Composers and Artists by Historical Era

Composers Scheduled Where They Fit by Historical Era

When artists and composers are scheduled only on the basis of which historical era they fit in, it forces some difficult decisions because much of the art and music we'd like to focus on was created during short bursts of time. Notice who has to be left out to make room for ancient art and early music. Charlotte Mason's goal was to fill a child's mind with beauty and great ideas, and the best way to do that isn't to box in choices in art with the constraining limits of historical chronology.

Artists are below.

Missing Composers include:
Paganini (1782-1840) fits Year 5 Term 2 or Year 10 Term 1
Schubert (1797-1828) fits Year 5 Term 1 or Year 10 Term 1
Mendelssohn (1809-1847) fits Year 5 Term 1 or Year 10 Term 1
Chopin (1810-1849) fits Year 5 Term 1 or Year 10 Term 1
Verdi (1813-1901) fits Year 5 Term 1 or Year 10
Wagner (1813-1883) fits Year 5 Term 3 or Year 10 Term 3
Brahms (1833-1897) fits Year 5 Term 3 or Year 10 Term 3
Saint-Saens (1835-1921) fits Year 5 Term 3 or Year 11 Term 1
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) fits Year 5 Term 3 or Year 10 Term 3
Dvorak (1841-1904) fits Year 5 Term 3 or Year 10 Term 3
Grieg (1843-1907) fits Year 5 Term 3 or Year 10 Term 3
Elgar (1857-1934) fits Year 5 Term 3 or Year 10 Term 3, Year 11 Term 1
Prokofiev (1891-1953) fits Year 6 Term 1 or Year 11 Term 1 or 2

Year 1: Early history (55 BC to 1066 AD)
Term 1: Early Music
Term 2: Early Music
Term 3: Early Music

Year 2: 1000 AD to Middle Ages
Term 1: Walther von der Vogelweide (1170-1230)
Term 2: Theobald I of Navarre (1201-1253)
Term 3: Adam de la Halle (1245-1288?)

Year 3
Term 1: late 1400's-1580's Guillaume Du Fay (139-1474)
Term 2: 1580's-1600's Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
Term 3: 1600's Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

Year 4
Term 1: 1640-1720 George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Term 2: 1720-1773 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Term 3: 1773-1780 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Year 5
Term 1: 1800-1840's Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Term 2: 1840's-1860's Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Term 3: 1860's-1914 Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Year 6
Term 1: WWI to present day Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Term 2: ancient history Ancient Music
Term 3: ancient history Ancient Music

Year 7
Term 1: 800-1066 Notker of St. Gall (840-912)
Term 2: 1066-1333 Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
Term 3: 1327-1485 Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)

Year 8
Term 1: 1400-1605 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
Term 2: 1605-1649 Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Term 3: 1649-1688 Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Year 9
Term 1: 1688-1730 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Term 2: 1730-1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Term 3: 1786-1815 Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)

Year 10
Term 1: 1815-1860 Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Term 2: 1816-1865 America Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)
Term 3: 1865-1902 Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Year 11
Term 1: 1900-1940 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Term 2: 1940-1960 Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Term 3: 1960-present Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Year 12: Current Times/Post-Modernism
Term 1: Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Term 2: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Term 3: Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Artists Scheduled Where They Fit by Historical Era

Missing Artists include:
Botticelli (1445-1510) fits Year 3 Term 1 or Year 8 Term 1
Durer (1471-1528) fits Year 3 Term 1 or Year 8 Term 1
Michaelangelo (1475-1564) fits Year 3 Term 1 or Year 8 Term 1
Raphael (1483-1520) fits Year 3 Term 1 or Year 8 Term 1
Correggio (1489-1534) fits Year 3 Term 1 or Year 8 Term 1
Titian (1490-1576) fits Year 3 Term 1 or Year 8 Term 1
Caravaggio (1571-1610) fits Year 3 Term 2 or Year 8 Term 1
Ruisdael (1628-1682) fits Year 3 Term 3 or Year 8 Term 3
Millet (1814-1875) fits Year 5 Term 2 or Year 10 Term 2 or 3
Renoir (1841-1919) fits Year 5 Term 3 or Year 10 Term 3
Waterhouse (1849-1917) fits Year 5 Term 3 or Year 10 Term 3
Sargent (1856-1925) fits Year 5 Term 3 or Year 10 Term 3
Seurat (1859-1891) fits Year 5 Term 3 or Year 10 Term 3

Year 1: Early history (55 BC to 1066 AD)
Term 1: Cave painting
Term 2: Ancient Egyptian art
Term 3: Other ancient art

Year 2: 1000 AD to Middle Ages
Term 1: Simone Martini (1280-1344)
Term 2: Pietro Lorenzetti (1280-1348)
Term 3: Robert Campin (1375-1444)

Year 3
Term 1: late 1400's-1580's Fra Angelico (1400-1455)
Term 2: 1580's-1600's Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1540)
Term 3: 1600's Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)

Year 4
Term 1: 1640-1720 Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
Term 2: 1720-1773 Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
Term 3: 1773-1780 Thomas Gainesborough (1727-1806)

Year 5
Term 1: 1800-1840's Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Term 2: 1840's-1860's Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
Term 3: 1860's-1914 Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Year 6
Term 1: WWI to present day Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Term 2: ancient history Phidias (480-430 BC)
Term 3: ancient history Ancient Roman art

Year 7
Term 1: 800-1066 Byzantine Art (400-1453)
Term 2: 1066-1333 Giotto (1267-1337)
Term 3: 1327-1485 Jan van Eyck (1385-1441)

Year 8
Term 1: 1400-1605 Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Term 2: 1605-1649 Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
Term 3: 1649-1688 Diego Velasquez (1599-1660)

Year 9
Term 1: 1688-1730 Antoine Watteau (1680-1730)
Term 2: 1730-1786 Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806)
Term 3: 1786-1815 Jacque Louis David (1748-1825)

Year 10
Term 1: 1815-1860 Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
Term 2: 1816-1865 America James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Term 3: 1865-1902 Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

Year 11
Term 1: 1900-1940 Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Term 2: 1940-1960 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Term 3: 1960-present Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)

Year 12: Current Times/Post-Modernism
Makoto Fujimura?
Maybe a photographer, such as Ansel Adams? (1902-1984)
Someone else who's still alive?

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