MUSIC MEMORY is a nationally recognized curriculum designed to promote the love and knowledge of classical music through an in-depth study of sixteen great composers, their lives and their music. Students are exposed to a revolutionary learning approach – unique Animated Listening Maps created in a different style and format for each selection that connect the aural experiences to their visual memories. Music selections are thoroughly learned in an engaging and highly effective way. Students explore the music “from the inside out” – they are helped to actively listen to all the elements of music (melody, harmony, form, timbre, dynamics, etc.) that make each music masterpiece different from all others. Our new teaching components deliver the MUSIC MEMORY curriculum using 21st Century technology.
Cowan Music Memory Letter 26-27 .pdf
Music Memory Selections 2026-2027
(Selections 1-16 to be posted in units: 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16)
00 Music Memory Categories.pdf
Unit 1 (1-4)
1. Für Elise by Beethoven
2. Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Movement 1 by Mozart
3. Aida: Triumphal March by Verdi
4. Carnival of the Animals: Finale by Saint-Saens
Unit 2 (5-8)
5. Four Sketches: In Autumn by Beach
6. Symphony No. 88: Movement 4 by Haydn
7. Stars and Stripes Forever by Sousa
8. The Nutcracker: Overture by Tchaikovsky
Unit 3 (9-12)
9. Cantata No. 147: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring by Bach
10. The Four Seasons: Spring, Movement 1 by Vivaldi
11. Songs of Travel: The Vagabond by Vaughan Williams
12. Symphony 1997: Jubilation by Tan Dun
Unit 4 (13-16)
13. Commando March by Barber
14. Symphonie Fantastique: March to the Scaffold by Berlioz