Meet the Great Composers, Bk 1

Meet the Great Composers, Bk 1
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1996-04
Genre: Composers
ISBN: 9780739010440

Contains information on 17 composers who range from the Baroque period to the Contemporary period. Book contains a picture with relevant facts and suggested listening, a brief biography, a study of his music (or time he lived) and a question and answer page for each composer. The accompanying CD includes the suggested listening for each composer; the activity sheets contain the picture with facts and question and answer page for each composer in a reproducible format.

Stories of the Great Composers: Book & CD

Stories of the Great Composers: Book & CD
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2000-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739012796

It is important that young students learn about the lives of the great composers who have enriched our lives with beautiful music. The 12 units in Stories of the Great Composers give elementary students a glimpse into each composer's life, character and music. Includes a CD recording of the suggested listening, featuring one composition by each composer.

Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers

Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers
Author: Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0310208068

This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.

Accent on Composers

Accent on Composers
Author:
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2001-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780739016831

A complete music appreciation course in one, 120-page, reproducible book/CD package. For each of the 22 featured composers there is a bio (focusing on his or her personal life), a portrait, a listing of the types of music he or she composed, composer factoids, and a timeline. The CD contains a listening example for each composer. The reproducible listening guide includes information about each listening example and a second by second what to listen for in the music." Also included are reviews (assessments) for each composer, plus more than two dozen pages of supplementary material. And it's all reproducible! Composers: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Copland, Debussy, Dvorák, Elgar, Handel, Haydn, Hensel, Hildegard, Ives, Joplin, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Sousa, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi, and Wagner. Reproducible PDFs included on the Enhanced CD, or purchase the Digital Download option to get a full PDF immediately. Great activities for remote teaching or distance learning!"

Secret Lives of Great Composers

Secret Lives of Great Composers
Author: Elizabeth Lunday
Publisher: Quirk Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1594747466

Discover little-known stories from music history—including murder, riots, and heartbreak—in this entertaining tour through the fascinating (and surprising) lives of classical music masters With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Gioachino Rossini (draft-dodging womanizer) to Johann Sebastian Bach (jailbird) to Richard Wagner (alleged cross-dresser), Secret Lives of Great Composers recounts the seamy, steamy, and gritty history behind the great masters of international music. Here, you’ll learn that Edward Elgar dabbled with explosives; that John Cage was obsessed with fungus; that Berlioz plotted murder; and that Giacomo Puccini stole his church’s organ pipes and sold them as scrap metal so he could buy cigarettes. This is one music history lesson you’ll never forget!

Classical Music

Classical Music
Author: John Stanley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2005
Genre: Composers
ISBN: 9781845331580

Fully revised and updated, this book provides an introduction to 800 years of classical music and recommends key recordings for a complete understanding of each era.

Meet the Great Composers, Book 1

Meet the Great Composers, Book 1
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 76
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457407529

Each unit on a famous composer takes approximately 20 minutes to complete and can be used in group teaching, home school or as an assignment for individual upper elementary or middle school students.

The Gift of Music

The Gift of Music
Author: Jane Stuart Smith
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780891078692

Fascinating descriptions of forty leading composers whose faith, or lack of it, had an influence on Western civilization. Indexed. Great for all students of music.

Fifty Famous Composers, For Kids Of All Ages

Fifty Famous Composers, For Kids Of All Ages
Author: Carolyn Waters Broe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780578846620

Fifty Famous Composers for Kids of All Ages is a book of biographies about the lives of famous classical composers. You will discover how each of these composers grew up and what motivated them to become composers. This book explores the stories of these musicians and how they came to be famous. You will learn about composers who were child prodigies, won competitions, got into duels, got arrested, died young, and composed great masterworks of music. Fifty Famous Composers includes twenty-five famous male composers and twenty-five famous female composers. Many of these composers will be familiar such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven. You will also meet brilliant composers who are not as well know such as Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint Georges, Francesca Caccini, Florence Price, and Alma Deutscher. This book was written to help both young and adult readers to enjoy classical music. It is perfect for music teachers and music lovers. Fifty Famous Composers for Kids of All Ages makes a great gift for your children and your grandchildren.