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Color the Classics Audio CDs and Books
Color the Classics Audio CDs and Books
For teaching music history and appreciation we like Color the Classics. Each set includes a coloring book and an audio CD. There are biographical and historical sketches of different composers in the book and music by the composers on the accompanying audio CD. It's a wonderful way to encourage your children to appreciate the great composers and hymn writers. These are for ages 5 to 13.
Sets in the Color the Classics include
Christmas Classics,
Godly Composers,
Composers 2,
Composers 3,
Hymn Writers Book, and
Patriotic Classics.
See and Hear Samples
Note on Permission to Copy
The original purchaser of a set has the right to reproduce the illustrations for use with their own children only. Extra books are available for purchase if you prefer not to make copies.
Christmas Classics
By Carmen Ziarkowski, Color the Classics
Learn about thirteen beloved 13 Christmas carols that keep Christ in Christmas in the Christmas Classics Set. Songs on the Christmas Classics CD include:
- Adestes Fideles
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- angels We Have Heard on High
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- Messiah Overture
- For Unto Us A Child is Born
- Hallelujah Chorus
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Joy to the World
- O Come, O Come Emmanuel
- O Holy Night
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Silent Night
- We Three Kings
- What Child is This
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9781881153245 |
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Christmas Classics Book Only
Brief biographies, descriptions of illustrations, and pictures to color from the life of the composer are included in the Christmas Classics coloring book. Composers include: John Hopkins, William Dix, John Stainer, Franz Gruber, Phillips, Brooks, Adolphe Adams, Isaac Watts, George Handel, Charles Wesley, Felix Mendelssohn, John Francis Wade, St. Francis of Assisi, Bishop Telesphorus, and Joseph Mohr. |
9780012108413 |
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Godly Composers
By Carmen Ziarkowski
Listen, color, and learn about Antonio Vivaldi, Johan Sebastian Bach, Handel, Franz Josef Haydn, and George Frideric Handel in the Godly Composers Set. Classic songs on the Godly Composers CD include:
- The Spring in E Major, Op. 8, No. 1 From the 4 Seasons-Vivaldi
- Brandenburg Concerto in F Major-Bach
- Water Music Suite-Handel
- Andante from Symphone No. 94 in G Major Surprise Symphony-Haydn
- Finaly: Spiritoso from Symphony No. 104 in D Major, London Symphony-Haydn
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9781881153108 |
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Godly Composers Book Only
Brief biographies, descriptions of illustrations, and pictures to color from the life of the composer are included in the Godly Composers coloring book. |
9780012108420 |
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By Carmen Ziarkowski
In the Godly Composers 2 Set, you'll learn about Georg Philipp Telleman, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn, and Antonin Dvorak.
Classic songs on the Godly Composers 2 CD include:
- Banquet Music Suite 2 for flute and basso-Tellemann
- Concerto in D Major 1st Movement-Mozart
- Overture to the Magic Flute-Mozart
- Concert for violin and orchestra in E Minor 1st movement-Mendelssohn
- Symphony No. 3 A Minor "Scotch" 1st movement-Mendelssohn
- Symphony No. 9 Largo-Dvorak
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9781881153146 |
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Composers 2 Book Only
Brief biographies, descriptions of illustrations, and pictures to color from the life of the composer are included in the Godly Composers 2 coloring book. |
9780012108437 |
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By Carmen Ziarkowski
The Classics Godly Composers 3 Set presents the lives of four great composers: Ludwig van Beethoven, Johan Strauss Jr., Johannes Brahms, and Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky. Songs on the Godly Composers 3 CD include:
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor
- The Blue Danube
- Tritsch Tratsch Polka
- Hungarian Dance No. 5 Brahms
- Hungarian Dance No. 1 Brahms
- Hungarian Dance No. 9 Brahms
- Lullaby Brahms
- The Nutcracker Ballet Act II Divertissement
- Spanish Dance
- Arabian Dance
- Chinese Dance
- Russian Dance
- Dance of the Toy Flutes
- The Clown
- The Nutcracker Ballet: Waltz of the Flowers.
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9781881153160 |
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Classics Composers 3 Book Only
Brief biographies, descriptions of illustrations, and pictures to color from the life of the composer are included in the Godly Composers 3 coloring book. |
9780012108444 |
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Hymn Writers
By Carmen Ziarkowski
In the Hymn Writers Set, read the short biographies to your children as they color the pages and listen to the hymns that were written by Martin Luther, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, Fanny Crosby, and John Newton.
Hymns on the Classic Hymn Writers CD include:
- Two versions of A Mighty Fortress is Our God
- O God, Our Help in Ages Past
- When I survey the Wondrous Cross
- And Can it Be That I Should Gain
- O For a Thousand Tongues
- Amazing Grace
- Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
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9781881153252 |
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Classics Hymn Writers Book Only
Brief biographies, descriptions of illustrations, and pictures to color from the life of the composer are included in the Hymn Writers coloring book. |
9780012108451 |
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Patriotic Classics
By Carmen Ziarkowski
Listen and color while learning about patriotic classics such as America, the Beautiful with the Patriotic Classics Set. Songs on the Patriotic Classics CD include:
- Yankee Doodle by Dr Richard Shuckburg
- Two versions of The Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
- Two versions of My Country 'Tis of Thee By Samuel Francis Smith
- Battle Hymn of the Republic (two versions) By Julia Ward Howe
- America the Beautiful (two versions) By Katherine Lee. Bates
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9781881153023 |
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Patriotic Classics Book Only
Brief biographies, descriptions of illustrations, and pictures to color from the life of the composer are included in the Patriotic Classics coloring book. |
9780012108468 |
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