If you're a fan of the Meet the Great Composers series, you'll love this addition. This book contains 17 units (lessons) on great jazz legends that include the musician's picture, important facts, and listening suggestions (a CD with a sample piece from each musician is included). Next, you'll find a musician biography and a question/answer page (in puzzle, true/false or word scrabble format) as review. The selected musicians span the entire twentieth century and include such styles as New Orleans, Swing, and even Avant-Garde and Fusion. You'll learn about such greats as Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. Note: You'll have to locate samples of Herbie Hancock's music (Unit 17) since his is not included on the CD. A glossary and description of jazz styles can be found at the back. 8 ¾" x 12", 72 pp, sc. ~ Ruth
Meet the Great Jazz Legends Book & CD
Description
Introduce a new generation of music enthusiasts to 17 legendary jazz artists who have enriched the world with their incredible talents. Dr. McCurdy's illuminating stories about the lives, times, and music of these great jazz musicians span the entire 20th century, from early New Orleans Jazz through the Golden Age of Swing plus the avant-garde and jazz fusion eras. Includes units on Louis Armstrong, James P. Johnson, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Clifford Brown, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus and Herbie Hancock. Now students can listen to examples of each legend's recordings to fully understand the beauty of jazz music! The enhanced CD contains listening tracks as well as a fully reproducible PDF of the entire book.
If you want to expose your children to the composers and their music but don’t have a lot of time to do it, Meet the Great Composers might be a good fit.
Each Book has 17 units which cover composers from the Baroque to Contemporary period. Lessons include a picture and short fact sheet about the composer, a suggested listening, a story of the composer’s life, a study of his music or an event from the time in which he lived, and a review in the form of a puzzle or game. These take only 20-30 minutes to complete. Reproducible Activity Sheets from the book are also available separately.
Book 1 covers Bach, Scarlatti, Handel, Haydn, Clementi, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Joplin, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Bartók and Kabalevsky.
Book 2 includes Couperin, Kuhlau, Schubert, Hensel, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Foster, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Grieg, MacDowell, Beach, Granados, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Gershwin and Barber.
The Classroom Kit includes Book 1 or 2 with CD and set of 17 activity sheets. Books are also available separately.
This course will give your children a decent overview of the great composers, the time period in which they worked, and an idea of what their music was like.
| Product Format: | Other |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 3-AD |
| Brand: | Alfred Publishing |
| ISBN: | 9780739059388 |
| Length in Inches: | 12 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.875 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.1875 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.6 |