A couple years ago we did a lapbook on Mussorgsky. I dug it out the other day and looked through it again with great pleasure. It is based on a book Pictures at an Exhibition by Anna Harwell Celenza. Instead of sending you to Amazon, I've linked it to the publisher's site which includes the author's note about the book. If you have not read this book (or other titles by this author), please do -- they are wonderful. We have made a couple lapbooks based on her stories, and this is one of them. We took our time. I made sure we listened to the piece as a whole, but also that we spent time listening to one part at a time, and to help with that, I asked my daughter to draw pictures - one every couple days, maybe even one a week - to illustrate each movement of this piece. Here is the finished product.
Mussorgsky Lapbook
If you decide to listen to this music and talk about it, make sure you find Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - A Naxos Musical Journey. We got it at Netflix. If you do, it might help if you have a list at hand with the names of all the movements, because even though the video images are stunning and very well matched to the music, if I remember correctly, there are no explanations even the form of a title of each movement - except for the title page of Mussorgsky's music sheets. I remember having to pause and rewind a lot not to miss stuff.
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