Secular Charlotte Mason

Hi,

I also posted about this under Grammar Stage, but I came across a couple other things while I was finding resources for this that were't grammar stage, that would definitely be considered living books.

The Magic Ring: Children's Tales from Richard Wagner_,

> written by Elizabeth Taliaferro Close

Grammar Stage retelling of the Ring, HIGHLY recommended.

Ring of the Nibelung Volume 1: The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie (Paperback)

and Vol 2

These are graphic novels of The Ring Story.  It's definitely worth it to know the story first, but these are GREAT!  I'd list them as 8th grade and up for visuals (some skimpy mermaids are drawn and they can be rather 'dark'), but nothing too steamy (that I saw, I didn't read every page). 

The Ring of the Nibelung by Wagner.  There are several different versions of this, we had an older one through ILL.  It was a much more indepth retelling of the story of The Ring and I thought it would be interesting for more of a middle school/ high school audience.  I think we'll try and find it again when my dd gets to that point. 

I was very pleased to come across all these great resources while finding out a little bit more about Wagner and The Ring.  And now I have a much deeper appreciation of "What's Opera, Doc?" 

Krystal   

I have to admit that I want to study this bit of opera and literature more. I find the close connection between the German Nibelung and the Icelandic Volsungs and Eddas to be positively fascinating (probably because I grew up in MN, land of Germans and Scandinavians lol). And then to see how they influenced modern literature like Lord of the Rings and Star Wars is also interesting and how I got a group of preteens interested in medieval literature. Somehow I doubt my kids will want to study it quite as indepth as I want to, though. hmy:

Do you know if there is an audio version of The Ring that I could use?

secularcm at 02:37PM on Dec 11, 2009

I have to admit that I want to study this bit of opera and literature more. I find the close connection between the German Nibelung and the Icelandic Volsungs and Eddas to be positively fascinating (probably because I grew up in MN, land of Germans and Scandinavians lol). And then to see how they influenced modern literature like Lord of the Rings and Star Wars is also interesting and how I got a group of preteens interested in medieval literature. Somehow I doubt my kids will want to study it quite as indepth as I want to, though. hmy:

Do you know if there is an audio version of The Ring that I could use?

Do you mean an audio version of the Opera or the Book? 

The book I don't know and the opera I just search for Wagner and Ring and Highlights and got a pretty decent CD (though I really don't know, I'm not an opera person) from the library.  How's that for a non-answer? 

I was thinking of the opera itself. I grew up listening to opera (my stepmother listened to it daily) but no one ever actually taught me *anything* about it so I feel at a huge disadvantage in this area.