W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Lives of the musicians: good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought)

by Krull, Kathleen. , [contracted braille] / Published by : Braille International Inc., (Stuart, Fla. :) Physical details: 2 v. of contracted braille.
Subject(s): Musicians -- Biography.
Year: 1998 Item type: Contracted Braille
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The red priest: Antonio Vivaldi --
Twenty children and 1,200 compositions: Johann Sebastian Bach --
No ordinary baby: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart --
Moodiness and moonlight: Ludwig van Beethoven --
"My dear corpse": Frédéric Chopin --
A successful farmer and opera-composer: Giuseppe Verdi --
A different white dress every night: Clara Schumann --
Dear friends and gentle hearts: Stephen Foster --
The checked cotton underwear of Johannes Brahms --
Pulsing and quivering: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky --
Topsy-turvydom: William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan --
Velvet gentleman: Erik Satie --
The entertainer: Scott Joplin --
He stretched our ears: Charles Ives --
Standing on his head: Igor Stravinsky --
Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger --
Full of splinters: Sergei Prokofiev --
"Great, isn't it?": George Gershwin --
Traveling troubadour: Woody Guthrie.

Lively portraits of twenty well-known composers and musicians, filled with anecdotes and amusing facts. Included are Bach, Verdi, Clara Schumann, Foster, Joplin, Gershwin, and Guthrie.

Grades 3-6.

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1993. 0152480102

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