I thought it would be fun to do a Music Study with Doctor Who.

The kids certainly agreed so we set to researching together.

50 years of great music. 11 (or 12) doctors representing decades (or millions of years) of history.

Check out this performance, complete with video clips. LOVE!

I also love this series of shorts about the original composers of sci-fi music: – The history of science fiction program music! So full of win.

List of all music featured in Doctor Who episodes=awesome.

Study with Your Doctor:

1st Doctor: The Beatles – get a CD on Amazon or download it on iTunes (seriously, everyone should have some in their collection)

2nd Doctor: Bartók – Amazon CD or iTunes album

3rd Doctor:

• King Crimson (I saw them perform at a tiny club in the ’90s! It was epic.) – get their CD on Amazon
• Emerson Lake and Palmer – download a great album on iTunes
• Berlioz – CD on Amazon or iTunes download

4th Doctor:

• Debussy – Amazon or iTunes
• Tchaikovsky – Amazon or iTunes
• Schubert – Amazon or iTunes

5th Doctor: ’20s music – Learn how to dance the Charleston!

• Savoy Havana Band and The Savoy Orpheans – Amazon or iTunes
• Irving Berlin – Amazon or iTunes

6th Doctor: Fun ’60s music and beach tunes

• The Beach Boys – Amazon or iTunes
• Elvis Presley – Amazon or iTunes
• Jimi Hendrix – Amazon or iTunes

7th Doctor:

• Wagner – Amazon or iTunes
• British composer Keff McCulloch – several tracks on the 50th Anniversary soundtrack on iTunes

8th Doctor: Puccini – Amazon or iTunes

9th Doctor:

• Big Band, especially Glenn Miller – and practice swing dancing! Amazon or iTunes
• David Bowie – Amazon or iTunes
• Rick Astley  – Amazon or iTunes

10th Doctor: Program music by British composer Murray Gold – Amazon or iTunes

11th Doctor: Such a fun way to study the greatness of classic bands and artists:

• Queen – Amazon or iTunes
• Duran Duran – Amazon or iTunes
• The Cult – Amazon or iTunes

Notebooking options – some free and some not:

• Notebooking Fairy
• SQUILT music appreciation curriculum
• Productive Homeschooling
• Music in Our Homeschool pages
• In All You Do Notebooking Composer Pages
• Practical Pages Music Appreciation Worksheets
• That Resource Site Composer Notebooking Pages
• Music Lapbooking from Homeschool Share
• 123Homeschool4Me Music Lapbook
• Orchestra lapbooking and notebooking from Homeschool Helper
• Homeschool in the Woods composers lapbook

AND…Look what I made for you!

Doctor Who Music Notebooking Pages – with a T.A.R.D.I.S.!

FREE. Click to download. You’re welcome.

So, like the good homeschool mama I am, I asked my kids the other day: what do you want to be when you grow up?

Answer?

The Doctor’s Companions.

For the win.

Check out my other cross-curricular unit study here.