Great Musicians (DK Eyewitness Books)

Great Musicians (DK Eyewitness Books)
DK Eyewitness Books Series
DK CHILDREN
Age Range: 12 and up
Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.
Written by Robert ziegler
ISBN-13: 9780756637743
ISBN: 0756637740
72 pages {PDF}
Pub. Date: June 2008
28.4 MB
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The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures.
A fascinating look into some of history’s greatest music makers, from Beethoven to the Beatles.

Roots of Music:
Where did music come from? Nobody knows exactly, because there are no written records.
A good guess would be that thousands of years ago, primitive peoples used music in much the same way as we use it now: to communicate, to pass time while working, to express joy or sadness, or to mark a special occasion.
The first instrument was the one every person is born with—the body.
We have voices to sing and shout with, hands to clap, and feet to stamp.
This is enough to create melody and rhythm, the two basic elements of music.
Hunters imitated the songs of animals they chased, mothers sang their children to sleep, and tribes
rhythmically stamped and shouted to keep away evil spirits.
It is a short step from there to making sounds by banging a sticks together or blowing through a hollow
reed stalk.
So how did we get from there to symphony orchestras and rock stars?

Early Musicians:
The Middle Ages (476–1453 ce) saw the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Catholic Church
in Europe, which was crucial to the spread of music through the Western world.
The first church music was called plainsong.
It was monophonic—just a single tune sung by either one person or a group, mostly from memory before musical notation existed.
Throughout this period, secular (nonreligious) music began to flourish, but it was rarely written down.
Most of it was performed by minstrels who composed songs about courtly love and accompanied themselves on the lute, the forerunner of the guitar, and the vielle, a kind of violin.

Contents:
6 Roots of Music
8 Early Musicians
10 Palestrina
11 Claudio Monteverdi
12 George Frideric Handel
14 Johann Sebastian Bach
16 Franz Joseph Haydn
18 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
20 Ludwig van Beethoven
22 Franz Liszt
24 Richard Wagner
26 Giuseppe Verdi
28 Johannes Brahms
30 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
32 Anton?n Dvor?k
34 Richard Strauss
36 Igor Stravinsky
38 Arnold Schoenberg
40 George Gershwin
42 Duke Ellington
44 Richard Rodgers
46 Dmitri Shostakovich
48 Leonard Bernstein
50 Ali Akbar Kahn
52 Pierre Boulez
54 Toru Takemitsu
56 Philip Glass
58 The Beatles
60 Bob Dylan
61 Michael Jackson
62 Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira
63 Youssou N’Dour
64 Milestones in Music
66 A–Z of Great Performers
68 Find Out More
70 Glossary of Musical Terms
72 Index/Acknowledgments
Great Musicians (DK Eyewitness Books)

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This book is listed for children 12 years and up but I have enjoyed it, and have learned a lot, plenty of pictures and lots of interesting information.
The DK Eyewitness Books series is super and will make a great edition to your collection.

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