Accent On Composers

The music and lives of 22 great composers, with listening CD, review/tests, and supplemental materials. 100% reproducible.  Then Enhanced CD has PDFs of the book materials as well as listening examples.  For each composer, students will study the life of the composer, then listen to a well-known and representative musical work by the composer.

There are 3 sections for each composer:

• Biography - includes a portrait, interesting composer
• Factoids - a chart listing the types of music the composer wrote, a time line listing world events during the composer's lifetime, and more.  
• Listening Example  - information about a well-known work plus a second-by-second guide to assist students as they listen to the included CD.

The CD features recordings in a variety of styles from solo piano to orchestral to opera.Review  - a student assessment featuring 10 multiple choices or true/false questions plus one fill-in-the-blank bonus question. Also contains supplementary materials. Grades 4 and up.

Contents

Composers

• Hildegard von Bingen
• Antonio Vivaldi
• George Frederic Handel
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Franz Joseph Haydn
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Franz Schubert
• Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Richard Wagner
• Giuseppe Verdi
• Johannes Brahms
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Antonin Dvorak
• John Philip Sousa
• Edward Elgar
• Claude Debussy
• Scott Joplin
• Charles Ives
• Igor Stravinsky
• Aaron Copland   

Supplementary Materials

• Composer Timeline
• Map of Europe
• Glossary
• The Eras of Music
• Who Am I?
• Review Answer Key
• One True Thing