Accent on Composers, Vol. 2 (Bk/CD) – Classroom Resource

Description

Introducing another volume of Alfred Music’s most popular reproducible book! PDFs of the entire book are included on the enhanced CD. Includes lessons, assessments, and professional recordings for Berlioz, Bernstein, Chopin, Ellington, Gershwin, Prokofiev, Puccini, Purcell, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Strauss, and more! Recommended for grades 4 and up. Composers covered:

• Guillaume Dufay (1397–1474)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594)
• Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706)
• Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
• Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
• Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)
• Frederic Chopin (1810–1849)
• Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880)
• Camille Saint-Saens (1835–1921)
• Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)
• Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
• Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
• Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
• Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
• George Gershwin (1898–1937)
• Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
• Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
• Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)

Supplemental Materials:

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