Early Music Programs for Your School

              

Musica Antigua de Toledo is a group of Toledo musicians specializing in the performance of music prior to about 1800 -- Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque, as well as Colonial American music, recreating works of these periods with voices and historical instruments from the different eras.

The group was established in 1979, has its own concert series, and it has been a part of the Toledo Public Schools Arts in Education Project nearly since its inception. We have received good reviews from both faculty and students. One teacher wrote, "The program was without question the most educational and well-presented that we have had ... You are to be complimented on your sensitivity to the attention and interest of elementary-aged children."

All of our programs that have been offered before are still available, except for "Music in the Age of Exploration," which is being rewritten to accommodate new insights in world history and being reconfigured for different performers. The Ohio history program stretches our time-line into the nineteenth century!

Our latest development is "The Times They've Been a-Changing," an exploration of music throughout the last millennium.  Aided by posters creating a visual timeline, this program presents a "music history in a nutshell," tracing western music over the last 1000 years, starting with Gregorian chant, and sharing examples century by century to the present time.  Early instuments will help recreate medieval and renaissance music, and modern violin and piano will bring alive examples from the classical era to the present.  Important developments and events in society are mentioned, and pictures of costumes help relate to the changes.

1. A Sampling of Medieval Song

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 three consecutive 50-minute programs.
For grades K-4, suggested limit 30 children per session

3. Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance []@

Price: $200 for three consecutive 50-minute programs.
For grades 1-6, suggested limit 150 children per session

4. The Recorder, Its History and Musical Companions (60 minutes)

Price: $130 for three 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 {}@

Price: $250 for three consecutive 50-minute programs. For grades 1-6, suggested limit 150 children per session

6. Ohio's History Through Music  (60 minutes)

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. (This picture shows all of our performers at the Toledo Museum of Art under a portrait of Admiral Perry.  Only four performers do the school program, but these are the costumes we wear.)

Price: $200 for two consecutive hour-long programs. For grades 1-6, suggested limit 150 children per session.

7. The Times They've Been a-Changing  (60 minutes) []@

8. The Inner Structure of Music and Art of the Renaissance and Baroque []@

Price: $145  for three consecutive 60-minute programs. For grades 4-6, limit 100 children per session.

9. Form and Ornament in Renaissance and Baroque Art and Music []@

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). If only one or two programs are desired, instead of the consecutive three, a slight discount in the total price may be negotiated.  (See program #4 for example of scope of discount.)