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Great Composers Coloring Books

These composer coloring books can be used to teach about composers or to supplement any music history curriculum. Each book has a picture and a short biography of each composer. It's nice to listen to music by the composer as you color and learn!

A more structured curriculum that combines music history, listening, and coloring is Color the Classics. If you want a literature unit study, then you might like History of Classical Music.

Coloring Book of Composers

Great Composers Coloring Book

Text By Paul Negri, Illustrations by John Green, Dover

"Music appreciation and imagination go hand-in-hand in this singular collection of images spotlighting Vivaldi, Back, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Debussy, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Shostakovich, and other musical masters. Spanning three centuries of renown, the clothing styles and settings of each scene are meticulously rendered for historical accuracy. Captions [about one paragraph each] accompany each illustration, revealing fascinating details of the composers' lives and masterworks."

Thirty different composers are illustrated in the Great Composers Coloring Book. This is a good choice for a general study of famous composers. The descriptions in the Bellerophon coloring books are more detailed and each book focuses on specific time periods.

9780486462141

$3.95

American Composers Coloring Book

Text By Eric Tomb and Paul Rail with Drawings by Nancy Conkle, Bellerophon

Like the other books in the Bellerophon composers

series, the American Composers Coloring Book has a picture and biographical information for each of the composers. About half of the pictures are on a whole page and the other half are smaller pictures.

Ranging from 1746 to the late 1900s, the composers include Billings, Hopkinson, Foster, Gottschalk, Sousa, Herbert, MacDowell, Joplin, Ives, Second New England School, Kern, Porter, Berlin, Still, Sessions, Hanson, Thomson, Jimmie Rodgers, Cowell, Harris, Gershwin, Ellington, Copland, Richard Rodgers, Carter, Hovhaness, Cage, Monk, Bernstein, Hank Williams, Glass, and Lou Harrison.

9780883881583

$4.95

Early Composers Coloring Book

Text By Eric Tomb and Drawings by Nancy Conkle, Bellerophon

Almost all of the pictures in Early Composers are on a whole page and are typical coloring pages. Covering the time period from the late 1400s to the early 1700s, composers include Josquin des Prez, da Palestrina, di Lasso, Gabrieli, Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Tallis, Byrd, Morley, Bull, Dowland, Campion, Gibbons, Praetorius, Schütz, Buxtehude, Lully, Couperin, Purcell, Corelli, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, and Sweelinck.

9780883881248

$3.95

A Coloring Book of Great Composers, Volume 1

Text By David Brownell and Art by Nancy Conkle, Bellerophon

You'll find pictures to color and information about composers from Bach to Berlioz in the Great Composers Volume 1 coloring book. There are one or two caricature type drawings of each composer with loads of biographical information for each. Most of the pictures are whole page drawings. The biographies are longer for the more prominent composers.

The time period for this volume ranges from the late 1600s to around 1850. Composers include Telemann, Rameau, Scarlatti, Tartini, Bach, Handel, Gluck, Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven, Von Weber, Rossini, Schubert, Berlioz and Mendelssohn.

9780883880586

$4.95

A Coloring Book of Great Composers, Volume 2

By David Brownell, Nancy Conkle, Eric Tomb, and Paul Rail, Bellerophon

From Chopin to Tchaikovsky there are pictures to color and short biographies of great composers for the time period from the early 1800s to the early 1900s--conveniently arranged by the composer's date of birth. This coloring book has a mix of realistic drawing and characters in a variety of formats: whole page and smaller as well as silhouette type drawings.

Composers include Schumann, Chopin, Glinka, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Gounod, Offenbach, Lalo, Smetana, Bruckner, Strauss Brothers, Brahms, Bruch, Delibes, Saint-Saëns, Bizet, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Sullivan, Rimsky-Korsakov, Massenet, Grieg, Fauré, Wolf, and Albéniz.

9780883880463

$4.95

Great Composers Vol. 3 Coloring Book

By Bellerophon

Mahler to Stravinsky

0883881349

Temporarily Out of Print