Meet the Great Composers, Bk 2 (Book & CD)

Meet the Great Composers, Bk 2 (Book & CD)
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1997-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780739020562

Book contains important facts about each composer's life, an essay about the composer's music, and an activity for children to do.

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: Biography & Autobiography
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.

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!"

Meet the Great Composers, Bk 1 (Book & CD)

Meet the Great Composers, Bk 1 (Book & CD)
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1995-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780882848556

Contains a portrait, important facts, the story of the composer's life, a study of their music or the time when they lived, suggested listenings, and an activity sheet to review what has been learned.

Meet the Great Composers, Bk 2

Meet the Great Composers, Bk 2
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1997-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739013496

The Classroom Kit contains Meet the Great Composers Book 2, the companion CD, and reproducible activity sheets.

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.

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.

Lives of the Musicians

Lives of the Musicians
Author: Kathleen Krull
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780152480103

What are musicians really like?

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!