that not only taught budding writers a disciplined way to approach communication, but also helped them appeal to the heads of their audience. The Classical Composition program from Memoria Press is based on the original classical method of teaching writing called the progymnasmata, or preliminary exercises. Jim Selby has blown the dust off the writing curriculum that was used in schools for over 1,500 years and put it in an easy-to-teach format that will revolutionize your home or private school curriculum.

What if you could teach your child using the same writing program that produced such masters of the language as John Milton, William Shakespeare, and Benjamin Franklin? What if you could have the same composition curriculum used by Quintilian, the greatest teacher of ancient rhetoric, and Cicero, the greatest persuasive speaker of all time?

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