The story of the orchestra
Subtitle: listen while you learn about the instruments, the music, and the composers who wrote the music
By: Robert Levine ; illustrated by Meredith Hamilton
Contributors: Hamilton, Meredith, ill
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal; Distributed by Workman Pub. Co.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781579121488
Description: Describes the orchestra and includes information on composers, instruments, and the conductor.
Table of contents: title: CD contents: Ride of the Valkyries / Wagner; title: Four seasons / Vivaldi; title: Well-tempered clavier / Bach; title: - Symphony no. 101 "Clock" / Haydn; title: Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Mozart; title: 5th symphony ; 9th symphony / Beethoven; title: - Sleeping Beauty / Beethoven; title: Hungarian dance / Brahms; title: Symphony no. 5 / Mahler; title: Arabesque no. 1 / Debussy; title: Rite of spring / Stravinsky; title: Piano piece op. 33A / Schoenberg; title: American in Paris / Gershwin; title: Fanfare for the common man / Copland; title: West side story / Bernstein; title: Symphony no. 4 / Tchaikovsky; title: Sonata for violin and piano in A major / Franck; title: Concerto for violin and orchestra / Bartok; title: William Tell overture / Rossini; title: Carnival of animals / Saint-Saens; title: Dance of the blessed spirits / Gluck; title: Suite no. 2 for flute, strings and basso continuo / Bach; title: Sinfonia in G major for 2 oboes and orchestra / Mozart; title: Bolero / Ravel; title: Sorcerer's apprentice / Dukas; title: Mother Goose suite / Ravel; title: Concerto for trumpet in E flat / Haydn; title: Horn concerto no. 1 / Mozart; title: Symphony no. 3 / Mahler; title: Pictures at an exhibition / Mussorgsky; title: Carmen suite / Schedrin; title: Symphony no. 7 / Mahler Symphony no. 4 / Tchaikovsky; title: Peer Gynt / Grieg; title: Nutcracker / Tchaikovsky; title: Toccata and fugue in D minor / Bach; title: Moonlight sonata / Beethoven; title: Concerto champetre / Poulenc.