Beethoven for Kids : His Life and Music with 21 Activities.
Title:
Beethoven for Kids : His Life and Music with 21 Activities.
Author:
Bauer, Helen.
ISBN:
9781569769430
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (146 pages)
Series:
For Kids series
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- NOTE TO READERS -- INTRODUCTION -- TIME LINE -- 1 Vibrating Sounds -- Make a Hornbook and Quill Pen -- Play Blind and Bell -- 2 A New Teacher -- Sing Your Own Musical Variation -- Make a Silhouette Picture -- 3 Opportunity and Upheaval -- Dance a Viennese Waltz -- Make Austrian Apple Pancakes -- 4 Acclaim in Vienna -- Write a Letter of Introduction -- Create a CD cover for a Beethoven Work -- 5 The Heiligenstadt Testament -- Make a Model Eardrum -- Think Like a Music Critic -- Make a Thumb Piano -- 6 Heroic Methods -- Sew Your Own Notebook -- Get Inspired to Create Music -- Discover the Key -- 7 Fidelio -- Create a Diorama Picturing the Dungeon Scene in Fidelio -- Picture the Music -- 8 Straining to Hear -- Make a Plaster Life Mask -- How Does an Ear Trumpet Work? -- 9 Dear Karl -- Learn About Sign Language -- Reaching the Heights -- Create Liner Notes for a Beethoven CD -- Discover How Your Lungs Work -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- RESOURCES -- Recommended Recordings, DVDs, and Websites -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most influential composers of all time, is brought vividly to life and made relevant to today's young musicians in Beethoven for Kids. Children will learn about Beethoven's troubled childhood and family life, early gift and passion for music, volatile personality, championing of equality and freedom, and persistence in his work despite increasing hearing loss. The great musicians, thinkers, and movements of Beethoven's time, from Mozart and Haydn to the bold new ideas of the Enlightenment, are presented and their profound effect on the composer's life and music explained. Twenty-one engaging activities, including singing musical variations, dancing a Viennese waltz, creating an operatic diorama, and making a model eardrum, illuminate Beethoven's life, times, and work. A time line, a glossary, online resources, and recordings and reading lists for further listening and study round out this comprehensive resource.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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