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 The Encyclopedia of Music, Dorling Kindersley
This book is perfect for older children with a genuine interest in music. It is the most understandable book of the orchestra as well as composers lives.
Classical Kids Collection
This Classical Kids Collection come in CD and tape form. Each story tape concentrates on a composer, either telling the story of his operas or his life story. Interwoven into the story is the music of the composer.
Mozart’s Magic Fantasy tells the story of his prominent opera “The Magic Flute” from the perspective of a young girl who gets caught up in the mystery of the stolen princess.
Beethoven Lives Upstairs is in the narrative form of a young boy who is put out by having Beethoven move in as a boarder, and he writes to his uncle to complain. A heart warning story letting you see the physical challenges that this supposedly temperamental composer had to overcome.
Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery is a fantasy story of a young orphan girl in Vivaldi’s orphanage in Venice, searching for her grandfather.
Bach Comes to Call is narrated as though Johann Sebastian Bach were telling his own life story to a young girl who is reluctant to practice the piano.
Hallelujah Handel is a wonderful story of a young orphan boy in London who can sing like an angel but cannot talk and how Handel and a young girl Katrina help him find peace and a home.
Tchaikovsky Discovers America describes this outstanding man’s life works as he tries to escape from the paparazzi on his visit to New York. The story helps you to “see” the music from his famous ballets like Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty.
Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage involves his life story (leaving out the bad side of his nature) from his son’s point of view as he travels in a flying ship through time visiting his father’s life form early childhood to death.
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