MAdT is a non-profit group dedicated to education and excellence. We offer a variety of learning programs designed especially for the elementary classroom. Read on to find out how to increase your students' appreciation for Early Music.

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Phase I Programs
1. A Sampling of Medieval Song
2. Music of the Middle Ages - Participatory
3. Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
4. The Recorder, Its History and Musical Companions
5. Music of Colonial America and the Revolutionary War
6. Ohio History Through Music
7. The Times They've Been A-Changing

Phase II Programs
8. The Inner Structure of Music and Art of the Renaissance and Baroque
9. Form and Ornament in Renaissance and Baroque Art and Music
10. COMING SOON: Early Music and Storytelling

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Phase I Programs

1. A Sampling of Medieval Song
This program offers a taste of the earliest written secular music, the single-part songs of the troubadours and trouveres, wandering minstrels of the 12th-14th centuries. Two performers sing and accompany on recorders, vielle (fiddle), harp, psaltery, lute, and other medieval instruments.
Price: $125 for three consecutive 50-minute programs.
For grades 3-6, suggested limit 150 children per session

2. Music of the Middle Ages - Participatory
An introduction to the music and life of the Middle Ages through verbal teaching, slides, and class participation in a story line. The children play roles of king, royal family, archbishop, knight, and musicians, on a journey from cathedral to castle, including various encounters with a pilgrim, hunters, etc. The children learn basic singing and playing of instruments and do medieval dance with four of our performers. []@
Price: $185 for two consecutive 50-minute programs.
For grades K-4, suggested limit 30 children per session

3. Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
An informal concert with verbal introduction to the instruments, the music of these two eras, and its relevance to society, is related visually through slides of costumes, castles, cathedrals, walled towns, etc. Instruments such as vielle, viol, lute, recorders, krummhorn, shawm, and sackbut, are used by four performers. []@
Price: $200 for two consecutive 50-minute programs.
For grades 1-6, suggested limit 150 children per session

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4. The Recorder, Its History and Musical Companions
Especially intended for grades learning to play the recorder, this program deals mainly with medieval and Renaissance music, but focuses on the recorder--how it was used in different periods, its different sizes and the types of music it played. Also included are its companions, the numerous other historical wind and string instruments which made music in the same eras. The program is performed by two musicians.
Price: $130 for two consecutive 60-minute programs.
(Two consecutive: $120; one program: $110.)
Suitable for grades 3-6, suggested limit 150 children per session.

5. Music of Colonial America and the Revolutionary War
A program with patriotic flavor presenting music from the beginning of the American colonies to the close of the Revolutionary War, with explanations of how the music relates to the events of the time and historical illustrations of some of the events and personalities. Five performers. {}@
Price: $250 for two consecutive 50-minute programs.
For grades 1-6, suggested limit 150 children per session

6. Ohio History Through Music
Starting with music in the beginnings of our state, not only the Europeans' but also the Natives' and a little from the African-American slaves escaping to freedom, we tell a story of the joys and the heartaches of the settling of a state. Folk instruments and idioms from the 1800's are used by four performers.
Price: $200 for two consecutive hour-long programs.
For grades 1-6, suggested limit 150 children per session

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7. The Times They've Been A-Changing
This newest program is an exploration of music throughout the last millennium, a "music history in a nutshell."  Many instruments and styles are represented.  Three performers. []@
Price: $180 for two consecutive hour-long programs.  For grades 4-6.

Phase II Programs

8. The Inner Structure of Music and Art of the Renaissance and Baroque
This program looks at the similarities between the inner aspects of music and art, such as line, color, rhythm, etc. and using slides of art works and performance on the historical musical instruments, it shows how they differ from the Renaissance to the Baroque period. Three performers. []@
Price: $145  for two consecutive 60-minute programs.
For grades 4-6, limit 100 children per session

9. Form and Ornament in Renaissance and Baroque Art and Music
Designed as a companion to Program #7, this examines basic forms in music and architecture, shows how they are transformed through ornamentation and how these forms differ from Renaissance to Baroque periods. Also using slides and historical instruments, this program is suitable on its own or as a follow-up to #9. Three performers. []@
Price: $145 for two consecutive 60-minute programs.
For grades 4-6, limit 100 children per session

10. COMING SOON: Early Music and Storytelling
A program that shows how storytelling and music have been related in the early eras, from the Greeks accompanying stories with a lyre, through various medieval and renaissance developments. Includes a medieval story or two, and ends with songs of the early baroque, which were thought to be in imitation of ancient Greek practice, thus bringing the practice full circle.  Various instrument reproductions from these eras will be used in performance.
Price: Check for final details and time of this new offering.

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The Fine Print
Most of our programs have been optimized for a 50-minute class period; within limits they can be shortened or lengthened by special arrangement. (A few are longer; these are noted.  We are willing to abridge programs slightly to fit your class period.)  Because of our performers' schedules, we can offer these programs most economically as two consecutive 50-minute or two 60-minute shows.

Each program has been designed for an optimum grade range; expect the best results if you adhere to this range.

We will provide preparatory materials at your request if you book the program and sign contract at least thirty days prior to the date of the program.

All of our programs are performed in costume.

Several of the programs require a projector screen [] , an easel {}, or a teacher assistant @ to follow a script and operate our slide projector or your easel board.

Our prices are posted in September; we honor this price for the academic year.  An increase in compensation will be requested for travel beyond the Toledo, Ohio, metropolitan area (Lucas County and northern Wood County).

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