Composers and Music Artists
Pratt's
Educational Resources
Sheet
Music
On this page:
Composers
Fun Composers for Children
Some fun composer for childen to listen, dance, or move to are: Fucik, Grieg, Joplin, Moussorgsky, Rimsky, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky, Waldteufel,
and many more that I haven't discovered yet.
Classics for Kids WGUC 90.9
Shows, hear music played, activity sheets, games, and music.
SFS Kids - Fun With Music: Radio
A
playlist of different pieces from various composers.
Composer Resources
Learn more about different composers using the
below links, your encyclopedia, go to Merriam-Webster OnLine
Dictionary, or you can search for them at: Google.com.
Composer
Periods @ DSO Information about lots of composers and music files
for most of the composers.
Classical Music Archives
Classical
Net: Composer Master Index
This site has information and pictures of lots of composers.
Classical
Composer biographies
Classical MIDI Files
by David Siu @ midiworld
Clasical Music of St.
Petersburg, Russia
Composers
Collectors and Lyricists @ SBG Music: Making Music
Composer Databook
Early Music Women Composer's
MIDI Soundfiles
Early Women
Composers/Artists/Poetry
Japanese
Women Composers: Links & Sources
Masters Symhonic
Band Series Including some audio files. (Children's Suites, etc.)
MP3.com
Piano - Robin Alciatore
MP3 Files
zip files
MP3, MIDI and Online Music @
mp3.about.com
naxos.com: Your World of
Classical Music
Sounds of the Austin Symphonic
Band
The Music Library of
Denis Bouriakov
WWW VL
Classical Music: Composers
Yahoo!
Directory Music Artists > Composers
Music-scores.com
- Composer Index
Midi's and sheet music (for a cost).
FreeMusicNow:
Public Domain Sheet Music
Sheet
Music USA
I'm not sure about the time periods for these music eras since some
sites say one thing and others say another time.
Gregorian Chants 500 - 1450
Gregorian
Chants
Medieval
Period
Music
Hall Manuscripts
The
Gregorian Chants Home Page
Listen to chants
Gregorian
Chants: Mysic.Music There are some you can listen to.
Vol.
I, No. 3: 2. Focus On: Gregorian Chants for Christmastide
Renaissance 1450 - 1600
Composer
Periods @ DSO Kids
Gabrieli, Giovanni
(1555-1612)
Italy
Giovanni
Gabrieli, Composer @ DSO Including a sample of Canon Septimin Toni
#2.
Baroque 1600 - 1750
Composer
Periods @ DSO Kids
Baroque
Composers and Musicans
Italy, Italy to Germany, Germany, England, France, Spain, Europe to the New World
1653-1713 - Arcangelo CORELLI - Rome
1659-1695 - Henry PURCELL - England
1660-1725 - Alessandro SCARLATTI (father) - Italy
1660-1741 - Johann Joseph Fux - Austria
1668-1733 - Francois COUPERIN ("the Great") - France
1670-1747 - Giovanni Battista Bononcini - Italy
1671-1751 - Tomaso ALBINONI - Italy
Albinoni, Tomaso (1671 - 1750)
Italy
Albinoni,
Tomaso History
Classical
Music Dictionary - Free MP3 @ Karadar
1679-1745 - Jan Dismas ZELENKA - Prague, Dresden
1680-1762 - Francesco GEMINIANI - Italy, England
1681-1767 - Georg Philipp TELEMANN - Germany
1683-1764 - Jean Philippe RAMEAU - France
1685-1757 - George Frideric HANDEL - Germany, England
1685-1757 - Domenico SCARLATTI (son) - Italy, Spain
1692-1766 - Unico Willem van Wassenaer: the mystery composer - Holland
1712-1786 - John STANLEY - England
Handel (1685-1759)
Born in Germany and Died in London
George
Frideric Handel, Composer @ DSO
Handel:
Music for Pianos The Messiah
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)
Italy
Composer @ DSO
No music.
Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Venice, Italy
Composer of violin music.
Vivaldi
Classical Music
Archives: Vivaldi
Click on the top links to find the best downloads.
Bach (1685 - 1750) South Germany
J.S. Bach Home Page
A Johann Sebastian Bach Midi Page
Midi's, Biography, works, pictures, and resources.
JS Bach:
Analysis of Canons & Fugue
Classical 1750-1820
Composer
Periods @ DSO Kids
Classical Music
Archives
Best of classic in mp3
Albinoni, Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Glasunov, Glinka, Grieg,
Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, Rossini, Sviridov,
Tchaikovsky, Villa-Lobos, and Vivaldi
Classical
Music in Russia Audio Archive
Classical
Piano Midi Page Beethoven, Ludwig van; Haydn,
Joseph; and Mozart, Wolfgang
Karadar
Classical Music
Lots of composers and midi files.
Music for
Piano
Music from CUBE
(MP3 and RealAudio)
Sandy
Berkovski - Classical Music Audio files.
Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770 - 1827)
Germany
Beethoven Depot
Beethoven Piano Music:
Free mp3 audio files @ pianomp3.com or MP3.com
Piano - Robin Alciatore Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, etc.
Portrayal
of Nature Lesson to go with "The Storm"("Thunderstorm").
Karadar.com
Moonlightsys.com
Sheet Music
USA: Ode to Joy Beethoven and midi file
Sheet Music
USA: Moonlight Sonata and midi file
Online Activities
Playing with
the 1st Movement of Beethoven's 1st Piano Sonata
Playing with
Tempo and Dynamics: Beethoven's Piano Sonata op 31 #3
Haydn, Franz Josef (1732-1809)
Austria
Piano
Music - Men @ Music for Pianos Fantasia in C, Andante Theme from
the "Surprise"
(a fun tune that the notes go up and down), St. Anthony Chorale
Joseph Haydn,
Composer @ DSO
Mozart, Wolgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Austria
Piano
Music - Men Music for Pianos Andante mit Variationen
Wolgang
Amadeus Mozart, Composer @ DSO
Civil War
Public Domain Music Sequenced by
Benjamin Robert Tubb
(I'm not sure what to put the below composer under.)
Root, George F. (1820-1895)
George
F. Root
The Music of George
Frederick Root
Romantic (Romanticism) 1820 - 1910
Composer
Periods @ DSO Kids
Romantic
Period Music
Bizet
Brahms
Chopin
Dvorak
Holst
Mendelssohn
Rachmaninof
Ravel
Rossini
Schubert
Wagner
Classical
Piano Midi Page Albéniz, Isaac; Balakirew,
Mili; Borodin, Alexander; Brahms, Johannes; Burgmueller, Friedrich;
Chopin,
Frederic; Debussy, Claude; Granados, Enrique; Grieg, Edvard;
Liszt,
Franz; Mussorgsky, Modest; Schubert, Franz; Schumann, Robert;
Tchaikovsky,
Peter, and Christmas
Albéniz, Isaac (1860 - 1909)
Classical Piano Midi
Page - Albéiz Including the "Tango".
Debussy, Claude (1862 - 1918)
French composer
Moonlight: Composer -
Claude Debussy (MP3)
Sheet Music
USA Clair de Lune by Debussy and midi
Fucik, Julius (1872-1916)
Czech composer
Florentiner March @Sounds of
the Austin Symphonic Band March to part (or all) of this music.
Grieg, Edvard (1843 - 1907)
Norwegian composer
From Peer Gynt Suite
Grieg: Anitra's dance
In the Hall of the
Mountain-King, Anitra's Dance, (and others) @ CUBE
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Joplin, Scott (1868-1917)
He was a black American ragtime pianist and composer. He was born
in
Texarkana, Texas. He wrote rags, songs, marches, a ballet, and two
operas.
