A handbook of composers and their music /
Farmer, Paul, 1950-
A handbook of composers and their music / Paul Farmer. - 96 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Elizabethan music -- Purcell -- Bach -- Handel -- Haydn -- Mozart -- Keyboard instruments -- Beethoven -- Classical and romantic music -- Schubert -- MAendelssohn -- Sonatas and symphonies -- The orchestra -- Berlioz -- Chopin -- Schumann -- Brahms -- Wagner -- Opera -- Verdi -- Tchaikovsky - Nationalism -- Dvorak -- Debussy -- Stravinsky -- American music -- Britten -- British music -- Schoenberg -- The avant-garde.
Discusses composers from Purcell and Bach to Britten and Schoenberg and surveys the development of music in the past three centuries. Includes questions for review and things to do.
0193210924 (paperback)
Music appreciation--Juvenile literature
Music--Instruction and study--Juvenile
Composers--Biography--Juvenile literature
780.92
A handbook of composers and their music / Paul Farmer. - 96 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Elizabethan music -- Purcell -- Bach -- Handel -- Haydn -- Mozart -- Keyboard instruments -- Beethoven -- Classical and romantic music -- Schubert -- MAendelssohn -- Sonatas and symphonies -- The orchestra -- Berlioz -- Chopin -- Schumann -- Brahms -- Wagner -- Opera -- Verdi -- Tchaikovsky - Nationalism -- Dvorak -- Debussy -- Stravinsky -- American music -- Britten -- British music -- Schoenberg -- The avant-garde.
Discusses composers from Purcell and Bach to Britten and Schoenberg and surveys the development of music in the past three centuries. Includes questions for review and things to do.
0193210924 (paperback)
Music appreciation--Juvenile literature
Music--Instruction and study--Juvenile
Composers--Biography--Juvenile literature
780.92