Education

Programs and Teacher's Guides

The Cliburn's Musical Awakenings® programs and downloadable study guides are listed below.

Musical Awakenings programs are created and written by Dr. John Feierabend and Shields-Collins Bray. Lesson plans are created by Caroline Ware Hill, Fort Worth ISD Special Interest Program Coordinator at Morningside Elementary School. The Musical Awakenings programs and study guides are fully copyrighted by the Van Cliburn Foundation, Inc.

Mozart
Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je maman

Music of Other Countries
Music from around the world

Musical Conversations
Conversations between violin and piano

Musical Opposites
Opposites in music

Musical Organizers
Music structure

On the Spot
Improvisation in music

Partnerships: It Takes Two
The piano partners with the flute

Playing with Numbers
Numbers in music

Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky turns paintings into music

Story Songs
Music that tells a story

Virtuosity
Piano excellence

What Makes a Hero a Hero?
Discovering Van Cliburn

What Makes a Piano a Piano?
Piano: The instrument



Building Music
Exploring contrasts in music

Carnival of the Animals
Mimicking animal sounds or characteristics in music

Colors You Can Hear
Major vs. minor

Dances in Music      
Music influenced by dances    
 
Emotion in Music
Discovering feelings in music    

Games!        
Musical games      
 
God Save the Queen
Variations of Beethoven's God Save the King

How do you Spell Music?
A musical spelling bee

How Low can you Go?
The piano partners with the bass

How Many Hands Does it Take to Play the Piano
Four hands on the piano

Humor in Music
Music that makes us laugh

Let's Write a Song
Students create and sing song

Many Meters
Musical "beats"