Lyrical Latin
Learning Latin Through Music
by CC Couch, Terry Irwin and LeaAnn Osburn
Lyrical Latin: Learning Latin Through Music CD has fifteen well-known melodies, with wonderful new musical arrangements. The songs, performed by vocalist CC Couch, are sung with words that teach Latin grammar and culture. Although this is not intended as a stand alone course, this CD can be used along with classroom or home schooling.
Teddy Irwin, who has played with Petula Clark, Bette Midler, Jimmy Buffet and Doc Severinson, among others, scored and arranged all the selections.
LeaAnn Osburn, classical language consultant, has been a Latin teacher for 30 years and is now an editor of Latin textbooks. She is the author of the lyrics along with David Pellegrino and CC Couch.
Songs include:
The Present Tense
(The Farmer in The Dell)
Click to Hear Sample
The Imperfect Tense
(Ba, Ba Black Sheet)
The Future Tense
(Humpty Dumpty)
The First Declension
(Goodnight, Ladies)
Click to Hear Sample
The Second Declension
(For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow)
Click to Hear Sample
The Third Declension
(Ode to Joy)
The Fifth Declension
(The William Tell Overture)
Click to Hear Sample
The Personal Pronouns
(Allouette)
The Demonstrative Pronoun Ille
(Three Blind Mice)
The Demonstrative Pronoun Hic
(Hail, Hail the Gang’s All Here)
Click to Hear Sample
The Relative Pronoun
(Jimmy Crack Corn)
Cicero’s First Catilinarian Oration
(Oh, My Darling Clementine)
Basic Roman History
(I’ve Been Working on the Railroad)
The Roman Forum
(Down in the Valley)
Click to Hear Sample
CD with 15 songs.
Lyrical Latin:
A Teacher Resource Manual
by LeaAnn A. Osburn
Songs that teach Latin grammar need follow-up activities and exercises for the teacher to use in the classroom or homeschool setting. In this resource manual, each chapter features additional activities to use in conjunction with
the songs such as:
teaching tips and activities for the classroom
different types of puzzles (crosswords, word searches, anagrams, cryptograms) with the solutions
exercises designed to help students attain more mastery of the
grammatical topic
large print lyrics of the songs by which to make tansparencies
additional lyrics in Latin
interesting trivia and unique facts associated with the songs
This teacher’s manual is a very important companion to the
Lyrical Latin CD
and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
116 page book with the CD and Teacher’s Manual together and save: Book/CD set $45.00, NOW $37.95