YMB #7 Music Appreciation Simplified: A Conversation with Mary Prather
Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill
Pam Barnhill
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2015
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Mary Prather is a music educator turned homeschool mom and the creator of the music appreciation curriculum SQUILT. On this episode of the podcast, she shares simple and effective ideas for adding beauty to Morning Time through music.
Mary has fantastic recommendations for composers and pieces, and she speaks from experience about no-fuss, practical ways to teach music appreciation and enjoy great music with our children. Treat yourself to a little dose of beauty today.
To access the podcast downloads for this episode including transcripts, time stamps, discussion questions, and more go to https://pambarnhill.com/ymb7.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day. |
| 0:17.8 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode seven of the Your Morning Basket podcast. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Pam Barnhill, your host, and I thank you so much for taking your time out to join me today. |
| 0:29.4 | Well, on this episode of the podcast, we are actually going to chat about music appreciation. |
| 0:35.3 | Now, music appreciation I know is one of those things that mom sometimes feel a little |
| 0:40.6 | intimidated about. You kind of look at what's in front of you and you're, where do I start? |
| 0:45.8 | But it's a wonderful piece of morning time, mostly because music calms the savage beast. And I don't |
| 0:52.7 | know about your homeschool house, but my homeschool house is full of little savage beast and I don't know about your homeschool house but my homeschool house is |
| 0:56.1 | full of little savage beast sometimes and feels like and they do love music it's one of those times |
| 1:02.3 | that we can sit down calm down and listen to something beautiful and everybody's usually |
| 1:09.0 | pretty happy to do that for a while anyway. And so to help us out |
| 1:13.1 | with some of these music questions that we have, I have my good friend Mary Prather on. Mary is the |
| 1:18.6 | developer of the Squilt curriculum. We actually use this curriculum in our homeschool. It's a very |
| 1:24.5 | affordable PDF download. And it really helps mom do music appreciation in a way |
| 1:31.3 | that is open and go and easy and meaningful for the kids. So I think you're going to enjoy this |
| 1:38.8 | program today as we chat with Mary. |
| 1:52.7 | Mary Prather is a homeschool mom of two and has a passion for encouraging others. |
| 1:56.6 | She has a background in both music and elementary education, |
| 2:02.8 | and she's created her own music appreciation curriculum called Squilt, which stands for super quiet, uninterrupted listening time. We can find Mary on the web at squilt.com and on her blog, |
| 2:10.3 | Homegrown Learners, where she talks about fun Lego activities, homeschool encouragement, and |
| 2:16.4 | classical education. Welcome to the podcast, Mary. encouragement, and classical education. |
| 2:18.0 | Welcome to the podcast, Mary. |
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