music appreciation

Photographs from around the world celebrate the universal joy that kids get from making music, whether they are playing instruments, clapping their hands, stomping their feet or singing.

" ... looks at more than 90 key pieces of music and explores the salient themes and ideas behind each of them" -- Amazon.

"Introduces readers to one piece of music each day of the year, . . . selected from across genres, time periods, and composers"--Amazon.

Veteran music critic Ben Ratliff reminages the idea of music appreciation by engaging with diverse recordings to reveal unexpected connections.

Explores the psychology and sociology of music, showing that music can influence our behavior, health, and emotions; make us more intelligent; and related topics.

Introduces a variety of musical concepts, composers, and styles, and provides descriptions of different families of instruments that make up an orchestra, focusing on voice, woodwind, and rhythm and percussion.

Presents a music CD with excerpts from twenty classic songs by such composers as Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Verdi accompanied by illustrations of gnomes, fairies, witches, elves, and wizards. Includes a glossary of musical terms and a short biography of each composer.

"The essential listener's guide to more than a thousand years of Western classical music ; Explains the elements and terminology of classical music in clear and simple terms ; Discusses the music and instruments of each period, from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras, to developments in modern music sine 1900 ; Explores the life stories, musical styles, and most popular works of almost 300 composers"--Back of container.

Photographs from around the world celebrate the universal joy that kids get from making music, whether they are playing instruments, clapping their hands, stomping their feet or singing.