What is Gear Your Ear®?
An Award-Winning Program
Comprehensive Curriculum for your Classroom
Diverse Repertoire
The Listening Kit

What is Gear Your Ear®?
Gear Your Ear® is a music listening program for 5th- and 6th-grade students and includes exciting classroom curriculum and teaching tools covering eight composers in each volume.

An Award-Winning Program
Gear Your Ear® debuted in Minnesota classrooms in 1995 and has received the Award of Excellence, the highest award given by the American Symphony Orchestra League!

Comprehensive Curriculum for your Classroom
Designed for use by teachers or parent volunteers with or without music training, each Gear Your Ear® volume is an easy-to-follow series of eight lessons providing students with a classical music experience.

Written by professional music educators, Gear Your Ear® packets are designed to be used year after year by every succeeding 5th- and 6th-grade class.

Diverse Repertoire
Orchestral pieces studied represent a cross-section of musical periods, styles, composer genders and countries of origin.

Volume 1 no longer available	Volume 2
Bach Beethoven Grieg Mozart Vivaldi Still Chavez Zwilich	Brahms Mussorgsky Dvorák Debussy Orff Ellington Shuller Larsen

The Listening Kit
A workbook with lesson plans for active listening is supplemented by compact disc recordings, visual materials, games and puzzles, music maps and listening charts, music theory and history, vocabularies and bibliographies.

Only Volume II is currently available. The cost is $50.00. To order Volume II, contact: WAMSO, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403-2477 or call 612-371-5654.