Stories of the Great Composers: Book & CD

Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780739012796
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
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.

Secret Lives of Great Composers

Author: Elizabeth Lunday
Publisher: Quirk Books
ISBN: 1594747466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
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!

Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers

Author: Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310208068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
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.

Meet the Great Composers, Bk 1

Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780739010440
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
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.

That's My Piano, Sir!

Author: Ana Gerhard
Publisher: Little Stories of Great Compos
ISBN: 9782924774823
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Travel through time following a charming little mouse called Minim who loves cheese and music. One day, he witnesses the arrival of a dapper young Mozart and his family as they set foot on a dock one late, cold night. He is no ordinary boy, sporting a white wig and elegantly dressed in red velvet, on his way to playing several concerts in the city. To the surprise of all, he proudly begins to play with his sister for the tired customs officer and gloomy dockworkers. The evening air begins to glisten and soon, everyone's faces are beaming, their ears ringing with music!

The Lives of the Great Composers

Author: Harold C. Schonberg
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393013023
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 653

Book Description
Biographies of the important composers from Monteverdi and Bach to Bartok and Webern are designed to show the history of music.

Composers

Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744036852
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1059

Book Description
“The only love affair I have ever had was with music.” Maurice Ravel A compelling celebration of more than 90 of the world’s most influential composers from the medieval period to the present day, Composers reveals the fascinating stories of their lives, loves, and works. Biographical entries – introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured composer – trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each musical genius. Profiles offer revealing insights into what drove each individual to create the musical masterpieces – symphonies, concertos, and operatic scores – that changed the direction of classical music and are still celebrated and treasured today. Lavishly illustrated with paintings or photographs of each composer, alongside original musical scores and personal correspondence, images of their homes and where they worked, and personal effects and other important artifacts, the book introduces the key influences, themes, and working methods of each individual, setting their works within a wider historical and cultural context. Charting the development of classical music and music movements across the centuries, Composers provides a compelling glimpse into the personal lives, loves, and influences of the giants of the classical music canon.

What Killed the Great and Not So Great Composers?

Author: Joseph W. Lewis, Jr., M.D.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1452034389
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 654

Book Description
From a personally assembled database of 13,859 classical musicians, What Killed the Great and not so Great Composers delves into the medical histories of a wide variety of composers from both a musical and medical standpoint. Biographies of musicians from Johann Sebastian Bach of the Baroque period to Benjamin Britten of the Modern era explore in depth their illnesses and the impact their diseases had on musical productivity. Other chapters referenced to specific composers are devoted to such diverse ailments as deafness, mental disorders, sexually transmitted diseases, surgery and war injuries, to name a few. A unique section of statistics and demographics analyzes various aspects of composers’ lives such as their longevity related to contemporaneous nonmusical populations, the incidence of various illnesses they experienced over the centuries and the type of medical problems suffered by the so-called top 100 classical musicians. Although a precise and complete accounting of the great composers’ ailments may never be possible, a general understanding of the medical problems experienced by these unique individuals, nevertheless, can heighten one’s appreciation of their creative processes despite the hardships imposed by their physical and mental illnesses. Although some individuals surrendered to their disabilities for a variety of reasons, others were able to rise above their infirmities and produce the wonderful music mankind has enjoyed through the centuries.

The Great Composers

Author: Wendy Thompson
Publisher: Lorenz Books
ISBN: 9780754806813
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This new authoritative reference provides an illustrated guide to the most influential western composers of classical music: the ones who have defined or developed particular styles of composition, and who have created for themselves a significant place in music history.

Talks with Great Composers

Author: Arthur M. Abell
Publisher: Garmisch-Partenkirchen : G. E. Schroeder
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 219

Book Description
Mr. Abell, an American music critic stationed in Berlin from 1890-1918, records his extensive interviews with composers Brahms, Strauss, Puccini, Humperdink, Bruch, and Grieg.