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Title: Introducing Beethoven (Famous Composers) by Roland Vernon, Robert Snedden, Andrew Oliver ISBN: 0-382-39153-5 Publisher: Silver Burdett Pr Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: More about the live and times of Beethoven than the music
Comment: This is a very pretty looking book that introduces young readers to the world of Ludwig Van Beethoven. The idea of this series is to look at the influences and historical events that shaped the lives of great composers. Roland Vernon describes how Beethoven was born into a changing world of revolutions that transformed America and France, and shows how Beethoven's music mirrored those turbulent times. But Vernon also explores how Beethoven's music reflected a deeply personal exploration of human nature and emphasizes how the composer profoundly changed every form of music in which he work. The book has sidebars devoted to Beethoven's musical contemporaries like Mozart, revolutionary thinkers like Thomas Paine, instruments like the harpsichord, and events like the fall of Napoleon. As I said above, the book is illustrated quite impressively, with historic paintings and artifacts. Vernon focuses most on the details of Beethoven's life and the history of the time, somewhat at the expense of his music, which matters here because the thesis is that Beethoven is a musical revolutionary. That is difficult to do in a book, granted, but if that is the contract with the reader then it needs to be followed up on more explicitly. Other titles in the series introduce young readers to Bach, Chopin, Gershwin, Mozart, Starvinsky, Verdi, and Vivaldi.
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Title: The Supreme Court by Quiri Patricia Ryon, Patricia Ryon Quiri ISBN: 0516264419 Publisher: Children's Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: America in the Time of George Washington: 1747 To 1803 by Sally Senzell Isaacs ISBN: 1575729342 Publisher: Heinemann Library Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Shh! We're Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz, Tomie dePaola, Tomie dePaola ISBN: 0698116240 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A World of Knowing: A Story About Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (A Carolrhoda Cretive Minds Book) by Andy Russell Bowen, Elaine Wadsworth ISBN: 0876149549 Publisher: Carolrhoda Books Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Robert Fulton: From Submarine to Steamboat by Steven Kroll, Bill Farnsworth ISBN: 0823414337 Publisher: Holiday House Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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