DECOY's Scott Joplin Page
History and lots of midi's on this page.
Joplin,
Scott on Encylopedia.com
The Entertainer,
Maple Leaf Rag, and other pieces @ Classical Music Archives
Liszt, Franz (1811 - 1886)
Hungarian pianist & composer
Classical
MIDI Resources
Music
for Pianos Franz Liszt
Merriam-Webster:
Liszt
Moussorgsky, Modest (1839 - 1881)
My Page:
Activities
Using Music From Saint-Saens & Moussorgsky
Images
for Picture at an Exhibition
Mussorgsky
Sheet Music
Pictures
at an Exhibition - Ballet of the unhatched chicks midi
Pictures
at an Exhibition - part I @ Virtual Sheet Music (and midi's)
Pictures At An
Exhibition - The Music
Paganini, Niccolò (1782 - 1840)
He was born on October 27, 1782 in Genoa, Italy. He was a
violinist.
Legendary
Violinists. Niccolo Paganini
Niccolo
Paganini
Niccolo
Paganini Sheet Music and midi files
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)
One of his operas is Madame Butterfly.
Puccini/Greatest
Romantic Opera Composer
Puccini.com - Honoring
the great Operatic Composer
WIEM: Puccini G., Opera
"Madame Butterfly"
Rachmaninof, Sergei (1873 - 1943)
Classical
Music in Russia - Audio Archive: Rachmaninof
Rimsky- Korsakov, Nicolai (1844 - 1908)
The Rimsky-Korsakov
Home Page
The
Flight of The Bumble Bee Lesson
SFS Kids - Fun With Music: Radio:
Channel 4: The
Flight of the Bumblebee
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835 -
1921)
Music
for Pianos Camille Saint-Saens
Classical
Music Archives: S
Activities
Using Music From Saint-Saens & Moussorgsky
SFS Kids: Fun With Music: The
Elephant
Tchaikovsky, Peter (1840 - 1893)
Russian composer
Classical
Music Archives:
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake and many more.
Dance of the Sugar
Plum Fairy @ CUBE The children can dance to part (or all) of this
music.
Waltz of the Flowers
Waldteufel (1837 - 1915)
Skater's Waltz @ CUBE
The children can skate to part of this music.
Romantic & Modern
Copland, Aaron (1900-1990)
Welcome to
the Website of Copland House
Modern 1910 - Present
Composer
Periods @ DSO Kids
Anderson, Leroy (1908-1975)
Leroy Anderson
American composer. Some songs that he is well known for are:
Sleigh Ride, The Syncopated Clock and Blue Tango.
Bernstein, Leonard (August 25,
1918 - October 14, 1990)
United States
Famous for: Candide, On the Town, and West Side Story.
The Official Leonard
Bernstein Web Site
The Leonard
Bernstein Collections Including photos.
Leonard
Bernstein, Composer Including a music clip of On the Waterfront
Britten, Benjamin (November 22,
1913 - December 4, 1976)
England
Pieces include: Suite on English Folk Tunes.
Benjamin
Britten, Composer @ DSO Kids
Gershwin, George [(September 26, 1898)
and Ira (December 6, 1896)]
The Official George and Ira
Gershwin Web Site
History, anthology, jukebox, and events.
Ives, Charles (1874-1954)
American
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)
iclassics.com:
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf Including other songs and ram samples.
SFS Kids - Fun With Music: Radio:
Channel 4 Various pieces from Peter and the Wolf (The Duck; The
Bird; The Cat)
The Prokofiev Page
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
Igor
Stravinsky, Composer @ DOS
Music Artists
Cramer/Marder
Artists
MP3, MIDI and Online Music @
mp3.about.com
Andre Watts
He is the son of an African-American and a Hungarian mother.
Andre Watts
André
Watts At Carnagie Hall, 25th Anniversary Recital
You can hear various samples at amazon.com.
Classically
Black: Andre Watts
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